The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-02-27

year.
NEWSPAPERS clip news items from the
News, the Post and the Gazette, but you
never hear of their copying editorials.
Why is this ''thusly?"
THE Kaufman sun is for sale on
account of the i'll health Of its proprietor
and editor. 1t is good investment for |
an industrious and frugal man.
IT Is the climax of comicality to hear |
Democrats talk of Flower for President |
in one breath, and in the next to sneer
at John L. Logan. Logan is ten times
as brainy as Flower.
The highest evidence that man is a
sneak, puppy and coward, done up
in one parcel, is for him to send an in
sulting letter anonymously. Now and
then cravens of this type are found.
Tom OcHILTREE has made European
reputation before breakfast, in the most
quiet way. He introduced the Lasker
resolution into Congress, which Bis
n matter of course, Europe will ring with
the name Of the author Of this banded
about resolution. The Democrats are
mad at Tom for entrapping them in this
manner.
IT Is now asserted that Queen Victoria
and her Scotch gillie, John Brown, were
privately married, and her grief is only
to be accounted for on this theory.
Queens, in spite Of tinselry and gew
gaws, are but women, and women must
have their rattles and baubles. John
Brown was no worse than the founder
or root of the Guelf and Stuart families,
from which Queen Vic descended.
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lT WOULD be a heavy blow to San An
tonic should a spirit of mossbackism de-
feat the sewerage bonds, and we trust
such a calamity will not be visited upon
the city. Citizens should not act as
obstacles to progress and improvement
but keep their mind open to the recep-
tion Of truth. As all desire the improve
ment of San Antonio, and only differ as
to the means to accomplish the common
object, all should study the question.
"MR. PAYNE" says the Houston Post,
sis a strong man." and it is about right.
But he is strong in the same way that
skunk is strong-for he is redolent of the
scent Of the Standard Oil company-the
most grinding monopoly that ever ex-
listed. Mr.. Payne is worth $4,000, 600,
and as the Democrats want big corrup-
ton fund they naturally hunt out rich
men who are willing to bleed forcibly to
obtain a nomination. The Democrats
will never nominate poor man.
SOME newspaper donkey has stated
that the Republican State platform in
Texas would contain Stree grass
plank. If it should turn out so, the
Republican party of Texas will Ego to
grass" in double quick time, and will be
followed by no mourners. The Repub-
lican party is based on principles; moi
expedients, subterfuges, double dealing
and receptions, and when it must suffer
defeat, 1t falls in its armor, "with itt
back to the field and its feet to the foe. >
The completest and most finished
specimen Of unadulterated mossbackisn
and donkeyism that has come under ou
observation for 20 years past, is tn,
speech Of Charles Il. Fenner, at the un
yelling Of the Lee monument in New
Orleans. 1t is political donkeyisn
sublimed, glorified and deified, sine
two-thirds Of 1t is devoted to a sort q
vindication Of the constitutional right O
secession. Such men as this mossbac
orator are the curse Of the South, sine
they refuse to 'let the dead past bur
its dead" and open new set Of book
No ONE will raise particle of obje,
ton to surface drainage, for all favor /
but no bonds are needed to secure it. an
voters must not mix this issue with til
sewerage question. With grain
common sense, and common spir
level to show the natural descent of IL
land, any person is able to construct su
face drainage for San Antonio, as a