San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-30

llNuthN a bOAAAh PtAAAaS1A bAAhNAt'r'
the blind leaders Of the blind can see no
difference between the attitude taken by
Paschal and Stevens towards the repub-
lican party, is it the LIGHT's fault? Pas
chal said that under no circumstances
would he accept a nomination from re-
publican convention" and by that very
declaration insulted the republican
party, as IL was we'll known that he in
tended to run for office. Mr.. Stevens
has never insulted the republican party
by any such declaration; he has never
antagOnized straight republican nomina-
tiOns; he has never publicly announced
himself as a mugwump and declared that
he glOried in it. He has been an honest,
straightforward, true republican, and as
such the LIGHT supports him. Had Mr..
Stevens insulted the republican party
by gratuitOusly trampling nomination
under his feet before 1t was even ten
dered him by the party with which he
claimed political utilization, the LIGHT
would have antagonized him as it has
the candidate for district attorney. 1t
is not supposed, however, that critics
having no political consistency them
selves can understand political consis-
tenCy In others. What nature has de-
MED men, in the way of understanding
path OF conduct marked out by a pure
consistent political principle, the LIGHT
does not attempt 10 supply.
RALLY round the League candidates
boys AS rule they are good ones. The
black sheep are already spotted and
those of course you will scratch. This
fight will tell for or against you for
years to come. There is no question OF
this. Close up your ranks. II you let the
hope of spOils. or the voice of traitors,
or the cry OF ring, or any other thing,
divide you on the candidates that you
have an interest in electing, your pOliti-
cal Gun has set for the next ten years.
Put none but genuine League men on
guard next Tuesday.
THE Express says that there Ia some
question Of the LIGHT and the Times
consolidating after the present election.
There is, however, no question about the
consolidation OF Copeland and the Ex-
press before the election; and very little
question but that the Express has con-
solidated with Copeland for the city
election. What time there will be in
the sanctum of the great moral morning
daily next January explaining away its
editorials OF two years ago. 1t will be a
regular game Of editorial thimble-rig-
now you see it and now you don't. Be-
tween the republico democracy and the
demOcrO-republicanis OF the Com
merce street sheet the issue gets awfully
mixed.
How much county reform can be
coaxed out of the hiss of the anaconda
with traitors head and boilers tail,
whose belly fairly rattles with the silver
dollars it holds for a corruption fund?
The star, in heraldry, is always repre-
Sented by five points. The tive-signa-
tured address of the straight republicans
Of this city, which has called forth tho
venom of the old mugwump serpent, is
the Bethlehem star of promise for the
true republicans of BeXar county. 1t has
indeed arisen, and it will go before the
people guiding them TO the place where
the child OF new political hope shall be
born. From its cradle pure Tepubli-
canism shall come forth, untainted by the
cOrruptions that have sapped the life
blood of the party under the old regime
in this county, and to that republicanism
shall the gathering of the people be.
The day star of political regeneration
has arisen.
The mugwumps are breaking ground
for their political graveyard. The mile
stones piled up by Wurzbach along the
division line of Atascosa and Bexar
counties would make good headstones.
WHEN the mugs arrange for another
barbecue at Elmendorf they had better