San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-05-20

vate fortunes, there is greater political power
in fewer hands, in other words there is more
tyranny III the republic than in monarchy.
The strongest succeeds more rapidly and more
readily here because, liberty being common
to all, there are no restraints and limitations
to overcome. The demand now is therefore,
not that all shall be free, but that all shall be
restrained from the full exercise of their fac
ulties and from the enjoyment of their ac
QUESTIONS"
"Will the supply be equal to the demand,
senatorN
There have been some marked concessions
in this direction during the last decade, and
the success of the experiments has been So
notable that future movement in the same
direction Is not improbable. Wnen the gov
eminent takes control Of all the agencies of
society we shall all he virtuous, contentei and
happy-just as we now all have gilt edged
butter under the oleomargarine law, reduced
freight and passenger rates under the inter
state commerce law, and pure and non-parti-
san politics under the civil service law"
Talking about purity in politics, senator,
suppose you hold that whatever political
purity may exist belongs exclusively to the
Republican party"
with the possible exception of the two
terms Of Washington" the senator replied,
there has not been an absolutely fair, free
and impartial expression of the deliberate will
of the people in any presidential election since
the foundation Of the government. doubt
If there ever will be. Patronage will allure
the ambitious, force will cOerCe the timid,
demagogsm will gull the credulous, fraud
will rob the weak, money will buy the mer-
cenary.n
us it to be ever thus, senator"
The publication of politics is an iridescent
dream. Government is force. Politics is
battle for supremacy. Parties are the ar
mics. The decalOgue and the golden rule
have no place i'll political campaign. The
object is success To defeat the antagonist
and expel the party in power is the purpose
The Republicans and Democrats are as irreC-
OnCilably opposed to each other as were Grant
and Lee III the Wilderness They use ballots
instead of guns, but the struggle is as unre-
lenting and desperate and the result sought
for the same. In war it is lawful to deceive
the adversary, to hire Hessians, to purchase
mercenarieS to mutlate, to kill, to DESTROY
The commander who lost a battle through
the activity of his moral nature would be the
derision and jest of history. This modern
cant about the corruption of politics is ia
tiguing il the extreme 1t proceeds from the
tea Custard and syllabUb dilettantcism, the
frivolous and desultory sentmentaliSm of
epicenes like
Like whom, senator"
"Oh. YOU can fill in the names yourself-Or
else from the cheap and brazen hypocrites
ike Thingimmy, the greatest confidence man
and bunco Steerer of modern Democracy"
And who is Thingimmy, senator"
"Oh, fancy the readers of The World can
guess"
ION the whole, you haven't very good
opinion Of modern Democracy, senator"
A CAUST c OPINION OF THE DEMOCRACY
The Democratic party, having neither
conscience, convictions nor defined principles,
Inevitably allies itself with discomfort and is
arrayeI against social ORDER 1t Is strongest
where public and private morality is weakest
lis citadel, are in the south, where society is
distinctly fcu>!al, and in great cities, where
the ignorant ami criminal elements are most
energetic. II has no beliefs, maxims or for
mulas. Its creed is the instruction of Jeffer-
sOn-that in a popular government wealth,
Intelligence and morality are ultimately no
match for numbers. For twenty-five wears
It's only policy has been to complain, to OPP
pose, to deny, to protest, and ultimately to
arquesCe il what the Republicans have
dyIa. s. when Cleveland came in, being
without plans, purpose or policy, his admin
iStration t0underei pitiably both in domestic
and foreign affairs was CoutemDubla in
many things and feeble in all, and left abso-
lutely no impression whatever upon history
except in the matter Of vetoing bills for p.n.
sions and pubic buildings 1t followed Re-
publican method, and carried on Republican
ideas, 50 that when Harrison was inaugu-
rated it was rs if a stitch had been dropped
merely, and W. have kept right along with
our work.
DO You imagine, senator, that Mr. Cleve
land will be nominated again by the Demo
Gratis for the presidency"
TIE SENATOR SAYS CLEVELAND WILL BE
PENOMIEATED.
"Oh, YES. Cleveland will be the nominee
in 1892 even if New York should be divided
or against him. This is inevitable 1t is
written He will be first and the rest no
where. Democracy never had such an ideal
exponent and representatives His dull, heavy,
pouderous wooden patitudeS, laborous!y
written out and committed to memory: his
stolid and shallow conceit; his affectation of
wisdom, purity and patriotism, and what he
calls his solemn sense of duty impress tn.
average Democrat with a feeling of reverence
like that which the Chinese laundrynan feels
for his joss"
Senator, you have said that the Demo-
cratic administration left no impression on
history. What impression have recent Re
publican administrations left"
WE HAVE MADE NO HISTORY FOR TWELVE
YEARS.