San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-06-04
FRIDAY, JUNE a, 1886.
NO WALK OVER.

The news that reaches the LIGHT from
is most encouraging TO those who be-
lieve that the day has dawned for the
ring politicians. The democracy have
so long owned the government, con-
trOlled the machinery of the state,
worked their own sweet will in the ma
nipulatlon of offices that they have nat
urally come to regard their claim to the
state control as n vested right, whereas
they are only tenants at will. There is
every Indication that the people of
Texas are about to test title in this mat
. ter. At least they propose to question
title, and move for an injunction against
the continued possession, lest their
rights be adjudged to have lapsed. We
use the term people in this connection
advisedly. The movement to which we
refer is pre-eminently peoples move
ment. Not greenbaCkers' movement,
not republican movement, not
an alliance or workingmen's move
ment, distinctively, but a peoples
movement. One of those spOn-
taneous uprisings Of the masses of the
people outside Of the cities which was
witnessed in Iowa some years since,
and later in Michigan and other north
ern states. The rumbling of the Chsriot
wheels Of this peoples progress has al
ready been heard disturbing the serenity
of democratic conventions, and causing
rhe mOssback leaders, editors, Office
barnacles and ring rustlers to foam out
their malediCtiOns against those who
would divide the democracy asunder.
But the division gees on all the same
all the same; it is not in the power Of
the ring cursed democracy of the state
to stay its progress. All the whackers-
and from the Indian Territory to Mexico
cannot prevent the stampede. All
northern Texas is in quiet preparation
for the event. You can hardly name a
county in all Of north and northeast
Texas that has not caught the infection
and sworn the defeat of the democracy
at the polls this fall. The movement is
none the less powerful for being silent
1t is very much such a movement as
was witnessed in Iowa in 1872, when the
$4,000 majority Of the republican party
was swept away as with a cy-
clone in night, and no one
knew from whom the blew had
come. There was no new party
organized, no new political creed
formulated, no new machinery intro
duoed, but there was revolution that
left the candidates Of the republican ring
stranded high and dry, and gave the
state and county governments into the
hands of non-partisans. Information
reaches us by underground wire of just
such movement in Texas. Tarrant,
Erath, Dallas, Grayson, Bell, Collin,
Lamar, Cook, Wise, Yanzandt, McLen-
nan, Kaufman, Ellis, johnson, Smith
and Hopkins counties are reported in
line, with nearly every other county in
middle, north and east Texas getting
ready to follow suit. This cheering
news comes to the LIGHT direct from
headquarters. Denials will be made
of its authenticity, but they Will
not affect the facts which are as stated
the movement will be laughed at az
ehimerical, but that will not affect itt
strength. The purpose of the people IL
fixed and it cannot be sneered out of its
action. The time is not come for max
ing the advance, and until 1t comes the
surface ofevents will not be ruflled. W.
write this for the encouragement of tn,
many who, hoping as against hope, hav,
waited for reform in the land, and con
Wet, and railroad, and tax legislation o.
this state until that hope deferred has
wasted the strength Of the strong.
hearted. This movement Is not par.
tisan movement, but it will be charac
terized as such; 1t is not a republican
movement, but 1t will be democratiCally
damned as such; 1t is not an alliance
movement, but it will be lied about a
such; 1t Is not a Knights movement, bu
IL will be kicked at as such; all the SAM
the movement is there and the mover
will be on deck when the time comes.