San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-30
,R.R. LAWYERS TRAVEL CHEAP.
The Democratic Candidate for Con-
gress pays no Fare on the
I, q G. N. Railroad.

I. & G. N. Railroad.
iBy our Democratic Contributor
Your morning neighbor in its Sunda
issue has had the following In print
"Mr. Chas. Scheidemantel, an old gentle
man. an attache Of the city clerks oflic
in San Antonio, and whom the Express
does not know, is here quietly working II
the interest OF Judge Noonan." Thi
was from its Devine correspondent
have written TO the Express but do no
know whether IL will dare to eXteGi
enough courtesy to stranger TO say tina
the city hall people are not responsible
aware that my presence in that once
tlouriShing and now deserted town wa:
quietly for Judge NOOnan." have
stated to my Democratic friends that
wanted to get amongst good Democrats
because BeXar county had no Democratic
ticket iD the field; unfortunately this is
the same in Medina county, only they are
determined there to vote for no railroad
attorney. no matter to what party he
may belong. In Devine the feeling
against railroad officials is bitter. They
remember the discrimination against q
home market, tn It forced, only a
few years ago, before the railroad
commission r. some extent abolished
tie evil, tn ir stores to buy in
car load lots from st. Louis, Mo, or ruin
the home trade, by raising freight rates
so high from San Antonio that no one
could use San Antonio goods. 1t is true
that when my old friends asked me about
Bexar county, l told them it was
an, who had beaten Mr.. Houston
so overwhelmingly eight years ago,
would do so again this time.
Now since they want 10 make poll
tician out of me, | will say that
did not 90 so far as 10 tell
them that Judge NoOnan has be
come much more popular since, and Mr..
HOuSl on much more unpopular. did not
even tell them that every poor man ''Or
his sisters or his cousins or his aunIs''
VINO had been bitten by the Maverick
Safety deposit bank, was working for his
defeat, | aOStained from telling anyone
that he was once the president of rot
ten marriage endow ment association
scheme. | did not tell them that Mr.
Houston left uDcOntradicted a printed
charge that he wrote the decree upon
which Judge King felt himself
bound to send the foreman, Gener-
al Russ, and his grand jury
to the prison Of BeXar County. and
have sought 10 meet my old friends for
one day in social chat, aud when | had
heard that every effort had been made to
attract the VIII lie county TO Dpvine Oh
the Goth iLst., that was the day | wanted
to be there. 1 did find that Mr.. HouSton'S
advent was we advertised but | am not
reSpOnS bic that it was failure, except.
ing to the extent Of the absence OF one
man, for when my old friend Mr. Hester.
who hal come in TO hear Mr.. Houston.
asked me il he. Mr.. Houston, was good
peaknr, | told him, Indeed he is a good
Sp ,aker," and when he further asked, if il
was true that he was railro ID attorney.
| Told him yes, that is true too" aud
added that that was no SIM but he
asked his son to turn the buggy round
saying, II II go nome" AID that his
vote would never send railroad
lawyer 20 Congress, where the
government has SO may claims,
and Mr.. Hester did go home and would
not stay to listen to railroad lawyer
against some roads. am not TeSpon.ible
That not solitary candidate for a county
office in Medina county attended Mr..
HOuStOn'S well advertised rally. | am
sorry the Express or its DevnG CORES
pOndent attributed a pc i.ical move TO my
day OF recreation among my old friends
in my Old home county. | went to hear
Mr.. HOustOn but Sc ing that it required
only about fifty pc sons, men OF all par
ties, women and children. to comfortably
ill the north portion of precinct school
house, and being tired besides, | went to
Mrs. ReduS' boarding house and be walled
The degeneracy of BrXdr'S Democracy be-
fore Judge Leslie ThOmp.on got ready TO
introduce the speaker, no | was told on
next day. received not one word OF APP
plau:e, until he told the story of
Mr.. Messmer swimming a creek during
the present campaign, where he prayed
10 the Lord to forgive him for being a
liar. He also partially received a juve-
nile ovation when he spoke Of the PODu-
lists wanting, like the school boy, pair
OF store pants TO know which way he was
going, bat. Devine being rather a Chris
tian community, his story Of the preacher
and the CurSiDg parrot did not take well,
aud one father OF family tod me he felt
like taking his ladies home when he made
the parrot, pOrtraying the PopuliStS-Say
TO the minister where in the hell was you
when the CyCl he SIruck me" am told
he made good impression on the collar
Democrats, when he praised Judge Moo
nan, and that some of them also seemed
to approve his denunCiat,O nS of MeSSrS.
NewCOmb, MtSSmer and 5 u-u-u. H.
baCher. | am informed he referred to the
large horse trade that Mckinley killed.
bineS, except railroad corporations, said
he was Squarely on the Democratic plat
form, aud would do all that Mr.. PaschaI
did, that the hard times and tramp arm
les were the Republican products, that
Judge NOOnan could get no favOrs as a
Republican, while he as Democrat
could. He never referred to the loss of
the sheep business, nor gave any reason
why IL takes wagon load of hides now
In a NJ m | N
very high Protectionist myself, | do not
blame him for his silence on many points.
Bexar county having only men and not
necesSarieS, is my only reason for pre-
ferring an old personal friend {:
now and since Mr.. Flanklin has been
S"own TO have acted without authority
when he cal ed a Congressional conven-
ton for San Antonio without cOnsulta-
tiOn of the Democratic Executive COM
mittpp-at lpnSt I hplipVp Epnpral RuSS'