The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-06-16
A Note From Captain Blair.

| a Note from CdpCdln OidiIs
Editor of THE EVENING News:
l have today had my attention
called to an editorial in your paper
Of the III inst, headed can Eff ort
to Disrupt" l do not see how it
escaped my attention, as am a
subscriber to your paper and read it
with considerable interest. Today,
however, a number of my friends
called my attention to the editorial
and stated to me it's contents. 1t
was the leading editorial of that
days issue and presu mably written
by you. In the editorial the follow
ing language is used: "This nomi-
nation referring to the nomination
of j. w. Taylor, Esq for county
attorney was not dictated by the
law breakers, but "the power of the
very law breakers" as Mr. Boynton
says, "against whom" he admits,
his "etforts we're aimed, was direct.
ed almost solidly against this nomi-
nee, meaning Mr.. j. w. Taylor in
the primary.
When the contents of said editor.
ial were stated to me, l could rot
believe that you had written such
an article. | will pass by the bad
grammar contained in the part
quoted, and contine myself to a de-
NAL of the statements therein.
There were only two candidates in
the last Democratic primary, Mr..
Taylor and myself, and denounce
the implication in said article, that
the la breakers in this country
voted solidly for me in the last pri-
mary, as utterly untrue. Your paper
before the primary election was
friendly to my aspirations, basing
your friendship for me upon your
belief that l would do my best to
enforce the laws, and | am now at a
loss to know why you would write
an article of such import. Who are
the law breakers? The man who
CANDLES is a law. breaker,
and here asser. that
four-6fths of the gamblers in this
county opposed my nomination.
The saloon keeper who violates the
Sunday law is law breaker. And
| here now state that the saloon
keepers as a body, not only voted,
bat did all they could against me.
There are few exceptions to this
rule. Since | have been in Off ,e,
large number of indictments were
returned by the grand juries against
parties living in West for violating
the local option law and gambling,
and l am prepared to prove beyond
the shadow of a doubt
that all these men so
indicted, with their friends, were
aggressively hostile TO my nomina
ton. When l went into Office |
found sad state of affairs existing
in the town of Moody, large num-
Der of gamblers had been plying
their trade there for months without
molestation, and the good people of
Moody appealed to me for r.lief. l
responded and large number of
these persons we're indicted, and
their vocation practically broken up
at the last primary before this, l
carried Moody by fine vote, but at
the recent primary l hardly
BACKED the board. am
prepared to show that these men
thus indicted we're my bitter oppo.
nents in the last primary. More
than That, Mr.. Editor, one of the
gentlemen thus indeed, and who
stated to Mr.. Dan Ford that he was
going to fight me to finish, helped
to hold the last primary at Moody
and helped to count the votes. At
M body and McGregor, where "a.
looms are located, both places went
against me. Since have baen
county attorney number of parties
living on the east side of the Brazos
river have been indicted for cattle
theft and other Offences
these men and their friends were
against me to a man. In Gholson
valley l made an effort to suppress
gambling in that section, and such
men as Smith Bird, Tom Presnall,
and Others equally as reliable, tell