San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-20
A WAGER WITHDRAWN.

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from this district he would defeat
Mr.. Houston by any number be-
tween 500 and 1000 votes, / dis
tinctly stated | based my bet on
the local morning papers Opposi-
ton to the Judge, and because 1t
advocated with all its might the
candidacy of Mr.. Houston, and now
comes our only Democratic paper,
the News, and on the 18th inst.
says:
GAIL the credentials a "states-
man" needs this year in Texas is
to be labeled democrat" His
views on tariff, silver and the in
come tax are minor matters to be
dismissed with a few glittering
notwithstanding Distress.
Has this any special reference
to allusions?" Really, it looks as
liz the disesteemed political
weather-cock were attempting to
deal Hon. Gus Houston a blow be-
low the belt"
| therefore right here and now
withdraw my bet, for it appears
that another change of color is
taking place at the political cham
eleou's office. If that paper comes
out boldly soon for Judge Noonan
there is a slim and remote chance
for his defeat, and do not want to
take any chances, however remote
and small. | was betting on the
paper that always opposed Senator
Coke, without avail, that opposed
Gov. Hogg, to see him made gov
ernor, that formerly opposed Joe
Sayers, to see him successful, that
fought the Culberson family as
office hunters just to see them
called to the highest positions,
that told us for months and |
months the present Congress |
would never dare to attack the
Mckinley bill, that advocated a |
100000 water works purchase,
and more recently opposed a sewer
bond proposition, and when it was
again defeated held out that our
attorney-generaPs office would
never sanction the issue of any
bonds which that Office has since
declared TO be legal and regular.
You will therefore see the justice
of my withdrawal Of my bet; if
that paper reduces it's advocacy
of Mr.. Houston to a milder form
and less relentlessly opposes
Judge Neonan than it started out
to do, you will admit that the
conditions under which | acted
no longer exist.
The rumor heard yesterday that
% out of the 26 people employed in
and about that papers office were
fighting Democracy, is not taken
into account, but what is consider
ed, is that it always fought the
Democracy Of BeXar county, al.
wlys supported the office holders
trusts faction, that never moved |
heretofore without an endorsement |
from the Republican Executive |
committee and the convention it. I
self, is not forgotten, for that |
convention was called at |
the home OF candidate, |
and the home OF the new
ly appointed chairman, who |
auto cratically, without consulta-
ton with any member of the dis,
triCt executive committee, called it
here, when, if the committee had
been consulted, it would probably
have been held at Del Rio, Frede-
ricksburg, Mason, Kerrville, Ban
dera, or some other point than
either San Antonio, Eagle Pass or
Castroville, the home of the candi-
dates; it was a convention that en-
dorsed the national and state plat
forms and refused to say one
complimentary word in favor
of our congressman, who also
stood upon them and at his
post of duty, while he was
being undermined by BeXar coun.
ty county that knitted him to
the tune of about $500 votes at
the last election, from the vote for
Cleveland electors, one that ig-
nOred the wishes of seven-eighths
of the counties for a two-third
olden rule, and singly and alone
without the precedent of such an
act by any other Congressional
convention Of the state, adopted a
majority rule so that no one could
interfere with the candidacy of
the eX-President Of the Bexar
county Marriage Endowment AS
ISOLATION. That convention did
little good on Democracy.
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