San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27
THE GLVER|IES' SCHEME.
It's Beautiful But Won't
Work Easy.
IT'S LIKE THE 50-CENT DOLLAR,
THE PEOPLE WON'T
STAND 1T.
Will Attempt To Elect Congressman
In Favor Of White Metal And
Pass A Free Coinage
Bill Over The PreSi-
dents Head
Special Wire to Sunday Light.

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Austin, Texas, June 26.-The fact
that State Chairman Blake of the sill
yer wing of Texas Democracy has is
sued call for his executive committee
to meet with him in Waco in the near
future has led many politicians here
to surmise rather extensively as to the
cause of such activity at this stage of
the game when the campaign of '9S,
which is really an off year nationally,
is so far off. There is little doubt in
the mind of many, however, but that
this activity is brought about by a de-
sire to mass all the silver forces in
readiness for the battle that will be
waged between silver Democracy and
the Republicans at the next election in
the matter of selecting congressman.
Every effort will be made by both
factions to capture. the plum in the
Thirteenth congressional districts in
this state.
Already the feeler has been put out
in almost every district by avowed
silver advocates intimating rather
strongly that they intended running
for the position of congressman. There
is considerable fight to be made on
this matter if the present outlook
counts for anything at all. 1t has
been CLEANED in political circles at this
point, and the news from various Sec
tons of the state is the same, that
the purpose of the coming congression-
al campaign is to elect silver congress-
men in the hope of having the next
Congress completely in the power of
the silver men regardless of the pledg-
es of Mckinley and his crowd. The
proposition is to have the silver fore
es in the saddle in Congress and thus
give them power to legislate as they
see fit even to passing a free coinage
bill over the presidents veto if neces-
sary.
Be that as it may the proposition now
is to have enough silver congressman
elected from the southern states to
hold the balance of the power. To
that end all the forces and the mana
gers in the southern states are being
called into action thus early in the day.
The aspirations of the silver men to
so to Congress in Texas at the next
election will meet with considerable
backing inasmuch as every end is be-
ing subserved to that and that only.
They are thus early in the fray lining
up their forces and it is understood
that the fight is to be made most Wig
orously from the primaries on up.
Everyone not in touch with the move
ment will be quietly shelved and there
fore there will be nothing to hinder the
plan from being a glowing success.
The fact that such position is being
assumed with reference to congression-
al issues naturally keeps the men who
propose to run on the state ticket all
in a fever of excitement. They hard
ly know which waly to turn in their
hour of trouble.
In connection with the coming state
election it is well to state that the
coming campaign will mark a change
in the ticket the present administration
having run the two times allowed them
by custom so that they will have to
ssep down and out. AS a result of
this it is pretty safe to say that Gov
ernor Culberson the present incum-
bent will be a candidate for United
States senator. Lieut.. Governor Jes-
ter, Attorney General Crane and Con-
gressmen Joe Sayers are among thse
who will make the race to fill Governor
Culbersons shoes. There are dozens
of other candidates for the position of
lieutenant governor and on down the
line and the further down the ticket
you go the more candidates there are.
The many friends of Ex-Governor Jim
Hogg, the greatest Texas politician of
his time, say that he is going to be one
the next United States senators from
Texas. Thus it is that pretty fight
will be brought on at this point If no
other in the national politics in Texas.