San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-29
WHY Ii WAS THUS.

Texas on every available opportunity
and the News seldom misses its
chance. This is as it should be, fol
the News and the republicans OF
Texas are at swords points and their
enmity political is radica. and goes
way down to the bottom of things
1t was therefore to be expected that
the News would take advantage OF
the fact that Republican Esaus have
been very prominent seekers after
federal pottage, and reflect upon the
whole party on that account. Not to
disappoint this expectation the News
says:
president Harrison in sizing up
men for office looks at their conduct
during the last campaign. He is re-
ported as having said that he would
appoint no man to office who was a
traitor to his party or to its solemn
obligations. From this it would be
concluded that he has very little pa
thence with the laggard or the ais
heartened. To the fighting victors
he would give the spoils. And herein
may possibly be found the reason
why he is so cold toward the Texan
republican who in the last campaign
refused to put q state ticket in the
field and thereby keep the Texas
brancu of the party organized"
There is truth enough in the extract
10 make it sting. All the same the
refusal to put a ticket in the field was
not the work of the rank and file of
the party in Texas, and this refusal to
nominate was very cunningly ar
ranged by the very men who have
been most conspicuous as office seek
ers and attempted controllers of pat
ronage in Texas. That refusal to
nominate ticket was a sore disap-
pointment to the republicans of Texas,
who were very anxious 10 record their
votes and show their party strength.
Scores OF letters were received at this
office and by leading republicans in
this city denouncing thG action of the
committee of thirty-three who were
at the April convention to
put ticket in the field, and insisting
even as late as two weeks before the
election that a candidate be put for
ward. The assertion, since made,
that no candidate was willing to come
forward and make the race is not
in accordance with facts. Hon. f. H.
Terrell of this city, recently hOnored
with one of the most important for
eign appointments in the gift of the
administration, that OF minister to
Belgium, had been sounded on this
matter and signified his willingness
to accept the nomination, enter the
race, stump the state and work hear
tily and spend money for the ticket
in Texas. Not with the least hope OF
being elected but to preserve the par
ty autonomy, keep republicans OF
Texas in line and give encouragement
to the party in the doubtful states.
The old machine politicians did not
desire his candidacy. The committee
of thirty-tnree did not dare assume
the responsibility of refusing to put a
ticket in the field, and would not put
one in as was expected by the conven-
ton which created it, and so
and called a cOnven-
ton so late in the fall that
to make a canvass of the State was
The News may be justi-
fed in laying the blame upon the re-
publican party in this state, for it is
certainly the fault of the party that it
permits few men to prostitute its or
ganization to their own private pur-
poses, but it is a fact that the party,
the voters. at least ninety per cent OF
them were sOrely disappointed in not
having a state ticket in the field. The
party is demOralized in this state, and
President Harrison is very wise in
going slow until he can see the in
terror condition. Were he to 20 still
slower, and not make a single repub-
can appointment in Texas until a re-
publican congressman was elected
who could speak authOritatively for
the state without some private ak to
grind, the president would do no
damage to the republican party in
Texas. 1t is not just to the rank and
file of the republican party to accuse
it of refusing to put state ticket in
the field last campaign. That refusal
was a bitter disappointment to nine
nut of every ten republicans in Texas.
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