San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-21
ghs Daily Eight.
Office No. a East Commerce Street.
PREPARE TO FIGHT.


readers the not unexpected intelli-
gence that Galveston, true to her in
stincts and precedents, had gone back
upon her proposed agreement to har-
monte all interests at Denver and
work unitedly for deep water at both
Galveston and Arkansas Pass. Backed
by all interests hostile to any deep
sea port on the gulf coast Of Texas,
Galveston proposes to enter the con-
vention at Denver and push the in
terests of Arkansas Pass to the wall
under cover of a one port scheme.
The gauntlet has been flung down by
Galveston and promptly accepted by
San Antonio. Southwest Texas is in
good fightin g trim, much better than
she was when she drove Galveston at
For Worth to accept of compromise
resolution which her own representa-
tives acknowled ged handicapped her
a 100000. Galveston's present at
titude compels San Antonio and
southwest Texas to fight, and they
will 90 armed to Denver with all the
power that they can muster. Everydel-
egate who can possibly reach Denver
on the 2Sth Of August should be there.
Every voice and ever vote will be
needed, not only in convention but on
the streets, in the Hobbies of the hotels
and exchanges, and in the club
rooms. Numbers tell as well as
brains and organization and a righ-
teous cause. Southwest Texas has
every advantage in this coming fight
save that arising from superior
knowledge of the arts of trickery and
an unscrupulousness which sticks at
nothing to secure its ends. The
friends of Arkansas Pass have an array
of facts which cannot be successfully
controverted, position on the coast
as determined by the best sur
veys that cannot be carried by
the plausible assaults of false
statements however ingenious.
There is no real ground
for Encouragement. There is every
inducement to fight, and every encour-
agement to hope for victory. Those
who were present at Fort Worth I'M
derstand how illy-prepared, how ut
terly unorganized the forces of South
west Texas were on that occasion, and
vet San Antonio and Dallas reaching
hands across the state united all in
terests against Galveston's arrogant
pretentions and defeated her in the
very hour of her loudest boastings.
Southwest Texas is prepared to fight
as never before, and she wants all her
volunteers to answer roll call at Den
yer. Every interest is subordinated
to this deep water necessity for west
ern Texas. Our future prosperity de-
ponds upon it, and yet we have no
such forlorn hope to lead as has Gal
weston. Her everlasting all is at stake
and yet she has not the wisdom of dis
erection. She goes to Denver Over-cOn-
fident and relying upon stratagem
and flnesse rather than upon CONNER
cial reasons and sound principles of
policy. Her overweening selfshness
will overreach itself at Denver as it
did at Fort Worth. Against this let
southwestern Texas guard. Let the
southwest 60 fully armed to cooperate
with Dallas and Fort Worth and
Waco and Austin and WesJTeXas and
there will be victory as there was at
Fort Worth. Fight is the watchword
for the Denver convention. Calves
ton has drawn the sword, having re-
fused to sign a pacific agreement of
her own proposing, and now San An
tonic must draw her blade and throw
away the scabbard. When Calves
ton lay at her feet in the Fort Worth
convention San Antonio was lenient
At-Denver it were cruel and coward
ly to do other than make the victory
decisive and final.
The democratic journals of the
state, according to their leanings, are
having shy at the late convention,
and are showing very conclusively
that the other faction knew nothing of
parli amentary law. Anyone who has
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