San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-27

tious, he said that since he had asso-
ciated with politicians he had become
somewhat of liar" himself. If Mr..
Slayden expected that no one would
allude to his bankruptcy, out of def
erence to his sensitiveness, he ought
to have had sense enough to keep ont
of the race for congress.
Mr.. Slayden has laid himself wide
open to the severest criticism by his
attempted defence against statements
made in the papers which have been
particularly guarded so sas not to in
iure his feelings. His defense on the
bankruptcy business was very lame;
instead of coming out like a man and
saying he had no defence to make
that his firm had busted" because of
indulging too freely in the bucket
shop, he plead that he had been I'M
fortunate, and that it was no crime
to be poor; that he had made hun
dredS of thousands of dollars in buy
ing cotton in this market; that he had
been very liberal as a contributor to
all public enterprises when he
was flush: and i'm consideration of
all these things he wished to convey
the impression that he ought TO be
excused for breaking. He might
have got off pretty well if he had not
revamped the silver PopOcratic SLAM
der about Mckinley being a bank
rupt: and claimed that these were
two of tnem." that is Mckinley and
h'r.stl: The Mckinley stGly, As b.
relates it. is not considered worthy of
answering in any decent part of the
United States. Yes, there are 9th
erS who have gone into bankruptcy,
but they are not running for congress
in the Twelfth district. There are
others who have gone down in an hon
est struggle to save themselves and
creditors ;Others who are wearing pris-
on ClOth6 today; Ota"rS who havl Dlac.
ed pistol to their heads rather than
face the world. 1t is anunpleasant sub
ject and must be dOubly so to Mr..
Slayden who appears very sensitive
he jumped right from his
into the congressional
race.
Mr.. Slayden in his excuse or de-
fence of himself as bankrupt, claim
ed that he had been a benefactOr of
our farmers because he had purChas-
ed their cotton! We had just such
years before Mr.. Slayden
appeared on the scene as cotton buy
nr: any farmer in the state can haul |
his bale of cotton to the nearest cross |
road store and find a bpnefactOr. such |
as Slayden claims to have been.-hc |
can get his money for his cotton at |
Mr.. Slayden's quotations: Mr.. Stay. |
len did not claim he had raised the |
price of cotton or paid more than the |
market quotations. Why we had |
such as he who formerly !
came from Mexico and paid top pri- |
res for our cotton. Mr.. Slayden did |
not claim that he had lost his money |
buying the farmers cotton, in fact |
hat is the way he made the hundreds |
If thousands of dollars he bOaSted of; |
t was not by buying the farmers cot
on. but the cotton dealt in by cotton
gamblers. That is how Mr.. Slayden
.ame to be a bankrupt and n candi-
late for congress.
His alluSiOn to Mr.. NOonan did Mr..
Slayden no particular credit: his in
situation about corrupt Judges was |
Intended no doubt to compare the |
Judge to some of the notorious char
lcters of English history, but his au-
Hence did not quite understand him.
His reading of the vituperative, SIAN
ferrous description of Mark Hanna |
md his appeal to the working men be-
.ause Mark Hanna was a monster in
human flesh. might have done to some |
lnarchistic audience, but sensible peo-
de will not appreciate it.
He tried to initiate his master. |
Bryan, by making burst against the |
.lasSes, the Wall street people as ar |
'anged against the masses, but he left |
MS highly disguised audience in
lOubt as to his knowledge of the mon
~ question. only in a general way,
telling them that free silver would
start all the enterprises and indus
tries of the land into action and bring
to the people, but how this
was to be accomplished. he ney-
err ventured to explain.
Summing up Mr.. Slayden's speech,
or talk. because it could not he dig
nified with the name of a speech, he
all his critics in abuse
and personal vituperatiOn. He low
cred the reputation he has held as
polite and amicable gentleman. The
nroSnnct Of cprt1 i'm defeat has owl