The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-11-18
THE COMEDY Or THE CAMPAIGN.

The more we review the campaign Just con-
Guided in our state, the more vivid and dis
tinct some incidents appear, until they form
the comedy of the campaign.
| Col. tones comes home from Washington
and places himself at the head OF the lnde-
| pendent movement, Gov. Davis having al
ready taken the field in the southwest.
The regularly organized democracy, with
its serted ranks and its tremendous odds,
stands ready for the assault. The contest
looked so unequal that it reminded us OF the
story about Goliah and David, and the
chances looked about the same as when
David went out with his little sling to meet the
mailed giant of the Philistines.
Well, the campaign opened, and
Colonel Jones led out CALAMITY and
found his enemy lodging his well
aimed logic, by an onslaught upon Gov.
Davis and his administration. Col. Jones
handled his forces we'll, and was not out
aanked down to few days before the close
of the campaign.
Davis had placed his competitor entirely
hors du combat, and the day was practically
lost to Hancock.
Jones went home for few days rest before
closing his canvass; making his final appoint
ments in the 10th district. He was to speak
at Austin, Burnett and San Antonio. This
would have been clincher on Hancock, as
it would have kept up the heart of Jones' i'm
mediate followers, and encouraged them to
stand by Davis. Jones goes to Austin, and
there the comedy of the campaign begins to
eliminate.
The Hancock coterie are on the qui vive.
What money, what party discipline, what
abuse and traduction had failed to do, must
be compassed, and it is evident that at this
point the curtain rises on Judge Terrell, as
the villain of the play.
Terrell plays Iago to Jones; he pleads his
friendship in order to ingratiate himself; he
excites his jealousy by illusions to Davis, and
if Jones did not exclaim, Terrell invented the
exclamation: that Davis had lost him q, 900
votes.
Having worked on the jealous Moore Uones)
Terrell (Iago) then suggests to Jones to desert
Davis, and allow his greenback friends to
trade for Ireland votes by voting for Hancock.
Jones fails to meet his appointment at Burnett
and goes off to the northern portion of the
state. Before leaving Austin Qago) Terrell
manages to damage his friend (?) Jones by
getting HIM docketed in the police court as a
common rufhan.
The curtain falls on this scene with Iago
(TerrelD soliloquizing over his success and
the next move--to trap John Ireland into the
arrangement.
Ireland on his way home, tagged out with
fatigue and disgust, reaches Austin, and
(Iago) Terrell plies him with his oily tongue,
and pictures to him how he had ruined Jones,
and calls upon him to allow his friends to trade
off his votes to save Hancock, and Ireland
dare not refuse; it was then that the Han
cock men began to bet their money on sue
cess.
The elder DeNormandie, worthy old resi-
dent of Austin, now in his grave, once re-
marked about Terrell that he was a scoundrel,
and some friend of TerrelPs told him of Nor
mande's assertion, and Terrell found Nor
mandie and said to him that he was sorry
to hear that he, DeNormandie, had been
saying hard things about him. eyes,"
replied De Normandi, "what did, say? oh,
yes, recollect, said you were the most
plausible d--n scoundrel ever knew, "and they
went in and took drink over it, Terrell re-
cognized it as a compliment Terrell has
m IRE shrewdness than all the Austin coterie
combined he is talented, INSCRIPTIONS, good
natured, oily tongued, and man of far more
ability than John Hancock, who really owes all
his success to Terrell, but Terrell only plays
second fiddle or "villian' in the comedy
while John Hancock beetles his brows, looks
big, gets himself pulled up as head and Shout
ders above the delegation to congress; has his
lickspitles talk of him as prospective candi-
date for Vice President, etc.
Ring the curtain down.
An Edinburg journal says that that city,
having an outward righteousness, is corrupt,
hollow, and degraded to the core.
Hungary has now good public schools, nor
NAL schools and colleges. In one Of the
larger cities there is an English conversational
school.