San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-09-15

The idea and practice Of personal
government which atIllcts San Antonio
to-day is so wide spread and general as
to deserve public rebuke. 1t crops out
in every meeting OF our city council and
thrusts itself into the eyes and face OF
every citizen who essays to I'M crest him
self in public affairs. Attempts to fair
Iy and honestly criticise public transact
tiOns are resented as personal attacks;
any reference to public officer, in con-
nection with disapproved public acts, is
denounced by the personal apOligists OF
the individual, not the official, as mali
cIOus, and the personal attack upon the
critic is pushed to the farthest possible
limit 1t is high time that San Antonio
discarded this personal idea in her NUM-
cipal affairs, and conducted the public
business of this city in the interests Of
the city. Office is too largely regarded
lie trust; by some OF our city officials it
Is so regarded exclusively, and as COLI
sequence favoritism is the law Of all APP
pOintments Measures In themselves
good are rendered worthless by the
Instruments of their accomplishment,
and the whole patronage Of the city ad-
ministratiOn Is prOstituted to this per-
sOnai idea. The service that the APP
pOintee can render the person who ap-
points is the first consideration; what
service he may render the city IS an af-
ter consideration, IL considered at all.
The one thing above all Others that the
city needs to-day and must have to save
it from municipal damnatiOn, ia man
ut its head who is above all personal con-
sideratiOns in the conduct Of the public
business.
THE material difference in the figures
given by the national bureau of statistics
and the agricultural department rs to
the cotton crop prospects Is utterly
rreCOncilable, and no conclusions can be
based upon them. The national figures
show the condition of cotton in Texas at
10 per cent of an average crop and these
figures have been given again and
again, despite the reports OF great
shortage from so many quarters that it
seemed impossible to accept the figures
and equally useless to deny them. The
reports of the agricultural department
recently published put the Texas crop
on the first of the month at II per cent
of an average crop, IA falling off of 10
per cent from the national bureau esti-
mate. This, 1t seems to us, is much
nearer the mark, and yet, if anything,
higher that the actual condition of the
crop warrants. The acreage this year
has been much larger than in any pre-
vious year, and this will tend to keep
years, despite the comparative failure
OF the crop in many sections. Cotton
rules low, and the quotations based upon
prospects must allow for very largely
increased plant, as but few of the cot
ton states. outside OF Tennessee, show
any marked increase in yield over last
year. Texas will probably market as
many bales this year MS last, but it will
be solely on account of increased acreage;
the condition of crop being from Is to 20
per cent below last years yield.
TIE real inwaTdness OF AleXander's
abdication has come TO the surface. His
reputed cringing to the car is not sub
stantiated, and no such telegram as was
given to the press as his was ever sent
to the Gar of Russia. On Alexander's
return to Bulgaria he announced his de-
termination TO court martial and exc
cute the conspiratOrs who had driven
him from his throne, and was Immediate
ly notified by Russia, Germany and Aus
tria that if he did so a Russian force
would Immediately occupy Bulgaria.
Justly considering the stability of his
rule dependent upon the prompt punish
ment OF the revolusionists. and inhibit-
ed from doing this by the fiat of the
three great powers mentioned. he abdi-
Gated sooner than plunge Bulgaria into
a hopeless war with Russia. These facts
were suppressed by the powers directly
interested, and false impression of the
whole matter given by the Russian
press and Bismark's organ. The whole
course of the exlled prince has been
dignified, patriotic, and such as to make
for the peace of Bulgaria and the feder-
alton of the Baltic provinces
EVICTIONs having been ordered under
the new Tory administration of Irish af-
fairs the shooting of landlords follows