San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-19
REPUBLICAN,

REPUBLICAN, TREASURER.
The Denton Monitor, straight dem,
ocratic journal, has the following en-.
dorsement of the nominee CT the re.
publican party for state treasurer.
The LIGHT gives space for the extract
that Southwest Texas may know
what kind of q man was nominated
tor treasurer:
"Our distinguished fellow-citlzen,
Mr.. J. B. Schmitz, who has just beeh
honored with the nomination for
state treasurer, on the republican
state ticket, has been a resident aud
u successful merchant of this city for
about thirteen years.
MI. Schmitz has always been a
staunch republican, and has probably
done more in organizing the republi-
can party in Denton county than any
other man in it. During the prohib.-
ton campaign MI. Schmitz was II
of the trusted lights of George Clark,
being appointed chairman of the Sew
enteenth senatorial district, composed
of Denton and Collins counties; and
how we'll he succeeded the public Is
aware.
Mr. Schmitz is strictly what may be
termed a seif.made maa, having
started in business in Denton without
q dollar, hut has gradually worked
his way up the ladder, step by step.
Although there is no possible
chance of his election, he may we'll
feel honored for the recognition given
him by his party in the state; and
no doubt he will poll q strong vote
among the German population of
Texas, irrespective OF their political
faith.
In the name OF Denton county, as a
citizen ard as s friend. accept u
con gratulations, John. You are the
second Denton county man ever hon
ored with a place on a state ticket OF
any party.
The man who receives such an en-
dorsement at home, by the opposi-
ton political journal, is the man to
vote for.
IF, as so many democratic journals
affirm, the republican majority in con-
gress is due to the ousting Of so many
democrats, how came it that the re-
publicans had any majority TO start
with after the democrats had secured
so many seats by the Arkansas plan?
THE Brenham Banner has gone to
mind reading and tells its dupes
what is to be put upon the republi-
can ticket when it IS printed. The
Banner could use it's auriculars for
pennant and thus become a two-fold
banner, as it were.
The counties representing them
selves in the approaching San An
ouio Fair and Exposition will secure
a sendoff in the race for population
and settlement that will place them
years a ahead Of their neighbors VINO
ave neglected their opportunity.
The Blanco News OF the 18th says
Mr.. Reed has gone home to look after
his Maine fences. On that date the
democrats had been turned out, the
fences mended, the bars pinned and a
notice on the gate post "no democrat
need apply"
The man who walked q seven
eighth cable across the Niagara
gorge recently may have been a very
big fool, as some newspapers say, but
there is no denying that he was a
very successful one Nothing sue,
ceeds like success, even in playing
the fool. That fool can draw a bigger
crowd to the cataract than could the
wise men of the east if advertised a:
a 8 how.
The republicans have q splendid
chance OF carrying Ell Paso city, E
Paso county and the judicial distric
of which Ell PasO is the center. They
are gathering UP their loins, prepare
| tory to the fight, and the democrat!
is d~emOraliZed.
THE democracy are terribly anxiOuJ
that Reed should knock Blaine out il
the contest for presidential nomina
ton. There has been one republican
of whom for a quarter of a century III
democracy have been righteousl,
afraid, and that mans name is Jane
G. Blaine.
II is pretty near time that the den
ocratic joke about Quincy putting i
l. Jck Mcdaniel as chairman OF tt