The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-06-09
= The People s Column

Editor Press, San Angelo,
Dear Sir:-In that grotesquely
humorous article, "A Final State
ment," printed in the Standard
of June 4th are some startling
and amazing statements, and
with your permission / would like
to comment on some of them just
q little.
1t the first place / would like to
recall a fact that Mr.. Murphy
seems in a fair way to lose sight
of, viz. that this controversy
arose out of nothing more than a
desire on the part of large num-
der of the citizens, to be allowed
to have some voice in the selec-
ton of county officers, and county
officers only, without having to
take pledge to vote for VIM. Jen-
nings Bryan or Richard Croker,
or whoever the democratic party
may see fit to fling to the people,
patent medicine policy and all
to guide the destinies of this
grand republic.
The very idea of such n thing
seems to have given Mr.. Murphy
a fit of acute dyspepsia, but ] am
assured by some of my republican
neighbors that there is no sugges.
tioD of dyspepsia when there is
some scheme afoot to raise mon
ev for a railroad, a barbecue or
anything of this kind, and | am
led to believe that Mr.. Murphy
was more than glad on one or two
recent occasions, to see proml-
nent republicans voting with
him at the poles, on the corpora
ton question.
Mr.. Murphy assures us that
the principles of the two parties
are Numerically opposed"
On the question at issue. the
principles that have actuated a
large number of republicans have
been a desire to see elected to our
county offices a body of men
who would fulfill the duties of
their offices without fear and
without favor. Mr.. Murphy as
sures us that the principles of his
democratic friends are diametri-
cally opposed to this, and Mr..
Murphy ought to be all authority
on this question at least.
In flight of rhetoric that
sounds strangely familiar, the
writer refers to the grand old
party as conceived in iniquity.
Poor, old Abe Lincoln, while the
Standard speaks thus of you, re-
member that the world awards
you the title of the "Grandest
Patriot since Washington"
The dyspepsia having assumed
more acute stage, the writer re-
fers to a politician who lives
as a parasite on the body polite. "
! believe that one Grover Cleve-
lands chief difficulty, when it
came to dealing with our town,
was to decide between the numer-
our applicants, for the Office that
gives rise to their euphoneous
title, and unless ] was misinform-
ed, there was one named Murphy
amongst said applicants.
Again in the following sentence
one is reminded of how "history
repeats itself"
We believe that Boss Tweed
and Richard Croker also deprecat-
ed the propensity of some papers
and public men to stir up wran-
giles.
"1he democratic party is party
Of the people, in the counsels of
which all democrats nave equal
rights; while the republican party
is simply an organization to be
manipulated in the interest of the
leaders, often self appointed, who
point out to the rank and file just
what part each shall play in the
political farce which they SO earn
estly endeavor to keep before the
public"
This paragraph will be an inter-
esting piece of information, and
news to the rank and file of the
icpupliShh pdipfi 40 "ioO w WIG
200 Approximately democratic
voters who signed and presented
petition to the county executive
committee for blanket primary,
which was turned down in n very
otf-hand way by said committee,
The conclusion that the writer
arrives at, that the republican pc
tition emenated from the fertile
brain of the chairman or secretary
of the county republican COM
mittee is altogether erroneous, as
the petition embodied the views
OF large number, if not all, of
the republican voters This goes
to show that while the writer Of
"A Final Statement" has firmly