San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-31
Sen0|O[ Mills UnNlQSked.
The Senior Senator from Texas is
CuSSei and Discussed
L. E. Daniel PeelS the Caticle and
RutS the Raw Places on
the CutaB ReSOlutOr.


unusual interest, even at this early
date. and anything bearing upon the
subject is read and commented up
on with a warmth hardly in keeping
viewed from a hygienic standpoint,
with the prevailing temperature. AS
lis known, Senator Mills is candidate
Ito succeed himself, and while he is
land Will continue to be, confronted
with a fierce and aggressive opposition
there are not lacking hosts of his
friends who believe he will emerge
victorious from the contest.
IF there was nothing else to indi,
lcate, the fact that Hon. Roger q.
Mills has condescended to freely mix
land mingle with the common herd of
Texans, would be sufficient to assume
that an election in which he is vitality
and personally interested, was near at
hand"
Such was the remark of Mr.. l.. e.
Daniel, of Austin, TO representative
of the Light, while chatting in the lob
by of the Hotel Maverick, yesterday
afternoon.
| Whats the matter with Mills?
You appear to be somewhat severe on
| the honorable Senator" was the re-
Spouse of the listener.
Severe" said Mr.. Daniel. The truth
is" he continued, "the duplicity, the
hypocracy, and the utter inSincerty
of Mills, deserve the severest denun-
citation. No words of centure can be
found too strong to apply TO him.
Why the man is a regular DIR. Jekyl
and Mr.. Hide, and becomes nearer fill
ing the model of Stevenson's creation
ever flourished Texas.
Il do not speak unadvisedly," Mr..
Daniel went on TO say, ''when | assert
that Mr.. Mills has never done and will
never do, anything to deserve or mer-
rit the honors which have been con-
tinuously thrust upon him by the De-
mocracy of Texas for the past twenty
five years. The truth is, Roger. q.
Mills was never Democrat, and
never voted the Democrat ticket, I'M
til 1872, when he was picked up by the
Democracy as an available candidate
and nominated and elected to Con-
gress. He has been all things to all
Hen. His first entry into public no.
tice was as a violent and fanatical
prohibitionist, when he edited vitup-
erous little hebdomadel in which he
sought to crush the rum power. Then,
after making an egregious failure, he
allied himself to the Know Nothing
party, and labored with all his puny
efforts and natural Incidence to drive
from the country, or at least deprive
of their political and religious rights.
all those of foreign birth or who chung
to the Catholic faith. The war COM
Ing on, he entered the army. At the
close of the struggle he returned home
and entered politics, out of which he
has succeeded in gaining a very re-
spectacle living ever since. He was
the most blatant among the brethren
of the old Greenback fold. but as the
range was barren and the pckings
scant, he soon deserted his brethren
of the emerald back and fastened his
tenacles on the Democracy. In 1887
When the question of prohibiting the
sale of liquor in the state by consti-
tutional amendment was submitted
to the election, Mr.. Mills virgin views
and opposition to the liquor traffic,
We're manifestly modified, in fact they
underwent a complete and radical
change, and from one end of
the state to the other his clarion notes
resOunded against the nefarious at.
tempt TO restrict the personal liberty
of the citizens, or unwarrantly inter-
fere with vested rights! / have said
enough, however. TO point out the glar-
ing Inconsistencies of this political
chameleon.
But that is the least objectionable
side of Mills character" continued
Mr.. Daniel, evidently warming up TO
his subject, mills is an uncouscion-
able migrate and more than once has
been guilty of the basest treachery to
his political friends and associates. In
1892, through his lachrymose appeals
and persistent entreaties more than TO
all other influences combined, Hon.
Geo. Clark, of Waco. became a candi-
date for governor. 1t is a matter of
history that Judge Clark was averse
to making this race. 1t involved the
breaking up of a large and lucrative
law practice. the sacrifice of the COM
forts of delightful home, and the Sc
lyerance of ties and associations built
upon long and hoAored residence
among the people with whom he had
cast his lot. Mills, however, would not
accept a refusal. He deluged Clark
with letters of appeal. plainly crying
that without his (Clark's) support and
assistance, he Mills, was doomed to
defeat. 1t should be remembered that
at this time Mills was candidate
against Horace Chiffon to fill out the
unexpired term of Hon. John II. Rea-
gan in the United States Senate. In
the course of the correspondence,
Mills said, among other things: with
you, as my running mate / will as
suredly be elected; without you,