San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-14
POLITICAL NOTES.
BY An OLD BIRD.

VIC EApIccr Ioc bdIu NcIJ
-eE travsgent things in praise of Geo.
CLARK, but Quincy seenls to be their
real,great man The Express says
when Quincy is dead and bis brain
weighed IL VIII be found that he mad
enough TO supply all entire cabaIlado
OF his detractors and enough left to
run two or three office holders. The
public is left ia the dark as TO who
constitute "Cuney's detractors," per-
haps the Express mesas "Old Brains
Coke" "Old Reagan" and Fatty
Hagg,n if it does, We won't qua rrel
over the point. But one thing is Ger
tain, Quincy has won the applause Of
the democratic prees, because
in exsltiug Quincy they believe they
belittle every white republican in the
state, and to the democratic press
Quincy owes all his Importance.
I. II Tanner, q colored citizen of
exceptional intelligence and ability,
puts the situation locally SO far as the
rolored man is concerned in very
clear light In an interview to the Ex-
press. When men like Tanner cease
TO harp on that old democratic chest
nut lilly white" and 10 understand
the true situation OF politics, there
will be harmony in the republican
ranks-
1.-THE assem- bled hosts of Federal
office holders and their henehmen at
Fort Worth lay down the STANDARD OF
the republican party and endorse the
bourbon democracy headtd by Geo.
Clark, il will be time to order the
hearse and take the worthless re-
mains out to the national Potter's
field. There will De one party
that will yet float the American flag
for all that it IL worth at home and
abroad, on land and on sea. 1t will be
carried Dy Young Houston.
Chairman McDaniels in his speech
opening the Off sc holders convention
at Fort Worth made the statement
thattne so-called Lilly White dele
CATION at Minneapolis were denounced
by the credentials committee as "un-
American and uu-republican." 1t is
q matter, of establishment that Mr..
Mcdaniel should make current such
q statement. II the committee so de-
nounced the white republicans of
Texas it was never made public be.
fore. IF the white repub leans are
not Americans and not republicans
then Mr.. Blaine is not an Amer
lean and not a republican, for
had Mr.. BIaine's sdherents at Min
neapolis WOO, the white republican
delegation from Texas would have
been seated. fit was un-repuhlican
and un-Americau fIr the white re-
publicans of Texas to meet in conven
ton after the dlsgrsceful scenes
enacted at the Austin convention,
where two negro leaders fought to
finish for the control of the party,
then we are ready to receive the con-
demnation.
The white republicans who assemb-
led at Dallas ia April last were com-
posed of a large body of intelligent,
patriotic citizens; there was not an
office-holder among them; no doubt
there were men there whom President
Harrison had turned his back Cd, but
there was no grievance on that score.
There were men there, and the sons
of men, who had never fsltered in
their devotion to the American flag
tuC n Va C!flt
strife. in Mr.. Mcdaniel opinion these
men are not Americans, and not re-
publicans; there We're men there who
had followed the fortunes of the south
on the bloody fields In our unhappy
struggle,-men whose valor and
whose devotion to the cause have won
them the admiration of their fellow
countrymen, and whose patriotic sub
mission tn the fate OF war, and whose
fealty to American institutions cannot
be questioned at this day; they too
are not Americans and not republic
cans, in the opinion of the chairman
OF the Fort Worth office holders
meeting. Let US he done with party
Inconsistency and insincerity.
II it was unrepublicsn tor the
| white republicans of Texas to revolt
| against the organization known as
| the republican party because it had
| degenerated into negro vendetta
fight between Boss Quincy aud Boss
| Ferguson, what are Ue to call the
present sssemblsge at Fort Worth
when in addition ~ the usual Quincy
Ferguson row. they pull wool over
the democratic candidates for COVER
nor, and throw down their party
standard and trsmple 1t in the dust o
! disDrape and snrrendAr Who ar,