San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-29
From Our Democratic Contributor.
To The Daily LIGHT.

From Our Democratic Contributor.
To the Daily LIGHT.
Our daily papers, particularly
the Democratic and the Hogglte
papers, must hail with delight the
efforts now constantly made to
open anew the wounds inflicted in
Democracy by last years car shed
platform. Pictures of real or
would-be leaders find their way
into the heretofore dull columns
of the press, and the actions of
statesmen at Washington, are
blended with the vain ambitions
of country getters-up of a"Whereas,
Thos. b. Reed, the Republicans
and Bourke Cochran, the trium-
virate, have spoken to sustain
President Cleveland; therefore, be
it resolved that we do likewise, etc,
etc" / am afraid that the laudable
efforts of Judges Watts, Wells, and
Kone to heal our wOunds,will not be
needed by the veterinary surgeons
of the Hoggites, nor Office seekers
among the Clark Democrats. One
thing is certain, the advice offered
to BeXar county by the timtd men
of the Texas Democracy, in COnven-
ton at Lampasas assembled, to
heal our differences, and get to-
gether at home, is not being needed.
Perhaps it would be useless to I'M
dertake it, with the palpable COM
ing candidacy of r. NJ. Wynne for
governor and his announced hos
tility to Cleveland and the Chicago
platform. In our own midst the
mad rush to get into print over
rides all caution to act fair with the
Democracy of the county, where
the truest adherentS reside. A call
is made one evening for the DEM
ocracy of the county-that could
not possibly get the notice in time
to meet the next evening. The
call is printed in the News,
that during the last campaign
was the champion of HOggism
AID since it has become a
more powerful paper under its new
management, for some reason pull
ed down its boasted head lines
"The only Democratic paper in the
city, while the Express, that has
been in accord with President
Cleveland before and since his
election on the silver question, and
therein occasionally differing with
the News, is only permitted to
print the result of a convention
with rather complimentary cut
of the person calling it. Onepaper
has the call signed by Captain
Schramm, chairman ETC., the other
brings a notice that it comes from
a member of the Executive Com
mittee. That politics makes strange
bed fellows, or that the lamb
and.the lion can lie down together,
has still been demonstrated in the
last few days; any one taking his
memory no further back than the
| KerrVille Senatorial convention,
would not then have believed Col.
| Frank Grice magnanimOus enough
| to boom the Schramm faction into
such prominence, or that the Cap
| JCilu NOlld nav = pSl IlllICu Ills plN-
ture to become immOrtaliZed in
the columns of the Express. Capt
Schramm is sincerely trying
to uphold the Matlack
and' Clark or genuine Demo
cracy, although he has made nc
effort to adopt the suggestions OF
MatlOck, Seth Shepard,J G. Searcy
and the united leaders, whose adj
vice was to unite and not to keep
separated the multitudinOus fac
tiOns of BeXar county's Democracy
The Fleming leadership has not
been heard of nor would it avail
much, since Judge Fleming, as
chairman of the Committee of %
so loud and strenuously fought for
a number of un-DemOcratic ideas
advocating sumptuary laws that
have ever been attacked and fought
by Democracy. Messrs. Epson
Wright, Callaghan, Dwyer, Walton,
ct al, have evidently concluded,
that "silenCc is golden and will
not stir until later, and perhaps
work to follow under one common
standard bearer of the Lone Star
state.