San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-22
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their downfall and are anxious to
either coax or whip the recalci-
trant Democrats into the "house OF
bondage" from which they fled in
irrepressible disgust. By prodd-
ing them with ElmendOrfs election
being a Republican victory, the
Big Six and their henchmen hope
to brighten the anti-ring Demo-
Gratis into again wearing the gall
ing yoke of the ring.
They indulge vain hope and
dream distempered dream. The
people have doomed the Big Six to
dwell in outer darkness after No
vember 1896.
The big 6 are doomed to "step
down and out" and nothing can
save them from this doom. The
people have resolved to smash the
ring by defeating all its links, or
members and its henchmen.
The men who elected Mayor FL
mendorf will give him their loyal
support, and will close their ears
to the siren songs Of the Big Six
and their henchmen Of high and
low degree. The manly and patri-
otto Democrats that voted for FL
mendorf in order to clean out the
Big Six will never again wear the
livery and the yoke of the county
ring.
They are true and loyal Demo-
Gratis, but they will not follow the
Big Six in the future. They re-
gard the Big Six and Callaghan as
wholly responsible for the disor-
ganized and demOralized condition
of the Democratic party of BeXar,
and will never recognize them as
leaders of the Democracy of BeXar.
No truce must be made with the
Big Six. Their tatfy must be re-
fused, and their threats must be
laughed to scorn by all who disdain
to be the slaves ana tools of a selfish
and overbearing ring. The war
against the Big Six must go on
with undated vigor.
The contested election case, after
drawing it's wounded lenght along,
like wounded snake" petered out
at last, in a mistrial.
That is the customary way of
Jury trials. One or more jurors are
sure to take an unaccountablel
lurch, and hang jury in spite of
common sense, law and evidence.
Throwing heads and tails by a i
plaintiff and defendant is about as
good method Of settling lawsuits
as is the leaving Of them to an
average jury.
There are jurors, who, if they dis
like one Of the lawyers in a case.
will decide the case against such
lawyer, no matter how much both
the claw and testimony" are with
him. Others, who happen to have
a secret pique, or grudge against |
the plaintiff or the defendant, will
shut their ears to the law and evil
dence and decide case according
to their private pique or grudge.
Your average jury trial is first
class burlesque on justice and a
stupendous humbug. Jurors need
to be morally educated; they
need to be taught the full mean
ing and force Of the solemn oath
which they have taken. They need
to be taught that they must emp
ty their minds Of every particle Of
personal friendship, personal pre-
judiCe and private grudge and
render Verdicts according to the
law and the evidence.
a smart aleck on a jury is salts
fled he knows more law than do
the lawyers and the judges rolled
into one, and is sure to hang a jury
unless he can inject his notions in
to the minds of the other jurors.
The laws of Texas are largely to
blame for the farcical character Of
the majority of the trials by a jury.
These laws positively forbid
judge to charge the jury on the
weight Of the evidence. Half the
lawyers know but little about the
weight OF evidence, or the peril
nency OF evidence.
How then can men, who never
read line in law hook be eX-
/ pected to know aught about the
weight Of evidence? Such a know
ledge does not come to one by in
tuition.
The Supreme court of Texas, fol-
lowing in the wake of long line
of courts of last resort, has decided
that one credible witness, whose
testimony is clear and positive,
should have more weight than the
evidence of three or four witnesses,