San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-17

suppressee the voice Of the majority
of our people and enables u minority
TO overawe and dictate TO the MAORI.
ty. The theory Of our government lie
THAT the majority shall rule" through
the medium of the ballot box; Intim-
idation of voters, bribery and fraud in
polling illegal votes, in counting the
ballots and In making false returns
and certificates, puts power in the
hands of q minority. Fraud and cor
ruption in our elections will subvert
| our government and undermine our
l liberties as surely as that night fol-
lows day. Ny prediction may share
| the fate of the prophecies OF Cassandra,
be hooted at and disbelieved, but for
all that it will come 10 pass literally.
But, would you have the negroes in
con troll of a state? No, a thousand
times no. hold that "honesty is the
best policy that it is wrong 10 do
evil that good NAV come OF it," and
spurn and reject with adherence the
| jesn itical doctrine that 1.-THE end sane
titles the means used to attain it," On
this foundation OF rock my political
creed was built many years ago, and
the foundation is still sound and firm.
|
negro of the right of suffrage, or else
let him vote without molestatiou.
Without fair and honest elections, we
will have a mill airy dictator in
less than twenty-five years. Caesar
did not overthrow the liberties
of Rome, Marius and Sylla performed
that infamous task, he saved his
his country from confusion, anarchy
and war. Cromwell rescued England
from like fate, Napoleon the great,
snatched France from the very jaws
of anarchy and civil turmoil. Rob-
bers and pirates are forced to submit
to the rule of a chief. Men will sub
NIT to despotism in preference to
anarchy. Unfair and corrupt cleo
lions will end in military despotism,
without defalcation.
Mr.. Cleveland is opposed to the |
free coinage of silver. According TO |
Texas democrats, he is influenced by |
and stands in with the gold bugs and |
the gamblers of Wall street. He has
certainly apostatized from the demo-
cracy of the fathers. Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, Jackson,
Van Buren,, Polk, Pierce and
Buchanan had no fault to find with
silver currency, so far from it, they
heartily approved of it. They regard
ed 1t safer and better than any paper
substitute for 1t. They looked on it
as sound currency. Ii Cleveland
would read the speeches of Thomas
n. Benton and other democratic
leaders, from 1887 to 1S45, he might
what are democratic !
al, 70
of any party openly advocated the
demoDetiZiDg and bastardiziDg of sill
yer. 1t was good and sound enough
for all men and all parties. l stand
on the same ground today. Mr..
in his New York speech,
spoke of a "sound and honest cur |
rency," but it is notorious he is OPP
posed to the free coinage of sill
YER. He placed himself on
record, in his letter written in Feb.
ruary, 1885, when the silver bill was !
pending. 1t was the first time any
president elect ever attempted TO die
tate to his party friends in Congress,
when bill was pending. The dem
ocratic party of the past felt no hos
tility to silver coinage and silver cur
rency. The old Wings felt none
either. The silver coinage views of
Cleveland are at war with every DEM
ocratic president, and with the ira
policy Of his party. My
idea is, it would not hurt trade aud
the workshop. the anvil,
the jack plane, the plough, and the
factory, if every dollar of silver in the
world was In circulation in the United
states. BY natural law, it would
find its level.
Both parties will dou btless straddle
the silver question by adopting
cowardlv and juggling platform, but
that will not suit the people. The
people are more potent than the poll
ticians and a great deal more dlsin-
terested and honest also.
The declaration may shock some of |
Grover Cleveland's over enthusiastic |
admirers, who have zeal without |
knowledge, but, according to my
measurement, he is theorist and not
statesman, visionary and not
a practical man and has departed |
from the creed of all the democratic |
presidents upon silver currency.