The San Francisco call., 1909-09-12


San Francisco. could always rely On his gorgeous
gohcation OF the railroad engineer and his daring
Sam ShOTtTidge IN case o. need produces his cele-
brated apostrophe 10 his ancestral cottage IVY clad
and stoTnbeaten- They al have some regular
standby IN case OF emergency Il Is Ike me SOUP
of ooznHaerce-Tice tomato TO-DAY, toulo-rOw vege-
table and the next day mock turtle but always the
same old stock little disguised
WHEN SAN FRANCISCO WON
General Barnes produced his emotional setting
OF the trials and pers OF the railroad engineer for
the first time Al the famous dinner gwen IN the old
Palace 10 Chauncey Depew. Il was the greatest
after dinner competition ever held IN San Francisco
On that well wined field The pride OF New York
met Barnes and Horace Platt and went. down ID
defeat San Francisco carried OF the hono-s OF
the occasion
The affair was interesting IN another way: The
dinner was gwen IN the early part Of 1896, when
mems minds were much disturbed about free silver
coinage and the mutterings OF the Bryan sto-1n
were beginning %. be heard IN the air General
Barnes up 70 that time had always been q strong
silver man. a. indeed most OF the republicans OF
California were N those days have heard Barnes
N the old days make strong speech for free
silver coinage zs ever Bryan did IN the height OF
the craze
In the east Il was different. and Depew threw
ont hint AZ the dinner that the party would have
10 take definite stand on the subject a. the con-
Yention. then not far away Barnes did not Ike
II but he began ID trim his sails there and then
He never spoke up for free silver after that night
and he fell into line io- the gold standard with
the precision OF a-veteTan when the time came
HOW THE PRIMARY WORKS OUT
Politics IS the game OF follow my leader and the
direct primary makes no recognition OF this ancient
law As Nol1aire remarked Of the Sabbath. Il God
had not decreed q day Of rest man would have
had 10 invent one So Il seems that under the
direct primary we shall have 10 invent boss We
saw some blunderIng endeavo-s II this direction
during the recent primary campaign in this CITY
but as yet we are new az the business
5 Los Angeles IS now gong through the same
experience and Walter Parker TO rebrzld his shat
tered fences. proposes 10 call Convention OF 200
voters OF free for al affair supposedly, bur.
N iact, carefully programmed body Il
clumsy expedien- but Parkers political talent may
be able 10 lick Il into the desired shape The =
Express has this comment
Not satisfied with violating rhr spirit OF th-
primary elect0n Nominating pToxlsson- OF the city
charter By hoiding city co1senten- The Sou-he-n
ss lar as possible the expressed desire Of large
zsng the wz-d system
The primary law has no spirit You might zs
vel talk OF the spirit OF buzz saw The law
provides certain machinery and the spirit Is sup
piled by the people who operate II the people
want boss they VIII have one. and the Los
angeles experiment must prove highly interesting
THE DOPE FIENDS' RACE
4 Sacramento druggist friend sets me right con
cerning the wholesale price OF cocaine and md
the drug listed al S385 per ounce Al wholesale.
which IS much less than the figure / quoted
recently. / made the mistake OF taking the figures
from Boston paper without veTihcation but the
price does not IN any way affect the argument
which that proEibitory legislation against the
sale and q narcotic drugs was futile Ny
correspondent adds that cocaine dos not retail
10 the public That statement IS OF course non
sense Any VINO wants cocaine and VIII
pzy the price get II by taking little tToubie.
notwithstanding the prohibition The case OF -he
Oakland messenger boy who had worked mp .
route Of cocaine hendS whom he supplied resu-
Iarr Is nroof enough Of tha. fac. II ln.iced any