San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-14
OPPOSED TO KHAN.
To the Editor:


questing you to publish this, and call
attention to it, whether you agree
with me or not. take no stock
with those who so often are ready
to criticise the press. l can differ
with the press and still have the high
est respect, and when i try to cum
mend them l wish to leave out all
those who belong to or sympathizc
with the X. X. II.
want to congratulate the people
of this state that they have been SO
well informed by the leading dailies
as well as the many weeklies, and
add my bit of praise and thanks to
the press. / can easily see that the
opponents of the khan know a great
deal more about the khan than the
larger part of the membership knows.
The opinion that l expressed in my
former letter. that very large num-
Der of Democrats and practically all
the last year stay-outs, has been great
]y strengthened by many letters ]
have received and intelligent, well-in-
formed men and women 1 meet and
talk with.
We certainly have no organization
in Texas We can call a Democratic
party. The unreasonable primary
election law is looked TO by some good
people as a Democratic party, of
course it is not intended for a party,
but it never found place to do any
good. but has been made monstros-
l icy by amendments. 1t represents to
my Lind a bridge or boat that has
become so rotten and dangerous that
a sensible parent would not permit
their children TO cross an ugly. muddy
stream on, but world wade and carry
| them across. This law has been the
\ means of the miserable X. X. X. to
| ges as far as it has in trying to seize
the state government, and il they
/ get any farther this law will be their
principal dependence, and any seeker
of place of honor or trust on it
4 will not be safe to trust.
We have heard much in the last
1.-TWO decades about progressive Demo-
crats and progressive Republicans that
III am inclined to think We have rur
fup against an impossible gulf. as it
Hwere, and We must turn back. In
\ the lead OF this great progressive
Enforcement we find many incompetent
||rascals and fools, but the main bunch
arc occupying many of the sacred
[|temples built for the worship of the
E1iving God, some standing on the ros-
trum, the rest occupying the front
pew. all branded X. X. X.
Now don't think for a moment that
b am thinking evil of the great or
Examinations of the Protestant churches,
for what little / have learned about
1.-THE holy Bible was at the knees of
my mother and sisters. and at the
kSunday schools Of the Protestant
churches, to which they belonged, and
well do 1 remember the grand men
that l knew then; they mipistered to
the sick. stood by the dying, and CON-
forted the loved ones, many such no.
bile men still are living, and l can
with my whole heart send up solemn
prayer for the rest of their souls.
But for the miserable, makeshifts of
this day / can only ask my God to
Forgive them for they know not what
they do-"and over whose erring
steps, il there be tears in Heaven, a
piors mother must look down and
weep."
Ibis progressive rush We have made
little Roadway in the science of gov
ernment. but have taken long strides
n politics. We have certainly left
far in the rear all our wise men,
they must be left at the starting point
without transportation, for ali along
he road We can find the statesmen
with broken-down and crippled jt-
neys. trying TO travel over rocky,
,utted roads and dilapidated bridges.
with bushwhackers on all sides: and
he little .light-headed politicians and
would be statesmen rushing around, all
dressed up and nowhere TO go.
So there is nothing for us common
beople-and some one has said that
God must be with us or he would not
have made so many of us--to do but
10 back to the plain road that is so
Tiscly and plainly laid out by our
'orefathers in the Constitution and
Bill of Rights. and start out right.
My suggestion is simply this:
Twelve good men, tried and true, that
have truth and justice in their hearts,
nd the Bill of Rights before them.
ret quietly together, in their own
ounties, and resolves themselves into
club and go to work, in the way
hey think best, to induce all quail
led voters to pay their poll tax-not
,ay it for them--after organization,
ron me line stating at what time
nd nlace they would prefer to hold
preliminary meeting, say some time
n >the late winter or early spring so
e can select an executive commit
&c and make other arrangements to
old state convention at the proper
ime. Next year the counties could
gree with, say other counties of their
janitorial or representative district,
Or their representative in this prelim-
lafy convention. 1 learn that Cal
oHn county last week held mass
laeting, adopted patriotic resolutions.
nd issued a spleIiid call to arms. All
hey will have TO do now is for them
lst to select their working commit
ees.
The good people of this and some
the countries in this district held
wo well attended mass meetings last
ear. had able addresses delivered and
lopted sound resolutions. The local
X. X. newspaper. after being paid
publish the call on its front page
lvised It's readers not to attend and
nc klan had out workers and pickets
keen its members and sympathizers
wav from the public meetings.
We made n fatal mistake and went
hto the primary and lost almost the
htire county ticket ard the X. X. h.
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