San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-01
SAVERS TELLS HOW 1T WAS
DONE.
The Colored Voters Under the Lead
of Quincy Saved Democratic
Scalps,

Congressman Sayers, the free trade
Democratic congressman In an interview
i'm the Washington Post tells how MS
scalp was saved by Quincy and the colored
voters:
The trouble I'm Texas" he said, "is
easily explained. Hard times and 5-cent
cotton tell the whole story. The PopultStS
made immense gains, and while | was
somewhat disturbed by the prospect OF
com bination against the Democrats before
| left Washington to enter upon the cam
paign, had no idea ii would amount 10 SO
much. They reached for our scalps, tell
YOU. and il IL had not been for Republican
support freely accorded me, the probable
tiles are | would have oeen ueleatea;
judge Culberson would have been defeated
had not the Republicans reached out and
grabbed him by the hair and pulled him
through. The leading colOred Republt-
cans OF the state, n. w. Quincy OF Calves
ton, advocated my election, and other
prominent Republicans, both In Texas
and elsewhere. took hand in the contest
in my district in my favor. | never had
such hard fight in all my life"
Mr.. Sayers might truthfully have add.
ed several other free trade Democratic
congressman whose scalps were saved by
their negro allies, In fact the Democratic
party has become the negro party OF Tex
as, and must in future depend upon the
negro vote for existence.
In this same Interview Mr.. Savers takes
occasion TO say something about Judge
Noonan:
Representative Sayers eulogized Judge
Noonan, the Repu blican member elect
from the Eleventh district OF Texas. He
sail: He was union man throughout
the war, and since then has been elected
Judge in Democratic district against all
opposition. He is about 60 years old, pop
ular and capable. That he will like Con-
greSs, | am not sure. If the Republicans
had nominated men Of his stamp in all OF
the districts, and made a straight fight on
Republican lines, | believe they would
have elected four or five congressman.
Mr.. Savers neglected to notice the fact
that Judge NOOnam was elected by awhile
constituency. aud that in the districts
where the cOlored vote formed large per-
centage Of the poll, candidates nominated
or endorsed by regular Republican con-
vPntionS were heated by their Democratic
opponents. which was the case IN his own
district. Judge Hutchinson, Savers op-
p0nent, is one of the peerless men of Tex
as, gallant confederate. he followed
LomgStreet into the Republican party and
endured for years all the obIoquy attend
ing such step. he remained Republl-
can as long as long as there seemed any
hope of building up Republican party
Ill lehdS anu lllGu JOlutu JIt 6Opl6 >
party: his candidacy for Congress was
endorsed by regular Republican cOnven
ton and he would have been elected had
not the negro vote been bought up and
debauched. Galveston wanted to help
out Joe Sayers, chairman of the apDro-
priatiOn committee in the House, and
the So-called regular Republican
organization was used for that purpose.
IL Mr.. Joe Sayers was aided by influential
INF RI hn
names, he has had the discretion not to
name them. The white people in Mr..
SayerS' district went back OH him and
the cOlored folks tOted him through;
that's the whole story. The late election
gives force to the movement to reorgan-
lie the Republican party upon consist
ent-basIs. The time has passed when the
negro population can be called Repubi-
cans and the whites Democrats.
The negroes, under the leadership OF
the regular constituted authority of the
Republican party have been taught to
vote for Den ocratic state tickets, for
Democrats for Congress, for Democrats
for every ot1ice,is IL any wonder that they
have become the reliable allies of Mr..
SayerS and his CO Democratic candidates
for Congress.
The Negro. while voting for the Demo-
cratic ticket, likes to cal himself Re-
publican.-in fact MIR. Savers prefers to
call him a Republican. The Negro has
not come to understand that the way
man votes decides the party to which he
belongs. No doubt the memory Of day
when the flush of newly acquired free
manhood caused him TO stand straight
still ClingS to him, but it is becoming
more dim a. the years pass and the new
generations are coming to the front. He
no longer holds in gratitude or yeneratiou
the party that clothed him with freedom
or the men who barred their breasts for his
redemption.
The time has come when we must
throw aside all sen mentality in dealing
with politics; we must treat the situation
I'm the light of present events.
REPURIICAN