San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-07-25
CUNEY'S APPOINTMENT.

| to do justice TO the republican party
on principle, and barred from doing
justice to colored office-holder by its
prejudices, has very badly mixed
editorial on the appointments of Wright
Quincy to the Galveston relationship.
The entire article is given, as its real
spirit can not be judged by mere eX-
tract:
wright Quincy has just got the OBJ
| ject of his ambition, and the white
mans publican party or faction of
Texas has got black eye. The re-
publican party being both spoils
party in practice and party profess
ing to make no distinctions on the
| ground of race or color, could not well
object to Mr. Quincy for an office, how
ever important, unless it could say
that he was not competent to fill it,
This the party will not say. The fact
that Quincy showed ability and dis
| erection while he was an alderman
was no doubt considered in taking a
step which would seem bold in
view of public opinion or preju-
dice on the subject OF race
and color. From a political point of
| view it would have been squeamish-
ness on the part of the administra-
| ton to reject the claims Of the actual
| leader of the strongest voting contin-
| gent of the republican party in this
| state on grounds which would have
| been practical denial of the republic
| can creed, when he was good and
able enough to hold an important
position in the party organization.
What is most important for the bust
ness community is not who holds the
| office, but how it is conducted. Mr..
| Quincy is not incompetent, and he
will be judged according to the bust
ness-like character of his arrange
ments and the working of the Office.n
1t would be difficult to conceive a
more adroitly framed combination of
fact and fancy, truth and talsehood,
assertion and suggestion than the
above. 1t does not say one half what
| it suggests, and it does not consent
itself to the truth of that which it
would have its readers accept as fact.
1t is an exceedingly neat piece of
patchwork, but it wont answer as
good cloth. Its declaration that the
white mans republican party of Texas
has received black eye in Cuneys
appointment, is truth founded upon
lie. There is no such party as
that of which the News speaks
| and of this fact the News
is perfectly we'll aware! There
never has been any objection in the
state conventions of the republican
party in Texas to the colOred voter
participating and meeting full
recognition. The News assertion i'm
plies that there was white republic
can party in Texas opposing Cuney's
appoin tment, and that failing to pre-
vent it that party had received black
eve. If there had been a white re-
publican party,it would have received
| black eye;this is true; but there is
| none and the assertion is fact found
ed on lie. The second assertion is lie
founded on fact. That is, that the
colored vote is the strongest contln-
gent of the republican party in Texas,
and that therefore 1t would have been
squeamishness to reject the claims of
| the actual leader of that contingent.
The only real value which attaches
to the News article is that which
bears testimony to the ability, dem
onstrated in the business and NUM-
cipal life of Galveston, of Mr..
Quincy to properly discharge the
| duties Of the office to which
he has been appointed. Mr.. Quincy
has long been resident of Galveston.
He has served on her board of Alder
men and there demonstrated his
liability and discretion" so says tine
News, and from such an authority
the acknowledgment is certainly
worth something. The unconscious
testimony to Mr.. Cuney's fitness
which this article bears will strike
the most casual reader. The News
can find no fault with the appoint
ment, is disgruntled because it can
| not, and so seeks to throw a firebrand
into the party to which Mr. Quincy be-
| longs, by assertions that are not
borne out by the facts, concerning the
hostility of Republicans in Texas to a
colored man holding office. The
News may make capital tor itself as
democratic partisan by this course,
but it cannot stampede the republican
party worth cent. In the appoint
ment of Mr.. Quincy the republican
party main tains its traditions and its
consistency to oft declared principle,
| and it is this which hurts. 1t is a
matter of profound congratulation
to republicans in Texas that SO I'M
| friendly a Journal as the News is COM
PEELED to admit Mr.. Cuney's fitness
for the very impOrtant pOSitiOn TO