San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-15
GOOD TIMES COME.
WITH THE ELECTION OF MKINLEY
AND HOBART.
Senator Butler Rubs it Into the POpo-
Gratis and Makes Them Hop
ping Mad.
Special Wire to Sunday Light.

Ildu II bteli pOSSlDlt lOI
the voters to have seen one week
before election the remarkable
demonstration of the revival of
public confidence which has come
from every section of the cOun-
try since the election of Mai. Nc
Kinley, there is no doubt that
Mckinley and Hobart's popular
majority would have been Il mil
lion greater than it is. Repub-
licans had no doubt that appre-
hensiOn caused by the fear of
those who controlled money that
all our standards of value might
be upset had done more to para
lyze business than any other one
thing, and they so told the people
from every stump and through
the columns of every Republican
paper. They convinced many,
but if the starting up of idle mills
and manufactures and the in
auguratiOn of great enterprises
involving vast expenditures and
the employment of all the unem-
plOyed who wish to be employed
could have taken place before
the election a million more would
have been convinced and would
have voted for real prosperity
instead of for a chimera.
However, it was only by wait
ing until a restoration of Repub-
lican control, executive and leg
islative, was absolutely assured,
that the great business interests
of the country, the prosperity of
which involves the prosperity of
all our people, could show to the
world the faith felt in the wis
dom of the Republican party. The
Republican who does not feel his
heart swell with pride merely to
belong to an organization which
can inspire such faith must be
-blOoded indeed. The news
coloumns of the press since the
election of Mckinley and Hobart
was announced have, by just
printing the cold facts about the
actual, not prospective, revival
in almost every part of the coun-
try and in almost every line Of
industry and business, paid the
highest tribute of praise to the
Republican party ever paid to any
political organization in any
country in the history of the
world.
1t is now for the Republicans
to show to the world that this
tribute was deserved. No one
who is familiar with the life and
record of President Elect McKin-
ley and of those of the Repub-
licans elected to the Fifty-tifth
congress and those holding seats
in the senate can entertain a
doubt on that subject. With
President Mckinley to suggest
and Sneaker Reed, the Republi-
can majority in the house, and
the hoped for Republican MAORI
ty in the senate, to execute, the
legislation will be such as will
expand and make permanent the
business boom which started the
hour that Republican success was
assured, and which will, it is con
fidently believed, continue to
grow and grow until the country
enjoys a long era of the greatest
prosperity in it's history. And
one of the good things about it
will be that the misguided POpo-
Gratis who tried so hard to pre-
vent Republican success will be
equal sharers in the general pros
perity. 1t ought to make them
see things as they really are, in
stead of as they are represented
by demagogues who try to trade
upon "hard times" and public
credulity.
That some appointments of i'm
portance will be rendered to gold
Democrats for their assistance
in the campaign is probable, but
| have talked with no Republi-
cans who believe that they will
include a cabinet position. The
diplomatic service offers OppOr
tuities. A man has only to be a
patriotic American to represent
his country satisfactorily abroad,
but a member of the cabinet must
be in sympathy with all the poll
cies of the head of the admins
tratiOn under which he serves, or
he disarranges machinery which
ought to run smoothly to get the
hest rasultS