The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-30

party Tor representative from 4 districf IN.
ciu s tne county Of Willialnsop. which
Wa aiso IN Major sayers congressionai ois.
49, r,, ana toos good deal OF notice uf the
Ss"s,s suuggie. The impression got Of
Maior oayers action In that campairI, was
trat ne was absolutely silent as to Who hs
wouia support until forced by the demo.
cIaes Of the district TO declare for the tics .
et: His declaration then wss OF s,,ch !
milo and inoffensive sort 70 tbs bolters
.pat the impression was made that he In
uorsed the ticket because OF its "reSulari.
~ wniie MS heart really remaincu with
the opposition. | know that this i,nnres.
sion was worked for all Il WINS worth /,
.ne opposition and Major Sayers never
uuring mis- entire canvass OF his district
ueciared In single speech in favor al tus
ticket headed by Governor Hocg, The FOL.
lowing extract from a letter received b,
me, written by a reputable gentleman and
s.eIihg democrat who resides at Manor
rnsls county. in Major Savers district
pears out this statement, to-wit:
During the Hogg and Clark cam
paign | on several occasions asked Ma.
,or sayers who he was for and he would
1ot tell me. AS the campaign was
drawing to a close met him again
anu requested him TO declare his choice.
tbs answer was that he was for tho
democratic nominee told him that
l A4sSh tihiAiiSA 10 De tile uenluCrattC
| nominee. and IL he did not come ont
plainly Ne would lose many votes In my
section. He then said he was for Hogg,
out tnat he did not want anything said
ABOUT IL, as he had many men support.
ing him who were for Clark. The Clark
people In this county claim him, ms
dia also the goldbugs, in the last cam
palsn- AND today IN this, as we'll as
throughout the State. almost to n man.
they are his most earnest workers.
Another letter received by me from a
reputable gentleman and democrat who
VINO resides in San Marcos, Hays county,
in Major Savers congressional district,
contains the following interesting para
graph on this point, viz:
like Major Sayers personally, and
thlnk he has made good record in
congress, but shall do all can for
| Mr. Crane, who is always ready to de-
Tend the cause of democracy. Major
Sayers never did make a speech for
democracy unless he was directly IN
terested.
The following excerpt from the pub
lished letter from Hon, L. II. Brown from
San Marcos. In Major Savers district, is
pertinent here viz:
am an admirer OF Savers and know
him to be a stanch democrat. He Is
not, however, qualified as Crane Is,
IN my opinion, and that he has not the
claim upon the party goes without
question.
Charge No. 3.-When the real great fight
for silver was on. and the time OF all
times was ut hand for every friend of
silver TO strike in its cause, Major Savers
was off duty" and, In fact was pre-
serving himself so as to be able to take
denomination for congress on the plat
form whether it should declare for gold
or for free silver.
AS to this charge Major Savers aaroitly
makes something of defense. In an
swer TO my assertion that after his speech
on the 25th of August. 1898, opposing the
repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman law and his subsequent votes on
that measure, "he laid down his hand and
quit the game HE draws the Congress
icnal Record to show his vote in favor of
the bill Ito coin the seigniorage In the treas
ury. Really the vote on that measure was
in no sense a test of friendship fer the free
coinage policy. But to humor Major Say
ers will count 1t rs such. anyway. The
last vote on that measure was taken April
A, 1894, or nearly two years before the
great struggle came off. In that time quite
a number of public men turned their seats
wrong side out. The sure-enough fight in
Texas formally began with the call for a
convention at Fort Worth OF silver DEM
ocrats for the purpose of effecting an or
ganization. A number of our congressman
were on hand, but Mr.. Sayers was not
among them. A great deal of camraign-
ing was done by friends of silver for the
purpose of arousing the democrats OF the
State to the Importance Of the convention,
but Mr.. Sayers was not among the cam
paigners. All during the struggle, until
the question was decided, Major Savers
was as silent as the grave" If that Is
mot true, how is it that Washington county,
when its convention met to ssnd delegates
to the congressional convention, had not
discovered how Major sayers stood In re-
gard to silver? Washington county's con-
vention attached a proyiso to its instruc-
ton for Major Savers denomination that
he must declare unequvocally for free sill
yer, the exact language of which was given
in my recent letter to which Major Say
ers made his reply. Major Sayers sig
nally failed to either state that as part Of
his paper record or attempt TO explain 1t.
And by way OF parenthesis, ] will sug-
gest that even Silver Dick Bland neg
lected to pay his respects to 1t. This
charge Is so well known TO be true by the
democrats throughout Major Sayers' dis
trict that neither he nor Mr.. Foster at
tempted to disprove 1t by any direct evil
dence. True, Major Savers endeayored 10
obscure 1t with the Congressional Record,
but, in fact. his reply confessed It,
Charge No. 4.--Hon. Joseph ID. Sayers'
candidacy for governor has been brought
about by the enemies of free silver, and
his election III secured) will inure 10 the
benefit of the gold standard cause.
To this charge Major Savers has replied
by attempting to oyerwhelm 1t with the
Congressional Record and his ccrtific1te
of good character from SILVER Dick"
Bland. Against this I will offer the fol.
lowing proof. confident of verdict OF
guilty from the democrats 81 Texas
Hon. e. NJ. House. who only rellnquished
the management OF Major sayers' cam
paign on account of "ill health" and who
many people believe is the dc facto &c lure
head Of the campaign. with Mr.. Foster as
the nominal manager for the benefit OF
the free silver democrats. aud who Is
Major Savers right hand man and had as
much to do with inducing that gentleman
to make the race as probably any other
man in Texas, is not free silver man. lie
opposed the move for the Fort Worth con-
vention. While he doubtless voted the
ticket. he did not thereby surrender ms
right 10 endeavor to make the next Ma
tinoaI convention reverse the policy OF ire
party and declare against free silver. Ac-
cording 10 his nominal n,anager MT Fos,
Ter he CLARK element" the sound
money democrats" and "populists' are su y