San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-23
BUSINESS MEN FOR
NOONAN.
FOR
They Recognize Judge Noonan's
Ability, Honesty and Cour-
age and Pay Willing

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to congress. The interests of the
whole people regardless of faitl
or nationality should be held
above creed or party.
What has swept the fiocks and
herds from our prairies and hill
sides? Free trade and Mr.. Stay
denis party did it.
What has closed up our. wool
warehouses and stopped the in.
come of millions to our communi,
ties annually? Free trade and
Mr.. Slayden's party did it.
Now they want to add free sill
yer to free wool and complete the
wreck, but the people will not
have it, they have experienced all
the "free" business they want to
convince them that the old way is
the best. We prospered then and
are not prospecting now. Judge
NOOnan is in favor of the pros
porous way of doing business.
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Mr.. Slayden as congressman
from the Twelfth district of Tex
as would be in the same boat as
Joe Baily if Bryan was elected
president-he would be forced to
oppose the president in every
thing except free silver, and the
president would have the upper
hand, for he is pledged to veto
any bill putting a tariff ON wool.
Judge NOOnan was duly nOmi-
mated by the Republican district
convention as their candidate for
congress. He was the Republi-
can candidate at the last election
and there was no reason for any
change, especially as the people
of the district demanded his re-
turn.
Taylor McRae was duly nomi-
mated as the Populist candidate
and is before. >the" people repre-
seating all the propositions of
that party, including free silver,
etc.
And now comes Mr.. Slayden,
who claims to be the Democratic
nominee for congress-; is he or is
he not? That is the question.
The Democratic district con-
ventiOn met at New Braunfels
and nominated Judge Kelso, a
sound money man, as their can
didate, but Judge Kelso being an
honest man could not run on a
free silver platform, so he very
properly declined the honor. Then
in their extremity, the free silver
got their convention
together again and nominated
Marshal Fulton, of Mason.
Mr.. Fulton felt fiattered and it
was understood, accepted the
nomination. There was a good
deal of blow over Mr.. Fulton's
candidacy; he was going to car
ry the district, etc, but Fulton
had gone to his home in Mason
county and looked over the stu
alton; he had been called on to
put up, and he cnocluded, very
wisely, that he was beaten to be-
gin with,and that he did not want
his leg pulled, especially by the
Bexar county combine, so he
backed out.
1t was then that the free silver
CulbersOn crowd looked in all di-
rectiOns for a suitable candidate
to take up their discarded banner.
Slayden had been laying back
waiting for lightning to strike
him. He did not put in an APP
pearance at the convention, in
fact. he was not a candidate for
anything. Democratic conven-
tons had played out, the free sill
yer party, or rather Popocratic
party, was up a stump for a can
didate. In this dreadful strait
the Popocratic executive COM
mittee concluded to assume the
right to nominate a candidate.
Slayden had just quit business
and he seemed the fittest man up
on whom to cast the discarded
mantle of Kelso and Fulton.
Slayden was put up by this com
mittee without a shadow of au-
thority from the sound Demo
Gratis of the Twelfth district.
Is Mr.. Slayden anybody's can.