San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-17

Questions Tor the Voters OF beXar Uoun-
ty to Answer at the Polls, No
vember 3rd, 1896.
l. If an officeholder's syndicate
or trust is formed in your county
called the "big" or "little" six, with
each member pledge to support
and elect the whole, to your respec-
tive county offices and takes into
the organization man for district
attorney, and elects him; what
chance is there to punish the trust
or any one of them, should they
openly buy votes upon our streets,
and in other ways violate every
election law on our statute books I?
2. If q candidate for district at
torney runs for office and is elected
on trust ticket, and that ticket
succeeds, by the grossest election
frauds, on the ballot boxes, would
you expect such district attorney
to prosecute such frauds, when he
shared the fruits OF the same oven
if grand jury should indict the
guilty parties I?
3. Would not an officers trust
feel pretty safe from prosecutions
and punishment for election
frauds, when they had elected on
their ticket, the public prosecu-
tor? ...r
4. Arc the out of court good
people aware of the many shifts
and twists that public prosecu-
tors can resort to, to acquit their
friends: such as writing faulty
indictments to be quashed, con.
tinuing cases, failing to call the
proper witnesses and accepting
relatives of accused on the jury,
and yet pretend to prosecute?
5. Are the out OF court peo-
pie posted on the fact that al
public prosecutor can continue
even murder cases from one
to seven years, and until all the
witnesses are dead or out of the
state, and turn the accused free?
6. Are the people aware that
every person elected to any office
in this state should, before enter
ing upon his duty, take the consti- |
tutional oath, among other things,
"that have not, directly or indi- |
"rectly, paid, offered, or promised J
"to pay, contributed or promised
"to contribute, any money or valu-
sable thing, or promised any pub
'Gic Office or employment as a re-
"ward for the giving or withhold.
"ing vote at the election at which
81 was elected, so help me God"
And are the people aware that
this great bulwark in favor of
a purse ballot stands as dead
letter unless the public prosecu-
tors prosecute for false swearing
every person falsely taking such
oath, and hurl him from Office into
the penitentiary?
These being incontrovertible
facts, how can you select a public
prosecutor on trust ticket and
expect him to enforce the above
law? Is it not more than poor
human nature can stand?
z. Are the out of court people
aware that a public prosecutor
can use his Office solely for the pur-
pose of making fees, lthat is, only
to prosecute the gaming and bawdy
house people, out Of whom large
fees for prosecutor can be made
by little work and out of court
compromises, are made, whilst the
grave crimes, such as murder,
assaults with intent to murder,
rape, robbery, arson and other
high crimes in which work and
ability, in prosecutor, are de-
msrded, are Continued, dismissed,
etc.
s. Have not our good people,
day after day, stood around our
courts and seen the poor and help
less criminals railroaded into the
penitentiary without defenses,
while the cases of the rich and in
fuential men, even officers of the
county and city, are continued,
tried with relatives on the juries,
or thrown out of court 4?
No Fool.