San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-22
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Written for the LIGHT.

Mayor ElmenuOrI as hepuDllCdl
victory and state that the Repub
Iicans all over the state are jubi
liant over the Republican triumph
If the Republicans in Texas, out
side of San Antonio, really consider
the election of Mayor ElmendOr
as Republican victory, they are
misinfOrmed as TO the facts.
Mayor Elmendorf was nominal
ed by a committee, composed Of
some OF the dyed.in-tre wool Dem.
Ocrats Of this city, and Of Repnbli'
cans, and this committee was en-
tirely non.partizan. Its nomina'
tions were made in a non-partiZan
spirit, and accepted in a non-par-
tiZan spirit.
On the ticket, headed by Mr..
Elmendorf, were thirteen Demo
Gratis and six Republicans, and
there was not a particle Of parti-
IAN feeling in the candidates, or in
their supporters from start to finish.
They were, one and all, animated
by the patriotic determination to
rout and defeat the overbearing,
selfish and dictatorial county ring,
or "big g." to rid the county Of
that incubus and octopus, COM
bined into one.
Hundreds Of the best Democrats
in San Antonio felt constrained by
a sense OF duty and feeling Of
patriotism, to give their earnest
support to the Elmendorf ticket.
They wished to cut the ground
from under the office-holders' syn
dictate, known in common parlance
as the "big g."
Hundreds of Democrats, who
supported Callaghan in past years
with zeal, found it impossible to
gulp down the Big Six, and so
voted for Elmendorf as the only
method Of breaking the neck of the
county ring.
ON the Callaghan ticket, there
were ten Democrats and nine Re-
publicans. DR.. Clifford, the chair
man OF the Republican executive
committee OF BeXar county, was a
candidate on the Callaghan ticket.
1t had other Republicans on it.
The chairman of the county exc
cutive committee OF party is the
official head and credited repre-
sentative OF his party in his coun-
ty. DIR. Clifford held this position
in the Republican party OF Bexar,
and he ran on the Callaghan ticket
and strained every nerve to elect it.
Nat. Q. Henderson, a Republi-
can, made speeches every night, in
San Antonio, for the Callaghan
ticket. Many Republicans voted
for that ticket.
Gen. w. H. Young, VIM. Au-
brey, Joseph Ryan, Peter Shields
and Henry Vernon, esquires, as
true blue Democrats as ever lived,
made speeches for Elmendorf and
voted for him. Why? Because the
only way to break the sceptre OF
the Big Six was by voting for the
non-partisan ticket headed by FL
mendorf.
Under such a state OF circum-
stances how could the election Of
Mayor Elmendorf be claimed as
Republican victory? 1t was
brought about by patriotic up
rising OF the people against the
Big Six.
Mr.. Callaghan ran as a Demo-
cratic nominee for district attorney
in 1884, and in February, 1898, as
the Democratic nominee for MAYOR.
but ever after he ran on tickets
along with Republicans. From
1856 to this date the Democrats of
BeXar have never made nOmina-
lions for county offices. Mr.. Cal
laghan, from 1886 down, has ran
upon and supported mixed tickets,
and during the period that he was
chairman Of the Democratic EX-
ecutiVe committee of BeXar he
never called a county convention
Tor the purpose Of nominating a
county ticket, or a city convention
to nominate a Democratic city
ticket.
The truth is, Mayor Elmendorf,
although a Republican, ran on a
non-partisan ticket, and owes his
election to that fact, so his election
cannot truthfully be called Re-
publican victory.
These people referred to support
ed the Callaghan ticket, with nine
republicans on it, and, If it ever,
during the city campaign, blew the
Democratic trumpet and pro.
claimed that the Callaghan ticket
was Democratic, it escaped notice.
The motive Of such as assert. in
the teeth of the undisputed facts
and circumstances. that the alac.