San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-17

1t is said that Seth Shepard has
designs on the gubernatorial sheep
fold of Texas, but what saith
Seth? II Shepard enters the race
there will be less harmony than
was prayed for.
Bland will soon bob up serenely
with another free coinage bill for
which Crisp is booked to grant
right-of-way. The House will pass
it and Cleveland will give it the
right-of-away.
Those men who in time past
have betrayed the Republican par
ty are not in the future to be trust
ed with it's management. Put only
tried and true men in places of re-
sponsibility.
Crisp and Reed have no need to
"hire hail." Uncle Sam supplies
them one and the press of the coun-
try gives all possible publicity to
their daily encounters. Such is
legislation.
The Louisville Times prays with
the fervor of fOrty-parson power
of agony that the "squaws" may be
kept out of the fight in Washing
ton society, but the prayer is I'M
answered.
The average man would rather
| die twice than serve twenty years
in the pen, that is if he was certain
of serving out his time, but it is
that uncertainty that buoys him up
with hope.
Edmunds, of Vermont, thinks
that policy under which the gov
eminent has thrived for years is
good one to stand by. The country
is evidently of the same opinion.
The San Antonio correspondent
Of the st. Louis Globe Democrat
seems to have an Imagination that
fatally handicaps in his honest en-
deavors to tell the plain truth.
What celebration this country
would have on the national birth
day if the Senate would give it a
present of a defeated Wilson bill
to jubilate over at that time.
The number of disgruntled DEM
Ocrats, who wonder what tarantula
has bitten the party in Congress,
is daily on the increase. Even in
Texas their name is legion.
Congress cannot adjourn in time
to make the country forget the I'M
trustworthiness of it's majority be-
fore the ensuing election for their
successors.
The April showers already fallen
have transformed the face of this
southwest country and put new
life into the hearts of the cattle
| men.
The Greenville Herald says, quit
cussing and discussing Cleveland
and go to work for the party. I'm
possible. Cleveland is the party.
1t was eleven to one in the jury
box against Breckenridge on the
first ballot and it is about the same
the country over.
Reagan has no faith in the Har-
mony gospel as formulated at Dali
las. He wants to continue the
fight.
The Republican party is built
up as surely on the mistakes of
Democrats as upon it's own wis
dom.
1t is not in the power of the De-
mocracy to prevent the Republi-
cans carrying the count ry this
| fall.
The quorum in Congress that
cannot be counted is not worth
sending the sergeant-at-arms for.
Dallas county has no hook in the
nose of either the Democratic or
the Republican party this year.
The Democrats are mighty slow
in cOnsenting to take Reeds pres
CriptiOn, but they are doomed.
1t is settled that the old excuse
of cowardly Adam does not go
down with Washington jury.
You cannot inject question of
r eligion into the politics Of this
C ountry sapiently or safely.
Queen Lii wants a pension worse
than she does her old crown and
scepter. She won't starve.
Mrs. Lease has paled her inef-
fectual fires before the rising sun
of Marshal Coxey's glory.
| The Democratic whippers-in will
find it little hard to scare Hill
back into the traces.
| All signs point to one of the
most prosperous seasons that this
southwest has seen.