San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-31

man who got down to the iron
tacks of the school boys used to
rise with sufficient suddenness to
fill the bill in the days when the
LIGHT was on the fourthsform.
Grover is thought to be on his
way to Washington in the yacht
Oneida, but his movements are not
any more certain than that of his
party on silver and tariff ques-
tiOns.
The anatomical editor of the
| Waco News discOurses of the re-
Contingency of the Houston Post.
| A little more reticence on that sub
| ject would not have been amiss on
the part of the News.
Cleveland is being criticised by
his own party for standing on a
bimetalist's platform while he is
| mOnOmetalist. Cleveland has only
contempt for the Chicago platform
and it is useless to kick.
Is the Fort Worth Gazette run
ming Populist paper with a DEM
Ocratic pilot on board, or Demo-
cratic paper with a POpulist in the
sky parlor of the pilot?
The church offers no security to
the worshipper that is not afforded
| by the theater, when the cyclone is
abroad on it's travels. Recent
events justify this conclusion.
The sentiment of the country is
opposed to coming silver at any
less ratio than that which is fixed
by the intrinsic values of the
metals. Even a 20 to ! ratio has
no show of adoption.
To those who are asking whether
Cleveland is coming to the Rebuff
lican party or the republican par
ty going to Cleveland, the LIGHT
answers that the grand old party
is not hunting a boss.
The great restriction of the cir
culation that is felt by the cOun-
try is owing to the withdrawal of
money from the banks by those
who have but it into safety vaults
or hurled it in pot.
Waco News has as much to say
about the Democratic platform as
if there was one. The only plat
form that the party can pretend to
have is the all-things-to-all voters,
in order to catch ballots.
There is no valid reason why
this whole silver matter, in so far
as the purchase of bullion by the
government is concerned, should
not be wiped off the congressional
slate this week.
Some sections of this southwest
country that have been neglected
in the rain distribution heretofore
got a good soaking on Monday.
All things come tO-him who waits,
even rain in drOuthy land.
Williamson county will split
herself up the back and down the
front over this fool prohibition
question, and the sectional feeling
that will be engendered will dam
age the county to no good end.
This is the week that will see
Irish Home Rule settled in the
English house of commons. 1t will
be thrown out by the Lords and the
country will have another whaCk
at it in the election to follow.
The bluff did not work in that
Galveston railway case, and
the NJ. X. & II. is no. left with the
bag to hold by good sized ma
| jOrity.
The Democratic party is so hope
lessly mixed on silver policies that
in several of the states the party
leaders have decided to give the
whole subject the grand bounce.
Split up the front on silver and
down the back on tariff, where does
the Democratic party expect to find
it's dress suit when it wants to pre-
sent itself TO the people in whole
garments?
The antagOnism of the average
Democrat to the national banking
system is prOverbial, and Hill in
his adherence to the hostility OF
his party in this thing proves him
self only an average Democrat.
The authorities in Europe, where
the cholera has set it's foot, find ii
very hard to stamp it out, and it is
in order for the health authorities
7 of this country to see that it gets
q no quarter here.
There is no intention on the par
Of the UUited States to annex thu
S West Indies, and she does mo-