San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-15

would control the Nation.
The deadlock convention is fire.
quently followed by the dead duck
candidate.
There is a limit to every mans
backbone and there is no exception
in the case of Cleveland.
Organized labor is a good thing
but too often it is only good for the
leaders and not for the led.
Kolb, of Alabama, ism about as
much trouble over his rejection as
Tillman is over his saloon.
Brice and German can beat a
combine of the House and the
Whitehouse every day in the year
The old adage is that there is
nothing like leather, but sugar
| and oil can discount it now.
That storm wave promised by
Foster on the l4th has not ma
terialized, unless he had reference
to the Dallas convention.
The one great truth taught in
this tariff controversy is that
Cleveland does not own the Sen
ate.
The lion and the lamb of the
Democratic tariff fold lie down to-
gether, the one inside OF the other,
but it is not Cleveland that leads
them.
Wilson is not pleased with the
outcome of the tariff conference.
Who is? There is no conclusion
that this Congress can reach on
tariff that will be acceptable to the
country. This is solid.
The Senate, the House and the
Whitehouse have diverse and ire
concilable views on the tariff. The
agreement now reached pleases
only one of the three parties and
that one only in part.
All Chinese and Japanese au-
thorities agree that the present
fight is to be a prolonged and
bloody one, but there are as yet no
mortality bills to confirm this
pleasant prediction.
The House turned up trumps
when it came to holding on to the
engrOssed copy of the tariff bill,
but when it came to showing a
winning hand in the game it did
not have even pair of deuces.
How will it be with the free coal
iron and sugar that Clovela Id said
must come in under the regula.
tions of the present tariff bill, 9th.
erwise monstrous iniquity and
injustice would be done.
The congratulations of the coun'
try are due to the sugar trust,
which has knocked out Cleveland,
Wilson and the House conferees in
one, two, three time. 1t is a vic
tory for the anarchists of tariff.
The Congressional conventions
will resume business at the ole
stand just as soon as the state bust
ness is concluded. There is no enc
of business ahead for several of the
districts.
1t will be interesting to note
what the Texas platform says al
to the recent break down of the
freetrade element in Congress anC
their unconditional surrender tt
the prOteCtiOnists of Senate.
Will Cleveland have the courage
of his convictions and veto the bill
that he has so unsparingly con
demned? This is the question
that now stands out in bold relic
on the face of affairs.
+ There is no dearth of good Re
publican campaign matter fur
nished in the proceedings of tn,
Congress that went up for tariff re
, form like a rocket and came dow
like a stick.
Jerry Simpson draws on hi
socks and appears on the balloon,
1 to rail at the Alabama Populists
l Wait until he takes them off t
o express his opinion of his party il
his own native Kansas.
"Give and take" is set down a
the only harmonious road that
: political party can travel. Civ
: the promises to the other fellow
= and take all the pie to yoursel
That is the Democratic way.
: Culberson says that all he ask
d at Dallas is that the will of tn
n majority shall rule. True, but i
Il is the will of a tx o-third that is t
- govern at Dallas unless the unel
u pected happens.
That two-third obstinacy is th
+ most approved means yet discoN
cred to thwart the will of the mS
Il jority and fasten the minority cal