San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-19
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10. 1885.
THE COMING STAMPEDE.

The Waco Examiner and other dyed
in-the-wOol democratic organs are
alarmed, and justly, over the threatened
stampede from the ranks of the party in
Texas. 1t is new thing under the sun
in the Lone Star state. Here, the sym
bOls Of party allegiance have ever been
regarded with devout and reverent af-
lection here, the word Of the leaders
has ever been law and the obedience OF
the rank and file thing fixed and unal-
terable; here, the traditions of party
have ever been held more authoritative
than the teachings of reason or the die
tates of common sense here, for the de-
mocracy to will was to do, to command
was to insure obedience here, where
opposition was unheard of and revolt I'M
dreamed, where the great deity of party
had hitherto been worshipped with fear
and trembling, the people standing afar
OFF; here, in democratic Texas. with her
10000 majority, where no republican
dared lift his prOfane head, nor even a
pears, here the revolt has spread here,
in the sanctity of their own chosen shrine
and by the hearthstone OF their own do
mestic seclusion, the destroyer has come.
He has come as thief in the
night. He has come without warn
ing. He has held convention and not
notified the great | am of democracy.
He has nominated ticket without per-
mission from the bosses who own the
franchise of the people. He has put his
unholy hand upon the ark of the demOc-
racy to steady its uibblety-wobblety,
wobblety-wibblety movement, and the
priests of that peoples iuggurnaut car
stand by in amazement, waiting for the
profane ones to be struck dead. The
iniquity was perpetrated in Tarrant
county, and the mystery of iniquity still
works. Already, in half dozen other
populous centers movements have
been made akin to that in Tarrant
county. There the work done was rsdi-
cal and thorough. 1t was not republi-
can movement, otherwise it could have
been borne; it was not q greenback
movement, then it could have been
counteracted; it was not a prohibition
movement, that the democracy have
learned how to head of. 1t was a peo-
pies movement, and many Of these
people were democrats. Here is the guilt
and onnda m m ton nf THAR nffandin1
1t was the people who did it; the demo-
cratic people; the familiar friends, SER
wants and old time tools OF the democ-
raoy, and for this detection there is, alas,
no remedy. How are the party bosses
fallen and the lashes of their whippers-
in persisted! Fifty-three grangers and
81 workingmen, representing the sub
alliances and Knights of Labor assem-
blies of Tarrant county, have done this
thing. And now they propose to sub
init their action to these alliances and
assemblies, and have that action ratified
and so consolidate the votes of these
thousands upon peoples ticket, not
representing the bossism of democratic
inattention to the peoples will. This is
treason in the eyes of the Texas democ-
racy as represented by the Waco Ex-
aminer, the San Antonio Times, the
Laredo Times and journals of that
stamp. What oondign punishment will
be brought down on the heads of the
Tarrant traitors, who have dared think
for themselves and consult their swn in
telligence in taking political action, re-
mains to be seen. In the meantime the
work Of detection spreads, and from
every quarter of the state come those
ominous sounds that pressge a peoples
movement, outside of all party lines,
such as Texas has never before wit
messed, but which shall no doubt prove
her political regeneration.
The liquor question is one Of the big
questions Of the day, and 1t is one with