San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-06

IT Is authOritatiyely stated that James
G. Blaine IS out of politics. Wen bet
hole against Bakers hat that politics is
not out Of Jim Blaine. The Knight Of
Augusta is not knocked out Of political
time yet, but comes up smiling after
every round and will be seen in the ring
next convention rs lively as though
there was no turkey cock" in Utica.
GROVER should have had Miss Rose al
his lug when the Civil Service Commits
siOners insulted Congress with the
uncivl report which they forwarded
through him. 1t might have saved him
the modification OF being made the I'M
conscious instrument Of gross insult to
Congress. Rose is sharp, Groverisn't.
FORSTER, the inhuman and justly eI-
ecrated ex-Chief Secretary for Ireland, is
dead. Few mourn in the Emerald Isle.
The Dallas Fair Association gets 80
acres Of W. II. Gaston's real estate, and
W. II. CASTOR gets $4,000 Of the Dallas
Fair Associations stock. The agricul-
tural implement department OF the fair
will be its heaviest exhibit.
DALLAS tOots her horn for Sabine Pass,
but don't sell clam. She has not yet
been tutored how to foot.
The Galveston News does not think
that the Ohio papers prove that Repub-
lican government is getting on we'll I'M
der its trial" The Republican govern
ment OF Ohio is getting along we'll
enough; it's the Democratic Offioe-stssl-
ers that are under trial, and their Re-
publican prosecutors are getting along
with them very well, thank you!
The unanimity with which the De-
mocraoy of the country are trying to
land Jake Sharpe into the bosom Of the
Republican party is the most hopeful
sign Of agreement among them that has
been seen since they eusrreled about the
division of spoils, March 5, 1885.
The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks
that the Democracy lack Leadership
and a definition :" the Galveston News
would substitute Leadership and ac-
ton :" the rank and file of the party
would make it Leadership and an office"
THERE is great detection in Gladstone's
cabinet, his policy being too liberal and
inclusive for his colleagues, and dis
ruption is imminent, as the Premier will
not modify or abandon his scheme. He
has studied it out carefully. decided upon
it deliberately, and will abide by it as
his final conclusion in the premises.
The Albuquerque Y. NJ. C. A. do not
intend to have it said OF them 81 was in
prison and We visited me not" They
not only visit the prisoners in Jail, but
supply them with with books and papers.
Do the San Antoine members Of the
Association do likewise? A word to
the wise.
ALEXANDER of Bulgaria hangs on to
his life appointment by the Sultan as
though he was welded thereto. He
says he cannot serve seven governments,
but he keeps as stiff an upper lip as the
man In the prophecy did who was laid
hold Of by the seven women.
The riots are practically over; the
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that 1t soon will be.
The big strike" has forever settled In
the mind of the thinking people of this
country the necessity Of state and ma
tional arbitration laws, providing for the
peaceable settlement of all disputes aris-
ing between the employed and their en-
ployers.
The silly story which the New York
Times reporter puts In Jay Gould's
mouth, concerning the weakness OF the
Knights Of Labor, deceives no one, and
only Oonyicts the author of having had
his ears built on the New York tenement
ten-story plan.
ALL that has been developed to date by
the discussion OF probable candidates
for Governor is the certainty that neither
Ross, Swain or Terrell can get there,
unless half the papers in the Stste.lie
worse than the only and original Ana
Mas.
The London Lancet inquiries: May
children go barefoot without INJURY
That depends upon the condition of the
broken bottles in the back yard; or,