San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-03-19
NOT QUITE AS STRONGLY.

NOT QUITE AS STRONGLY.
The San Marcos Free Press comment
ing upon the outrsges committed In
Pamela county and in Wharton county
calls attention to the manner in which
the governor of the state denounces the
Pamela defiance Of law while he COOS
mildly as a sucking dove over the seven
fold more damnable outrage committed
in Wharton county. The Free Press says
that the governor mas scarcely alluded to
the latter outrage which he ought to
have denounced qnite as strongly as the
other. "Quite as strongly" is good. In
Pamela county young Tom Forsyth was
lynched for the murder of Treasurer
Hill. The lynching was not only most
lawless act but 1t was most barbarously
done, without attempt at concealmeDt
and the culprit, after death, was
dragged to the office of his victim and
rolled in his blood, this in the presence
of the criminals mother and
sister who stood by sobbing and pray
ing for Gods mercy on their hayward
and erring son and brother. This ia the
Pamela county outrage of which Gov
ernor Ross complains so loudly and com
plains so justly-the lynching ola con-
fessed murderer. The other case. the
Wharton county outrage, against which
he did not protest very audioly and
been denounced quite as strongly, was
the murder of seven cOlored citizens in
cold blood. because they accepted the
decisions of the district court in land
case and retained possession of the
property which the court had decided
was theirs 10 law and equity. For refus-
ing TO surrender their legal rights and
vacate their home, they were murdered
in cold blood, their murderers having
first fired the house while their Innocent
victims were asleep, that they might
own burning home. This is the
outrage which the San Marcos Free
Press thinks that Governor Ross should
have denounced quite as strongly" as
the lynching OF the murderer Of county
treasurer Hill. This is the outrage for
denOuncing which the LIGHT has been
branded as the instigstOr of sectional
feeling and the engenderer Of sectional
hate. This is the outrage for which the
LIGHT condemned the democratic press
of this state for having the lock jock so
far as any denunciation of the black
hearted deed was concerned, and for
which denunciatiOn it has been charged
with trying TO revive race preiudices.
The LIGHT remarks with great pleasure
that one democratic journal has 90 far
opened its moral optics as TO see that
the murder of seven cOlOred citizens In
cold blood should be quite as strongly
denounced as the lynchiDg Of one white
murdered whose cold DiOOded crime was
confessed. The LIGHT will look hope
fully and and snxiously for some farther
signs OF returning sensibility on the
part of the democratic press of this
state over the matter of The Wharton
outrage. When found, the LIGHT will
be most happy to chronicle the fact and
give publicity TO the protest.
TIE Waco Examiner has declared war
upon the prohibition wing Of the Texas
democracy and will keep up the fight
until after the convention. The EXami-
ner sees no good in the prohibs, who IN
turn see no good in the Examiner, par
tioularly when it rises to remark:
when prohibition is an issue we are
told it is nOn-partsGn; when il is parti-
san we are told it is not an issue. For
| tricks thar are vain the prOhibitiOnist is
peculiar"
The Corpus Christi Caller says with
business brevity:
"GalvestOn's second effort to bull dOze
the Texas congressional delegation was
| an ignOminiOus failure. The News
makes sour face at swallowing the
| dose"
a Tremendous Sensation
would have created one hundred years ago