San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-09-02
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may have been some heart burnings and
| jealOusies, but if SO, they were not para
! ded before the convention. There may
| have been old scores to settle, If there
were they were settled outside of the
! convention. The statement that Wright
! Quincy, of Galveston, manipulated the
| convention in his own interests will not
bear the scrutiny Of a careful investiga-
ton. The simple facts are that Mr..
| Quincy was too sick to take any active
part in manipulating the convention,
| had he so intended. His place as Texas
member OF the national committee was
conceded as of right due the wing of the
republican party in Texas which he rep
resented. His fitness for that honorable
! position no man among his critics has
yet qsOtiOned. The animus Of this
whole attack upon the convention and
its Va is very apparent and misleads
no one. The democracy of the state
were, and are, very much astonished to
see the republican party Of the state al
ter eight years of practical disorganiza-
ton come forth from its retirement and
rehabllitate itself well all the power and
vigorous aggressiyeness of thoroughly
equipped political organism. Unwill-
ing to accept the situation, and feeling
neoessitated TO say something t" break
| the force of this unexpected opposition
which threatens TO become a menace to
the all powerful democracy at no dis
tant day, the leading democratic jour
mails have raised the hue and cry that
the convention was merely the instru-
ment of one mans purposes; these pur-
poses petty revenge for past, real or
fancied, Sights at the hands of party
managers. If it suits the views and the
schemes of the democratic managers to
give this cOlOring to the representative
work accomplished at Waco, 1t is their
own affair. Their mistake is a very
natural one, based as 1t is upon their
own practical and personal knowledge
of schemes successful and unsuccessful
within the democratic ranks. 1t mat
tiers little, however, to republicans
what estimate Is put upon republican
work and methods and proposed action
by democratic journals and conventions.
The republican party is Of age and can
speak for itself. 1t is the estimate put
upon the party by republicans, not
democrats, that is of concern in Texas
just now. The republican party in this
state has been so long in the shadow
and under the cloud that very many,
even among its warmest friends, are apt
to grow discouraged concerning its
future. They fail to remember its glorious
record and the history it has lived. The
most brilliant years of all this nation
has passed through were years
of republican administration. 1t is
better far to heir our participation
as republicans in the glorious record of
those years, from Lincoln to Arthur, than
to be participators in the triumph Of
democracy whose antecedants are all re-
strictiye and prOscriptive, and whose
foresight has invariably been that after
sight which they have gained by follow
ing in the wake of republican progress.
1t is peculiarly necessary and fitting
now that the republicans of Texas re-
member these things, and comfort them
selves with the assurance that the re-
publican party of this nation has but
fairly begun her work as the exponent
Of the idea of a peoples government.
Behind us are twenty years Of repub-
lican history. Those years are but the
beginning of the great work OF human
enfranOhise & ent to which the repub-
lican fathers committed themselves and
the party whose baptism into power WAS
a baptism of blood. Before the repub-
lican party still lie illimitable years Of
power and of progress. The problems
yet unsOlved, in working out perfect
this land without regard to race or &C.
cupation, are only capable Of solution in
the republican mind. The democratic
mind is committed to the idea Of slavery
as an indispensable condition of human
toll. The republican party in Texas
needs then, above all else, faith in the
future Of republican institutions; faith
in the outcome Of republican policies;
faith in themselves, that they can push
these principles to the front, even in
Texas, and make them potent in the
future government of this great state.
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