The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-14

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received letter from the Mayor OF
Sherman saying that, In view OF the
hard times and the fact that the city
would have to entertain n convention Of
stockutn, the citizens would prefer that
the veterans would not assemble there.
Evidently there are no patriotic or be-
nevolent citizens In sherman, or such
an admission would never have been
made.
TIM best evidence In the world that
town or city rs in flourlshing condition
ns regards business and trade, Is the
number Of advertisements that appear
in the columns Of Its newspapers.
Where there Is life thwe will be lively
competition among business men and
striving and bidding for trade and
this will manifest itself in advertising.
Judging by this infallible barometer,
business in San Antonio must he In an al
most stagnant condition. Merchants
must endeavor to widen their trade and
to attract custom by advertising their
goods II they hope to do n profitable
business.
THE attempt to hold the railroad COM
pany entirely blameless for the strike
asd It's effect upon the trade ofthe South
west Is not logical. The company pre-
cipitated the strike and then fired the
sympathizers OF the strikers after 1t was
inaugurated, and all through the bust
ness it has not made n single overture In
order to accommodate the business pub
| lie. III was Ms DESTROYS Of doing this
II could have ended the troubles by II
simple show of compromise, which no
doubt would have been satisfactory TO
all parties concerned. But nothing of
the kind has been attempted. The re-
ductiOn was made, and when the en-
ployees resented the squeeze, the COM
pany endeavored to make the officers OF
the law party to its schemes and OPP
pressions. All the blame cannot be laid
apon the strikers, and they deserve to
win even small victory in their at
tempts to uphold the dignity Of labor s.
THE very strangeness of being put in
charge of the federal pantry is sophie
| nomenal, that it looks as II it would
have the same effect upon the Demo
Gratis that the throwing of a carcass
among a half famished gang Of wolves
produces-a general swapping, snarling,
scowling, growing. biting and fighting.
Il Il a f.,f ba L mfr. thS lrtf IA m fha
hilt.' The fur will fly in all directions.
Democrats are digging up each others
antecedents and oyerhauling each
others records with wonderful zest In
Fort Worth some wicked fellows has nc.
cused George Il. Loving Of employing
Republicans to edit the Gazette, and
no doubt every applicant will be turned
inside ont and daubed from head to
foot until be will hardly be sure Of his
own identity. The LIGHT regrets to see
the deyotees Of the star-oyed goddess Of
reform engage in so unseemly a.scramble
for the loayes and fishes, but charity
whispers that many allowances must be
mgde for men who hays tasted for p
years.
a WAsHINGrON correspondent of the
Cincinnati Times star, speaking of the
situation, politically, gives the follow
ing: The average new Congressman
looks with dismay upou the prospect
before him. al do not think" said
Congressman Chas. Dougherty, Of
Florida, who comes in the place or
Bisbee, of that State. "tbat the man
| who comes in now to distribute the pat.
ronage Of his district stands ghost Of
7 show Of coming back. If he fills the
Offices in his district at all, he must
make about half the Democrats in his
district his enemies. Take my own for
instance. 1t was a Republican district
before this election, and gave me about
1000 majority. Well, there are "a least
100 applicants for every office in the dis
trict. | can only put one man in each
office, and the result is that | shall have
to either make no recommendation for
the places or else make 30 enemies for
every office filled. The result will be
thar in filling II Offices | will sweep
away every vestige OF my majority, and
something more, too. | have not the
slightest idea that shall ever see Con-
gress again, or that any new fellow, or
many of tho old ones, for that
matter, will viii Presi-
dent Cleveland begin scheming
at once for second term, is
the question that suggests itself now as
the administration has assumed its du-
ties. There are some reasons for be-
lieving that he will not, however much
he may want to be his own successor.
"Cleveland has some queer views on
that subject" said personal acquan-
lance of the President, talking about
his remarkable political career. "IIe
seems to be born to be lucky, perhaps
child of destiny. Anyway, whatever he
has had thus far has come to him with
out effort on his behalf. lie was talk
ing to me about that very thing only
the other day. lie tells me that he did
not make any effort for any of his nomi-
nations or elections, and that he felt all
along, not only in this campaign, but in
Others as well, that his share of the du-
ties was merely to wait and accept what
came to him. i felt all along, when
there was talk about candidates. he
said, that 1t would probably come
round my way If 1t was best that |
should be the nominee, and after the