San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-20
a PLEA FOR Truth.

| reviews the LIGHTS CrlClclSm OF u
Post statement on the status of the
colored voter and among other things
says:
The LIGHT is very brainy paper
| and it is pity that it will use its
| talents to defame instead of defend
| the people among whom it has cast
| its lotto retard instead of to promote
| the development of the fruitful South
| west. X Under the lead Of
their republican instructors, negroes
have swarmed into counties for the
avOwed purpose of getting control OF
the local government; they have at
tempted to dominate in districts
where they were but so journers, TO
levy taxes upon property they did
not help to create. The LIGHT
editor we'll knows that there
is not republican county north of
the Ohio river, where such a state
of affairs would not cause blood to
flow. X The LIGHT knows
that there is not a county in Texas
where a well behaved, industrious
negro may not live in safety and vote
what ticket he pleases in peace.
There may be. places in the South
where such conditions do not prevail,
but if so such are the exception and
not the rule X
Preach republicanism if you like,
eulogize the devil, heap encomiums
upon Speaker Reed, stand up for the
robber tariff and steamship subsidies,
but do not cut the Threats of the peo-
pie who support you.
The LIGHT is willing to concede
that the Post actually believes whit
it has set forth above, though how it
is possible for an intelligent journalist
to be soimpevious to facts passes COM
prehension. The LIGHT has been
particularly careful to set down moth
ing in malice, and has not CONSCIOUS
ly DETAINED in anything the people
among whom it has cast its lot. 1t
aims only to be truthful and give the
facts as they exist, with such deduc-
tons from them as to It's own sense
of justice and truth seems right and
proper. The LIGHT has ever done its
best endeavOrs to promote, not retard,
the development of the southwest,
and is so accepted wherever read, but
It does not consider that a suppress
sion of facts or a denial of them is
the correct way to promote devel-
Dpment. The LIGHT would rather be
light and speak the truth as it sees
5he right and understands what is
rue, than to be a democratic leader |
n Texas, and the LIGHT does not
know nor does it believe that negroes |
nave swarmed into counties where !
hey do not live for the purpose of |
local government. The |
LIGHT will not say that the Post !
Knows that its assertion on this point |
) incorrect, but the LIGHT does say |
hat it is incorrect and that the Post |
ought to know if it does not. The |
Lre counties in Texas where well
behaved, industrious cOlOred man
;annOt live in safety and vote any
ticket he pleases, if ne pleases to vote
he republican ticket, and this despite
he charge.Of the Post that the LIGHT
EDITOR knows to the contrary. In
Sort Bend and Wharton and Wash
ngtOn cOun ties a COlOred man is
lot at liberty TO vote as he pleases,
md the LIGHT knows this, and
he records of the courts prove it
whether the Post knows it or not. AS
> such conditions being the eXcel-
ion, not the rule, they are the exc, p
ion in Texas because there are only a
5W counties in this great state WheIe
he COlOred voter is in the majority,
nd in such counties ne cannot vote
y he pleases OnIN as he pIeases to
Ote as the democrats desire. 1t is
lot creditable to indulge in such Ian
iven above. The LIGHT cuts no
mans throat no peoples throat. II
as CuIOSlHCu JAiS OSJ' anu 'iDCo di- |
'ocate steamship subsidies and a pro
ective tariff, but it can show as clean
record as the friend of southwest
'eXas and the promoter of all her ell
as any democratic journal
n the state, and is not to be buli, d
ut of a position honestly taken d
fortified by fact. If,
however, in thus accepting the Pos g
Delief in its own statements, the LIGHT