San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-11-02
A TRUTHFUL RECORD.

The closing sentence of an ar
ticle denouncing the reconstruc-
ton record of the Hon. Geo. III.
Noonan, which appeared in Sat
urday's issue of The Texas Dem
Ocrat, a publication devoted to
the interests of Mr.. Slayden,
reads as follows: Let all true
southerners remember it" Judge
NOonan's record "on November
Sd, when they go to the ballot
box" Judge NoOnan has been
so long before the people of this
district-nearly forty years-and
his character as private citizen
and as public servant, is so well
and favOrably known that any
question as to the purity of his
life or the integrity of his pur-
pose, either as a citizen or as a
public functionary, is a voluntary
and unprovOked assault upon the
intelligence and goodwill of the
people, who have known and re-
spected Judge NOOnan for more
than a quarter of a century. He
stands before his friends and
neighbOrs of the Twelfth con
gressiOnal district today, as he
has always stOOd-a plain, sin.
cere. unaffected, capable man
with nothing to conceal, nothing
to defend. The acrimonious at |
tack upon his character as a pub.
lie servant made by the Texas
Democrat, is farcical so far as it |
affects Judge NOOnan, but it will
prove cOndemnatOry of Mr.. Stay
den and his campaign managers.
If these gentlemen had been more
self-cOntained, had they possess
ed Il little more political wisdom,
they would have been satisfied to
display their cause to the people
in honest proportions. They |
would then have carried with
them into defeat the respect of
decent people. 1t would seem,
however, that they have as little
knowledge of public sentiment
as they have regard for the facts
of history.
The settled malignity of the at
tack on Judge NOOnan, so taunt-
ingly promulgated, would of it.
self have received no notice, but
the deliberate attempt to revive
sectional prejudice and hate, and
to urge such feelings as a justi-
ticatiOn for opposing Judge Moo
nan at the ballot box, is a pro-
ceeding that deserves and will
receive the expressed contempt
of all right thinking and loyal
people, Democrats as well as
1t is the sentiment
of our people to allay old ami
mOsities rather than to stir them
up. But Mr.. Slayden's literary
bureau and executive committee,
by sympathetic union of heads
and hearts, go back thirty years
to construct a catastrophe that
will, they hope. bewilder and
the people and thus ena-
BILE Mr.. Slayden to ride into Office
through the bitterness of revived
recOllectiOns. They would have
the tears and blood of the late
civil war mingle and flow again
in our memories. and offer the
briny fluid as a tonic to stimu-
late votes for Mr.. Slayden. They
seek, in a word, to hide the liv-
ing issues of the present under
the buried hatreds of the past.
This is despicable.
The doctrine of sectional hate
is a barbarism. 1t will be
condemned emphatically. We
are the citizens of one cOun-
We are the citizens of one cOun-
try; we have a common destiny.
We will sternly rebuke the infer
ence that the people of this dis
trict may be influenced through
appeals to prejudice, that old an
imOsities may be rekindled and
made to blind us to the high pur-
poses of good citizenship.
TWFTF FIFTH DISTRICT