San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-04-21
REAeAN's REPLY To ALEXANDER.

- 6oeN tAI matt my ApA W.
than victory" In this discussio
y L have given facts as I found theI
e and have taken advantage of n
/ technically" to prove point 0
deny accusation. l am a demo
crat because [ find the Democrat
party to be a friend of the PEG
pie and working for our commQi
good.
Let me quote you: when W
commenced or articles in the New
you commenced with an army o
100 to l; then you reduced the l0l
to 20 to l, and finding that you hat
bit off more than you could chew
after splitting out so, you want tc
throw half OF that away and have
Il. But that is too much, fo1
there was something over twelve
million votes cast, and Weaver got
over one million, and that would
be II to l; and you say the Demo-
Gratis and Republicans are about
equally divided and the Demo-
cratic half you now claim which
would be 81 to 1 @@a* from 100
down to 81" Now Bro. A., new
er commenced with an army Of
100 to l, as You well knew and
neither have [ come from 100
down to 81 to l." Now let US 'in-
yestigate the matter for the sake
Of truth more than victory" care
you ready?" Mr. Hagau started
with an army of 100 to l, you fail
ed to notice it and 1 called your
attention to the mistake. Then
must you accuse me of commenc-
ing with 100 to l" and splitting
out So" 1 said the relative
strength of the two armies was
about 20 10 l. In making this
ratio it is not right, nor true, TO
say that there is no Democrats or
Republicans in the s fusion States.
Resides This VIEWER coried only
s states-every one of which were
fusion states. When these mat
tiers are honestly looked into, when
you make the proper allowance in
these fusion States for Democrats
and Republicans, take them from
Viewers vote and add them to
the other side you will find the
ratio between the two armies"
viii still be about 20 to l.
You gave a list showing the
strength of the two parties from
the 44th Congress. 1 suppose you
got those figures from the Tick
Ter" or some other book whose au-
thority l am not willing to accept
You give the House in the 45th
Congress a total membership Of
293 and the House in the next
Congress only 279-a decrease of
IA members. How came this?
In 1880 the membership of the
lower House was fixed at 325, but
you give it in the 5Oth Congress
only 32l. What did you do with
the other four? You give the
Democrats in the House of the 18th I
Congress a majority of 81 where
the fact is they had majority of
only II. l have every reason to
believe there are several other mis-
takes like this last one. According
to your friends argument so in
correct in one, incorrect in all"
But even if we admit your figures
to be correct, you have gained /
nothing; for they show that the
Republicans have held every time, /
either the House, Senate or the
president, or they have had all |
these. So the Democrats haze
had no power to put through
of relief. You ask me to
tell you when they tried l viii T
answer you by asking a question.
What have those II Populist tried
to do? l have shown you that the
Democrats have voted in the inter-
est of the people Oh every question
of which you have complained
namely, Denomination ofSilver
High Protective tariff, Credit
Strengthening Act, and National
system What else could
q reasonable man ask?
I find, however, your great Pop
ulist friend, Mr. Jas + Weaver, yo-
ted against tie interest of the peo-
ple-voting to re-charter the Nat
ional Banking Systematic meas
ure so much complained at by
your party. You ought to thrash
out your own members for doing
wrong before furnishing Demo-
Gratis for the same offense.
You say the Democrats have the
present 53rd Congress, both
and the President, which
makes 8 times Of 10 the House has
been Democratic" Making it ap-
pear that the present administra-
ton is entirely in the hands of the