San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-08

Sam Jones is a perennial foun-
tain to the press purveyors of Tex
as. All things of him are possible
and as a consequence there is no
limit to the play of reportorial
Imagination in setting him up.
Des Moines city council meets
the saloon keepers half way in the
matter Of license, making it $500
| in addition to the state tax. The
ultra prohibitionists are angry
but powerless in the matter.
Pfeffer is keeping still and Sock
less Simpson is under the ban of
disease. Kansas is quiet in the
national halls rof legislation and
the country satisfied with what
ever compels this condition.
The people who read the papers
have been so long dieted on sensa-
ton that they are being nauseated
and the journals that deal in plain
facts, unvarnished, are coming
rapidly into appreciation.
1t is not rash personal political
bossism that the masses need, but
disinterested and wise political
leadership. The masses will soon
learn the difference between. these
by hard experience.
The state secretary of the Stuffed
Prophet might as well be dead as
alive, for all that the people know
or hear of him these days. Make
his silence perpetual and the coun-
try will be no loser.
The Methodist church in Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, has declared open
war against Breckenridge and takes
up the gauntlet which the bold,
bad Congressman so defiantly
throws down.
| Louisville Times dubs Brec kim
ridge, "the silver tongue of the
whited sepulchre." The Times is
evidently not among the number
of those who have been seduced by
his oiliness.
1t is early for the Repu blicans to
discuss presidential candidates.
Wait until the November cleo
tions. Till then let all efforts be
directed to securing possession OF
Congress.
The Georgia Press association
have a very limited idea OF this
city's possibilities and actualittes
if they think that they can take it
in by hack in three hours.
Snap Shots says sitting down is
the only thing that can be done
backwards successfully. How about
warming ones coattails at good
old-fashioned, fireplace?
The political cayote will be un-
usually numerous in Texas this
wear. Lookout for the earmarks
and the peculiar yelp that distin'
guishes the varmint.
The teachers of this state will be
in a worse condition for funds next
August than they were last Au'
gust. The treasury has little OF
nothing for them.
The world is coming nearer and
nearer bImetalism every year, anc
the goal will soon be reached, pro
} vided such men as Bland can bt
D side-tracked.
G Culberson and harmony are pit
y ted against harmony and Lanhan
and not even Reagan can tel
which has most harmony in it!
D composition.
s The work on that Sulphur
r springs extension of the Pres;
, street electric line is progressing
This extension has been "lont
felt want"
: The mothers in Breckinridge1
district are out in circular lette
appealing to the voters against hi
e reelection. That mothers circula
y will tell.
J. This week promises to see tn
l. construction gangs of the San An
o tonic and Gulf Shore road well GU
% on their way to the Salado.
The labor troubles are on for tn
summer and will continue unit
e. the November elections with NOR
Is or less intensity.
: The gold bug will clip his wing
when the silver cicada goes
u grass at the demand Of the b
4 metalists.
e. Coxey would make a poor COZ
vain for the shin of state,