San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-27
A FEW QUESTIONS.

The LIGHT Is charged with the crime
Of questioning the simOn-pure republic
canlsm of the man, who, positively de-
claring that he would not be q candidate
before a republican convention for any
office, gladly accepts nomination, in
the same campaign, at the hands OF
mongrel convention of hali-breed demo
Gratis and associate republicans. For
this criticism the Editor Of the LIGHT ia
personally assailed by the chairman OF
the republican executive committee, and
his own republicanism called In ques-
ton. 1t is not the republiCanlsm Of the
Editor of the LIGHT that Is in question
at this time. but the simOn-pure repub-
licanism OF the candidate for office, who,
having declared that under no circum-
stances would he accept republican
nomination, is very shortly there
after put in nomination by a political
combination that threatens the very de-
structlon Of republicanism itself. Does
the chairman of the republican eX-
eCutive committee of Bexar county
desire to put himself upon record as af-
firming that such refusal to accept any
office at the hands OF the republican par
ty, as is above referred to, ia consistent
with true republican principles as aC-
cepted anywhere outside of Bexar and
Travis counties? Does he affirm that any
such reputation OF the republican party
by a candidate, elsewhere, would not be
speedily followed by the expulsion Of
such candidate from the party upon
which he had turned his back? Does the
the republican party in BeXar county
consider it to be one OF his official du-
ties, as such officer, to denOunCe those
who raise their voices against the disOr-
ganization OF the party, whose chief ex-
ecutive officer he is? Does he Candidly
and honestly think that the republican
party could have any existence in BeXar
county at all, if its county conventions
in the future take pattern after the
county convention of this Goth
August? Does he not know that
the action of that convention was
very largely determined by the re-
fusal OF certain parties to accept
republican nominations, and in their
interests? Does he not know that in de-
Tending them from a just criticism for
unrepublioan methods he is defending
republican disorganizatiOn. champion
ing republican disintegration, and be-
coming the open ally OF republican de-
moralization and destruction? Do not
these defamations OF his, hurled at the
only republican journal in the county
that pleads for straight republican ac-
ton, come with very poor grace from
the man to whose keeping the life and
honor Of republicanism in Bexar county
have been sOlemnly committed as a
sacred trust? The editor of the LIGHT
counts for nothing in this matter; the
principles and practices OF pure repub-
licanism count for everything. If it be
a crime to assert these principles, and
declare that the republican party has 10
right to cease its functions as a party
and practically disfrancbise its mem
bers If this be crime, the editor OF
the LIGHT pleads guilty TO the crime.
Having carried his musket for three
years OF actual service, when the repub-
licaR party made Its headquarters in the
field, he will not retire to the rear with
out firing gun, in this cam
paign, even at the orders Of his
commanding general. The personal
abuse heaped upon his head, and upon
the straight republican journal under
whose cOlors he fights, will not avail to
turn either him or it one hairs breadth
from the path of a true republican con-
duct. The petty triumph of person at
the expense of principle we scOrn; the
shame of personal defamation incurred
in this battle for principle we glory in;
and on this line we propose TO fight it
out if it takes q lifetime.