San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-30
THE OTHER SIDE.
MIR. Newcomb's Account of the BAL
las Meeting.

| las Meeting.
| "COl. Jim Newcomb," as the Dallas
papers dub him, returned from Dallas
yesterday morning and resumed his pl lace
| on the grand jury. Being questioned as
; to the version of the Dallas meeting as
given in the Express, Mr.. Newcomb
| said:
II read the article in the Express credit
| ed TO Mr.. Terrell, and think he must have
been outrageouSly miSquoted, or that
Terrell was not there at all. He is quoted
as saving: There was nothing said about
any special man for the presidency, and
HarriSon'S or Blaine'S name was not
mentioned in that connection in any of
the speeches or resolutions" On the
contrary Mr.. Blaine'S name was fire.
quently mentioned and had the most
startling effect on the conference, even
the federal officials could not restrain
themselves sufficiently not to join in the
enthusiasm.
DR. Cochran attempted to create some
enthusiasm by saving and splitting the
air for half an hour with encOmiImS on
President Harrison, but even the t. o. b. $.
could not get up spunk enough TO howl.
The truth is Blaine is universally looked
to OS the coming man.
As to the conference it accomplished
very little, and looked very much as if it
was Dallas dodge to get everybody at
one time inside of its gates. Chair
man McDanielS had nothing to pro.
pose for the correction of the
evils that beSet the party, except the
Globe Democrat to be made the reCOg-
nized mOuthpiece of Texas republicans,
which proposition met considerable oppO-
SititiOn especially from the t. o. b. 5. The
Globe is for Blaine.
The adoption of my suggestion to or
ganize league clubs may result in some
good.
"The truth is. and every sensible repub
lcan knows it. that unless we can organ
iZe the white republicans in the state
and encourage them to come forward and
take charge of the party, it will go to the
do - entirely.
There iSno sense in keeping up party
organization simply to figure in the
national nominating conventions. and Sc
cure a few federal offices for the pu-
latOrS. The party must be organized on
a respectable basis or else it will continue
to retrOgrade. Thirty thousand white
republicans failed to cast their votes at
the last election because of Mr. Har-
riSOn'S appointment of a negro TO the
chief federal position in the state, and be-
cause of the treatment of white repubi-
cans at the state convention. A political
party may profess splendid principles and
excellent theories but if it lacks social
standing it will fail To attract SelfreSpect-
ing people.
The democratic press has very adroitly
on all occasions, pulled Quincy to the skies
as the brains of the republican party in
Texas an the only leader, in fact the
democratic press is responsible for Quincy;
but Cuney'S day is about over: he finds
himself confronted with opposition in the
ranks of his Olack cohorts and will never
again be able to WELD the power he has
in the past. The next republican state
convention will be white. The negroes
IN those counties where they predOmlnate
seem to be unable to organize politically;
in the white counties they seem to prefer
independence from party organization.
Every man must see that alone in the or
ganizatiOn of the white republicans can
the party be built up.