San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-26
TIRED OF BOssIsM.
An Ex-Black and Tan Gives Some Plain
Talk.

Talk.
From the Southern Republican:
Disqualification is growing in
Texas, as it is in every other state.
1t is growing much faster in Texas
than in some Of the other states,
because democratic legislation hits
the Industries of Texas a harder
blow than it does those OF some of
the other states.
"But there is one great drawback
one thing that keeps thousands
of good men out Of the republican
party in Texas, and it is going to
continue to keep them out until the
evil iscorrected. Nothing else can
possibly be the result, and nothing
else could be expected. There is
no obscuring the facts. Every
body knows exactly what the
trouble is.
"There has been entirely too
much hobnobbing in the party to
suit honest republicans. There have
been too many factional fights.
Until the republicans of Texas quit
fighting each other and turn their
batteries on the common enemy,
they cannot expect the party to do
much growing. No man has dead
cinch on the republican party in
Texas. Some OF the bosses may
not agree with US on this, but they
will learn their mistake some day
in the bye-and-bye. And no man
who is an honest and faithful
member OF the party wants cinch
on it. Honest republicans who be-
lieve that their state would be
benefited by republican rule are
morally bound to aid and promote
it's wishes instead OF withstanding
and overthrowing them. For the
leaders of party to organize and
establish combination to defeat
the wishes of the majority, as was
the case at the recent state conven-
tion held in the city of Austin, is an
outrage upon the party whose in
terests they claim to represent and
forward. In short, instead of serv-
ing the party, some Of the leaders
are always trying to thwart its
desires and purposes.
"Such management has kept
and is keeping thousands Of good
men out of the republican party
who believe in republican prin-
ciples. That is just what these
"leaders"want. Their highest condi-
ton is to be kept at the head of the
republican party, and their real de-
sire is to keep the party down In
number so that each one can get
an office when the party is vic
torious-when the republicans of
other states elect president.
1.-THE conduct of the recent state
convention has filled many of the
best republicans in the state with
disgust. Some of them openly ad-
nit that they have made up their
minds to let politics strictly alone
as long as the party whose princi-
Piles they believe In is ridden by
such men as Quincy and his cohorts.
We are not-and so far as we know,
no republican is-making war on
any other republican on account Of
his color. The leadership of the
republican party in Texas may be
an honor much to be coveted, but
it is not worth the sacrifices that
Quincy and his cohorts had to make
in their efforts to carry out their
scheme to defeat the wishes of the
republicans Of Texas. No man has
a claim on the leadership of party
that entities him to exclusive pre-
cedence.
eff the ruling Of Quincy while
temporary chairman had been sus-
tanned by majority of tho dele
gates in the convention there
would have been no ground for
complaint by any fair minded re-
publican.
The republicans OF Texas cannot
and do not object to honorable
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