San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-27
From Our Democratic Contributor

To the Daily LIGHT:
AS an individual Democrat !
want to first thank you for a cor
rect report of the Democratic con-
ventiOn held at Mission garden on
June %, 1894; next l want to as
sure you in reply to paragraph
in your "Snap Flashes" column,
that the Vernon Cor straight) DEM
ocrats will not only poll l 800 votes
Tor straight Democratic ticket,
but that they will largely exceed
that number, and already have a
goodly signed enthusiastically
pledged in writing-to do so. This
is not all. If in our herculeau eff.
forts to right the wrongs fastened
upon us by chronic office holders
trust does not result in the victory
of a majority of our ticket-of
.straight-out Democrats-it will be
a complete disappointment to us,
so you can trot out your straight
out Republican ticket as fast as
you please, we will meet it with a
straight-out Democratic opposi-
ton. We can not and will not, in
any manner, shape or form, up
hold, countenance, aid or abet any
party who drew on Republican
League Club No. II, of this city,
for it's committee members to
select delegates to the vari-
GUS conventions, who, true to their
party, and to the noXious system
of destroying the Democratic par
ty, took good care that the Repub-
lican element got good showing
in it's lists of delegates. One of its
committees (on permanent organ
ization) reported, and the conven-
ton made, Mr.. Frank Grice Owner
and proprietor of the Express, a
paper that has only changed own.
ership but not sentiment, since it
was purchased from Messrs. Stem
ering and Newcomb) it's first vice
president. This, of itself will show
every intelligent Democrat of
fusion convention at Krisch's hall,
held on the 10Th, was. How unre-
liable the Express is to the Democ-
racy might be cited:
lst. By its opposition Of Presi-
dent Cleveland.
End. By its advocacy Of TEos.
Reed for next president.
3rd. By its denunciation of Gov
ernor Hogg.
4th. By its denunciation of Geo.
Clark, since he asked for Demo-
cratic harmony.
9Th. BY its hostility to every
Democratic candidate for governor;
by ridiculing Reagan; by calling
Culberson, man whom the
people OF Texas have twice
honOred with the office of at
Il prney general, the baby candidate,
and charging it as a crime for an
illustrous son to have an Illus
trious father; by dampening the
aspiration of John d. Mccall and
by almost ignoring Lanham. The
writer of this would agree to some
extent to the Express opposition
TO Lanham and Reagan, if it were
to say whom it prefers from out of
the Democratic ranks. We could
perhaps sometimes agree with Mr..
Grice, if he would not contradict
him so often in his own paper,
which, coming out several hours
earlier than your LIGHT every day,
is to be honored for its modesty |
only in allowing yours-an after /
noon paper-to call itself the lead !
ing Republican paper of the state. |
Listen at the first vice-president In |
his report of the Republican and |
Democratic Office holders trust con- |
'vention in one paragraph: "The |
delegation to the state convention |
is made up Of supporters OF Mccall,
and Lanham, of motive |
strength in the order named :" it's
editorial vaporings in the same is
sue transposes the names and men,
tions the $4,000 annual expense and |
for no good chairman of one-half |
knOcked-out disastrous commits
sion. There were many of |
our most prominent Repub-
licans participants in the |
,Callaghan call convention, but
there are none, with the prob
able exception of the Republican
Exec utive committee, who are so
well known to the people of Texas,
than our highly esteemed fellow
citizen Frank Grice, who forced
Mr.. A. w. Houston to the confess
sion that he, like Grice, would
rather truckle to small rich Re-
publican portion of our congress
sional district than to adhere to
party pledges or the majority of the
people. In its efforts to obtain