The San Francisco call., 1898-07-12
THE VAGARIES OF AMBITION.

HAT excellent aspirant, Dr. Pardee, who gives to the public every day his good opinion ot him.
 self Tn his own newspaper, has agreeaoiy Varieo the matter by enlarging through the same channel, his bad opinion of The Call.
 It is piece of innocent inesse which moves pro-
 essonal beauty to heighten her charms by placing them very plain, if possible very ugly, person. The excellent asprant of Alameda County has been looking around for foil to his good opinion of himself and has found it in The Call His disregard for this paper is frankly admitted to be caused by the fights" it has made. The Calls fight against cor rupt or neglectful Los Angeles City Council and grasping water company in possession of the cty's water plant and demanding enormous ransom therefor is admitted by the excellent asplran to be disagreeable to him. He exuts that as he says, The Call lost that fight He may exult prematurey, but hair trigger exutation, fired too soon, may get him the sympathy of the millionaires who dole out drinking water to the people ot Los Angeles tor consideration from works that belong to the people It seems worth trying, and the excellent asprant tries it.
 The next feature in his bad opinion of The Call IS his dislike for the fight made aganst the gang Tn San Jose. Having the push in his own county With him. his sympathes go out to the push everywhere The gang politician whose nights are ushy and whose days are bleary, whose breath would draw buzzards
 
 6dants of the excellent asprant, and not nerve in him protests when they whisper to him. The push III San Jose are his valued friends just and The Call is under the ban for fighting the same.
 Gently gliding from censure for the at1ictlons we visited upon these persons and corporations who are useful his excellent aspirations the doctor proceeds to rejoice that the San Francisco charter adopted not because it is a good charter, but because The Call opposed it. In like he rejoices that Ha- waii taken in not because 1t was right to do so, but because opposed it. Pushing himself into the company of things wrong and men vile, opposed by The Call he introduces himself as fit for Governor because of the company he keeps.
 We will be very glad to feel that he is ht since we rejoice when unfit refrain from ambitions that are too large for their capacity. But Dr. Pardee must bear with us We were not informed of his transcend ent qualities until he bought newspaper in which to tell us what they His virtues were hidden under bushel until he bought phylactery on which to display them As his case therefore, differs widely from that of other asplrans, we must have time to see him as he sees himself They must content them selves with such public statements Of their qualities as may be volunteered by others. The doctor does not wait for appreciation to come to him over such slow road He carries appreciation with him and puts it tap in his newspaper. Perhaps had we known sooner how well he stands with himself, how thoroughly he enjoys himself Tn hlS own company and how much he admres his many talents would think as much of him lie does himself. But, then we are painfully aware that would not stand well with him. Love IS jealous. Behind Cupid flies the bat-winged, green-eyed monster. The doctor brooks no rival as lover of himself The dear caress the stolen interview the balcony tryst must be by himself and with himself. With him loves young dream has himself for its dear object and no rival must enter the charmed circle where he sits on his own knee aectionately whispering soft nothings into his own ear