San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-14
SHORT STOPS.
What the People Ave SAVING.

Grant and Boss" Quincy. They are
both very ordinary individuals, Meth
er has risen to any rank of note by
reason of intellectual force or genius.
Neither has accomplished any work
of literary merit or practical value.
| Quincy ruled as boss of the Republic
can party for the past ten years, but
it was party organization that de-
served no better leader; it rose no
higher than its "bOss," either in per-
sOnal or in its aims and measures.
-
1t was essentially negro party
the whites belonging to it or taking
part in its mob gatherings were only
the body servants of the negro lead
ers-either of Quincy or Ferguson.
Corrupt to the very core the Gu
ney organization was only maint n
ed for the money it might produce to
the ranks and file and the power it
furnished to its negro "boss."
For years it has only presented a
disorganized mob headed by a ''regu-
lar committee; its conventions were
only gatherings, not representative
bodies.
1t was party at conventions--a
scattered mob at the polls. No won
der that the loyal men of the Repub-
lican party made an effort to reform
the party.
The downfall of Quincy was merely
an incident in the reform of the party.
The lilly white" party, as it has been
and pride of the white Republicans
of the state.
Not only was our own people arous-
ed but the national organization was
brought to a realization that the Re
publican party in the south was a
lost cause unless it was reformed
and the white man put in command.
The displacement of Quincy was only
one of the logical results of the lilly
white" movement. At Fort Worth
the reform organization kept open
doors until it was announced that Gu
ney was defeated.
The use of another negro, a rival of
Cuney's, to down him, was a cruel
use of the convention. But perhaps
it was just as well, as he and his
friends can point to his own race for
his discontinue.
Quincy has been cruelty treated by
the men who owe to him their promi-
nence; by men who took Office at his
hands; by men who used him as the
step ladder to whatever prominence
they may have attained.
Quincy has ben cruelty treated by
his alleged friends who through full
som praise, and ridiculous f1attery he
was raised to a false position in the
eyes of the public, so that in his fall
he has reached the level of very ordi-
| nary mediOrcity-a really able, gifted
| man can never be trodden under foot
by a simple reverse at a political con-
vention.
Quincy was not equal to his promi-
nence, and being of negro extraction,
| his race disqualification weighed him
down in the moral and social scale.
1t is with no unkindness that the
writer speaks Of this man; we have
never allowed Ourself to get into con-
trOversy with him or mention his
name in political or party way. His
prominence in the Republican party
in the state was alike a misfortune
to the party and to his own people.
If he became their idol because of
his arrogance while in power over his
white followers his downfall will be
regarded as a disgrace by his recent
admirers.
The lesson is that no negro will a.
gain assume the roll of, boss" over
the white Republicans of Texas; if
Quincy could not retain his position no
inferior man, such as Ferguson, could