San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-03
BOUND TO COME.

The wish is generally father to the
thought. The Times speaking of the
union OF the anti-demoGratic forces at
Fort Worth says that such an unhealthy
combination cannot harmonic. The
Times speaks by the card when it says
the combination is unhealthy. 1t is so
unhealthy that the democrats in the i'm
mediate neighborhoOd are taking to the
woods. Unless public acco nts and pri-
vate dispatches are alike false, the DEM
ocracy Of North Texas unite in deelar-
ing the opposition lately developed the
most formidable foe" that the dem
Ocracy of this state have ever had to
deal with. These men up there, who
have the danger to face, know whereof
they affirm. The LIGHT informed its
readers a month since that movements
were on foot, which, when made mani
fest, would cause the Texas democracy
TO tremble for the security of the pOlti-
cal foundations on which for years they
had been building so securely. The
ostrich method of meeting an enemy
may answer down here, with the men
whose lack of knowledge gives them no
conception OF danger of whose magni-
tude they are blssfully ignorant, but up
in North Texas where the enemy has
shown himself the democracy are right
eously afraid of the results. Well they
may be. Democratic misrule in Texas
has reached Its ultima thule, and the re-
action has come which threatens
the state like mighty flood.
There Is no intimation that
the democracy OF this state are
any wiser In their generation than
their prOgenitors before the flood, of
whom it was said that they were eat
ing and drinking, marrying and giving
in marriage, until the flood came and
swept them away. The democracy Of
Texas have been eating and drinking
not only in Texas, but they have eaten
and drunken Texas. They have con-
sumed her public lands, they have
wasted her revenues, they have loaded
her statute book with legal enactments
that are relic of the dark ages, they
have degraded labor and made it an I'M
holy thing, they have sent representa-
tiyes to congress instructed to carry out
free trade policy that is destructive to
the industries Of the state, whose votes
have helped defraud the school revenues
Of the state of millions OF dollars prof
fered 1t by the national government, and
refused on the insane plea that il was
an infringement of state rights, they
have defied the law governing removals
from Office and appointments thereto
and made OF The very name Of civil ser
vice reform kissing and by-word,
they have bound burdens too grleyous
to be born upon the shoulders of the
poor and let the rich go free-these, and
other kindred things, have they done,
until the land groans under the weight
OF their government, and the people re-
fuse longer to submit to their ringmas-
tership. Let those who won't see re-
main blind. 1t is their high-bOrn dem
Ocratic privilege.
All the same, the disintegratiOn of the
forces upon which the democratic lead
ers have relied for all past victories is
quietly and rapidly going on. Unless
some change comes over the spirit of
this disintegration the old party will
crumble to pieces in many places like
lump Of salt in a cooks hand. There are
so many contingencies likely to arise be-
tween now and election than in these
piping times, when one does not know
what day may bring forth, II would be
useless to predicate anything with GER
tainty. There is, however, no doubt
that strong and very determined OPP
position TO democratic misrule in Texas
is working In the northern part Of the
state. There is no doubt that this oppO-
sltion will be successful in returning