San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-29
A PREACHERS TRAVELS.
Winds Up In the Big Convention City
and Gives His Political Views.

1 autici pated penning you a few
expressions when in New York
city and Philadelphia; by all
means 1 thought to have written
you from st. Louis.
AS the latins say, tempeus fugit
and so 1t has automatically done
In this case.
1 boarded the 9:20 a. M, L. & G..
N. train, Tuesday, July 18th, for
New York city and other places OF
business considerations. reached
New York as prognosticated Fri
day at 2 40 p. m. July 18th.
/ remained in New Pork city I'M
til Monday, subsequent, according
to program, / preached all day
Sunday, July 10Th, at preaching
hours, in the City OF New York.
Sunday evening by especial and
prevailing request Of a congenial
and affable friend and brother
minister, Rev. w. d. Cook, d. d.,
pastor of the Bridge Street church,
Brooklyn, n. Y, 1 went over there
and broke the bread of life to his
church and congregation.
Monday 30 a. M, was speed
ing fifty miles, nearly, an hour, en-
route to Philadelphia in order to
attend to some special business,
and also to attend the ministerial
meeting which has a membership
of an hundred or more pastors and
preachers. An inceptive and
almost matured conference. Here
I spent some pleasant moments
and listened to the reading Of an
interesting paper, and then saw
profound discussion pertinent to
the same. / was introduced to this
august body and briefly addressed
them. They gave me very hearty
reception and welcome.
Time will not allow me to state
in detail my observation at the
many and very many places of
prime Importance where l visited
in my travel.
1 desire to state laconically, how
ever, that 1 made it convenient, as
I was sight seeing in st. Louis,
taking prospect of the tornado
and cyclone foot prints OF devasta-
tiop and destruction OF some time
ago. 1 say, l made it convenient
&C this time, Wednesday July
22nd, to drop in and observe the
Populists and the silverites in
their convocations which were
then in session there. The pops
have popped and parted. The
silverites have sifted and gone.
The whole affair was only Of the
superficial. and momentary and
temporary eruditeness, if erudite-
ness and refiectiveness could be ap-
piled to such specimens of human
ity in their some time heathenish
and pugilistic modus operandi.
The reading Of their platforms is
like the ancient Arabian Nights;
and a little short coming OF the
really real.
Pewter bugs, in lieu of silver
bugs, could be seen quite at dis
lance ornamenting the lapel of the
dusty coat OF the silverites. This
was without when within, there
was no coat, and were a very few
nests worn by this, perhaps, con-
scientious, but zeal without much
knowledge conglomeraticn. L
should be pleased to state in detail
the terra firma and permanent work
that is being carried on by the gal
liant and wide-awake Republicans
in behalf Of that grand, great and
ideal, and more than that, the real
American, the typical Republican
and meritorious nominee, the Hon.
VIM. Mckinley, Jr., of Canton, o.
His Democratic opponent had a
crowd of some honest and con.
scientious, but in the main and
moot, spasmodics and ebullition-
lists and riff RATS, ct cetera, to in
finity, to listen to his paradoxical
argument, relative, especially to
the money question. / say he
| (Bryan) had q crowd in East st
Louis the morning / left for New
York city. The crowd was persm.
bulating like sheep, panic-stricken
Remember, however, there are
some honest and good men
in the Democratic, Populist and
Silverite party, as we'll as in thu
Republican, the salt OF the politics
earth aid the light Of the govern
mental world. But there are some
true blue ignoramuses and girsffeI
and spasmodics and absolutely
thoughtless and nearly brainles
ones to such . momentous degree
! until il could be an alternum per
petuum retrogression to this digni
fed and great republic of ours, To-
the nominee of any one OF thes