The San Francisco call., 1898-08-23
WHAT IS EXPECTED OF THE CON-
 VENTION.
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7 HILE the usual scenes of animation and dis l tN/ cussion which are inseparable from popular l convention may be expected i'll and around the Republican convention at Sacramento, the peo- pie, looking upon it expression ot ther aspra- tions expect that such expression will be character ized by dignity patriotism and of respons- bity. While 1t is necessary that convention make per sona preferences between candidates yet suc prefer ence, if wisely guided and we'll intended, IS in the public interest to proper trusteesh1p o the public welfare when the party candidate has been chosen the public officer.
 The conventions that have already been held have presented the sorry spectacle of bitter personal de traction and strife Every speech made III the Demo cratic convention was for the purpose o putting up or pulling down some personality. Not word was uttered upon great public issue nor III exposition of great political principle.
 It is expected be different in the Republican con vention The people look for something that thrills with the aroused patriotism of the time and tor an exposition of great principles that will attract the indifferent to study and adopt them. A contest be- tween candidates may have its selfish features and these become revoting unless behind and above them may be devotion those of the people which in a republic, must be promoted by parties and organizations.
 Let the members of the convention think seundly and well of the farmers who in this hard year look sadly upon their cropes fields and frutless and vines Let them think of the manufacturing plants where silent wheels wait to cheer labor with their song and remember that as far as the convention promises to defeat the wild schemes against the land owner the employer oflabor and labor itself, its ton will find favor.
 California suffers this year. industrialy, from phy sical causes that are beyond human control. The Republican convention should to it that further misfortune does not come from the causes that are within human control
 The State had years of abundant yield, the fields bore great crops the orchards blushed and the vine yards purpled but from 1893 until 1897, notwhstand ing the abundance of natural bounties business enter prise languished for want of profit and labor went hungry for lack of wages The dearth and distress of those years due human causes to have been averted by human means.
 The Republican party had been expelled from power and the men who seek to again defeat 1t were in the saddle They herdsmen of the lean kline that ate the fat ones and they garnered the shrveed ears which consumed those that filled.
 They come again under a motley banner, with bands playing and their captains and shouters invite the people to erase the rainbow and promise pot of gold where 1t touches the earth
 The Republican convention should come seriously counselng that man cannot cothe himself with the morning and the evening mists fill his belly with shooting stars lift himself over mountains with his own hands It must come with genuine couragement labor, capital to enterprise and to manly character, with hard hoof riding down the wrong and helping the right with glad hand
 By promising the possible, appealing to reason, avoiding prejudice and doing justice in judicial temper it will lead the people who want to follow in the ways of peasantness and the paths of peace.