San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-12-26
THE SALoONATICS.

sure the perpetuation of the breed for
generations to come. Among the po-
litical lunatics coming to the front are
saloonatics, and there are three classes.
The prohibitionists, the free whiskey-
ties and the so-called anti-saloon re-
publicans. These latter have affected
an organization, which they have the
effrontery to call an 'anti-saloon re-
publican national committee" and
are issuing circulars under that name
and title to the republican journals of
this country. 1t is of this self-elected
supplement to the republican party
that this editorial treats and to them
prominently belongs the name of
saloonatics. Their very first declara-
ton is against the prohibitionists as
third political party, and their very
next in favor of the republican
party as an anti-saloon party.
That no one may be misguided or
misinformed the LIGHT submits the
following. The republican marty has
no more to do with the so called anti
saloon republican national committee
than the barnacles on the bottom of
vessel just returned from a long voy-
age have to do with the ships log.
They may have retarded her motion
a little and that is all. The republic
can party is i'm no way, shape or man
ner answerable for the vagaries and
assumptions and the pretensions of
these A. S. RS who have forged the
name of republican without warrant
of court or process of law. The repub.
lican national convention is made up
of the delegates elected in the several
state conventions to form that ma
tional convention, and these state
conventions are in turn made
up of the delegates elected from
the counties, which county con-
ventions are elected by the MEM
bers of the republican party in the
several voting precincts of the county.
That which is decreed or done in the
county conven ton is final as to cOun-
ty matters, that which is ordered in
the state convention is decisive
as to state matters, and only that
which is ordered and decided upon In
national cunven ton is Authoritative
as a national act or declaration of the
party. In no national convention of the
party has there ever been taken any
action justifying certain men TO put
forth the pronunciamentO which
reaches the republican party of
this nation. under the pretense
of the address of A. S. r. n.
&. No man can become a
member of such a political organiza-
ton without severing his connection
with the republican party. These
men have the bald-headed etf'rOntery
to put forth a national platform, con-
demning the saloon and then demand
of the republican party that they &C
cept this platform or abandon the
party: and yet with a folly born of
fanaticism, they condemn the prohibi.
tionists and call them "moral pea
cocks, misguided enthusiasts, dis
gruntied politicians, mercenries and
cranks, operating in the sacred name
of temperance The difference be-
tween the two sets of cranks it were
difficult to determine, only that the
one is more consistent than the other
The repu blican party is neither prohi-
bitionist or i-prohibitionist-salO
or anti-saloon. 1t would save the poll
teal movements of this country from
any ENHANCEMENT with either. 1t
would divorce itself wholly and effec-
lively from all of these and leave them
to care for themselves. taking steps to
prevent itself from being controlled or
governed, or dominated or dictated to
by any or by all of them. This is the
plain truth concerning the republican
party-a truth abundantly confirmed
by all it's platforms and in all its acts.
1t is not the policy of the republican
party to suppress anything but crime,
and selling liquor is not a crime, and
can not be so construed politically
until it is 50 ordered and decreed by
the supreme court of these United
States. A mans private opinion con-
corning this matter is not under dis
CussiOn. There are salOOnists and
who are good republic
cans, but so soon as their saloon or
anti-saloOn feelings dominate their
republican feelings they cease to be
republicans and become political
cranks. The so-called anti-salOon
republican national committee is act
ing without warrant or authority of
the republican party. They have
forged the name of the republican
party to give credit to that which the
republican party never Endorsed, and
the LIGHT charges them with false
pretenses in so doing and warns
against them.
A FATAL epidemic having broken
ont amOnp the rabbits i'm CheS hire