San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-14
BROWNSVILLE BULLETIN.
Scratching the Backs Of the Old
Democrats--Som Revelations
of CrookednesS.

DemOCrdtS--SOn heNeldIiOnS
of Crookedness.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, June9.
Daily LIGHT:
The democratic congressional con-
yention met on the md inst. 1t must
not be supposed by the published re-
port that the names of men of means
and influence figuring there were
really present, or will attend the con-
ventfon. On the contrary they en-
phatically decline the honor thrust
upon them by the leaders. They fully
understanding this provide in resolu-
ton 9Th that any delegate attending
NAV cast the entire vote in both sena-
torfal and congressional conventions,
or it may be done by proxy. In the
recent municipal election 947 votes
were cast by the blues, yet they could
not get beggarly hundred together
in convention. Less than half dozen
engineered the whole affair. Free
trade and all who advocate it will find
themselves far in the rear in Novem-
Der.
Congressional and state nominees
seem of very little consequence to the
anti-free- Embellishments in this 10
cality, who openly declare for a re-
publican in preference to free-trade
man.
Our district clerk, (he's a funny lit
tie fellow anyway, and if his egotism
expands much more without CORE
spending expansion of his anatomy,
there will be some unusual phe-
nomena in this locality,) now Frances
around and squeaks liar with big ID
n nj nh ic inc IT
the same as an endorsement from a
man of veracity. 1t now transpires
that he lost the grand jury list. Now
let us see how he managed. 1t is a
very unusual thing for court to open
before the third or fourth day on &C
count of non-arrival of the judge. Not
so this time. Early as possible on the
first day we install our boss ringster,
judge pro tenn, draw new list and
get to work with county judge as at
torney. Happy to exonerate the
sheriff, as he has his hands full OF his
own sins, without those of others
being imputed to him.
The editor of Cosmopolitan was
married recently. The next day he
announced that the sheriff attended
the wedding and asked, Cant the
correspondent of the LIGHT make
something out of that?" Funny ques-
ton. Josh Billings said: ut is hard
work to be in love and not ask phool-
ish questions, but luv is the only thing
I know that makes pholly eXcusable."
Perhaps he was in love. Don't see
that anything can be made Tout of
of that but perhaps if he had gone
that far in pursuit of Tom Kenedy's
murderer he might have caught him.
Democratic comments on my last
letter: "Have had their own way so
long they are paralyzed at the daring
of the writer.n "Can't be disputed,
every word true" "They find wide
difference in mounting about off cial
rascality and reading an ir-
REPUTABLE account of it in a public
journal" But the half is not told.
Said a white haired old gentleman
to one whom he fancied the author,
II fear for you my son, they are not
likely to stop at what they have al
ready done, but; lit will injure you
here" ha, ha; just hold your AK to the
stone, my timid friend, have none to
grind. Said the leading ringster,
putting his hand to his intellectual
brow after a perusal of the LIGHT, II
don't know what to do" Don't know
what to do? indeed. Not a few know
what you did do. They know you
have winked at the wholesale frauds;
they know you laughed and winked
on the day of the municipal election
when men in derision of the frauds
being perpetrated, hawked their votes
to the highest bidder. You know that
every man elected hold their places
by fraud. You know that your ring
ordered of poor barber Sl42.2 5 worth
of fireworks which debt has not been
cancelled yet, although you used them
in the Cleveland election.
Some tall threats have been made
against your correspondent, but he
don't seem to be afraid. Perhaps
leaven of the spirit that animated a
father and grandfather on some of the
hardly contested battle fields of Texas
has descended to, -
A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT.
THE commencement exercises of Co
lumbia college were held today at the