San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-08-18
NOT ON THE MIX.

reporting the republican convention
held in this city Saturday. The cores
pondent Of the New Orleans Times
Democrat in his report says:
1t Is given out that the delegates go to
the state convention with view OF
forming coalition with the Farmers
Alliance, GreenbaCkers, Knights Of La
Dor and disgruntled democrats, and to
nominate a strong candidate to run
against Gen. Sui Ross. In resolution
passed they committed themselves to
the nomination ola straight republican
ticket, yet the leaders OF the party say 1t
is their intention Of forming q coalition
with strong hopes Of success.
The dispatch to the st. Louis Globe
Democrat conveys the same general
idea-that the republican party in Texas
is on the mix; that they stand ready to
amalgamate with everything and any
thing in order to make showing, and
damage the democracy. So far as the
Bexar county convention is concerned
these dispatches are misleading and their
authors have either ignorantly or ma
lioiOusly misrepresented the convention.
The direct insult to the convention eX-
pressed by the very terms OF the tele-
gram it is not necessary to dwell
upon. The convention last Saturday put
itself upon record rs favoring no ANAL
carnations. 1t was distinctly stated that
1t was intended to complete the organi-
cation of the party in every county OF
the state, so far as practicable, and to
hold it alOof from being the mere tool o.
combinations; that the republican party
was the only organized opposition to
democracy, and as such 1t was the place
Of those who repudated the anti-labor,
free-trade, states rights democracy to
come to the republican standard and
rally round it. There was no intlma-
ton in any word, act. resolution or sug-
gestion of that convention that the dele
gates we're chosen TO attend the state
convention for the purpose OF putting
out mongrel ticket. When the Times
reporter says that at is given out that
the delegates go TO the state convention
with the view OF forming coalition
with the Farmers Alliance, Greenback-
ers, Knights Of Labor and disgruntled
democrats" that reporter says what is
untrue and what cannot be substan-
tiated. When he farther says that the
LEADERS Of the party say it is their in
tentiOn of forming a coalition he says
what is not so, and the LIGHT challenges
the proof of the statement.
The LIGHT does not believe, and will
not believe without good evidence, that
any republican in Bexar county, chosen
as a delegate to attend the state conven-
tion, has expressed himself as represented
by the dispatch to the Tlmes-Democrat,
as above quoted. Nor, does the LIGHT
believe that any representative republi-
can in Bexar county has so expressed
himself since that convention met. The
position taken by that convention was
manly. open, republican to the core. 1t
gave no taffy to independents, mug
wumps, disgruntled democrats or any OF
that breed. Planting itself squarsly
upon the protection principles and labor
declarations Of the party, as accepted
for the last quarter Of a century, 1t an
nounced its intention of standing to
and abiding by those principles. Con-
fidentIy assert 'ng that its principles are
those upon which a peoples govern
ment can alone be maintained, 1t ap-
peals 10 the people to support those
principles at the polls and does not look
for recognition as secondhand party
fiddle for disgruntled democrats. The
republicans Of Bexar county are not
ashamed Of the platform, the declara-
tions, the record Of their party. They
affirm their confidence in its principles,
their pride in its record, and only ask
such support as comes to them through
the approval of their principles and
practices. In the firm belief that
complete reorganization Of the party in
Texas was necessary to the polit-
cal regeneration Of the state, the
republicans of Bexar county met to re-
organize the party within its borders
and send delegation to Waco pledged
to effect reorganization of the party in
the state, and plant it squarely upon re-
publican platforms and presidents. This
the convention did do. 1t did 1t unani-
mously, heartily, enthusiastically. 1t
took strong ground against coalitions
and amalgamations, and its delegation
to Waco is pledged to square republic
can ticket upon square republican
platform. The thorough reorganization
OF the party for effective work in 1888
was considered of far more importance
by the convention than the defeat Of
any particular democratic candidate in
1896. II the Bexar county delegation
favor amalgamation at Waco, 1t will be
at the expense Of principle, and by 60
ing squarely in the teeth of the instruc-