The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-13

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dement's of the question or measure
involved
The present state constitution was
constructed upon this principle, and it
is nuisance.
The public schools are organized
upon a different basis, and they are a
shameful failure.
The public economy is based upon
an absurd position of a cash bal
ance, andthe people are overwhelmed
with the load they are made to carry.
We clip the extracts below from
leading democratic papers which 60 to
show that a spirit of reason and talr-
ness has taken the place of blind pre-
iudice and unfairness. The Gonzales
Inquirer says:
Some of the papers are suggesting
different political leaders whom they
would willingly support should they be-
come nominees of the convention. The
press should be the most unbiased, un-
shackled public agency. Conventions
are generally more or less hampercd
by certain portions Of their member
ship being ''instructed" for particular
candidates or persons. 1t seems to us
it should be the province of the press
to canvass, as far as right, the avail
able public men, in the hopes that the
grand mass of the people, who are to
be affected more particularly by the
stewardship of public officials, will
make selections for themselves and ex-
press their wishes in primary conven-
tons.
In remarking upon the fuss between
the governor and the comptroller the
Pamela Waterman denomnates 1t as
zone of the beauties of the intense de-
mocracy of our state government" and
winds up its criticism in this way:
ut is thought that the legislature will
be called on to adjust the trouble be-
tween the governor and the comptrol-
Ter at a cost of no less than five or ten
thousand dollars to the people. If our
constitution was what it ought to be
plain, simple andpractical-there would
be no necessity for this trouble and ex-
pense. But then we could not expect
it to be anything else except what it is,
when it is known that the Hon. John
H. Reagan, the great mixer is said
to be its author and finisher.'
Reagan is a success at only one
thing, and that is his ability to hood
wink the people and keep in office.
There was a time when to have
commented in this way about leader
of the party would have subjected the
Waterman man to a severe blowing up.
The Brennan Banner, in reviewing
the political situation, says:
The abuse heaped upon the green
hackers and republicans in the past
has, instead of modifying them, simply
made them stronger and more con-
trary. There is in reality no political
issues before the people of Texas that
in any way afectthe state government.
A United States senator is to be elect
ed, and as a matter of course we want
a democratic legislature to elect a
democratic senator. The only live
issues now before the country at large
are, the tariff question and what shall
be done to check the tendency toward
giant monopolies. The masses of the
people, both democrats and republic
cans, are greatly interested in these
issues. The Federal administration is
republican, and as the administration
has great power and many places, it
is only reasonable that that party will
use all its influence and power to main
tain itself and hold on to the spoils.
Beyond this there is in reality no vital
issues. The currency question is set
tied, and the people in the southern
states being left to manage their state
affairs in their own way are prosperous
and happy.
The Fort Worth DemOCrat-AdyanCe