San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-11
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
Rev. MacHenson Talks Little About
Crops and Politics.
Bolton, Texas. Oct. 10.

EDITOR LIGHT:
The last few weeks brings me into
the great cotton belt: And the cot
ton, the cotton, there are no end to
the cotton, while the ueople ire much
ly engaged in harvesting the abond-
emit crops, they tail not TO give some
attention to politics. We reached
Calvert September Goth found this
stirring town seething pot of for
menting politics, conven lions small
and great sum to be the order of the
day. We remained nearly week
And a caucus or convention and tick
ct makers were in session daily and
nightly. On Monday we had the
pleasure of listening to the able
speech of the Hon. Webster Flana.
gan, whether he be able to lead the
party to victory or not, the conven.
tion will never have cause to regret
putting forth such an able statesman
as Mr.. Flanagan. Bolton and vicini-
ty will 90 down to Temple to hear
him today. We regret that our route
lay in another direction. If there are
lilly white republicans along this
line, they are just as wise as
serpents and harmless as doves.
This new organization, no doubt,
will live long enough to write it's
death warrant. It would seem to
ordinary minds, viewing their grounds
from disinterested standpoint, that
their aim is to drive every negro from
the republican party, they envenom
all the sores the negro wears from the
scrambles of factions of the past. If
Mr.. M. Urwitz. the provisional secre-
tary of the Lilly White" executive
headquarters, and company fought,
bied and died to free the "niggers,"
they are now willing to do more
to take from him the rights
guaranteed to him by the cof1stitu-
ton. This little word provisional"
reminds one of the recon struction
period, it may kindle the flames of
yore which shone so bright on repub-
lican affairs when under federal ba-
yoners, the lily whites worshipped in
unmolested felicitude around her
shrine; there they remained in holy
cOnvocation, Sampsonlike feeling for
the pillars on which the super
structure rested, when they found it
they bowed with all things,
great strength and overthrow
the republican temple, and destroyed
as they thought, all the republican
leaders. Now that the day of retri-
button begins to dawn, and their per-
fidy are not forgotten, they sing siren
airs to their masters, and shout loud
enough to be heard throughout crea-
ton, "nigger domination! niger
domination!p' but every school boy,
and street wait knows it only an
empty sound. Dragons and de-
mons conspire to raise the tune,
but it is only an empty sound
destined to pass unframed like the
flying RATS, tossed and driven by
angry winds into oblivion, without
leaving q trace behind. "Nigger
domination" is q scheme to rob the
negro of his just recognition by the
national administration. Give to
them n. w. Cuney's official scalp and
they will cease to howl until the next
play comes off. Mr.. Quincy has in his
department. today more white persons
than he has negroes and what few
negro emplyes he has, they are just as
near white as possible; but this creates
no unkind feeling between Mr.. Quincy
and his large negro constituency.
The office is his and he has a right to
employ who pleases. The idea of
niger domination originated in the
prejudicial Imagination of disgruntled
politicians and would-be leaders;
with every Judge, supreme, appellate,
district and county on the bench;
every sheriff, constable and Justice a
white man, there might be few ex-
IL, ho 0qH al -
tions, but not enough to disturb the
sweet slumbers of the most exacting
sceptic. When this fear of niger
domination? This fury has
every element of mischievousness
in it, against the actual freedom of
the negro, as the famous speech of
General James S. Hogg at Pearsall
September "a. He serves notice on
the intelligent and growing manhood
of the negro race in general, and of
of Texas in particular, that tor them
he has no respect. We fail to see
what could have brought out this
horrible expression. He may be re-
garded as q sincere statesman, but
can hardly pass for a very modest
logician. When he proclaims his great
love for old black "Mammy Nancy
and Uncle ST." and announces his
great hatred and disrespect for their
children, styling them "the smart
Alec of today" Admit that there
are unworthy citizens in our land
and county Of every nationality, the
negro not excepted; how can we hair
split the difference between these
old worthless and their offspring?
Such swearing we have not heard
of since the days of Hamilcar. The
good general election Is made SO sure,
he don't hesitate to say what he
pleases before installment day. The