San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-17

| pOluJ Is not lO Dt lIuSltu III any oNdb'
ment that he would make. There is
such a thing as honor among thieves
| and when there is no political honor
in the minds of the managers of a
campaign then there is positive dan,
! ger i'm committing the interests of
! the people whose election it is sought
to secure by such infamous methods
! These methods are the stock in trade
of the POpOcratic opposition to Judge
NOOnan in this campaign. The asscr-
ton that is made in the hired Slayden
press, that the managers of the Noon
an campaign were in consultation on
Thursday as to the ACCESSIBILITY of
withdrawing the judges name, and
that they had given up the fight. is Il
pure and unadulteratcd falSehOod. No
such consultation was ever held. No
idea of withdrawing Judge NoOnan
from the race has ever entered the
minds of any one who is supporting
him, much less his managers, for the
very simple reason that they are CON
fident of his election. The state
mcnt that printed slips classifying his
congressional record are being print
and sent out from the Light Office is
another pure and unadulterated LIE.
The consistency of the Light in its de-
Tense and advocacy of Judge NOOnan's
claims before the people cannot be
justly questioned. The Light is not
Il fool, and being such is not fighting
Judge NOOnan. Its fight is for Il pure
and Nnadulterated and
such Republicanism is represented in
Judge NOOnan. The printed slip that
is circulated by the thousands through
this district, reputedly in the inter
eStS of the \. +. A. but really in the
Slaydcn interest. is Il Justification of
the congressional record of Judge
NOOnan, and can be so shown ut any
time by reference to the files of the
house of repTesentativyS That slip,
charging Judge NOOnan with voting
for the retention of Catholic schools
in the Territory, in opposition to the
great mass of the Republican mem
bers, is not according to the record.
That it is so is at once apparent from
the disposition Of that matter. Is it
reasonable to suppose that the ill
was made law in the face of the vote
that this classifying slip says was re-
corded against it? This one question
shows hOllOwneSS of the whole pre-
tense. Judge NOOnan's vote was
against cutting off the speech of Fitz-
gerald, against whom the motion, cal
ling for the previous question, was
fired. Fitzgerald had prepared some
statistics showing the condition of the
work in the Territories and wished to
present them to congress. The house
wished to cut off debate and vote at
once upon the question. The vote
in the Slayden circular. WAS NOT
ON THE CONTINUATION OF THE
AID TO THE CATHOLIC
SCHOOLS, but upon the PREVIOUS
QUESTION. When the vote was
reached the action of the house was
practically unanimous and no nays or
yeas were called. Yet this opposi-
ton to Judge NOOnan is so Slanderous-
ly false as to circulate through this
district a falsfied record of the action
in congress and fasten it upon the vO-
tiers of the district as truth. Men
who resort to such methods of de-
feating a political opponent are I'M
worthy of common credence. much less
to be entrusted with the affairs of the
people of this district. Better watch
a little out and be careful how such
men are put by your votes in high pla-
ces.