The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-09-12

party organs. II required no small
amount OF stamina to stand In the pull
pit and repeat from 1t, as Mr.. Merrill
did, the assertion that the charges
against Cleveland were all true and there
was more to come.' And us Mr.. Merrill
likes Blaine no better than Cleveland
he is In fair way to get himselfbetween
cross fires"
DALLAS played 1t on Fort Worth the
other day in way to make saints weep,
in little base ball game. The day be-
fore game between the two clubs re-
suited In n tie. and as the Fort Worth
club said they had been defeated by adj
verse decisions, their friends went down
with the very last dollar to bet on the
deciding game, and the Dallas sports
stood around and gvbbled up all the bets
possible. The game was played, and
stood II to 0 in favor OF Dallas, and now
there Is weeping, and waillng, and
gnashing Of teeth at the Fort.
JoHS MoSTEIIS, veteran postal clerk,
whose run was between Denison and
Taylor, was arrested few days ago for
robbing registered letters, and in n con-
fession made after his arrest he attri-
butes his downfall TO his association
with gamblers in Denison, and having
lost considerable money by gambling
resorted to robbing letters 10 make good
those losses. The fact remains that
whenever man, who is occupying a
responsible position, commences to visit
the gaming table he Is simply treading
on volcano that will envelop him
sooner or later, and this postal clerks
experience is simply repeating Of an
old, old story, and carries with 1t a
moral bigger than any mountain.
On THE question Of protective tariff,
the farmer has more direct interest in
the multiplicity of manufactures than
any other one class. lis the basis upon
which the structure Of his prosperity
must rest. Take away the market and
what avail is II that barns and granaries
overrun with the fairness of the earth
1t is not his wheat and corn, but the
money that they will fetch, that fills his
pocket-book. The silly assumption that
the tariff robs the farmer ought to be
obsolete, and is nearly so. Exactly the
opposite is true. 1t has doubled the
value of his land and his produce, be-
cause II has been the source Of an in
crease In the demand for what he pro-
duces. 10 go back now to the shftless
policy Of the Democracy when In power,
would create revolution. American
farmers have learned to live like white
men, and they will not surrender these
privileges. The Democratic party
played with fire in the last Congress,
and now holds up Its blistered hands and
asks the SURFACES Of people 1t has at
tempted to despoil Blind men may be
deceived, but those in possession Of their
sober Judgment cannot be so easily be-
guiled.
c,,, on behoIS ~ tho ds,o,.t.s n
Tho Uonstor oonvsn,,nn uho s.rorsd
the nom,nat,on ~ a state t,ctst has
been issuad NJ which The fo,low,ng is
the substance. uThe RennbI,cons of Tho
different counties in Texas who ara in
favor Of mainta,nIno tho un,tv and IN.
tegrity OF the Republican party, and OF
having Republican State ticket In the
field are earnestly requested to send
from each county one or more Republic
cans to conference to be held In the
city OF Dallas, on Tuesday, September
rs, 1881, to select a Republican State
ticket. All Republicans who favor a
state ticket and who cannot attend the
conference Mt Dallas are requested to
communicate by letter with DIR. A. M.
Cochran, Dallas, Texas. We hope to see
every county In the State represented
nj the conference" The call Is signed
Dy D. l.. Haynes, "A. j. Evans, A. M.
Cochran, George w. Pasco, f. A. Cleves,
w. Rhinehart, W. @. Phillips, w. Y.
Leader and N. 5. Norton. IL ticket is
put up at this conference, 1t is move
that should have been made ut Houston,
and while now 1t VIII prove Of but little
opposition to Ireland, yet 1t will be
benefit to the party, and will show that
there Is more OF principle and less of
Office In the Republican party proper.
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Temnororv Cho,rma, 90 a..
rnh,ioan .onuon,,oa 80, W.,