The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-05-18
Thursday, May Is, '82.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.


runs independent he will support him.
THE special telegraphic correspondent OF
the Galveston News seems to be considerably
out over Russells luck.
WHILE we are republican FIRST last and all
the time we hold some opinions upon every
other question and have relations with every
other cause. We regard the money problem
as not wholly political. The mixture in
Maine is likely to be of democrats, green
hackers and prohibitionists against republic
cans. The conventions of the probable al
lies are to be held on the goth inst, and the
Ist and 18th prox., after which we shall be
better informed as to the situation.
IT is to be hoped that some one will prevail
ON James G. Bennett to give the Arctic sea a
rest, at least till after the funeral ceremonies OF
the dead belong party, not yet arrived, shall
have been fifty performed. 1t is not the lead
ing essential of man with more money than
he knows what to do with to have an explor
ing expedition always on hand. The Jean
nette affair may be rated success, and yet we
can survive temporary interval of exemption
from further trial. There is utility in little
quiet.
SHIPHERD keeps on being investigated. The
committee are now engaged in examining the
contract of Morton, Bliss & Co., with the
Peruvian Credit Industrel Co. Mr.. Bliss
stated that he did not believe that the Ameri
can Minister ever acted improperly in the mat
ter, or that he ever had any correspondence
with Shipherd. Whenever this thing is sufi
GENTLY driven down and clinched on the other
side, the country confidently expects that the
committee will give boss Shipherd his carpet
sack and adjourn sine die.
In THE state of Maine the greenback ele-
ment is diffused. A convention is to be held
on the goth of those we take to be the fiat
money men, pure. unsullied greenbackers who
make no tusions with other parties, but re-
solve to be national or nothing. We have
sneaking inclination to be pleased with the
doctrine that makes its own infallbility its
base, and builds on it. We are not blowing
the horn of the greenbackers in saying that it
denotes that they believe in what they preach
which is great, and sometimes difficult, thing
to do.
A BATCH of crazy Irishmen, calling them
selves the Irish Republican Brotherhood, have
issued in Dublin a proclamation to the Irish
people the purpose Of which is to justify and
explain the recent assassinations.
1t appeals to Irishmen in America to aid by
every means within their power the men who
did the bloody job and who, the brotherhood
declare, deserve well of their country. We take
it the assassins will be over here soon, if not
already come, to overhaul in good time their
naturalization papers and be ready for Con-
gress, or some other available salary.
THE very extraordinary machinery by which
the National Bank system is to be perpetuated
and to perpetuate itseltis curiosity of finance
and politics. We would apply the simplest
rules to bank rule and discard dubious ways.
These banks 60 into voluntary liquidation So
called, that is to say, give up their charters and
then establish new organizations. These re-
ceive the sanction of government, when new
designs and vignettes for the new notes finish
the work. 1t looks easy and will, till what
constitutes its perplexities is found to underlie
the initial operations and to come in as the
ultimates of the scheme. We do not believe it
healthy.
CHALMERS, who some days ago wa s I'M
seated in the Mississippi contested election
cases, cut out his revenge with as much alac-
rity as if it had been sweet as the proverb
makes it. He retired to announce himself as
an independent, and is now probably aware
that he has bitten off his own nose-that met
aphorical nose which no one could bite off but
himself. 1t is not our funeral, but we think
Hon. Mr. Chalmers should not have dug into
the ribs of the old Bourbon war horse with so
much velocity, for that sagacious brute would
have kept him in his congressional seat fast
enough if in its power. There are no ex-
pectant Independents that will not be disap.
pointed in lowering about the next congress
for chairs.