San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-27
SAD PLIGHT
OF the Republican Organization of
Texas.

OF the Republican organization or
Texas.
The recent developments of the fight
between the Grant and Green factions,
has caused a deep disgust among dis
interested Republicans. Below we
give a letter from Mr.. r.. b. Krone, a
leading business man at Pilot Point,
Texas, enclosing recent article from
the Dallas (Democratic) News:
DIR. GRANTS ADDRESS.
THE address of DR.. John Grant to
the Republicans of Texas comes at
time when it will fail to serve what
ever good purposes he may have in
tended The differences between him
and Mr.. Green which are given in de-
tail will fail to arouse public senti-
ment to any extent because of the APP
parent fact that the Republican party
no longer exists as serious political
factor in Texas and that 1t will ever
constitute anything more than brawl-
ing factions struggling for patronage
is a matter of grave doubt. Grant
and Green have failed of wise leader
ship and their party is just where 1t
was when they took hold. Laying the
blame on each other may serve to SOL
idify their personal followers, but the
broader view of the public is that botn
have blundered and have made remote
the possibility of a strong organization
in Texas. Their factions will never
disturb the serenity of the dominant
party in Texas, but will merely be able
| to exercise their hatreds and eloquence
| upon each other to the detriment Of
| themselves and to no good purpose
whatever so far as the state is con-
| cerned. They may irritate and annoy
with their fuss opposing parties and
| disturb the public generally, but Will
not be regarded as game worth any
considerable amount of ammunition.
Dr. Grant speaks of the 10000 votes
| cast for Mckinley in Texas as the re-
| suit of the foundations he laid for the
building up of a great party. This
| is richly absurd The unprecedented
Republican vote of 1896 in Texas in
reality bore only slight relation to
the work of Grant, Green or their COM
mittees. Fully $4,000 of these votes
1 were cast by non-Republicans who
earnestly opposed the free coinage of
silver. They were generally men who
had before been identified with the
Democratic party and who now avow
themselves members OF the Democracy
reorganized at Indianapolis. How
many of them would have continued
to affiliate with the Republican party,
had the wrangling been aVerted, is
problematical. Possibly a great many
But in view of the fractional warfare
among the leaders since the election,
it is very safe to assume that these
Democrats hereafter will be found
elsewhere. Without them, the Repub-
licans will find their strength dwind-
ling to the old figures of about $4,000
or less and these hopelessly divided by
bitter feuds. 1t is unnecessary to
deal with Grants criticism of Green's
administration. Admittedly, some of
the work of Mr.Greens' advisory board
was startling and absolutely without
precedent, but it is not certain that
DR.. Grant is not as much responsible
for the trouble as anybody else. The
advisory board came into being with
its revolutionary ideas after DR.. Grant
had raised his banner and dared
Chairman Green to battle. Now with
two chairmen and two committees
where and when will the end come?
There will be two Republican parties
one with as much claim to regularity
as the other, and the strength of each
will be concentrated against the other
The misfortune will be that each can
not annihilate the other Spells poll
tics is responsible for the entire dis
turbance. 1t was the pie that started
the wrangle, and the administration
has not been strong enough to pacifS
the office-hungry horde. If Mckinley
at the outset had plainly informed both
sides that their suggestions in the
matter of filling the offices would not
be tolerated, Texas would at least
have been spared the humiliating scene
but the president seems to have been
hopelessly and helplessly bound by
campaign promises. His weak and
vaccillating course can be explained
on no other hypothesis"