San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-12
lMPERsoNAL PERSONALITIES.

so, would De perhaps pIebulnluB' Dut ~
mean yes while saying no, seems politi-
cally human" OF this paraphrase Of
'Parson Wilbur one is forcibly remind
ed in reading the Waco Examiner Of last
Tuesday. As the candidacy campaign
closed and the convention assembled,
the Examiner grew anxious over the re-
suit. Fully aware OF the discussions 1t
had sown in the ranks of the party, by
its reckless and indiscriminate attacks
upon every candidate who had taken the
field against its own chosen champion,
the Waco journalist attempted to hedge.
Not willing that his dividing wedge
should penetrate the convention, to the
destruction of his candidates chances,
and having driven il in with sturdy
blows up to the very day OF the conven-
TONS assembling, the Examiner endeav-
ors, in its Tuesday mornings issue, to
cover the head of his wedge from sight
in the surface sOftness of the old demo-
cratic log into which he had driven 1t.
Referring TO the heat engendered dur
ing the canvass for the nomination now
drawing to close" the Examiner cools
of, and depreCates the direction the dis
cussiOn has taken as follows:
The Examiner has only to complain
that the opposition papers, and some in
diViduals, charged, in rough and indie
Poss They
also attempted to shift the proper dis
cussiOn of personal characteristics from
the candidates to the personal character
Of the editors of the papers.
Some day these gentlemen
will grow ashamed of the way they
attempted to cut the ground from under
our feet, and we can afford to wait Tor
that day, if they can. This has created
all the real bitterness OF the campaign.
If we understand the apology Of the
Examiner, it charges all the bitterness
Of this campaign upon the anti-Ross
journals which have alleged that the
Examiners championship of Ross has
been that candidates destruction, and
also, that the press have shifted the dis
cussOn OF the candidates to a discussion
of the personal character OF the editors
of the papers," This would naturally
imply that no such discussion OF the per-
sOnaI character of editors has been
INDUCED in by the Waco advocate OF
Ross. OF this assertion of the Examiner
the files OF that paper would afford curl
Gus confirmation or disprOOf, according
to the Interpretation put upon the
oh orr nf
editors" The Austin Statesman and
Call may have one idea of this thing and
the Examiner another; and, even the
Galveston News, in its calm Gonserva-
tism, might take gentle issue with the
Waco quill as to the facts OF the imper-
sonality of the Brazos valley illumination.
In the very same editorial column that
contains the foregoing extract from the
Examiner we find the following, just like
"a song with an illustrations"
The News daily summing up Of the
situation at Galveston is the most en-
tirely ridiculous rot ever put into the
columns of newspaper. That paper is
no longer simply malevOlent. it is only
weak and utterly foolish. The news
ought to be prosecuted by Giddings for
malicious mischief. Giddings will come
forth from that convention the worst
whipped man that ever emerged from
one and all because it has entered the
News head to champion him.
This is a very mild specimen Of the
Examiners abstinence from the vice of
which he complains. Certainly there is
nothing personal in this extract. Still,
when the News" head is spoken of,
and the insinuation made that the
"News" ought to be prosecuted for ma
licious mischief, one wonders how far
this comes from the personality of which
complaint is made. Taken in connec-
tion with former utterances of the Ex-
aminer, one is led to wonder at the mar
velOus mental acuteness which steers so
skilfully between the Scylla of personal
impersOnality and the Charybdis of i'm
personal personality. The admiration
evoked by this plotting of the Examiner
is only equaled by its insensibility to the
fact that on the score Of personal bitter
ness, in its treatment of other journals
during this campaign, it has been the
least sinned against for the sins commit
ted by it of any journal in Texas.
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