The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-09-21

For the EVENING LIGHT.
The writer, in presenting the views of
great many persons in connection with his
own, selects the columns of the LIGHT to do
so, from the standpoint that his article will be
read by unbiased minds and without regard to
party dicipline, and will SO address itself to the
candid thinker as to cause him to reflect suf6-
GENTLY, and ask himself why should there not
be reason sufficient to support the cause Of
truth and justice, without regard to party
fealty.
The caption of this article "Hancock or
Davis presents at once the object of the
writer, that is to draw parallel between the
two gentlemen and see which of the two has
done most for the people they propose to rep
resent. In doing this we, as an unbiased
writer will have to deal with facts connected
with the Hon. John Hancock, which, Phoenix
like, springs from the grave of ashes, where
his supporters would have them rest. In this
article we start out upon the broad basis of
truth, which is said to be mighty and ought to
prevail whether it does or not. The demo-
cratic press of the 10th congressional district
would like to hide John Hancock's defects
under a maudlin sentiment of his de-
votion to the cause Of the people
whom he endeavored to override by dicta-
torship of every kind and class of material he
proposes to use. The false idea that Mr..
Hancock. has developed that spent Character
istic of the pure patient finds no be belief in the
minds of anyone, save and except those who
from positive or assumed ignorance would pre-
sent Hancock as patriot and his opponent
nothing but renegade. Now let us look at
L. o0rl rs k,,,D
Hancock in the pride and bigotry of his ma
ed purpose of arming her slaves to return and
conquer their masters. Was ever greater
John Brown spirit manifested than this, and
this too after he had remained in the city of
Austin and had before one of the Judicial tri-
bunals of the state acknowledged that he was a
coward and afraid to express his honest senti
ments. Sherman Grant and Thomas prevented
Mr.. Hancock from leading his colored bri-
gade to make this conquest of people whom
he had toyed with first as a man who would
like to council with you, and if you take my
advice Pam with you if you do not, | will
show you the hand of an autocrat which will
force you into subsection and then We will see
who is to be the ruling party.
Mr.. Hancock, after winning the laurels ola
brgadier-general, comes to the people of his
adopted state and tells them: 81 am your
friend: send me to congress and will show
you who l am" This was done, and what
did he do? Not what the chairman of the
Bexar county executive committee claimed
he had done, but he used other
honest workers efforts in his own be-
half to keep himself bolstered before
the people as an active worker for party that
were ready to take up any idol who it thought
might shield and protect them from the fate
of her other sister communities which had such
friends as Hancock to urge them in their own
self destruction.
Senator Terrell in his able speech before the
people at Austin, in his attempt to guild Han
cock, by an adroit use of his name, knows
that he cannot show Hancock's record as 1t
should be were he an honest man. Major
Dwyer cannot prove to 'Old Bexar" and her
voters what he claims John Hancock has done.
Assertion is easy but proof is hard to get at.
The writer will prove from undisputable facts
all that he now asserts.
There are two sides to every important
question, and the ''walk over' which the
Statesman and other Hancock papers claim
for Hancock will not be so easy after all. We
will tell the voters of the 10th congressional dis
trict what we know of Edmund J. Davis in our
next. "JUST So"