The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-01-30

subject. These military posts are
about played out, except on the bor-
der, and very soon there will be no
sense keeping them up. The troops
can be concentrated at one or two
points and be of more utility to the
government. We are aware of the fact
that the breaking up of these posts will
to some extent interfere with the prl-
vate interests of people who have clus-
tered about them to make money OIL
the government, but this will not fur.
nish sufficient reason for keeping them
I'D. The extension of railroads will
end the Indian business, and the Rio
Grande frontier alone will need looking
after.
The proposition to concentrate troops
at this point seems to be favorlte
one with the department.
The people of Bracket may make
up their minds that the military post
will soon be abandoned, and the dem
ocratic idea of relief from federal bay
onets carried out. The idea of Sena-
tor Coke, who has been the loudest in
the denunciation of federal bayonets,
assuring the people of Kinney county
that he will do all in his power to keep
the federal bayonets fixed at TT. Clark
The federal bayonet was the chief
cause of complaint of Coke and his
party, and now he is going to throw off
his coat and work to have them kept
at Fort Clark because his democratic
fellow citizens like federal bayonet
rule!
| Coke has to work up hill in this bus
iness-being democrat. He lately
got very indignant because some one
reported him as an independent, and
he declares that democracy would
sweep Texas by seventy-five thousand
majority, and he is compelled to ask
favors of a republican administration
and republican congress. The people
of the posts are in bad fix just now
they have nobody in Washington who
has particle of influence to appeal to
to help them out, and if they get left it
is their misfortune if not their fault.
Guiteau said to a St. Louis Globe
Democrat reporter, after the verdict:
"The verdict startled me, but it was
not surprise. Judge Cox's charge
was very fair one, with the single
exception that he did not dwell with
sufficient force on the recent decision
of the New York Court of Appeals.
Had he done so, the jury would have
acquitted me. Judge Porter's bitter
speech had too much impression on
the Jury. saw the effect, and hence
was somewhat prepared for the ver-
dict" "Do you have any fears that
you will die on the scafold?" asked
the reporter. Il am in the hands of
the Lord" replied the prisoner, :" and
l have no apprehensions. Life is but
span. 1t is appointed unto all men
once to die, and no man will die before
his appointed time. No man can sly
to-day that he will be alive tomorrow.
Take the case of Clarkson N. Potter.
Only two weeks ago he was alive and
well; l saw him in the courtroom
intensely interested in my trial. To-
day he is in his coffin.''
OF JUDGE PoRTER's closing speech
in the Guiteau trial, the Globe
crat says;
The speech of Judge Porter in the
Guiteau case was essentially Jury
Speech" and one Of the most effective
of its kind ever made in this country.
1t was intended for the twelve men to
; whom it was addressed, and not, as
many similar speeches are, for effect
on the outside world, and for the ben
eft of the authors reputation as a
rhetorician: There was no effort at
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