San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-05-17
POLITICAL POINTS.
Timber from Which the Tickets Viii
Probably be Constructed.

thstandng the fact that nearly
six more months remain to be trans
ferred from the future to the past before
the citizens and ex-oflicio sovereigns of
this commonwealth are again called upon
to choose their public servants, the pub
lie mind is becoming visibly agitated on
the subject and several well-executed at
tempts to manipulate the wires have al
ready been detected.
Patriotic zeal and desire to render
public services is an American char
acteristic, but in San Antonians this
characteristic is absolutely universal, es-
pecially in those San AntOnians residing
on SOledad street. Everyone of them is
a candidate for something, and if he fails
to get that, he will run for something
else at the municipal election in the
spring. Though we are prone to boast
of republican simplicity" no citizen,
not under the influence of barrel-house
whisky, was ever known to have such
bad case of it as to refuse call of his
fellow-citiZens to serve in some fat office,
where he could sit all day with his feet
on his desk and smoke l5-cent cigars.
Bexar county politics in general are
very much like the affairs of the Uni
versal Building and Loan association
badly mixed. Party lines are almost
erased, and the only way you distinguish
a straight democrat from a mugwump is
by the color of his nose and the smell of
his breath. They had to be preserved in
alcohol to avoid determination after the
last county campaign. By virtue ofthis
state of affairs the next campaign
promises to be still more novel and inter-
esting and the political flea doubly hard
to locate.
For congress, democratic San Antonio
favors the reelection of Sayers, though
she has been urged by Austin
to trOt out one OF her own sons
for the honor. The capital seemingly
has it in for Joseph because he would
not heed her every appeal for patronage
Oxcart John is sure to get the entire
Breckenridge seems ahead for governor,
though many old democrats would pre-
fer Mills or Reagan to him.
General McLeary having been exiled
in 10 cent place in Montana, Gus
Houston is the only San Antonian
likely to get On the state ticket, and it
is generally understood that he carries
on his person an abnormal desire to pre-
side over the next Texas senate.
BergstrOm and Thompson will not be
candidates for re election to the house,
and the following is partial list of
probable and would-be candidates, sub
rosa and otherwise, as compiled by a
LIGHT reporter and given for what Ii Is
worth:
For district judge-Noonan, Waelder,
Walthall, Houston, Green.
District attorney-Callaghan Paschal,
Bergstrom, Franklin, Cooke, Newton,
Dewitt.
County judge - Dibble, Shields,
Thompson, Chevalier, Wurzbach, Ellis,
Heron.
District Dashiell, Yturri and
Walling.
County clerk-Smith, Herf, Barrera.
Sherif-Lewis, Dobbin. Shardein, Nc
Call, Petitpain, Edgar, Shelly.
Collector-Ramsay, French, Cassiano,
Beckman, Stevens.
Treasurer-Lacoste, Froboese, Heur-
man, Hickman.
Assessor-Poor, Garcia. Crawford, La
bait, JudsOn, Lyons, Quintana, Means.
Surveyor Locke, Giraud, Merrick,
Cotera, Lucas, Castro.
For Northumberland, Ogden,
Altgelt, Minter, Banks, Tarleton, New
ton, Salliway.
Hide inspector-Campbell, Opperman
Justices Of the peace-Barnes, Adam,
Huston, Samuels, Crawford, Cotton,
Berry, Dewitt, Petitpain, Ryder-Taylor
Constable-Bader, Martinez, Cava-
naugh, Heiligman, Krempkau.