San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-30

!. The generol opinion is that Hill
! put his foot in it when he took adj
vantage of his speech in the Sen
ate to tell the country now impla
cably he hated his Democratic
rival, the president.
Hereafter the state that desires
senatorial representation in Con
gress will elect it's senator, and not
trust to the Governor to do what il
is expressly made the duty of the
Legislature to do.
Out of a total vote of $50 in the
National House of Representatives
there were $50 present and voting
when the tug of war on silver re-
peal came. No whip of the English
Commons could beat that.
Nat. @. Henderson pleads not
guilty to the charge of being a
Hoggie, but he preserves a judic-
Gus silence as to the rest of the
Indictment. He was cut out for
a Populist.
The San Antonio Opera house
season opens on Monday, but in
| response to general request to
hear Mantell in Monbars the house
| will be opened Sunday night.
An ordinance, making it a fin
able offence for any one to carry
an umbrella under the arm with
the point protrqding backwar d,
should be passed by the council.
The people would all say, Amen.
Texas casts three and three
fOurths per cent. of the vote of the
National House of Representatives,
but she cast eight and four-fifths
per cent. of the vote against the
silver repeal bill.
The cyclone seems to have a spite
against the eastern seaboard, but it
roars gently as sucking zephyr
around the isles and grassy head
lands of our Texas gulf coast. The
lesson is obvious.
The kick that is made by the
free silver Democrats against the
Republicans is natural. They know
who hurt them.
The victims of brutal luts multi
ply and the lynchings are in
creased, but there is no let up to
the Outrages on that account, nor
have the cOlored men a monopoly
of the devilishness.
EX-GOvernOrs Ireland and Rob
erts seem to be regarded as the
saviors Of Texas Democrats. Where
is the Little CaValryman at?
The deadly locomotive vies with
the destructive cyclone as a life
destroyer on Long Island, and the
cyclone is knocked out of time.
France has so much bottled up
discomfort at home that she is en-
deavOring to give it an eastern
outlet at the expense of little
Siam.
Europe is paying her gold debt
to this country at the rate of
$l0,000,0O0 a week. The balances
will be even by the middle of Sep
TENDER at that rate.
The Ohio Democrats are unfortu-
nate in selecting Licking county as
the opening scene of their cam
paign, is is too suggestive of the
licking they always get when they
face Mckinley.
That free silver howl is now lost
to the ear of the present in the
whoop for repeal that was raised
as the Wilson bill went through
the House.
Texas is four-thirteenths Cleve-
land and the other nine-thirteenths
Populist, judging from her vote in
Congress.
Three out of the four votes cast
for silver repeal by the Texas dele
cation in Congress came from the
coast districts.
1t is about time that the banks
were beginning to let go. The
danger of run in any community
is about over.
That commission to determine
the relative ratio between silver
and gold and report to congress in
the. regular session is now in order.
Rev. Sam Small will make
things lively in that Williamson
county campaign, but he will not
succeed in carrying it dry.
The homemade sock has it's leg
Innate uses, but one of them is not
to duty as national bank.
No man who carries a black flag
in a procession should be allowed