San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-06
A NEW PARTY.
The Old Party Clubs To Be Discarded

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San ANTONIO, April 5, 1886.
Editor San Antonio Light.
The early settlements Of our country
were separate, and many Of them scat
tered at some distance apart, each man.
aging its own affairs. The great Declare
ton declared for free and Independent
States" There was naturally want OF
that warm sentiment for union and
nationality, which subsequent history
has proved was most important desid-
eratum. State rights in proper limits aae
a necessity to the republic. Without
this element, the vast power Of the Gen.
eral Government would be fatal to a
republic. But the idea of the power of
Individual States being SO great as to
override the delegated sovereignty OF
the National Government could but
lead to distntegration, and the sad his
tory from which 1t is our wish to turn
our eyes.
Many Republicans of us, here, have
read and duly considered the article in
your paper signed National Demo-
| crat." There are many good things In
the same, but National Democrat"
stopped short. He should have assigned
reasons why thousands Of Democrats in
Texas, and all over the Seuthera States,
who have acted for years with the Sc
cession Democratic party. should now
leave their associations and go with a
new organization and vote the National
ticket, call 1t what they please.
In truth and In fact, are there not to-
day in Texas many Democrats tired
out" OF voting year after year for party
nominees just because they are nomi-
nees, and without any regard whatever
to the fitness Of such nominees for the
places?
Are there not hundreds and thousands
of Democrats in Texas who are sore and
sick of voting for nominees for high and
low places, whose only claims for said
places rest upon Confederate records
Is the war not over, and are Democrats
to be eternRlly called upon and
whipped out" to the bsllOt boxes, to
ignore all present issues, and vote to
sustain the old leaders, and their
dOgmas, human slavery, free-trade, state
rights, state sovereignty according to
past views, strict construction, no
schools of proper efficiency, no progress,
eternal hostility TO the union, etc, etc.
etc.
Are not all the old Democratic, seces-
sion, disunion measures dead?
Are not human slavery and the hand
maiCs thereof, free-trade. state rights,
state sovereignty and strict cOnstruc-
ton in the old Democratic sense, asleep
in their eternal graves? Are not oppo-
sition to national banks and to internal
innprpuornanfa nv rho nanaral Onuarn.
ment (JacksOn's Democracy in their
tombs? Yes, all these things are as
dead as Hector and but one thing. one
idea is left to the old secession leaders,
and that is eternal hostility to the union
and to its friends, and to those in the
south who did not favor its destruction
in 1861.
Yes, indeed, these dogmas, save the
one named, are defunct, but the old
leaders of 1861 still live, and compel the
free voters of Texas, Of this hour. to vote
for the shadows of their dead issues, and
for them for Office, and this they do by
their party organization.
What boots it to say that General
Fliphop was Brigadier General in the
Confederate army, and fought bravely,
and since that time, and for twenty
years, has drunk poor whisky, cussed
tne union ana unlOnlsts, anu voted the
straight out secession Democratic ticketP
Does that alone qualify him for Govern
or Of Texas, or United States senator?
No, indeed Well then, does such a
record secure him nomination? Yes,
verify, and the prediction is now made
that not man will get nomination at
the now fastening secession Demo-
cratic convention, who was not dis
unionist in 1901 and remained SO until
now.
Yes, National Democrat" in turning
around for reasons why Republicans
should not abandon their organization.
might have found some of the above
reasons why Democrats Of the secession
stripe might call a halt. Now Messrs.
National Democrats" put out your
men on your platform, and the secession
Democracy will hear from
NATIONAL REPUBLICANS.