San Antonio Daily Light (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 113, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 14, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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i SATURDAY MAY 14 1898.
Cook Grayson and Coryell counties
are in the thick of a political fight for
instructions.
o
The Cook and Grayson fight is be-
tween Crane and Wynne both claiming
the best of the primaries.
o —
Foster is in Coryell county for Say-
ers and has hopes of landing it in the
primaries today.
o
Sampson is in the line of promotion
to succeed Kirkland as rear admiral
who retires in July.
There is great destitution in the late-
ly submerged Arkansas valley and ap-
peals for food should be heeded.
o
Ohio and Connamaugh have been se-
cured at San Francisco to transport
troops to Manilla.
■ o
Another cargo of arms and ammuni-
tion for the arming of Cuban volun-
teers sailed from Tampa.
■ o
There seems little doubt that the Cal-
ifornia wheat crop will be a general
failure and most of the fields cut for
hay.
o ’
Dewqy is doing good work on that far
off station and will sockt get himself
thoroughly fortified.
Those breech-loading steel guns tak-
en from the 'Spanish navy at Manilla
will make good shore batteries to pro-
tect the channel.
o
Sayers’ stock seems to be rising.
There are those who talk of nomination
on the first ballot.
o
Horse market is more lively in Texas
than for some time. This much to
the account of the war.
Those boys at Cardenas were a little
rash but they paid for all that they re-
ceived from the shore.
•' — ■ a
Because Dewey lost no lives at Manil-
la it does not follow that a Spanish shot
wHI not kill.
France has done a dirty trick in
smuggling expert gunners from Euro-
pean armies into Havana.
Polo's bureau of spies that he organ-
ized in Toronto with true Spanish
treachery is coming to grief.
There is no one knows where the Cape
Verde fleet. She is likely to be where
Spain says she is not.
♦
California and the whole Pacific coast
is in a stew lest the Spanish fleet has
entered the Pacific.
— s
That Verde fleet would need to be om-
nipresent to be in as many places at
once as it is reported.
o
Uncle Sam has njore than one-half of
his volunteer army already mustered
in. Monday will find 100000 sworn in.
The boys on board the Winslow and
Hudson are of the opinion that there
are some good gunners manning the
shore batteries around Cardenas. These
are probably of French importation.
United States has a population equal
to Spain and France and their colonies
combined or very nearly so. Our
numbers are at least fifteen millions
greater than those of Spain and France
not including their colonies and there
is no use in taking any water from
France. It was not expected that
France with whom the United States
has so openly and universally sympa-
thized would be the foremost of the
European nations to do us dirt but if
that is the disposition of France it is
well to know it now. Uncle Sam can
take care of both nations and eventual-
ly leave their hides on the fence to dry.
For whatever cause France is our en-
emy let her put up or shut up and face
the music like a little man. United
States does not like to fight not at
least until the necessity is forced upon
him but when he does fight he whips
his weight in wildcats.
The Spanish women armed with axes
were more than a match for the soldiers
in the riot at Logrono last Tuesday.
It was so in the French revolution the
women were the most fearless and in
all their encounters with the soldiery
never showed the white feather. The
women of these Latin races are a ter-
ror when they smell blood. It shows
their savagery not wholly eradicated.
Dewey is apparently proceeding on
the assumpitlon that everything that
the Spaniards tell him is a lie. So far
his assumption has worked out for him
the happiest results. It is a new ap-
plication of the old play "Here I go by
the rule of contrary.” If it does not
work one way it works the other.
The American government and the
American people are not asking the im-
possible of the armies or the fleets of
the nation. They are not expecting
bloodless battles neither are they look-
ing for easy victories over larger bodies
of the enemy. They are looking for
seamanship and generalship of the first
order courage that is invincible pru-
dence that does not necessarily expose
men and ships to danger and a con-
stant pressing of the enemy until he is
in the last ditch.
Those five thousand colored troops
that will be raised under the new order
for 10000 immunes will be a valuable
adjunct to our army. So long as it will
be necessary’ to hold Porto Rico and the
Philippines so long soldiers will be
needed to garrison the forts there and
for this service the colored troops will
be by far the most fitting. The work
will suit them the climate will be con-
genial to them they will find plenty of
their own people to associate with they
will be well paid and clothed and those
of them who enter this service will find
it a good thing.
It is not considered good manners
when two people are playing any game
of skill for spectators to interfere with
remarks neither is it polite for one to
look over the shoulders of the players
and thrust a face or a hand toward the
board. France has done worse than
this it seems and has actually put her
finger on the piece to move them for
one of the parties. United States has
marked the interference and will call
France to book when the right time ar-
rives.
While we remember the Maine we al-
so remember that there are more Span-
ish who found a grave in Manilla bay
than there were Americans who found
their sepulchre in Havana waters. Al-
so we remember that there are more
Spanish ships wrecked in Manilla than
at Havana. And once more we re-
member that the destruction of Span-
ish vessels and the killing of Spanish
soldiers has only begun. Thus it is
that we remember the Maine Samp-
son will remember it before San Juan.
o
The French elections show that the
nation is on the toboggan slide on the
downward road and making splendid
time. The perpetrators of the Dreyfus
infamy are everywhere victorious at the
polls. The people who thus uphold
corruptions of their army and swear
by the perjury’ of those high in office
are capable of violating their parole
and smuggling gunners into Spanish
ports when they were admitted there
solely by the courtesy of American of-
ficials.
It is highly creditable to the United
States that with all her immense re-
sources she was so disinclined to rush
into war. All possible measures for
the stopping of the bloodshed and mur-
der by the slow process of starvation
in Cuba was resorted to before arms
were taken up in behalf of that oppress-
ed and outraged people. Now that war
has been declared make it quick and
sharp.
o
'President McKinley will stand out in
bold relief when all this war excitement
and disturbance is over as distinctively
opposed to war and as exhausting every
diplomatic resource in the effort to in-
duce Spain to deal justly and humanely
with Cuba. It was only after three
years of war and one year of his per-
sistent efforts that he reluctantly gave
his consent to fight.
o
The enquiries in the great cities of
the east for Spanish flags are rare but
when the call does come there is some-
thing heard to drop very speedily. It is
safe to say that these requests invari-
ably come from ladies. There is no
man would dare to enter and ask for a
flag of Spain.
The last vestige of the late war is
wiped out in the bill before Congress
and passed one branch removing all
disabilities on account of participation
in the late attempt of the Confederacy
to divide the nation. This is as it
should be. The American nation is all
one now. Une and inseparable
The law authorizing the raising of
ten additional infantry regiments
among those inured to a tropical cli-
mate is destined to give the colored
brother a chance. Half of these regi-
ments will be recruited among the col-
ored citizens of the south and it was
on this account that the president in-
sisted that he should name the officers
of these regiments. The Anglo-Afri-
can has a chance.
0
The admirals of the American fleet
will not stand upon the order of their
going when their ships are fired upon
from shore and the bombardment of
such places will follow without notice.
The administration has decided not
to accept the offer of Belmont to build
and command a torpedo boat destroyer
thinking that it savors a little of pri-
vateering business. This is acting
with a caution and with a zealous re-
gard to our honor as a nation that will
impress Europe.
o
The United States is not playing
Spain's game for her. . She offered to
do that again and again before the
Maine was so treacherously sunk but
now Spain must play it alone.
□
Polo Bernabe has shown himself the
Spanish sneak that he is. Honorable
means of discomfitting the enemy he
would have been complimented for but
his treachery while under the protection
of the fiag of a neutral nation is of a
piece with that of’Blanco in the harbor
of Havana.
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The mantle of honor that should
clothe the French nation as a garment
has been so rent of late in the disgrace
that has attached to Panama and Drey-
fus. that it is not worth a Spanish pe-
seta.
o
Gomez thinks that it will take the
Americans six months to drive the
Spaniards out of Cuba. The Ameri-
cans will not ask that many weeks if
they are properly officered and the work
pushed.
o
Bryan is no more heard of among the
Kansas Populists as their candidate for
president in 1900. Kansas is rapidly
changing front and will be in her old
place in the Republican column about
then.
o
Archbishop Ireland is summoned to
Rome to give information as to the feel-
ing of the Catholic church in America
in the present war against the greatest
of all Catholic nations. Ireland is an
American first last and all the time
and there will be no bar sinister on his
shield.
The corruptions in the Spanish army
have prevented the $650000000 that na-
tion has spent on fortifications within
the last quarter of a century’ from of-
fering effectual resistance to an enemy.
o
It may be true that the Spanish gov-
ernment has betrayed the people by
its inefficiency but no worse than it has
betrayed itself by its own treachery in-
competency and internal dissent.
Changing governments and putting
a military commission at the head of
affairs in Madrid will not avert or even
arrest for a time the inevitable collapse
that is about to overtake that Spanish
monarchy. It is inevitable destiny
that which is rotten and worthless must
disappear.
o
There is nothing in that order to oc-
cupy the Philippines with 15000 men
that looks like temporary possession.
Uncle Sam is looking around for com-
mercial increase and finds it real close.
The hurry orders that have issued
from the government at Washington
for the prompt advance upon Cuba find
the military’ authorities unprepared.
Some delay will be necessary but not
long.
Mr. Belmont of New York offers to
build a war vessel at his own expense
and rush her construction if permitted
to command her. She will probably
be a torpedo destroyer of the latest and
best. Belmont is a graduate of the
naval academy and should be compe-
tent to command such craft.
o —
Government crop report shows a
marked increase in the wheat acreage
of the southern states also in Kansas
and the far west while in the central
states the acreage is reduced.
There will be an effort made by the
Spanish troops on all the Philippine is-
lands to attack Dewey and cut him off
but it will be absolutely without re-
sults as Dewey will sink all the ships
that are in the seas of those islands that
belong to the Spanish government or
their allies.
—o
The capture of Cuba is certain and
it can be accomplished in a short time
in so far as the ports are concerned and
their garrisons but the guerrilla war
in rhe interior may be prolonged.
It is not good generalship to risk the
forces or the fleet unnecessarily any
more than it is to be afraid to expose
men no matter how openly when the
critical moment calls for the sacrifice.
If Sampson has the whole Verde fleet
on his hands and the Porto Rico batter-
ies too he has his work cut out.
o
Congress will fight over that question
of a bond issue until the war is over
and then not settle it.
Hatching out spies is a business that
Polo 'Bernabe will find exactly to his
taste. It is safe for him but mighty
unhealthy for them. Uncle Sam's de-
tectives are picking them up one by
one.
Spain is talking through her hat about
reinforcing the Philippines. Her fleet
would never get past Coregidor.
o
The Confederate? engaged in the late
war have all their disabilities removed.
Correct.
o- ■
Spain was hit hard at Manilla but her
wounds there were external and could
have been healed.
— o
Spain is mortally wounded at Madrid
for there the hurt is inward and she is
bleeding to death internally.
— o
Spanish ministry is arranging a soft
place for the members to reach the
ground when the inevitable tumble
comes. The queen regent also is pre-
paring to step aside for a military com-
mittee.
rO
The Republicans in the Spanish cor-
tez have taken the cover off the little
sheol down there and shown the Span-
ish people and the ministry and the
crown just what Weyler and the Car-
los crowd are after.
That affair at Cardenas will teach our
young sprouts upon the water that pru-
dence is a virtue.
A True Home Industry
AH the Stock Owned By San Antonio Citizens.
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Largest Brewery In the South
I
Last Year’s Output 150000 Kegs
More Than Any Other Brewery South of St. Louis
The cause of this is the Excellent quality of the Beer produced
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France covers herself and her people
with deathless infamy in hiring out her
expert gunners to do execution for
Spain. The reckoning will come some
day and France will pay dear for that. .
o
The fight for certain counties in the
north of Texas is on between Crane and
Wynne but Sayers sits serenely in his
seat in the National House of Repre-
sentatives while the people rally to his
standard.
There will not be so much mobiliza-
tion of state troops at state camps as
was expected. The boys will be for-
warded at once to the Chickamauga
tamp or sent forward direct to the
front.
o
The campaign will be over in thirty
days from the time that the American
army is fairly on Cuban soil but when
this will be is one of the things that
looks very uncertain just about now.
o
The military conductors of affairs are
not going to put 50000 troops on trans-
ports until there is all reasonable se-
curity that they will not be attacked in
transit by a Spanish naval fleet.
All things seein to fall in about right.
Porto Rico and the Verde fleet will be
settled before the descent on the coast
of Cuba is made. The puckering
strings are being drawn about right.
— o
Dewey has only left one of the fleet
of Spanish vessels in Asiatic waters
and perhaps not even one.
o
United States will add to her forces
to be sent to the Philippines and make
it at least 15000.
Gen. Miles is a good second hand edi-
tion of the late Gen. McClellan. He
hesitates to go to the front.
Great Britain sems to know more of
what is going on in Porto Rico and
with Sampson’s fleet than Washington
does.
o
The wisdom of close examination at
home was demonstrated in the case of
the Belknap cavalry.
o
Taylor does not think that this little
ruction with Spain should stop an ag-
ricultural hoss trot.
Texas will have one of her infantry
regiments sent to the front but how-
much farther is not evident.
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If the gove’ment ’ll give me a leg for
the one—
The one it shot off in the war!
(Hooroar!)
For the leg it shot off In the war!”
Mr. John Peterson of Patoutville
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