San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-06-20
FOR A REASON.

lndustriously circulated everywhere
to the effect that republicans at
Washington are not united and are
consumed by internal discussions and
iealousies. and not to be accepted as
true without investigation. The
course of the present congress has
been bold, Independent, aggressive
and in many ways a departure from
the old stereotyped order of things.
AS consequence of this, republicans
have not run together in the same
groove so smoothly as they would
have done had the old chan
mel been religiously followed, but
this argues no disintegration of
party ,as the New York Sun and other
lesser lights of the democracy i'm
agine. The republican party never
was, save when welded in the white
heat of war and reconstruction, so
close corporation as the democratic
party There has always been more
individual independence of thought,
speech and action upon all the great
questions of the day, and this indie
pendence has had free exercise during
this congress in the consideration of
great questions left unsettled by the
last democratic house. The question
of tariff adjustment, with all the local
interests, jealousies, demands and
antagonisms which it presents, has
been fruitful source of dis
agreement. and the matter is not yet
settled. When, however, the COM
mittee on conference agrees upon the
schedule as differently prepared in
the house and in the senate there will
be an end to all contenti among re-
publicans, and the result will be &C
cepted as the best possible adjust
ment of that vexed question. So also
in the discussion over the silver bill
and the Federal elections law. 1t is
disagreement over means to an end
not over the end sought, and this
measures all the difference between
the republicans and the democrats.
The republican party is the party of
protection, Of pure elections, and
of a conservative use of sill
yer, such use as will not
debase it as coin, nor make it the
king of the monetary world. The
methods Of accomplishing these re-
suits are not seen alike by the indie
pendent minds of the republican con-
gressmen, their views varying with
the interests of their several constit- |
uencies. When these views are all |
considered and conclusion reached,
in which all shall have their due |
weight, there will be no more conten-
ton over the matter, and the 30 |
called divisions among republicans,
over which the democrats rejoice and |
for which the mugwumps give thanks,
will be at an end.
The same is true, in even more |
marked degree, of the windy asser-
tiOns of jealousy between republic |
can leaders. First, it was the jeal-
ousy of Mr.. Harrison for Mr.. Blaine
that was made the theme of telegram
and letter and editorial, but the |
year went by and the folly of the |
canard was soon so apparent that the |
democrats lost all heart in such a |
hopeless work and gave it up. In |
Reeds speakership, they see the in
visible sign of jealousy between the1
two eminent republicans who hail
from Maine, and now the changes are
rung on Blaine and Reed, and
their mutual distrust and jealousy is
paraded wherever Credulity has an
ear to listen to be music of a discOrd it
so ardentIy desires. Repu blicans can
possess their souls in peace. James
q. Blaine is the same man he ever
was, able, sagaciOus, ambitious, the
sworn foe of the democracy, and al
ways more ready to defend the party
he hOnors and that has hOnOred him,
than to defend himself. President
Harrison, also, has always put his
party above himself, and as for Speak
or Reed, he will do like every other
good republican, fall into line at the
command of the national convention,
whether as leader or follower. The
situation contains nothing to alarm
good republicans, it is full Of hope, not
the least hopeful sign being the
intense soicitude of the de-
mocracy over the personal re-
latiOns of prominent republicans.
MORE Chinese are reaching this
country every day despite the strin-
gent exclusion laws. They come over
the Mexican border on the south and