San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-08-29
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hauled by the grand jury of Lavaca
county in a windy deliverance, in
which the criminal sky is painted all
the colors of the rain bow. Comment
ing on this deliverance of the Lavaca
court, the Houston Pest remarks:
40 this day it is impossible to
make a majority of northern people
believe that a man Is safe in Texas
unless loaded down with weapons.
Every homicide committed in the
state confirms them in the belief
that Texas Is no place for an
honest man who desires to die
In his bed. The prevalence of
this idea is doing more to with
hold from Texas capital and desirable
immigration than all other causes
mbined. There is but one way in
which Texas can win for herself
that most precious of all things to in
name, and that is by thoroughly de-
serving it. This she will never do
while the great body of the people
manifest an indifference to the man
ner in which the laws are executed.
We are to have new state
administration, one popular with the
masses. Let it but start right, start
with the determination that the laws
shall be vigorously executed "with-
out fear or favor" that homicides
shall in every instance pay the pen
atty of their misdeeds, and then ap-
peal to the people tor support with
the same earnestness that has been
shown in seeking office, and the
golden age of Texas will indeed draw
Nigh"
This day never will draw nigh so
long as the democratic majority in
Texas is so overwhelmingly great
that nomination to office is equiva-
lent to an election. So long as this
condition continues, it will be the bust
ness and sole aim OF the unprlncipled
and the ambitious for political place
to control the nominating bodies.
To do this the control of the primaries
is indispensable, and every measure
OF corruption and intimidation known
to political ward strikers will be re-
sorted to in order to accomplish this.
The appeal being, not to the suf-
frages of the citizens at the polls,
but to the interested efforts of those
who are political partners with the
successful Office seekers in the emol-
uments of office, the whole political
movement is subversive of law and
order. The sheriff, constable, prose-
cutting attorney and all other officers
who owe their nominations, that is
their election, to friends, even if they
be of the baser political sort,
cannot do less than show
them some consideration when
their natural lawlessness has pro-
duced its inevitable result, and they
are in the meshes of the law. Not
only 80; disregard of political rights
naturally brings with it disregard
of all other rights, and it cannot be
successfully disputed that in the
region round about Lavaca where the
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given, the rights of colored voters
have been very conspicuously disre-
gsrded. The whole tendency of this
overriding of public sentiment and
opinion by political bull whackers is
demoralizing. The young, unfledged
politicians see the success that
attends Irresponsible political action
and domination of the weak by the
strong, and as nothing succeeds like
success, the example is only too
readily followed. Vicious meth
DDS make vicious people. The
people of Texas are too busy
as rule to care for office,
and the mauipulations of primaries
and conventions fall into the hands
of men of low moral sense who make
of politics trade ami whose whole
stock in trade is political skulIdug-
gerry. The remedy for this would he
balancing of the political parties, so
that the rank and file of the parties,
the genuine citizens, would be COM
PEELED to take interest in political
movements or see the party to which
they belong defeated. Given a fair
balance of political parties anywhere
and the best elements come to the
front. Given brutal majority"
such as the democrats in Texas hold
today land the worst elements come to