San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-20

out With:
"Hon. Z. III. r. Green, Chairman
Republican State Committee,
Dallas, Texas:
Dear Sir:-You have become
thoroughly identified with Texas,
both as a citizen and a business
man. You are one of the largest
and best known investors in the
state. Your money and invest
ments will naturally give you
prominence in business circles.
Your interests will be Texas in
terests. Your prosperity will be
directly involved hencefOrth in
the prosperity and credit of this
great state. Any blow to Texas
credit or Texas standing in the
commercial world will be a blow
at your interests"
Chairman Green, according to
the "POst"ooOne of the leading
POpOcratic papers in the state, is
Il man of substance, and COnse-
quently, a man to be reasoned
with, and besides, he is at the
head of Il political organization
that may carry disaster into the
ranks of the PopOcrats. To reach
Chairman Green, the Post ap-
peals to his pocket instead of to
his heart; he assumes that Green
is a cOld-blooded Yankee specula-
tor who has come to Texas; not
for his health. The letter goes
on:
Have you ever thought of
this? Have you ever stopped to
reflect that you cannot assail the
good local government, or the
public credit, or prestige, of Tex
as without doing yourself as well
as your adopted state an irrepar
able injury? You would not be
entrusted with the investment
and management of thousands,
possibly millions, of money, I'M
less you were thought to possess
shrewd business perception. 1t
is to that business sense the Post
desires to address itself. 1t is
said no one is so quick to see a
point as an intelligent business
man. The Post desires to test
your business shrewdness.
''Do you not know, as even men
of ordinary intelligence know,
that there is no success so dread
ed in this country by the business
interests of the nation as POpu-
list SUGGEST"
That is just it. We have had
POpocratic state government for
10 these many years and now
CulbersOn is running on a free
free silver platform just the same
as Kearby.
Chairman Green seems to have
been taking the Posts advice
and is doing all he can to down
the crowd who have discounted
Texas in the eyes of the financial
world. But this remarkable let
ter goes on:
EDosyou not know that even
now half the warfare that is wag-
ed against Democracy, and the
bulk of the fear expressed in the
east are based upon the theory
that Democracy has become tine.
tured with POpulism?
"The Post denies that DemOcra,
cy is at all allied to POpulism,
but do you not know that the
mOneyed interests are fighting it
because they profess to believe ii
has become POpOcratic rather
than Democratic?
"Have not the eastern financiers
with whom you are connected
and the mOneyed interests you
represent, been disparaging Tex
as since 1890, when they first
claimed that Governor HOgg was
i'll alliance with Populism?
''Have you not read repeatedly
and known personally that CAPT
tai has steadily and quickly fec
before Populism in Kansas anG
Colorado and other western
states? .. ..-. ~
"Has POpulism not been regard
ed as the arch enemy of foreign
capital and blighted wherever
it has won?
"YOu are now credited, or rath
er discredited, with a purpose tt
assist in turning this great state
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