San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-19
NO PARTY COLLAR

anu hepuDllCduS 10 vote iOr Unelr
friends outside of old party lines,
having abandoned party organiza-
tions.
With the chairman of the Demo-
cratic executive committee absent
so long and with the members of
the state comm ittee afraid to act,
it does seem as il the anxiety and
distress of our soi-disant Democrat
ic morning paper for straight
county ticket is not to be relieved.
The time is getting too short al
most to dispel the dismal clouds
lowering over BeXar county's
trampled down and trampled upon
Democracy.
When the one convention was
held in Convention hall in which
active and paying members of the
18th Republican League club
played an active part, it was pre-
dicted that the Democracy of BeX-
ar, true to its word in past years,
would go no farther than it did and
that was to endorse Mr.. Augustus
Houston as a true exponent of
Democratic Congressional aspira-
tions. There were few who
howled when told the Democracy
would do no more and fall back
in it's old ruts, take a few
Republicans on the County
ticket and then tell the next
state convention, eve done all we
could; we had to take some Of the
enemy" and now again claim your
recognition. Really this time the
Democracy is worse off than ever;
they have to be "clubbed" together
to get two or three, and the name
of Democracy is farce. One of
these roaming clubs even went
farther than to advocate a partly
Democratic and Republican ticket,
and endorsed a Populist for the
next Legislature, so that if Chair
man Dudley had an insight into
Bexar's pseudo article he would
feel like cursing District Chair
man Burney, with our local fusion
leaders at the last state convention
for piling up boulders upon bould-
ers upon the grave of the party
that died when it first begged for
and received the endorsement of
the Republican Executive commit
tee. When the Democracy, the
true blue, rock-ribbed article, rose
in mass meeting against the spoil
iators Of the party, it was found
that it did not have the wire pull
ers and ward heelers in it's ranks,
and when it made it's last strong, but
useless, appeal before the Dallas
convention, it was denied the time
to fairly prevent it's claim, hence
now Democrat is bound now to
vote for any one claiming to be
such either on the Big Six or Mis-
sion garden tickets no choice is left
us in some instances except to vote
for some one not Democrat, or not
vote at all, and we can all vote for
whom we believe to be the best
man. In a few cases we take
pleasure in doing so, particularly
where old acquaintance or friend
ship mollifies the act, or where the
people, regardless or party, forced
an unsought candidacy upon a
spotless character. We can vote
now for whom we please and no
man can be accused of lack of 10y
atty to Democracy that has ceased
to exist in BeXar county.
Our Democratic state ticket is so
greatly acceptable, that it will re-
ceive the full party strength and it
is almost safe to repeat my former
prophecy, that we will get back to
good Democracy before next cam
paign, for no doubt our Democratic
state and it's executive committee
will soon inquire into the absence
of Democratic party in BeXar
county and into the reasons of the
small vote, that seems now only
probable to be cast for Mr.. Houston
and for the state legislature, which
in all likelihood two populists will
attend from here, and not so many
Democrats.
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