San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-20
CHIPS WITH THE BARK ON.

Written for the LIGHT.
In his tilt with the Pulitzer
Publishing Company, Col. Chas
Jones landed on top. The colonel's
picturesque Is to ideas on the free
and unlimited coinage of silver
will continue to percolate for a
while in the olumns of the Post.
Dispatch.
The pugilis tic champions, while
in Arkansas, should keep their eye
on the gun. Gov. Clarke is liable
to spit in their face.
Another bold and audacious rob,
berry is reported on Commerce
street. Our miserable electric
light service will soon make San
Antonio a paradise for all classes
Of criminals.
We must pillow the fallow
grounds. There is the Katy knock.
ing for admission with no one at
the door to welcome her.
The gaunt form of VIM. G. Whit.
ney sweeps the presidential hori.
zon. Whitney "has BARREL" and
Is therefore not afraid to butt
skulls with the third.term fellows
who are Justify shouting fer Cleve
land.
The corrugated brow of the coun.
try editor beams with calm salts
faction. The advent of fall bust.
ness incident to the cotton season,
is putting the dollars and dimes in
his pockets. The Texas state press
is by long odds the most repre-
sentative of the south.
Says a friend at our elbows
"The more 1 see OF men. the better
1 like dogs"
When you bury your antipathy
don't mark its grave with slab.
The absence of a suitable monu.
ment on Alamo plaza to the mem.
Dry of the deeds of valor there
enacted, impresses visitors to San
Antonio that we are lacking in
patriotism.
When Don NJ. Dickinson, in al
interview at Washington, called
Lord Sackville an ass, the pots and
the kettles in the kitchen pantry
must have felt that they were al
last vindicated.
Truly, money is the root Of all
evil. Hot Springs suffered finan.
cially the past summer from an
epidemic Of small pox, and seeks
through the medium of the prize
fight to recuperate her pecuniary
loss. We devoutly hope she may
recover her financial losses and
feel no pull nor tug at her con.
science. Overriding the laws OF
God and man can be condoned
when community is dead broke
and hungry-nit.
1t is not stated in the dispatches
whether Charles Culberson will
wear that belt presented to him by
the citizens Of Mckinney, with the
words champion of Texas" en-.
graved thereon, but we suppose
his sense Of modesty would not
rebel at such a slight infraction OF
the laws Of fashion as to girdle
himself with the Mckinney belt
on state occasions.
The official organ of the Texas
Presbytery has landed on Sam
Jones, of Georgia, with both feet
The Presbyterian organ thinks the
Georgia evangelist makes buf.
foonery OF the sweet teachings OF
Jesus Of Nazareth, and dispenses
some plain but parliamentary Eng
lish in the deliverance of its opin-
ion. Let us hope that those eclesi'
astical brethren will settle their
differences and continue to save
souls in their own chosen way.
The Honorable Jonathan Lam
has a fascinating way Of telling the
truth. His frank, fair statement
that there are scant hopes for the
democracy-even in his own dis
trict, is refreshing to say the least.
The gold standard orators Of the
Cleveland cabinet must feel jaded
and worn out. Carlisle and Hoke
Smith have been kept busy all
summer vindicating the admins
tration; and now Secretary Her.
bert has been mustered into SER
vice. In the meantime we beg to
remark that the tariff is the
issue and cannot be sidetracked.