San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-08

GOING FOR THE COILS SCALP.
The Harrison and Morton Club of
Austin have made break for the
political scalp OF Col. De Gress of
Austin which is neither childlike nor
bland. A meeting of the club was
held on the second of this month and
at that meeting a committee, of which
d. G.. B. Stoddard was chairman, was
appointed to examine and report upon
certain resolutions presented at said
meeting. The committee considered
the resolutions, and judging from
their tenor it must have been very
serious matter of consideration, and
at the adjourned meeting held March
4th, unanimously recommended their
adoption, and hatadoption was made
unanimously. So says printed cir
cular signed by the president and sec
Rotary of the Morton Club, and attest
ed under oath by ChaS. McAnally,
secretary, as a correct report Of the
resolutions as contained in the mill
uteS. These resolutions affirm In
their preamble that Col. De Gress and
some of his followers have located
themselves at the national capital for
the purpose Of acting as an advisory
committee to the President and his
cabinet in the distribution of federal
appointments in Texas; and, also that
this action is unauthorized, and that
the corrup; political practices of these
men being unknown 50 far from home,
the declarations following are made
that the Federal administration may
know the character OF the men who
have assumed to do this thing.
Following this preamble is an ar
rangement of the political course ofCOl.
DeGress for period OF more than ten
years, charging various acts and
specifying concerning the same:
Passing by charges of a general
character, the resolu lions charge that
Colonel DeGress HAS heretofore
from the stump renowned his fealty
to the repu blican party, and declared
himself greenbacker and backed his
words by working against the regular
nominees of the republican party"
That "He was chairman of the State
Executive committee of the green
back party, and as such chairman
opened the greenback convention in
1878 and worked vigorously for the
success of the green back ticket ETC."
That "In the last and preceding
elections in the state legislature for
United States senator, he worked
upon the republican members of that
body to secure the unanimous cleo
ton of Coke 1.-THE arch enemy of our
party in the state and in the nation
and our worst reviler upon the floors
of the national legislature " and did
so against our party's protest.
Charges also his removal of the
widow OF Governor f. J. Davis from a
| place in the Austin pOstOffice when
he was postmaster of the same, the
extOrtiOn of money for political pur-
poses, acts as political leader which
have brought reproach upon
the party name, driven re-
cruits from it's ranks, and weak
ened the growth of republicanism in
the county and state. 1t charges also
that it was the intent of Col. DeGress
at the late meeting of the State IN
ecutive committee to have himself
and ring appointed all advisory COM
mittee to the administration on Texas
appointments, ana that this was frus-
trated by the committee in answer TO
demands of large body of respecta-
BILE republicans who had assembled
at Austin on that occasion, said COM
mttee promptly crushing the tricky
movement the moment that it was
known. The resolutions concluded
with an appeal to the federal admin
istraiOn to look cautiously upon all
recommendations made by Col. De-
| Gress and his ring, and "a pledge on
| the part of the club to stand by clean
! reDublicanism to the end.
Concerning so much of the fOregO-
/ ing resume as refers to the late meet
! ing of the State Executive committee
the LIGHT desires to say-The editor
of this paper was member of that
committee. He introduced the mem
Orial which that committee adopted,
with the exception of the statement
referring to the disintegratiOn of the
party in Texas, that no debate was
had upon the resolutions and that in
no way, shape or manner was any
movement made looking to the APP
pOintment Ofany one as advisory COM
mittee on federal appointments
What may have been done outside
was not known by the editOi of the
LIGHT as he went to Austin purely