San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-20
POLITICAL NOTES.
BY OUR pEMoCRATIC CONTRIBUTORS.

the intelligence, the business men,
the tax pave rs, the honest laborers,
and al y one that had the welfare
of this city at heart, met at Con-
vention hall to offer the suffragans
a city ticket at which responsibility
rejoiced and corporate greed trem-
bled. A committee Of As was ap-
pointed-of which the writer Of
this had the honor to be one-the
question Of political affiliations
was lost sight OF, and OF the host I
men Offering to serve the city, the
strongest and best were only select.
ed.
What little difference we had
in said committee, was adjusted
by the convention, and the ticket,
headed by the successful business
man, the senior member Of the
firm of ElmendOrf & Co., was tri-
umphantly elected over the oppo-
sition ticket, brought out by the
political combination known as
the Big Six, supplemented by the
Clifford Callaghan political aggre-
CATION.
Hardly was our ticket announce
ed when appeals We're made, but
not listened to by honest Demo-
Gratis, to desert and support Cal
laghan, because in former days he
had it in his power to assist in
disrupting the Democratic party.
This work had no effect. Demo
| Gratis are tired of CliffOrd-C allaghS n
Democracy, and we could point to
| the accidental fact that our ticket
had more than twO-thirdS of the
| best Democrats in its composition,
while the opposition had more Re-
| publicanS than we did.
We never deserted our non-par-
tisan standpoint, but when the Re-
| publical chairman on the Gala
| CHAN ticket failed to throw sand in
peoples eyes, he changed his
course and by all the ingenuity in
his power, tried to get his commit
tee TO endorse the Callaghan ticket
as a Republican offering to our
city. Again there was a failu e.
| Then Nat q. Henderson, the RepuE-
lican editor from Williamson coun-
ty, and the old Republican editor,
Harbert, from Austin, were en-
ployed to instruct San Antonio pee =
| pie in local affairs that they were
bound to know better than any
| Republican imported editors.
This was not enough. To cap the
| climax, the legislature of the state
Of Texas was engaged to help out
these Republican editors, and
with utter disregard OF pro-
priety, we found State Senator
Perry J. Lewis escorting Judge
Callaghan to his trans-San Pedro
stronghold,s,we saw Representative
Frank Blair, playing coachman to
the man whose name must be
written ain letters Of gold ;" Dem
ocratic Speaker, who forgot the
honor bestowed upon him and
lowered himself to the level OF a
ward-heeler, while the remnant Of
Know-nOthingism, Mr.. Owsley, OF
Denton, loaned himself to help a
| Republican chairman OF BeXar
| county into an elective position.
Oh shame shame shame Our
| people could not stand this, and the
insult to our local intelligence was
resented at the polls, and our tick
ct headed by a Republican gentle
man, raised the thousand notches.
There never was any danger Of its
defeat at a fair election, but to
Speaker Smith and the Legislative
junketing committee belongs the
credit of helping us to elect it so
grandly. They spoke for the ticket
having the most Democrats which
they opposed from no other reason
than the mayor thereon was an
honest Republican.
Mr.. Frank Blair, in announcing
that they came over to help Cal
laghan, will be remembered in the
future. Our POpulist member,
O'ConnOr, had too much sense to
aid them,in their efforts and Willie
Wurzbach, voted for Mr.. Elmen-
dorf, with a clear conscience Of
having done his duty to his city
even as "DEMOCRAT."