San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-11
NOT IN POLITICS.
SAN ANTONIO. Nov. II, .;

For many years 1t mas almost
amounted to certainty, that to
oppose any political position as
sumed by our Daily Express,
would place you on the correct
side.
or late it has again prognosti-
Gated coming political events in
local affairs, and its harmless
ideas have been allowed to stand
uncontradicted. No matter how
wild its states or forecasts, people
only laughed at them, and passed
them by, and charged them to the
unknown politics" OF this other
wise good morning paper. This
morning, however, it left our city
and county, and with big head
lines, "Money for Congressman"
"Rumor That a Southern Pacific
Railroad Magnate VIII Take a
Hand in the Campaign in This
District Next Year." plunged into
an idle fabrication, Cor in the repe-
tition Of a rumor) that the Southern
Pacific would create or try to cre-
ate congress to oppose the Mica
ragua canal, and proceeds: "The
San Antonio district, it is said, is
one Of several selected by these
gentlemen in which candidate
opposed to the Nicaragua canal
bill will be brought out to make
the race for congress" 1t even says
the first installment Of campaign
funds has been received and ex.
PENDED" and winds up by saying
that the candidate selected had
"been instructed to call on a firm
of lawyers here who will act as dis
bursting agents"
Now this sounds so ridiculous
that it also might 60 unnoticed,
but as lot of newspapers
are always prone to teach the
public sometimes unjustifi-
able hatred toward corporations,
and as not all corporations
are "tyrants without a SOUL" 1
would like to kill this new and
groundless rumor by the following
facts: In the election of 1892,
Judge Z. P. Hill, head of the law
department of the Southern Pacific
in Texas, like the international
and Great Northern and other rail-
roads, aided and advocated the
candidacy Of Ex-Governor Hogg,
while majority Of the Southern
Pacific railroad employees voted
and worked for George Clark. In
the campaign of 1894, when the
Nicaragua canal was talked about as
much as it now is, Col. Gus. Hous-
ton, attorney of one of the rail
roads of the Southern Pacific sys-
tenn, ran for congress in this dis
trict, and great many Of the rail
road employees voted for Judge
Noonan. The writer Of this has
seen several local elections, and in
each of them the Southern Pacific
people voted for whom and how
they pleased. The writer OF this
was with the Southern Pacific
during its construction out west,
and for many years afterward,
since which time the elections of
1892 and 1894 occurred, which show
conclusively that the Southern
Pacific and particularly the old
Sunset which runs through this
congressional district, has never
changed its old established policy
of remaining neutral in politics and
allowing its employees the fullest
personal freedom in all matters dis
tinct from their duties.
l feel it duty as an ex-employe
of the Sunset to so far defend it
against the creation of any such
rum ors, since not all the roads are
so considerable for the feelings Of
their subordinates as the Southern
Pacific is and always has been.
For the many years 1 was with it,
never once was L spoken to by any
superior as to any vote to be cast at
any election. The best road in the
south does not want to ALLEVIATE the
friendly feeling towards it by all
OF its people,to which alone it owes
its superiority over all other roads
and is not interfering with their
personal rights and such silly
moves as they are here referred to
should be promptly contradicted.
Respectfully,
CHARLES SCHEIDEMANTEL.