Image 2 of San Antonio light (San Antonio, Tex.), July 6, 1911, (CITY EDITION)
author: Anonymous
source date: 1911
availability: public_domain

THURSDAY 2 CHARGES ONLY PERSECUTION SOS DOWE Bitterly Denounces Enemies at Eagle Pass Who Have In stigated Investigation ALL A PACK OF LIES Cipher Message From Cecil Lyon Was Purely Personal and Was Made No Secret R W Done collector of customs at I Eagle Pass is bitter in his denuncis tlon of the instigator of the investi gation now being conducted In Wash ington relative to the charges that he aided and abetted Dias in the recent 1 revolution He brands the whole af fair as simply an Illustration of the malice envy and jealousy with which a clique of men in Eagle Pass have hounded him in his political career for the last twenty years Hei states that there is absolutely no foundation for the charges Referring to the matter this morn ing he skid It is simply a continua tion of political slander by a bunch of cowardly curs who have some money but who never have had any honor or regard for the truth and who have been trying to smirch my char acter for about twenty years Charges in Question The charges which question Mr Bowes ofiictal conduct are set forth in a letter from