The San Francisco call., 1909-10-10

myself prosecuted and sent him to San
Quentin for such offense There 1850
witnesses that might be called in this action
have figured that at the least practicable amount OF
time for the examination and examination
OF these witnesses As court days, might be con-
ballot in this case. All were written in. The
recounting would consume much time than
Hundreds OF ballots viii be laid aside There will
be motions and arguments
POOR TOMS A-COLD
This is not a lawsuit that Mr.. Gator describes,
but excursion into the vast irrelevant and imma-
terial battle with the multitudinous inane. Yet
| would not accuse Mr.. Gator of joking about the
process of an august tribunal He is incapable of
such levty and it is not impossible that his gro
tesque forecast is we'll founded.
If we assume that Mr.. Gators reasoning is
founded fact it is reductio ad absurdum of the
of justice in San Francisco A recount OF
few hundred ballots supervised by competent
judge should be completed in couple of days
IN DEFENSE OF FLINT
The Chronicle, commenting on Senator F1int's
of the railroads for raising the freight
on lemons, says:
The senator was mad and was talking to a
company which was madder than he was; and
that, upon reflection they not well stand by.
No, the senator was not "mad." Mr. Flint's
sanity will not be disputed and he has very
rate knowledge of the side on which his bread is
buttered. He may have been angry, or, more likely
he may have pretended to be angry, for he has
lively sense of respect for his maker
GHOSTS IN CONGRESS
There were ghosts at the mining congress in
Goldfeld, and one of them, who did not know he
was dead wanted to pledge the body to that strange
delusion the free coinage of silver legal tender
but Senator Newlands thoughtfully and sympa-
thetcaly laid this obstreperous specter. Another
ghost of the breed writes editorials In the
Chronicle He still wants to do something for
silver, he does not know exactly what and prob
ably did know in any shape capable of definite
or accurate statement. He is like the man in David
Copperfed who could not keep the head of King
Charles out of anything he wrote The Chronicle
ghost IS still afflicted as of old and can not keep
the silver nonsense out of his stuff 1t is a harm
less delusion now although at one time it threat
ened to upset and convulse the business relations
OF the whole continent
WHEN THE BRAINS ARE OUT
1t is the same muddleheaded crowd that used to
prate of double standard Of value which is con-
tradiction in terms and the same thing as if a foot
measure should be II inches long now and Is inches
the next minute.
This particular ghost is for the moment con-
cerned because the fall in the value of silver
deranges exchanges between this country and Asia.
He wants the United States to create an artificial
value for silver used to do under the Sher-
act when the public funds were used to buy
tons of silver that were stacked up in the vaults
at Washington because you could not force people
to pack it around as money.
| find in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
Miss Phoebe Couzins has been in Colorado
agitating resurrection of the silver issue in poll
tics 1t may be yet a race between Phoebes silver
issue and Bryans tariff as to which will split
the donkey widest
A lady ghost.
ONE ON FUNSTON