San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-10-29


candidate for office, that he had 10000
big round daddy dollars to spend on his
election, open the eyes of an impeCun-
iOus editor?
Now by st. John the. fight goes brave
ly on. The guerrilla army is scatter
ing like leaves before the gale. The
loyal ranks are closing up, and their
faces are ever onward, right on, towards
the foe.
is sEvENTY-TwO votes q majority of
one hundred and forty? and il so, why is
not Altgelt at the head of the mongrel
ticket? Was there any Merritt in such
proceeding?
THERE is far-away MOses-loOk in the
eyes OF the ex-seCretary about these
days. They say 1t is caused by his pain
full gazing after that promised land of
Canaan, to which he was to guide his
political secessonists.
How many years can republican sup
port greenbaCk governor and still call
himself republican? A man in this
city who has tried it can answer. 1t
will not shock his modesty. He now
claims to be republican candidate be-
fore this congressional district.
Is it true, as reported, that the county
Judge refused to open public schools in
certain districts of the county, unless
the residents of the districts would guar
antee a sufficient sum of money to keep
them open beyond the time for which
the school apportionment would meet ex-
penses?
The address of five loyal republicans,
who think more Of party principle and
consistency than of the spoils of power,
has elevated the capillary on the ex-
secretary's head where it is very much
curtailed. In fact that address goes
for his disunionist scalp and snatches
him bald-headed.
IL mugwump republicans insist upon
their rights to spurn straight republi-
can nomination as beneath their &C.
ceptance, why have not straight repub-
licans the right to hurl the insult in
their teeth, and publish the damning
fact for the information OF the republic
can voters of the county?
LET matters go as they may in this
campaign, when it is ended there will
no rannhlinap rtu nj in
the city of San Antonio that cannot be
sold out, and that republican organiza-
ton will have something to say in the
coming city election, land don't you
forget It,"
TREASON to party is just as reasonable
as treason to government, because in
government like ours party is necessary
to government. If so, party integrity is
necessary to the integrity of the govern
ment, and the man who sins against the
first sins also against the second. The
men who condemned treachery to the
government in 1861 should neither incite
nor cOndOne treaChery to party in lSSS.
The Express suggestion to let the
peoples party printers monkey with
the forms of the loyal party men is too
immature altogether. The loyal csndi-
dates cut their eye teeth on this
mOnkeying business some time since.
Having learned to their cost that
"For ways that are dark, and for tricks
that are vain, the peoples partee is pc
culiar." The ticket business will very
likely run as it is thisinning. The prop
ositiOn lacks the requisite consistency.
BY whose act has the county Of BeXar
been robbed of its interest in tine new
hospital. Was the $4,000 collected
from the city by the county, in an ex-
pensive suit at law, so collected in or
der to turn the whole back to the city in
the shape of that hospital? Who paid
the attorneys fee for collecting that
judgment? and why was new site pur-
chased on which to locate the build
ing, when the county already owned
lands for that express purpose?
"ST. JOHN and his friends are making
glorious Kansas campaign against the
republicans and the democrats have
hopes OF carrying the state" st. James
and his party make war upon the repub-
lican convention in Bexar county and
the democrats have hopes of carrying
the county. Twas ever thus from
childhood's hour. st. John and St
James were both republicans at one
time. Let them be re-baptized, as the