San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-12

Smooth driving and chuck holes,
are Incompatible" Statesman.
Well, if the Statesman has cooled
| down sufficiently to discover this
! ancient fact with q knowledge of
| which other people are born into the
world, it may cease to drive over q
rugged road at the pace of Jehu,
who was known by his curious driv-
ing"
Harry Tracey, w. E. Farmer and
w r. Lamb are admirable leaders of
a farmers party! They farm with
their jaws, not with ploughs and
hoes. No doubt, they have eaten
more roasting ears than they have
ever raised ears of corn. Such men
are simply using the credulous farm
ers as a spring board from which they
hope to bound into office.
Gen. James B. Weaver is a motor.
ious topper and adventurer in poll
ties. He figured largely as a Green.
hacker, and ran in 1880 as the presi-
dental candidate of the Greenback
party. Men of his kind never fail to
take stock in all the new parties
Matched out of the added brains of
incorrigible cranks. They do the
wind work for hire.
1t Is very hard for boys and girls,
that are educated in the streets, to
turn out well in lite.
Amending the state constitution, by
sticking patches on it, is not marx
of wisdom. Sensible people have the
same opinion of mending this bant-
ling of Grangerism, that the link boy
had of mending Pope, the poet who
was very small and puny. While
lighting him home one night, Pope
stumbled and came near falling, on
which he exclaimed, "God mend me-"
No, he WON'T" cried the link boy,
"he had rather make anew man than
to mend you" Putting patches on
constitution that needs to be recon-
structed from bottom to top, only
serves to multiply its incongruities
and increase its angles.
The artist of the Eagle displays
very considerable talent as q cartOt n
list. The Eagle is getting to be .
pretty hard hitter.
Visitors pick up more enjoyment in
San Antonio than they do in any
other city in Texas, and go away
with the conviction that 1t is q pleas
ant and enjoyable city. The know
ledge of this fact ruffles the temper
and stirs up the bile of several Texas
editors, living In humdrum cities.
Now, let the police Ground up" all
the Cyprians, white and black, who
fail to take out license, and thus
break up low dives and thieving
dens.
Fort Worth Is still In the lead as q
pistol gallery. Four persons were
shot in one night, lately, though not
= good night for target practice.
Husbands are sometimes very Graf
ty and scheming. They are afraid to
have their wives and children pass
the summer at home, even in San
Antonio, which is always healthy, SO
they hurry them of to a more north
ern climate. Their wives are impress
sed with this show of consideration
and love for them. Their husbands
having gotten rid of them, enjoy
themselves in round of bachelor
pleasures. Does this bolt hit q dozen
model husbands?
The buildings now going up in San
Antonio indicate, that il is still
marching forward.
Cities now have to pay enormous
prices for the barren honor of having
society, or organization bold it's
meeting in them. Free rides and free
baDquets have to be promised In adj
vance. This sort of mendicanly Is
derogatory to any respectable society.
In former years they did not look for
free lunches and toddies. They paid
for all they got and maintained the
hsnor OF the society.
The practice OF putting of trials for
murder for three or four years, Is an
extremely vicious one, as 1t is the
couse of the frequent failure of juries
to convict cold FLOODED murderers.
The people and papers that scott
at San Antonio for being tough and
morally lax, should remember that
we have Devine for recorder.
At the first opportunity the legisla-
ture of Texas should enact law en- |
abling nine jurors to render verdicts |
In both civil and criminal cases. such |
q law would prevent bribing and mis- |