San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-07-02
TIE SOUTHERN QUESTION AT
DENVER.

Out Their own Redemption.
To the Daily LIGHT:
The Associated Press dispatches
from Denver giving the negro Incl
dent la the great convention have
furnished text for misrepresenta-
tion, particularly in Texas where
the Democratic press is in league
with negro bossism, and it has been
made appear that the Texas dele
cation at Denver was badly sat
down on at the instance of this
negro delegate from Louisiana.
At the Louisville League con-
vention last year a committee
of nine, chosen from different
states, was appointed to look into
the condition of the party in the
south, there being at the time
question looking to cutting down
the representative force from the
south. After very thorough in
vestigation the committee brought
in report to the Denver conven-
ton; this report was adopted with
out discussion, but the next day in
the midst of the regular order of
business colored delegate from
Louisiana demanded that the min
utes be corrected. He was ruled
out of order, the president stat
ing that the report had been
adopted, but later on, the same
delegate demanded the floor and
was recognized by President Tracy,
and then ensued scene of tumult
and confusion that made it impos-
sible for majority OF the conven-
tion to know what was going on.
A delegate from Louisiana moved
to lay the motion to reconsider on
the table, and the president put
both the motion to reconsider the
report and the motion to lay the
motion on the table and declared
them carried without full vote
of the convention. Now it went
to the country that the report was
tabled. What the southern
delegates complained of was
the arbitrary manner in
which the president cut off the
South from reply to the slanderous
assertions made by Northern dele.
gates, especially towards the South
ern people.
Again, it was the opportunity to
settle by the action of that repre-
sentative body of Republicans, the
question of Southern Representa-
ton. We, of Texas, did not pro-
pose to be cut short by reason Of
political situation in other South
ern states. We did not propose to
lose prestige in national assem-
blies, and we proposed to orga-
nize the party upon plan
that would restore it to
responsibility; the census plan.
In Tennessee, Arkansas, and
Maryland, the object we in Texas
were contending for has already
been accomplished, but those
states heartily endorsed the census
plan. The majority of the Louisi-
ana delegation were in perfect ac-
cord with Texas.
The great majority of the Dem
yer convention was in hearty SYM
pathy with Texas and upon any
vote fairly taken would have sus-
tanned our position more than
that, the convention believe that
they so voted until different
ly reported in the press.
The Republican League of Texas
has been thoroughly endorsed in
it's policy of organizing the League
into separate clubs, and it natu-
rally follows that this will be the
policy of the Republican party to
be reorganized in the future.
The Denver convention was in
every particular success. We
of the South must not expect to
have all our way at first. We
have so much prejudice to
overcome, so much rnisrepresenta-
ton to correct that it will take one
or two more national conventions
to bring Texas well to the front.
The old Republican chestnut OF
negro persecution, negro outrages,
political ostracism and ballot-boX
frauds, always aired in national
conventions, must be relegated to
the past. The Republican party
has already learned something,
thanks to the white delegations
from Texas and other southern
states. JAS. p. NEwCOMB.