San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-18
REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE,
Matters Political in the Shoe-String
District--How Brownsville
BarnacIes Stick to the
Old PlankS.

BarnacIes Stick to the
Old PlanKs.
BROWNSVILLE, Oct. 10, 1888.
Editor LIGHT.
see by the "press" that Col. Calvin
q. Brewster is about 10 enter the race
against Sweet William, in this (the
Shoe-String) district. / think the Col.
will make pretty good run, as good
many democrats can't stand the free
trade racket. heard a strong demo-
crat say today THAT he would cross
hell on a rotten log 10 vote against
ing people in this section will vote for
protection. OF course there are many
that have to vote as the ring proposes,
no difference right or wrong. The
clique have not brought out county
ticket yet, and they are not likely to,
until few days before the election.
OF course they will have walk-over,
as the republicans and protection
democrats will put out no ticket. II
we can get president and congress-
man, that will be glory enough for
one day.
Who is Col. Kilgore, that is getting
so much free advertising? 1t must be
| a mistake that he was a Confederate
| soldier. If so he must have belonged
to some feather bed outfit. He surely
never went to the front. No true Con-
federate ever would oppose pension
ing the widow of as noble Il man as
Gen. Sheridan. Not man In my old
regiment Charley Pyron's) would
have raised his voice against PEN
sion for Gen. Sheridan, although we
were true rebels and yankee eaters.
This Col. Kilgore never lived on
black berries for three or four days,
as some of the bloody Second did. No,
he is now displaying his talent in the
halls of congress, fighting dead he
roes' widows, but then that is about
the size of feather bed soldier.
The trouble ON the river is about at
an end. Everything is quiet. Even
our railroad project is taking little
nap. She may wake up in the sweet
by and by. Those that want railroad
here are not able to build it.. II is
no use whipping the devil around
the stump. Those that are able don't
want it. There are men here, plenty,
able to donate SD, 900. You will hear
men gas around about immigration.
Do they think people will cone to a
country where they can't buy lands ?
Not much. There have been several
parties here to buy land, but what in
ducement was held out to them?
| None. Thousands of acres of the
finest land IN the world, lying idle,
still you will hear every day, men in
Brownsville say the place is getting
worse every day. Whose fault is it?
The land owner. They may kick, but
it is true fact. Never was better
corn made anywhere, than here this
year. 1t was sold at $3.50 per cargo.
| Six barrels of corn for $50 cents in
Mexican coin; that is the reason that
the laboring class are so poor; no
market for their produces. Eggs, ten
cents Mex; sweet milk, 10 cents per
| gal, Mex; chickens, 6 IA to II 1-2
Mex: Never will times be any better
until railroad and new people
get possession of the country. A
prominent business man told me that
he had not cleared his expenses for
more than year. If he could sell his
property he would leave tomorrow. 1t
is shame that such fine country as
| this should be behind the times SO
| badly. But then the truth must not
be told, it might hurt somebody's feel
| ings.
see that my old friend, Don Juan
Cardenas, has been out riding with
the mayor; got tumbled out of the
buggy, and got his phiz a little
scratched up. l am sorry for Don
Juan. In days gone by he used to 60
on his pretty, when he and were
San Antonio Washers, and old man
Menger's lager was not as strong as
the S.. Louis stuff of today. hope he
| is O. X. by this time and will do the
driving next time, or do as we used to
| do. take it a-foot.
1t is onlya few days more and Mr..
| Cleveland's funeral bell will begin to-
| toll a free trade toll.
Our district court is grinding away,
She is slow but sure. If the month
holds out, so will the court.
The Rio Bravo has been on high
| lonesome, but the old girl is now So
bering up, so she will continue if the
Clevelandites keep cool. F. B. H..
The Story Is False.