The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-08
Monday, May 3, 1882.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.


CONGRESSIONAL candidates in the Calves
ton district are as thick as blackbirdS.
THE O. a. is likened unto Pontius Plate, be-
cause he washed his hands of the apportion-
ment bill.
RACINE, Wisconsin,, has just suffered two
million dollars fire; FIVE acres of buildings
were burned down.
CowAKr, who killed Judge Thurmond at
Dallas, has been convicted and given seven
years in the penitentiary.
THE president has issued an order releasing
General Fin John Porter of so much of his
sentence as debarred him from holding Office.
The dems. can now count Fitz John as an
eligible candidate for the presidency.
UPsoN, very properly and periodically, vot-
ed with the republicans on the tariff question,
and against his fellow democrats from Texas.
1t would be great economy of principle and
consistency to send republican to represent
the 10th district.
GAMBLING used to be deemed a legitimate
calling in Mexico and was practiced in public
as openly as any other business, but Mexico
has turned its tables and gambling is now
outlawed, and what is better the Mexican Off
Gals carry out the law.
UPsoN was the only member from Texas
who voted with the republicans on the tariff
question. II democratic member Of congress
is compelled to vote with the republican party
in order to serve his constituency he had bet
ter be a republican at once and save his con-
sistency.
UPsoN has had his goose cooked by the new
apportionment so far as the democratic party
is concerned. The best thing the Judge can do
is to turn his back upon the old migrate. 1t is
only the other day we picked up democratic
paper denouncing Epson as northern man
and accusing him with republican sympathies.
GEO. P. FINLAY is announced as candi-
date for congress in the Galveston district.
That district needs the services of a straight
out republican. Finlay should exhibit patriot
ism enough to swap horses before the race
begins.
A PATTY of journalists were recently car
ried over the West Jersey railroad from Phila-
delpha to Cape May, distance of 81 a miles
in S3K minutes. A number of the miles were
covered in 50 seconds. The train consisted of
locomotive and three cars.-N. O. Times
Democrat.
A party, composed of the governors Of
Massachusetts, and South Carolina and about
50 others, were carried, in the month of June,
1898, over the Boston and Providence railroad,
distance of AZ miles, in AZ minutes. 1t was
on the occasion of the opening Of the road,
and the governor of South Carolina had come
on to Boston by invitation. The West Jersey
affaiI is, hence, not startling.
In OLD TIMES the vicious, and most damag-
ing, habit of mixing politics with municipal
affairs did not prevail. What has the govern
ment OF city to do with political dogmas and
doctrines any way? What more than MIN
inhis family government? The business of a
city government is to collect its taxes, con-
duct its domestic affairs, protect the person
and property of citizens. Does it make any
difference what principles of national
or international government the men hold
who have these duties to perform? This
party business in cities is what, by d.
viding the honest part of the COM
munity, enables the rogues, who thus hold
the balance of power, to dispose themselves to
one party or the other, and by thus securing
the victory for that party come virtually them
selves in power. There is not a city in the
country which, if it will put party politics aside,
can not put gamblers, and all its outlaws and
hoodlums, under police control and keep them
there. And what we say of municipal offices
is Just as true of judicial. We want no judges
with politics.
Let some Of our citizens try it, look for
capable and honest men for the municipal and
judicial offices, men who will not steal and
are not idiots, and make no inquiry about
their politics, and there will be no more city
governments at the mercy of venal hordes, as
St. Louis is to-day.