The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-18
y. w. TAYLOR REPLIES
To the Recent Letter OF Capt.
r. A. Blair.

rl9ls IN ue1t nss OF tue DemOCratlc
ticket and against the Efforts of Mr.
j. +. Boynton to besmirch it, has
furnished Mr.. r. A Blair a pretext
to open the phials Of his pent W
wrath in col mn and half article
published III your paper Of the 10th
instant.
am sure and he ought to have
knowr) that TIE News had no IN.
tention to cast any reflection upon
him, and it seems to me that the
provocation was not sufficient to
justify his attack upon one of the
nominees, ostenslbly in his own de-
Tense, against imaginary wrong but,
as it will appear to many Demo.
Gratis, for the purpose of weakening
the nominee for county attorney, and
strengthening the forces of the en-
envy. | will not state, however,
that Mr.. Blair intended by this ar
ticle to njure the Democratic ticket,
but | don't think there ia any one
who could construe his attack to be
ali advocacy or support of the
ticket. In fact, if his article has
any ffeot at all in moulding pub.
lie sentiment, it will prove detri-
mental to Democratic prospects.
If he constructs THE News edi-
toral to be a reflection upon him,
there is no way of avoiding the con.
clusion that the statement made by
him in his reply thereto in which he
says, III here assert that four ffths
of the gamblers in this county op.
posed my nomination y II and
here now state that the saloon
keepers as a body not only voted,
Tut aid all they could against me,
was intended by him as a reflection
upon me, and as | am the nominee
of the Democracy by majority
overwhelming, such reelection,
whether so intended or
not, would have the eff.
feet of weakening the ticket
If Mr.. Blair's support of the Demo
cratic ticket in this election is of a
character that causes him to stick
his knife into its vitals whenever
he finds an editorial in a newspaper
that is Objectionable to him per.
sonally, then l must confess that his
line of conduct will most certainly
cause Democrats to think that he
has magnitied his own personality
at the expense of the Democratic
party, a thing that it seems to me
no Democrat, loving his party or
ganization better than himself,
ought to do.
My friend Blair in his article
Inadvertently doubtless, has re-
Elected upon our country commu.
mites in a way that in his cooler
moments he will regret. For in.
stance he Attitudes his "Waterloo"
at West Station to indictments,
large number of which, as he says,
were found by the grand Jury
against parties living there for vio-
lating local option and gambling.
uOu tuluh OFcI u1il uCZ III Iutu
at West have been indicted for
these offenses, and none have been
convicted for violating local option
there. 1t seems to me that the
captain has formed very low idea
of the moral status of that intelli.
gent community if he believes that !
those indictments caused him to be
defeated SO heavily at West. One
of the gentlemen against whom If
teen indictments were found at
West was not in the state since he
was placed under bond in those
cases. All Of his bonds have been
forfeited and all of them were
worthless.
AS it seems 10 be in order to
make assertions, | assert that the
people of West are law abiding
people and Overwhelmingly in favor
Of strict enforcement of law in a
way that will prove effective. They
voted for me almost en- masse, and
with the exception of little bunch
of Populists and disgruntled e1.
Democrats, they will do the same
thing in November.
He also attributes his failure to
''b!ack the board" at Moody to
few indictments against parties there
for gaming, procured, as he asserts,