San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-24
GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
Farmer Bill Shaw Talks About co.,?
Quincy.

Farmer BIZ Shaw Talks About Cot?
Quincy
From the Dallas Times Herald.
"The little giant is too
clever for me to say anything person.
al about him. 1 like MIN. 10 fact.
he's one of the boys. Politically, of
course, he won't do to trust as far as 8
baby could throw an OK. For public
information, however, some of the
odoriferousness of this negro political
twin 'bub' of George ought to be
known-to prevent him doing harm
not that what he Is or says amounts
to much: not that any white man
should feel called upon to enter into
war of words with negro. That he
yields corrupting influence there is
no doubt. For this reason, the more
decent white elements CT his own par
ty spewed him up. BEFORE any good
men, white or black, join Clark in
shining with silver lined tsffy and
swallowing what would not stay up-
on the stomsch of q decent white re,
publican, they should reflect as to
what a nasty dose it is going to be-"
"Well, my attention was first called
to this negro by q man of his own
color, my cook. This cook was an
intelligent fellow, but was always
hard up; albeit In addition to wages
he drew pension from the govern
ment. He finally confessed to pas
sion for gam bling, and that his money
all went to the gambling hell over
the Bell Pool saloon, of which he said
this negro was proprietor, and that
he v winning all the negroes
money. To make it worse the hell
ran Their kest sort of brace games.
He was ais reputed to be a partner
in the saloon. At another end of
town was second notorious negro
resort. of which one Sparks was NOM
inslly the proprietor. This Sparks
was one of this Clark negroes strong
est allies, and it was generally be.
lieved he had al interest in this
combustion of saloon, free and-easy
and house of negro prostitution. At
these two dens of infamy the political
work was planned that kept this
boodler in control of Galveston negro
votes. Here were murderous fights
aud Midnight carnivals, here the
young negro girls and boys, sons and
daughters OF honest, hard working
negroes, were debauched, degraded
and educated for lives of vicious
crime. 1t was by such methods this
miserable liar gained q remarkable
political ascendsncy over large vot-
ing negro strength. This he sold. On
one occasion Galveston paper print.
ed the fac-simile of a check given
him for his influence
when he had thus developed, his
strength there was q small class of
men in Galveston who needed him.
They are called by some leading
citizens Their only claim to re-
spectability is in their wealth. They
are men without political convictions,
and, whether claiming to be republic
cans or democratic, they work to-
gether in all political jobs These
made an alliance with this negro by
which they WELD negro voting
strength OF 1900 to 1000, and by this
means manage generally to run the
town their way. What his entire re.
ward has been or will be cannot be
given. Part of 1t was palpable when
this gang aided him in defeating
George P. Finley and sending Tom
Ochiltree to congress; when they gave
him their aid to rat out the Long,
shoremen and screwmen thus SUBJ
stituting negro for white labor, and
finally when they were among those
who aided MIN in securing q lucrative
Federal appointment.
"Smart as he is naturally his cor
rupt success has made of him great
fool in one respect-it has fired his
mbition TO be recognized as the social
eQual of white men. He once had
gall to demand of the school board
admission for his children to the Ball
high school-saying Mr.. Ball gave 1t
to all the children. The state cousti-
tuition, however, was a bar. Perhaps
one of his first demands OH the Clark
ties would be the ambition OF this con-
stitutional inhibition.
I'm his speech he is now sending
up q wall against Tim Campbell OF
the International and Great Northern
because he would not permit him to
leave his odor in sleeping car.
"These are but few of the points
in the political pedigree of this negro
who is to be Clsrk's companion piece
in chrome called. Save Texasv
This is the man who expects negroes
all over Texas to be battered by him
as he barters those of Galveston to
boOdlers.
II have alluded TO him as q negro
because he go calls himself But he
is not one. He has both negro and
Caucasian blood-the latter l am told
one fourth predominant. Physiologi-
calIy and psychologically, he bears
the relation to the human family OF a
mule 10 the animal kingdom When |
mule is mean he is of all ANIMALS
mesnest-the rule seeming TO be that
when nature starts meanness into
him at all, she eXhausts that element
in both lines of his generation. The
same rule seems to apply to these