San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-21
BLOWING HIS BUGLE
At the Newspapers and Says Lots
of Mean Things.

u MICAH lhihSs.
Editor SAN ANTONIO LIGHT:
There is a time when forbearance ceases
to be virtue, and when men who are
assaulted should reply to their assaiants
1t is claimed, and by some believed, that
the daily press of city is reflector of
the sentiments of its citizens. 1t may be
true in general of other places, but 1t is
lamentably untrue of San Antonio. The
two great democratic dailes(9" lGod
save the mark, of this city have'not even
the manhood TO be candid enough TO ex-
press their own individual sentiments
upon the political situation in this
county but with contemplate, sycophan-
tic cowardice, cringe under the lash
of their political masters, and
pander to the wishes of the cor
rupt combination of soullesS
corporation acting in conjunction with
an equally soulleSs association of politi
clans and chronic Office holders. These
two great (?) dailieS and especially the
Times, constitute themselves the cham
pions of that double-headed monstrosity,
which has been named the independent
Ticket" and with a zeal and energy
worthy of better cause, are endeavoring
to hoodwink the people who read them
with statements as to the fitness and pc
culiar adaptability of the men named
upon that ticket, for the positions they
are so anXiouSy seeking.
This might be condoned by magnan-
imous public, through pity for the weak
ness of such paltry, contemplate timeserv-
ers, but when to innate weakness, and lack
of individual Independence, it adds the
wickedness of elimination and misrepre.
sentation Of those who oppose political
boSsism, and advocate the fundamental
principles of our republican institutions,
which guarantee the people the right to Sc
lect their own public servants. said serv-
ants then become eX-officio the agents of
wishes of the people who have vested in
these agents the power and authority to-
execute the laws pro bono publico.
say whenever journal, claiming TO,
be the exponent of great political party,
| (whose chief corner stone is: that the peo-
pie Shalirule their servants, and not the
servants rule the people, one of whose
becomes so corrupt through substituting
| or through any other influences, as to-
stultify itself by advocating the SUI
premacy of political charlatans and
| jugglers in opposition to the voice
and wishes of the masses of
the people, that journal deserves the
condemnation of all honest citizens and
| livion which has been the grave Of every
traitor to the cause of liberty and justice
since the days of Benedict Arnold. A
| public journal, deriving as it does, its
very existence from the support of the
people and indulging in the base innuen-
does and false statements chargeable to
| these great (?) dailies, and endeavoring to
mislead public opinion by suppressing
| facts concerning the issues before the
people, is undeServing of their confidence.
| their support, or even their perusal.
charge upon these papers that they mis-
| state facts when they denominate the
| ticket which was formulated at Mission
| a ticket made up by lawyers.
lThat convention was composed of repre-
sentative men of every avocation, mer-
| chants, bankers, brokers, doctors, minis
| tiers, stockmen, mechanics, laborers, and
yes, lawyers and capitalists, gentlemen
| who felt that their liberties had been in
vaded, and who, acting as free American
citizens under the privileges guaranteed
! to them by our federal constitution, viz:
| the right to select and name list OF men
/ for public offices, did in the broad open
| light of day assemble, after published
| call had been issued to all freemen who
| loved liberty and justice, to which hun
| bred or more names of the tax paying cit
| liens was subscribed aud proceeded in due
| form to organize for such business as might
| properly be brought before it as de-
| Lucrative body, The chairman of that
meeting was unanimously elected by
popular vote, and was not self constit
| tuted autocrat, acting with five men of
his own appointment to confirm his deS-
potic dictates. The nominations Were
open, fair and free for public discussion.
| and were not all made as claimed by
these great (?) dailies by lawyers, many OF
| the more prominent ones being made by
private citizens whose only object was to.
fill the positions Of good men and. true
| who would serve the people fairly, faith
fully and impartially.
further charge that gross misstate-
ment of fact is made by the press, when
il states that that convention was called
for the purpose of endorsing the candi-
dates who had been nominated by a re-
publican county convention and of filling
up any vacancies left on said ticket.
Each candidate who had been so nomi-
mated publicly declared that IL other men
were selected by the citizens convention
they would cheerfully withdraw from the,
race and support the popular nominee.
These are the facts In this matter, in
view Of which appeal to every patriotic
citizen and every lover of liberty and
every voter who prizes that greatest boon
of ali our American institutions. the free
dom and purity of the ballot, to support
the citizens ticket by their influence and
their votes, and on the day of election in
November, administer to the political
bosses OF Bexar county, such rebuke
for their temerity as will teach them
that the behests of a coterie of men rep
resenting a corporation, combined with
chronic officeholders headed by would
be dictator, will not be obeyed by the in
telligent, independent, patriotic citizens
OF this county. | appeal to you, fellow
citizens, in the name of justice, of liberty
and of the public good, do nOtallow your
selves to be misled in this momentous
issue by the innuendoeS, misstatements,