The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-09-26

GovruNon IRELAND's alleged advice to
the settlers In what Is called Greer
county, Texas, to resist the United
States officers, will not incline Northern
men to put the General Government into
the hands Of Democrats. Men who are
about State rights are unfit
to hold The helm.
JupGING from the enthusiasm devel-
oped by the presence of General Logan
ut Wheeling the other day, IL looks MS II
West Virginia was not so far out OF the
Republican column ms many may sup
pose. The boom for the Republican
ticket seems to have commenced anew,
all along the line.
TnE oolored men of the city have or
ganlzed an independent movement,
and will perfect their plans at meet
ing to be held next Wednesday,. The
more tickets the merrier, and as there Is
no law against the colored voters run
ming ticket to suit them, such course
will make II interesting for the Office
seekers.
TmE Times makes Hon. A. j. Evans
say the LIGIlT Ia not Republican. This
Is difference Of opinion. but Mr.. Evans
was not Republican enough TO give up
his fat Federal position TO lead the for
lorn hope Of the Republican party as
Governor when Newcomb nominated
him. Possibly his zeal as Republican
Is measured by the amount Of his regu-
lar salary, and the woods nre just full
of such Republicans.
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Is THESE days of campaign ISLANDERS II
Is well to remember that the Little Rock
and Fort Smith railroad bill passed both
houses of Congress unanimously. and
that the bill was declaratory statute
merely, not granting lands nor receiving
u dormant or lapsed grant, and CON
ferred no original nor substantial rights
or benefits, and that the justice Of the
bill and the rightfulness of Mr.. Blaine's
ruling, in point of law, has never been
and cannot be.
IT Is a regularity of the Democratic
party to boil over with enthusiasm at
and to elect It's ticket by rouslng MT
jority before the election occurs. But
the counting out of the votes demon
strated the truth Of the proverb, ''there
is many a slip between the cup and the
lip. The Democrats are eleoting Cleve-
land in September, but Blaine will be
elected at the ballot box In November:
the people are not ready to turn 5er
the Government to the Democrats.
"rnE idea that railroad communca-
ton was all we needed to build up trade
with Mexico" says the Denver Tribune
Republican. "has already proven II COM
plete delusion. 1t was absurd In the
first place TO suppose that rail transpor-
tation could ever be as cheap as water
transportation has always been. If New
Orleans could not sell to Vera Cruz by
water, how was Denver to sell to Chi
huahua by rail? The railroads are do
ing great missionary work for civiliza-
ton, however. They are making the
interior accessible, and the Americans
who follow in their wake are developing
some OF the mines, and, most important
of all, teaching the natives to use mod
ern inventions and appliances"
If THE action of the Republicans ut
Dallas the other day, in placing State
ticket in the field, had not been the re-
suit Of bolt, or dissatisfaction of few.
there would be but little fears that it
would receive the full vote of the party
in Texas. Republicans generally desire
TO support straight tickets, and even
while this movement is not the result
OF a primary movement through dele
gates, 1t will have the effect of diverting
the vote until its influence will be of
little consequence. Wash Jones will
control his part Of il and Mr.. Norton
will secure his, and Governor Ireland
will get the usual ma jority. This Is
about the size OF the situation, and the
practical result of such complications.
a GEORGIA gentleman is reported in
the Atlanta Constitution as saying: II
can take 40 Jersey cattle on good farm
and make more money than any other
farmer ever made with 40 negro slaves
on the same land. A man who owns a
herd of registered Jerseys and a Georgia
farm is richer than n man who owned
the same number of slaves before the
war. If every slave freed in Georgia,
said he, warming with the subject, was
replaced to-day with good Jersey, in
10 years Georgia would be richer than
she would have been If the Emancipation
had never been written. You'd better
not print this, though; for II you do, the
Yankees might take a notion to come
down and free the cows"
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On THE subject Of the Mulligan- Fisher
letters the New York Tribune saws
"No Republican win wish to change
the picture which these letters present
An honest man, led by n friend to risk
his money in an enterprise, puts up al
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