San Antonio Daily Light

MONDAY. APRIL 11. 1892.
New Mexico is preparing for statehood, and accordingly her municipal elections go republican.
Galveston News says that Cleveland is the American Colossus of Rhodes. Perhaps, but he certainly was not the Colossus of Rhode Island.
The Hill men say that he was her "old man of the sea."
The senate at Austin have declared for an elective commission. Has the house hard sense enough to follow the lead of the senate and make the same declaration.
There has never yet been one good and valid reason advanced to show why Hogg should be permitted to usurp the functions of the people at the ballot box, and there will never be one.
Dallas has been a loser all round lately, says the Times-Herald of that city. San Antonio knows how it is herself in the matter of selecting a site for one of the civic court centers
Some of the fire-eating journals of Mexico are so worked into a passion over the proposal to return the flags that they could eat a Yankee on a fast day and not know that they had broken a rule of the church.
CLEVELAND captures the democratic state convention of Massachusetts, and the vote of that state will be behind the man who is against Hill at Chicago.
The Hill press may assert that the victory in Massachusetts democratic convention will not offset Cleveland's defeat in Rhode Island, but the fact remains that the democratic vote in that state last week was the largest on record, and Grover's presence did it.
The country has heard the last of that Thayer-Boyd case and is mighty glad of it. There is no necessity of prolonging the agony after death by galvanizing the corpse.
The Topeka Capital predicates a rousing republican victory in that state on good crops and good nominations. This is equivalent to trusting in God and keeping your powder dry.
The free silverites will not find much more satisfaction in the democratic treatment of this question by congress than they took in the republican disposition of it. It is not a free silver year.
The worm turns at last, and Galveston Tribune complains of the manner in which the government engineers do not put the work on the jetties. The Tribune has not an inside view of that matter, or it would continue to cut bait and keep quiet.
The balances of trade are in our favor, and yet we have not received from Europe over one third of the gold that we have sent to that continent in the last year and a half.
England must have held an enormous amount of American securities to be able to drain our gold in that manner.
Only 549 votes between the factions of the democratic party in Louisiana according to the returns. There is a good fighting chance for the other fellow, and he is going to take it.
The Chinese are petitioning their government for retaliation against this country for excluding all citizens of the Flowery Kingdom from these shores. It is to be sincerely desired that their petition be granted, as it will end this Chinese question by making perpetual the injunction against their coming to the United States.
When Uncle Sam does not sustain its officers under such circumstances as surround the case of Capt. Bourke it will be because there is something more tangible alleged against them, and by persons whose obedience to law is not questioned, than has as yet been brought forward against the Captain. It will be a long time before an officer is cashiered on such testimony as is offered against Bourke.
It is not always that you find a Cleveland head under a Clark hat but pretty near all the time. The exceptions are only a proof that it is the rule. Hogg and Hill also seem to hunt together.
CLARK is making a splendid record for himself. and seems to be determined to earn success whether he achieves it or not. Texas will know him better after this work of faith and labor of love for her interests.
Dallas is still $12,000 short of the amount that is needed to insure the holding of her fair. Her merchants would clear that amount before breakfast any fine day that the fair is in progress.
Dallas Times Herald has such perfect faith in Hill that it can already see him in the white-house dispensing the hospitalities of the nation,
Faith without dumplings makes a poor political meal.
FORT WORTH has Paddock for mayor and has also secured the location of one of the courts of appeal.
The Mail is now looking for the millennium.
The state capital has entered into the campaign against Hogg with vigor. This is a very peculiar twist that the political crank has taken, but the twisting is being done scientifically.
The reports of hard times in Kansas, Nebraska and other western states, are not borne out by the statistics of trade and debt paying. Those reports are for political effect with the calamity crowd.
Those over-credulous democrats in Texas who are building on the electoral vote of Massachusetts for the democratic candidate in this election are too sanguine for the wear and tear of life.
There is some reason to believe that the alien land law will be left in the dump by this legislature. It is almost too much to expect from them, but accidents sometimes happen.
CLARK has the faculty of arousing enthusiasm, and wherever he speaks he is not only heard with attention but there is an immediate movement on Hogg's intrenchments.
The Atlanta Constitution is in a quandary.
It cannot damn the democracy in congress for its 'cowardice in free silver legislation without condemning Crisp, and it cannot condemn Crisp without giving aid to Cleveland and Mills. It is as mad as a wet hen, but is corked up and cannot let its feelings have vent.
The opening of the Indian reservations of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes has been postponed until the 19th and in the mean time the territory is overrun with thieves of every description and life and property are jeopardized. This method of opening the reservation is a fraud, and the lands had better be shut out some better method is devised
SALISBURY took his disappointment over the Behring sea matter into his contest with France and Russia, over the investiture of the Egyptian Khedive, and got satisfaction. He feels better now.
Uncle Daniel cannot forgive Austin for having a republican mayor who welcomes a republican state convention in fitting terms. Uncle Daniel will save himself a great deal of coming annoyance by dying early, as he is very likely to see a republican governor at Austin within the next ten years. The man who cannot stomach a republican mayor is a man born out of due time.
Laredo Times must have a very perverted view of things to imagine that San Antonio could be jealous of the "border belle" on any account.
The thing is ridiculous in itself and made amusing by the pretensions of the Times man, who has stuck a feather in his coat tail and thinks himself a peacock.
Those dealers who were deceived into laying in large stocks of goods under the assertion that the new tariff law would shove prices up have had time to repent of their gullibility.
Prices have not advanced as expected, large stocks have been carried at the risk of the merchant for no result, and in some instances goods have fallen. In no case has there been any profit in the operation.
The old howl over the unjust treatment of the indians by this government is raised by some of the back number politicians of both parties
This government has treated the indian far too well either for his own good or the good of the country. He has been maintained in idleness at the expense of the government; millions of the best acres of the agricultural regions of this continent have been shut out to settlement to provide him hunting grounds; he has been provided with food, shelter and clothing at the national expense that he might have leisure to prey on his white neighbors; he has been furnished with rifles and ammunition that he might go gunning for white scalps; he has been the perpetual ward of the government. without one just pretext for the claim that is advanced by the sentimentalists in his behalf, and has been an evil and only an evil and that continually ever since the first settlement of this continent. His sole merit is in dying young.
El Paso Tribune harnesses Hill and Hogg as the biggest team in the United States. A few more days, a few more, and the Tribune will see where he has made the mistake of his life.