The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-11-04
POLITICAL FLASHES.

The scratchers are at work.
Has a voter the itch when he scratches his
ticket?
Oh, won't we all be glad when the election
is over.
See that the name of Robt. Wul6ng is on
your ticket for county clerk.
Sheriff Mccall is on the independent ticket;
is as independent as hog on ice.
Mr.. Robert Willing will make vigorous
canvass for county clerk and be elected.
Theodore Baldus, next district clerk, is one
of the most efficient clerks the city ever had.
Our city is conservative, let It be emphatic
AGAINST Iohn Hancock and his free trade rad-
calism.
The Hancock business has destroyed the
chances of several good men on the demo-
cratic ticket.
The verdict on Tuesday will be decisive
against the mule candidate for congress-
John Hancock.
Good citizens will display the proper inter-
est in the result of the election by devoting a
good days work at the polls.
&c. Haueisen will make most efficient
county assessor. Every good citizen should
see to it that Haueisen's name is on his ticket.
7. B. Lacoste, our worthy county treasurer,
experiences the liberality of his republican
and independent friends. He has no opposi-
ton.
Hancock announced at Austin that this is
his last venture in politics-but he is prowng
around after Senator Coke's shoes all the
same.
A newspaper that republishes = dirty libel,
and knows it to be such, is no better than the
author. In fact, in the estimation Of all hon
orable men not SO good.
No great campaign would be complete with
out Archie Chevalier, telling the democrats
how they should vote. 1t will be long time
before Archie gets his reward.
Martin Locke, candidate for county sur
veyor, does not require to be introduced. He
will beat his opponent easily. Martin is res
pectable enough for our community.
The. Anderson, candidate for county attor-
ney, is better prosecutor than his opponent,
is better fitted for the Office, and its time we
had change. Pull Fred Cooke away from
the crib.
The "Times" of our city is the only demo-
cratic newspaper in the state that could be
found low enough to re-publsh = dirty libel
| on the editor of the LIGHT. 1t is a Hancock
paper, and disgrace to even Hancock.
Judge Felix Smith has won the reputation
| of being an eminently just and honest man
| in his official position as probate judge. Judge
Smith will do exact justice and cannot be in
tluenced to do wrong by any one. This is
the verdict of every lawyer and person that
has had dealings in his court.
Sunday should be devoted to prayerful re-
Election over our temporal as we'll as spiritual
condition. The welfare of the whole COM
munity embraces the''good of the individual.
The ballot-box holds the fate Of ALL When
the citizen casts his ballot he should do SO
like king and not like a subject or retainer
| of some political ring-maSter. The lndepend-
ent ticket affords an escape from political
peonage.
| The Jacksonville, Fla, Times, in a recent
issue, saws The first number Of the Okecho-
beean has failed to reach the Office of the
Times, and after waiting nearly seven weeks
we have given it up as an abandoned enter
prise Capt Reech, stock herder from the
| lower Brevard ranges, who was in Jackson
Vile, Yesterday, brings news that the plucky
journalist is down there, and in spite OF many
misfortunes, will yet succeed. On his way
down his lighter was overset in squall on
| CharhopekiSsa Creek, and his printing Office,
household goods and all his stores were split
into the muddy water. 1t took him long
time to recover his property, but he was for
tunately near his journeys end. He has hn-
ished his inside pages, but the process was a
slow one as he lost a great deal Of type in the
creek. Every time he needs Gem dash or
an exclamation point he has to 60 out and
dive for it. He left the printing house door
open the other day while he went to dive for
hyyphens and the alEgators came in and ate up
his baby. They wrought terrible havoc with
the furniture, smashing and pi-ing the cases,
oversetting and breaking his press and max
ing general wreck Of everything. The mis-
fortune disheartened him for a time. Used
I'D as he was by the trip, with no one to help
him. he said it would take him week to re-
place his losses.
A young man in Detroit who studied medi-
cine. and was regarded as an uncommonly
promising student, was graduated last spring
from the medical department Of the Michigan
university. During his studen, life he visited
the sick assiduously as an observer and assist
ant, was engaged in many surgical cases, and
everywhere demonstrated his remarkable
adaPtability for the profession. Or coming
home from college he one day walked into
his old perceptor's Office and said: 81 have
travelled with you several years and seen more
woe than ever dreamed existed in this world
Now, the simple fact is, shall never do it