San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-12-01

at least, till, through his creative energy,
our town should ''give place to tho busy
city," &C., DC.
Well, time passed on, and the question of
moving the county seat was sprung. Still
the Nutshell seemed loyal to our town. 1t
investigated the records of former votes on
the subject, published them, and then added
editorially:
Now this ought to be satisfactory to any
reasonable man that San Marcos, so far as
legality is concerned, is all right And it
will not be well to go into an election on
this occasion with any delusion that its going
to be any easy going matter, and all opposi-
ton may as well make up their minds that
they have got bitter fight to make. This
precinct holds the balance of power in the
way of population and is the portion of the
county which will increase in population,
while the upper portion can never, owing
to its Typographical position, become very
thickly settled
We are free to admit that all are entitled
to their suffrage in this matter, and if the
opposition to us have majority, we of
course will succumb, but we candidly think
the Court Hourse will never be moved from
San Marcos.
The points of the above are good, being
mostly borrowed from the FREE PRESS,
though awkwardly expressed. The extract
is from the Nutshell of Nov. 9Th. But
presto change!-in its last issue, only three
weeks later. the Nutshell goes squarely and
unreservedly back on San Marcos. 1t is
shocked at the unfairness of keeping the
county seat so far from the mountain pre-
cincts-says it is all the result Of 'favorit-
ism, " that justice is to move the county seat
to the center of the county. It goes on
thus:
And when it comes to vote it can not be
denied that poor mans vote goes as far
as rich ones, and this partakes too much
of the monopolist, and if we ever expect to
make anything of Hays County the seat
must be taken to its proper place. And
finally we call upon every man in the coun-
ty to remember that it is not only to his own
interest, but to the interest of every man In
the county that the site should be centrally
located and not only is it interest, but it is
Justice, and for justice oil should contend.
The above was in the Nutshell of last Sat-
urday, Not content with thus delivering
himself, the manager the same evening takes
the train for San Antonio, and the Express
of the next morning contains the following
so-called dispatch from this place, dated on
Saturday, the source of inspiration of which
it is not difficult to locate;
The Nutshell of to-day has come out and
boldly advocates the centre of the county
for the county site, and the matteris begin
ming to assume a serious aspect for the peo-
ple of this place, and there is no doubt but
that the site of the county will be moved to
a more central location.
Still not satisfied with wreaking his re-
venge on San Marcos, the same party has
himself interviewed by an Express reporter
and communicates the following tissue of
MISREPRESENTATION which appeared in that
on paper Tuesday:
Mr.. A. L. Cashell, of the San Marcos
Nutshell is in the city, and says that there
| is great interest taken at San Marcos over
the question of the removal of the county
seat. The desire of the majority of the vo-
ters of the county, Mr.. Cashell says, is to
remove the county seat from San Marcos to
the centre of the county at point called
HAYS. This is located on Flat creek, near
the Speed crossing on Onion creek, and is
said to be within four miles of the geograph-
ical centre of the county. This is within
one or two miles of the projected line of the
Texas Western railway, which Mr. Cashell
is sure will be built. The people OF San
Marcos hold that they are the center of the
populated district, and that the precinct in
which the county seat is at present located
at the last general election voted 80 more
votes than the entire balance of the county
put together. The fact is, Cashell says, that
this is to be accounted for from the number
of cotton. pickers and mechanics and railroad
men who were in the vicinity of San Marcos
at the time of the last general election.
1t has been suggested to us that there were q
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