San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-30
The Daily Eight.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 80 1895
A PROTEST.

Inc DTduCu eA6CuIlNS COulLliIle
of the so-called Democratic party
of Bexar County, otherwise known
as the BeXar County Democratic
club, informs US through the
columns of the express" that al
the next election we will have a
straight simon pure ticket all
along the line. They further show
to the public that, in order to
keep this club above the suspicion
that would naturally attach to 40
from the complexion Of its con-
stituents, that no candidate for
office will be allowed to be or re.
main a member of the club. How
ever, among the names that APP
pear published together with their
proclamation, we find to begin
with,-the clerk Of our court of civil
appeals and half a dozen aspirants
for congressional honors.
The writer is a democrat and
would like to see every office in
the county filled by competent
democrats; but he has been in
the company Of some of the gentle
men comprising this club before
and must therefore beg to be ex-
cused from being caught by this
same chaff again. Had they
signed themselves as the scam
paign committee Of the Big Six"
it would have been at least honest
in them, even il not so polite.
Gentlemen / have followed and
faced you on our POLITICAL battle
grounds before but don't propose
to be sold and delivered by
you this time. l have seen
prominent members of your
club support the Big Six in the
last two elections and work and
vote early and late for them, while
in the election of 1890 you urged
US to defeat this unholy combina-
ton, to take our. sword in the
defense of the right of the people
to say who shall fill their offices
and throw away thel scabbard in
such fight. That il defeated in
that election, still to leave the
sword unsheatted and continue to
fight them until the last Of that
pack of Office holders had their
just deserts and honest men should
be found in their places. Have
they grown less odious or more
honest in these five years. Well
hardly but they have built a court
house since then. | have tried to
consistently follow out your in
junction and have fought them
at every step and in every election
but you must consider consistency
the virtue of fools, for but two
short years after that memorable
fight, we found you on the other
side and no doubt will see you
there again in 1896. Now you
know as well as does the writer,
for it was you that first called
our attention to the fact, that
Callaghan, Cassiano, Smith and
the others have time and again
debauched the Democratic party
Of BeXar County and have pro-
stituted its conventions for their
own base purposes; that they
have time and again betrayed us
to the enemy. Yet now that the
people of this county are preparing
to get rid Of this political ulcer;
the 'Big Six" come to you and say
"call a democratic primary and
convention, we, with our half
breeds and political renegades will
do the rest (by stocking every one
Of them to the queens taste) we
will then fill our old offices TO
which we have title by Limitation
anyway and there is no telling
what we not do for you after that
So 80 and behold" you issue your
proclamation.
believe that Mr.. Aubrey was
sincere in his published interview
on this subject and that he is
opposed to ring rule; but Mr..
Aubrey knows, or we'll ought to
know, that our primaries will be
stocked worse than was All SIMS
sleeve on that memorable occasion
and that many Of the so.called
democrats that compose this club
will be found playing that very
hand.
Under the circumstances / be-
lieve that good democrats will
quietly stay at home when you
call your convention gentlemen,
and thus be left free to fight this
combination OF political black
f1aggers, otherwise known as the
ring" alias 1.-The Big Six" in a
manner to be hereafter determin-
ed.
So long as our party is run by
the men who to-day are, or claim
to be, at its helm in this county,