San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-24
POLITICAL IMBROGLI0 IN TEXAS
(By J. B. Rayner, ColoredJ

corrosion OF time? Nothing, fol
all things must submit to the
inevitable and die; or give place
for the survival of the progressive
best. Governments have their
birth, growth, decline and fall, and
then become extinct.
The same is true Of all political
parties.
Every political party has mis-
sion, and when any party has &C
complished its mission, it should
so Impress and animate the people
that they will discover the neces-
sity for a new party to lead them
on to the perfect and sublime, and
TO meet the mellennial dawn.
Political parties have an irrefut.
able way to prove their diseased
and moribuud condition, and when
political party is suffering with
pyaemia, there is no panacea to re.
sist the inherent work OF dissolu.
ton and death.
Whenever any party wilfully
ignores brain and experience, and
elevates lot OF political node
scripts to places of honor and
power, it is evidence irrefutable that
the party is in a irredeemable
condition, and will soon be shelved
with the back numbers among the
musty tombs of the past.
We must all admit that the
science of human government is
an occult and abstruce one, and
empiricism will not do in state
craft and international diplomacy.
The empiricist must not assume
leadership, for only the philosophic
statesman, whose heart is warmed
in empyrean fire, whose arm is
charged with liberty's electric
volts, whose eyes look with pene-
tration and comprehension upon
the Gordian not know Of human az
fairs, can steer this ship OF state
around the Scylla and Charybdis
of moral and industrial issues, in
periecting and prepetuating hui
man government. Let us examine
the condition OF the republican
and democratic parties, Of Texas,
and we may be able to look into
the future, and perhaps we may be
able to prognosticate. When James
s. Hogg, the p!ney woods par
venu, was elevated to the attorney
generals office, he became very
ambitious, aud he was foxy enough
to see how he might reach the goal
eff his ambition-the guberna-
torial chair.
He soon discovered that his path
to the gubernatorial chair would
have to be a hiatus between the
loborer and the capitalist; and, on
either side Of this hiatus was to be
q granite wall, spiked on top
with hatred, bitter and lasting !;
that he (Hogg) would engender be-
tween the farmer and the rail-
roads.
And down this dismal sewer,
with his true character hid from
an expectant people, he walked in
to the gubernatorisl office.
The Hogg regime has given US a
useless and expensive railroad
commission, for the laborer and
the farmer to support.
The political elevation of James
s. Hogg, made it easy for Miles
Crowley, the political chameleon
to ride into power over the sons OF
patriotic sires and southern
chivalry.
Today Miles Crowley is retained
in his seat lin congress) by north.
ern republicans, for the purpose OF
showing to the intelligent and
patriotic people OF the north true
sample OF southern democracy, in
the personnel OF Miles Crowley, of
Boston.
The political elevation Of James
s. Hogg made 1t easy for Horace
Chiffon to Jump from merited OBJ
security into the United States sen
ate, over the deserving statesman
ship Of men like John Ireland. l.
S. Ross, A. NJ. Roberts and w. A
Terrell.
The political elevation OF James
s, Hogg made it easy for juvenile
effervesence in the personnel Of
our present governor, to ride int
power over the faithful services
and matured experience Of the con
queror, John Fl. Reagan.
Today the democratic primaries
are selecting for our next legisla
tors, ignorant and inexperienced
men, and ninety-five per cent o
our present democratic legislator
do not know our constitutions
enacting clause.
This is a political foccillatiol
which always presages the dealt
OF a political party, and sometime
the extinction of a government