San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-09-04
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properly speaking the antecedents
Of its editor, the Evening Pa
per takes its stand against straight
republican nominations in the county
convention and opens its mud batteries
upon the LIGHT because it will not follow
suit. Is the Evening Paper so blind
that it cannot see, or so stupid that 1t
does not see, or so peryerse that 1t will
not see that the objection Of the LIGHT
to state republican convention was
based solely on the ground that the for
mer political methods Of the men who
manipulated that call did not entitle
them to republican confidence Does the
Evening Paper fail to understand that
in pronOuncing in favor Of mOngrel
ticket he gives emphasis to every well
founded suspicion OF his own political
honesty? Does not the Evening Paper
know that when it started it did so I'M
der the very general impression that its
principal object was to secure the cleo
ton Of certain parties to office on
mixed ticket this fall, and that every ut
terance it has made on that subject
has been held as COnlirmatOry OF
that impression? Does not the
Evening Paper know that the
sentiment in the late county cOnven-
ton was overwhelmingly in favor OF
straight nominations, and that in going
counter to the will of that convention he
is merely repeating his old game OF pol
itiCal high handedness, which in any
well organized republican state would
long since have landed him outside the
pale Of the party, over which he would
rather reign hell than serve heaven
Does not the Evening Paper know that
the parties who accepted office for their
own sake and not for the good of the
party, some years since, and at the end
of four years left republicanism in this
state disorganized and its name Kissing
and byword, are not very acceptable
preachers of political righteousness
now? If the Evening Paper does not
know such things and has not been told
such things, it is high time that the In
formation was forthcoming. Its sneers
at men whose republican record has not
and cannot be impeaohod have reached
the borders of insOlenCe. The Evening
Paper must learn that matters have
changed in Texas during the past de-
cade, and that the ipse dixit Of its edi-
tor will not be accepted to-day as 1t was
when he and his lOrded it over the par
ty with rod OF iron. If republicans
cannot be found in Bexar county who
are capable of filling the offices accepta-
bly,, it is high time that some genuine
republican missionary work was done in
this city.
The republicans of Bexar county de-
mand county convention for the nomi-
nation of county officers. If that con-
ventiOn does not nominate it puts out no
ticket as republican party; or falling
to nominate straight republican ticket
no republican usage demands of any re-
publican allegiance to such ticket. The
charge that unless the party does as the
LIGHT wants it to do, the LIGHT Will not
abide by the decision of the republican
party in county affairs, In the face OF re-
peated statements to the contrary, could
only emanate from the pen of the man
who has so little appreciation of the
logic Of facts as not to understand the
handwriting on the wall of the Waco
convention. When the republicans OF
Bexar county cease as republicans to
make straight republican nominations,
they cease to act as republicans in any
true sense, and by such action all re-
publicans are absOlved from following
the strange gods set up In the name of
fusion. The LIGHT works for and wants
a straight republican county convention
and straight county ticket, and it will
give true republican support thereto.
1t does not consider itself bound in any
way, at any time, as a republican jour-
nal, to support democrats for office, no
matter how nominated. We do not sup
pose that such consistent republicanism
is Ineligible to the man who considers
himself superior to party, or rather who
esteems himself the party, but the LIGHT
is not responsible for the Evening
Papers understanding or misunder-
standing.