The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-05-11


newspaper a few years he would laugh at
the Whole affair. 1t sll comes through
his acquaintance with the ways that
are dark and the tricks that are vain in
poitcs He thought when lie went INTO
the council thst ii meant business. II cid
with some. tut with others 1t didn't. lie
thought they wanted him to build hnus
but that Nus Just what good many didn't
want and " hen he Il build it that part
bnzhd like hor.ets These ctaphurs
rrr a bi IN Ncd, but they hit the nail
squire uu the head wh ch mixes them up
Wur.o than ever. lie couldn't havt Of
Tended certain class worse than 10y u O.
iug something Coming down to literal
things, there In party n this ely who
don't want aui enlarged system Of " =
ter works. They have fought it from
the beginning and will fight IT to the
ED The clAmOr against the con RAJ t
which Cameron thinks Il & od one IL not
against the contract as "A contract but
against any co tract looking to Hn en-
ltrgcd -ystem Ut water works and en-
old fight which was begun six months
ago when the publication of the miuori-
ty report lavoripg increased water ser
vice was prohibited that the dear public
might be kept IN the dark, which was
continued through six months to OBJ
tru't aud defeat 1t, and which now that
the new system men are likely to carry
their poi { is fierce and climorous. But
the WAY the fight ia carried on Is what
pu/Zle> ameron. He is not sSel to
politics. lie naturally expect Il when
they as,ed Tor delay i'll order that
the people might SEQ the contrac that
they would discuss it; that they would
the city press, which everybo ly reads.
When they -tarted little paper AS an
organ, he must have expected that
they would discuss it thorhghly that
He eau probably comprehend why they
should rail at the contract, al the couu-
Cllmel, at the press and at everything.
He might have expected that thy would
publish Mayor Wilkes written obier-
tons to the cOntrac In all thes
things disappointed. lie is all struck.a
heap He doesn't understand polite,
Il he did he would know that anything
Is fair in politics. To raise howl ard
cry to dist act attention and gain time
mate only Cameron don't understand it,
He is man II business and not p Ii
tlclan, and that is Why he is 81 upset
that it il laughabe. 1t is business
man in new role. The re,ervoir men
have probably received II Temporal
ry defeat. The indi>cretion Of coun-
Gilman in Directing to receivr peti.
ton of citlzen4, the outcry mnde TO
pr JUDGE public sentiment render it
wlso to begin the water business over
again. The enlarged systim 10 ound to
win, and the water work to be jerkel
over the deadliue OF Eighth street. bat
II will be wise to carry the tort by reg
uIar apprnaches Brgin it now En-.
T. ~ evil engineer to hud out what
W. want. Aiy rtis- for b is in nortI-
ern and southern pape's. II the pres
ent contract is 4 goo one, 1t will >iand
II We cau 1t bitter on so much the
better. The adv ates OF an enlar- ed
'y~tem emu afford to it, They a,e
'ure t. via. So We .ay begin aga.n.
liut the council may rest assur d /
that the men who oppose thus
contract will oppose any contract I
The fight ls good one from beginning
o end, but the single bit OF humer
the whole business is Gamer
ms bewllderment on hi first expert
'nce N political l'fe, 1t ia II gem. and
I put GA the stag" to slow music would
N Ike good comedy under the title of
lie Dliu't L ders'and Polite"