San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-17
MEASURES NOT MEN.

"GASOrGo MI "EN'
The republican party was born of
serious parents. 1t is and ever has
been the child of strong convictions.
The principles for which it do % battle
have always stood for more than the
leaders under whom the fight for the
triumph of those principles has
been waged. Dear as are the names
of the long list of honored standard
bearers OF the party, from the days of
the martyred Lincoln until now, the
principles of the grand old party
have ever been held higher than any
exponent of them. This is as true OF
the party today as it ever has been in
any of the yesterdays of the past.
The loyalty of the party leaders to
the party supremacy has always led
to subordination of the personal and
sectional when 1t has been demanded
in the interests of the general and i'm
personal. 1t is this supreme convIc-
ton Of the party, that it is the con-
servator of all that is broadcast, freest,
truest, best in our national life,
that Is ut the bottom of all
party action, and in the final outcome
of that party action subordinates all
else to itself. Only once or twice In
the past thirty years has this supreme
rule of party government been violat-
ed in presiden tial contest, and then
such violation was the political death
of the violstor. The contest upon
which the party is now about to enter
for the control of the national policy
during another four years is to the
full as important as any of the former
battles that it has wsged for sound
finance, protection of home industries,
national autonomy and the national
honor and credit. In very high and
distinctive sense the republican party
Is and always has been the national
party. It has defended the national
idea and the national life and the ma
tional prerogatives against the as.
saults of those who have assailed
them as encroachments upon the
rights of the several states, and it is
still committed to the perfecting of
the great work SO bravely un dertaken
and so grandly accomplished hither-
to. 1t is not wise to peril the success
of such work as has been committed
to the hands of the republican party
by any content ions as to leaders. The
most vital consideration is the selec-
ton of standard bearer of conserva-
tive views and of unquestioned
loyalty to the established prin
ciples of the party; a man
sufficiently well known and ap-
proved to command the confidence OF
the country. The republican party
has been singularly fortunate in hav
ing always at command good presi-
Dental timber, and in entering the
present campaign it is not confronted
with the difficulty that stsres the de-
mocracy in the face. 1t has been con-
cedea that there were only two can
didates in the field, and one of these
has refused to let his name be used in
connection with the presidential
nomination. The other is already at
the head of the government, and
every year has strengthened him be-
fore the country. 1t is not at all
likely that such man will be set
aside for any untried aspirant, par
ticularly as his administration has
been signally successful one; and
as it would greatly strengthen him in
the presidential lace with the unde.
cided voters to have no opposition in
his own convention, his nomination
Is quite certain to be by reclamation
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BARNEY GIBBS is said to be loafing
around the doorstone of aa indepen-