San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-07

could do. Had he done it ea&. til,
deed would have been more com
mendable.' Carlyle said that the only
sensible thing the eighteenth century
ever did was to blow out It's brains IL
the French revolution. Servia has
long said that the only sensible thing
Milan could do was to blow out his
brains, but resignation will answer as
the public radiance goes.
THE Orange Tribune has its Texas
nomenclature a little mixed in the
following:
The workmen at Arkansas Pass have
appealed to the attorney general to
help them get their wages. What is
the matter with the deep water con-
tractors at Arkansas?
1t doth not yet apper in this vicinity
that any contractors are at work at
Arkansas Pass. If 50 the news has not
been waited to the Alamo City.
AN ARDENT Clevelandite journal of
Texas intending to laud the retiring
president says:-Plain citizenship
does not shrink Grover Cleveland one
whit.-Is this an intimation that
Growers corporosity will continue to
expand; or, does it mean that Grover
will be accepted as greater man out
of presidential office than in it?
Grover is not the first man who
shrank when sized up along side of a
big office aud recovered his natural
proportions when he resumed that
more humble station in life for which
nature evidently intended him.
The Times of this city thinks that
President Harrison will be over
whelmed with surprise and struck
dumb with amazement on receiving
notice OF Rankin's resignation. Per-
haps, it is so unusual tor a democrat
to resign anything in the way of Of
flee, but the news will have no fatal
If the administration
has no sorer trials before it than ac-
cepting democratic designations, then
there will be a calm sea and plain !
sailing for the next four years. Mr..
Rankin deserves the thanks of his |
district for the expedition with which
he makes way for the inevitable.
JOHN WANNAMAKER was poor |
boy. His father was a poor brick
layer in Philadelphia, and Johns |
family belong to the rank and file. |
1t sticks in the democratic crop of our |
esteemed evening contemporary that
such a man should be within the |
sacred precincts of the cabinet circle.
1t does seem to be misfortune, or |
popularity of the republican party |
that 50 many of its great men like !
Lincoln and Garfield came up from
he ranks. 1t won't hurt. Less of
and more genuine
will be change for the
las interests to be looked after, and
hose Interests stand better show of
Ieing cared for by meu who have felt
he iron of poverty and lack of advan-
ages enter their own soul.
THE Houston Herald finding it i'm
possible to utter the truth concerning
his journal and smarting under the
LIGHTS fearless criticism of its in
utterances, pens the follow
ng:
at is an old saying, but none the
ess true: 1T is an jill bird that be-
Ouls it's own nest.n The San Anto-
lio LIGHT has villified and abused
he people of the south with an I'M
pen. If the LIGHT does not
ike the south, why not move tD more
.Ongenial fields and pastures new?'
The Herald falsfies the record in
10 saying, and merely attempts to
tir up animosity against the LIGHT.
'he LIGHT has never uttered one
word against the south; it has, and
will denounce the unfair dealings and
nurderous practices of democratic
eaders at the south, who rule the
'eople with an iron hand, and hav-
ng control of the patronage of the
tate governments, brook no criticism
f their unlawful acts. For the south
he LIGHT has ever had words of en-
and good cheer and
aspect and fraternal feeling, but the
light does not accept the Houston