San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-08
POLITICAL TALK
From the Capital City-What So
Called Leaders Are Doing.
Special Correspondence:


publican leaders in Austin, who
| take an interest in the Federal
ticket to the exclusion of state mat
tiers, consider the coming congress
siOnal elections as the most i'm
pOrtant that have occurred for a
number of years. They argue that
the result that will be shown next
November will have great bear.
ing upon the Presidential election
two years hence. AS to how true
their prophecy is time alone can
tell, but they certainly seem to
take large dish of interest in the
present election for that reason
solely. 1t is the general opinion
here that the Republicans will lend
every possible effort toward secur-
ing a majority of Congress in the
House especially. 1t is said that
they desire this majority in the
house for several reasons. One Of
which is to carry the House on
general principals and the other
and possibly the most important is
that with majority of the House
they can hold the lash over the
Democrats to prevent any fusion
with the Pcpulists in western
states when the time rolls round
for the presidential race.
The trend of this policy is best
CLEANED from the following policy
Outlin6ed by one of the Republican
papers towit: aft the Democrats
shoEld have q majority OF the
house by states they could
lshen direct their efforts in the
presidential campaign to throwing
the election Of the President into
the House.
This would be accomplished by
combining With the Populists in
western states which under ordin-
airy circumstances ere Republican.
1t would not be necessary for the
Democrats to lcOk out for their
presidential electors, but to split
up the vote electors, as much as
possible between the three par
ties.
| On theSther hand, il the Repub-
i1iGans hold the majority in the
House by states the Democrats
will be forced to made a straight
| Fl ght for their Observation-Disclosures.
They must fight both the Populists
and the Republicans for their
electors. They cannot com'
bine with the Populists anywhere
1.-The result will be that in
certain western states the
Republicans would be afforded a
fair field and square fight in the
presidential election, unhampereG
by the combination OF the Demo
Gratis and Populists."
Now this being their plan the
Republicans propose to make SHARP
shooters out of themselves anc
i pick the Democratic congressional
W6SStts6; eft one at a time as IL
congressman who wasaAsr, ocrati,
the last Congress by a small Il.
iority, then he is their game !; es
pecially in the manufacturing dis
4 tricts will have effort be made t,
! down the Democrats. They hav
adopted this plan of attacking thu
weakest districts for two reasons
! One in order that it may be all tn
!. easier conquered and another is
that the Republican mill be con
tent to make these pickings al
randoms in preference to a genera,
on slaughter but with the man OBJ
ject at all times to the front o.
changing the complexion Of the
state delegation. This is again
illustrated by Republican paper
| as follows:
delaware returns but one Con.
gresham. II the Republicans
capture that one man 1t will count
just as much as the "a Congress-
man from New York state in the
election of the president by the
House, and it would offset the car
rying of New York by the Demo-
Gratis"
Thus it may readily be seen that
in all northern states where there
are small delegations in Congress
and also in those states that re-
turned Democratic congressman
by small majorities in 1892 the
gain Of one or two or more con-
gressmen by the Republicans will
have world to do in the way of
ottsetting the unanimous vote of a
state like Texas for the presiden-
tiaI electors two years hence. The
republicans now claim, through
Official promulgations, the captur-
ing OF a majority of the congress-
men out of twenty-six states. In
| Texas thew claim, only, tr,o Jis+-fote,