San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-07
A POLITICAL RETROSPECT.


in the 45th judicial district. Judge
King was the car didate of the s. A. p.
Ry. receivers. 1t was evident that
every device known to corrupt cleo
pioneering practices would be resorted
to in order that Judge King should be
successful. Mr.. Yoakum, one of the
receivers, personally supervised the
arrangements for the election and
took an active part in the election.
In order to shut off all party nomi-
mating conventions, Mayor Callaghan
had to he secured and this task de-
volved largely upon DR.. Amos Graves;
Callaghan was not entirely in accord
with the ticket proposed but the
magnetic influence of DR.. q. brought
him round. Terrell claimed to be able
to deliver the repu blicsn party, and q
beautiful tableaux was prepared in
at which the so-called democratic
and republican county committees
formed the circle with Mayor Gala
CHAN as middle man, when the
ticket already prepared was endors-
ed. YoakunI stood i'm the back
ground and saw tho trick done.
Mr.. Yoskum has asserted, in the
presence of two reputable citizens,
that the election cost him and his
friends S25. 900 campaign fund. DR..
Graves asserts that Yoakum never
paid In any such sum to the cam.
paign fund, and that he, DR.. G.. paid
cool thousand or more out of his
pocket. Now, the ring candidates
all assert that they came up promptly
with their assessments, SO that II
these men, being all equal of belief,
tell the truth, the election two years
ago was the most corrupt and vepa]
conspiracy sgainst the people ever
perpetrsted in the annals of Bexar
county.
In opposition to this corrupt COM
bination the people, regardless OF
party utilization, assembled and put
| out ticket. John James was the
opponent of Judge King; the s. A. p.
railroad track was made the camping
place Of hundreds of Mexicans,
brought here from the border. The
county clerks office was made the
recruiting ground for these alien
peon voters, to be made United
| States citizens by the wholesale.
| Bargain ana sale was openly resorted
| to; the official patronage and power OF
every county and city official was
brought into play to force every en-
ploye of the county and city admins
/ tratiOns to vote the ring ticket; the
peoples money was taken and lavish.
ly spent to give employment to venal
voters.
On election day the Mexican voters
were penned and brought TO the polls
by agents OF the ring, and despite the
fact that the people had challengers
at the polls, u. B msrshals, and had
numerous illegal voters arrested,
they were promptly bailed by Mr.
| Yoakum and others. The election
was decided to be In favor Of the ring
the honest people of Bexsr county
were troddeD under foot by q pur.
chased crowd of ignorant Mexican
aliens The men who perpetrated
the outrsges were high in the circles
Of business life of the commu-
nifty; the poor creatures in Jail for II.
legal voting were only lew of the
hundreds that we're not caught.
Open bribery, open corruption, was
everywhere practiced, and every in
telligent person can readily see that
this crime against the people of this
county cost u great sum OF money.
What became of the Mexicans ar
rest tor violation of the election
laws? Why were they not prose-
cuted? Reliable citizens attended the
sessions of the Federal grand jury and
attempted to bring the cases up, but
through MIR. Terrell's agency, or Mr..
Evans, u. s. district attorney, the gold
citizens who danced attendance day
after day to make their complain t.,
were finally frustrated and the
violators of the law were turned
loose. Mr.. Terrell was one OF
the firm of Callsghsn & Company that
entered into the conspiracy TO defeat
the honest expression of the people
at the ballot box; how could you ex-
pect the department Of justice 10
prosecute Mr.. Terreli's voters.
This shameful chapter in the his
tory of our county has born its fruits.
The people have only to turn over the
court house chip TO find job that
will last the taxpayers OF this county
for a generation to come. Shall
these men, who were the bene-
ficiaries of the most shameful
and corrupt political conspiracy ever
perpetrated upon our people, be al
lowed to continue longer in office, by
the votes of honest people?
Remem Der that the 5. A. P receiv'
ersbip is no longer an issue, but re-
mem Der that those men, like the
Spanish invaders who had robbed
the people of Peru, when assembled
on the plains of Cusco to fight each
other for supremacy, thus ladened as
were the troops of AmarRo with the
spoils OF o people, and they will fight
hard to retain their right to i've of
the substance OF the people they rule
over.
What is the remedy? We ans wer,