San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-16
PLANTERS SATISFIED.
THEY WILL BE ON THE OFFICIAL
BALLOT.
Signs Are Pointing To Harmony
Threatened Exposure By the
Novelties.

Is luDlldul llllS llOIulHSs 81 II zap
tain DOnnelly, so is eX-State Senator
Duson. and the smaller fry of the
white Republican organization, and if
all accounts be true, these gentlemen
have every reason to feel quite in good
spirits, for it is said that conditions
have come about in the tangle in rad
ical politics of this city and state that
make quite within the range of posi-
bility to figure out a victory all along
the line for the Howard people and
this too despite the throw downs
that the wealth and intelligence"
party of state Republicanism received
at the hands of the Orleans board
of election supervisors and likewise
at Baton Rouge last Saturday. In
regard to the latter point Major Hero
declares that the press dispatches in
all of the Sunday moring papers mis-
represented the substantial facts con-
nected with the cause he argued, and
that as a matter of fact, the Howell
faction congressional candidates and
electors will be placed on the official
ballot filing the 1000 nomination sig
natures. The Howell electors will
be headed by the words Mckinley
and Hobart electors"
Not alone are the Howell leaders
feeling good over the result of the
appeal to the Baton Rouge officials,
but they declare that they have every
ceedings resulting to their benefit.
Major Hero says, and it is evident too,
that there is an immense amount of
work connected with the prearation
of the legal papers. In the above
connection Major Hero really deserv-
es unstinted praise for his untiring
energy. Early and late he has de-
voted his personal services to the Sc
curing of legal supports, so as to have
an impregnable argument laid before
the court, and whether the Howell
people win or not, the major will re-
ceive the thanks of his conferes, and
richly deserves it.
Captain Wimberly is hurrying home
as fast as steam can bring him. His
pleasant reveries were rudely disturb
ed ON Saturday, when he received
telegraph information at Canton, that
a bombshell had been exploded in the
regulars camp and that dire confus-
ion reigned there. The story runs
that two negro strikers, both of whom
have been very prominent in manipu-
lating the nomination of Col. Wicker
in the Second district and Judge Ii
vaudias in the First as regular Repub
lican candidates, have had their polit-
ical rascality discarded and absolute
proof is at hand, of these two precious
alleged leaders havin "sold out" to
the Democracy.
The Howell say that it will be no
use for this pair of worthless to at
tempt any buster, for if they do their
rascality will be published as the
means to do so are at hand. The
rank and file of the regulars are furi-
Gus over the expose, not maybe by
reason of a superabundanee of politi
cal virtue, but because they have
been shut out of divide of two strik-
ers referred to, having bagged the en-
tire amount, which by the way is said
to run into an amount of four figures.
Capt. Donnelly, Mr.. Herwig, Ma
jor Hero and Mr.. DusOn were tOgeth-
nearly all of this forenoon. Although
denied by these gentlemen, it is well
understood that they are working
tooth and toe nail to effect harmony.
Major Hero, Captain DOnnelly and
Mr.. DusOn have placed themselves
on record as being unalterably OPP
posed to fusion at this time. SO the
overtures are promised to come from
the Herwig faction. 1t is doubtful
if anything comes of the effort. New
ertheless harmony is in the air and
both white and black radicals are
talking nothing else but it today.
''This is no time to swap horses"
said a prominent Howell man today,
1--WE are now half way across the
stream, and while such a thing as a
dicker was possible a month or even
a week ago, today it is impossible.
Besides, why should we fuse. We
have the other fellows on the run and
we won't stop until we drive them
out of political existence altogether.
We now have proof of the rascality
of several of their alleged leaders and
if they don't mind we will show them
up in great shape. 1 want to say
now that Mr. Herwig is to be entire
ly exonerated in this connection. He
is too square a fighter to do anything
so mean, but there are certain white
regulars who had a finger in the pie.
Besides that the regulars now offer
us six of the regulars, and l under
stand that a movement is on foot to
come to our side later with the infor-
nation that Blanden's name has been
taken off"
Another interesting item ascertain
ed this morning is that full state
ment of the ALLEGED dicker with the
Democrats, by the two negro leaders,
together with sworn statements con-
nected Herewith has been forwarded
to Mark Hanna and duplicate copy
to Senator Quay at New York. These
communications will open the eyes of
the gentlemen who have made during
the present campaign especial pets
of the negro.
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