San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-28
SPARKS, SLABS. RAPs AND TAPS.
For the San Antonio LIGHT:

For the San Antonio LIGHT:
The city of San Antonio requires an
entire change of its municipal timber.
A mayor of broad guaged and pro-
gressive ideas and common sense, Is
needed at the helm. In addition to
the foregoing qualities, he should be
free from the influences of any clique
and should not imagine that he was
elected to bestow favors on Germans,
Mexicans or Americans, or to run the
city according to his caprices and per-
sonal likes and dislikes. Firmness is
virtue of the first water; obstinacy
is born of assinine stupidity. A new
council must go along with new
mayor.
How do the wool growers of Texas
relish the putting of wool on the free
list by Cleveland, Mills and Co.
Wooden goods are doubly as cheap at
present as they were under the low
tariff of 1916. Why? Because protec-
ton has increased the number of
manufacturers, and competition has
brought down prices. 1t would be in
sanity in wool men to vote for Cleve-
land.
Had the republicans advocated "free
whisky" in their platform, nine
tenths of the democrats would desert
Cleveland AS Texas democrat re-
marked, "you can't run the demo-
cratic party without whisky" at least
in the south.
The Knights of Labor owe it to
themselves to vote for the best men
for public office, and to forego the idea
of eiecting ticket of their own fabri-
cation, inasmuch as past experience
in BeXar county has demonstrated the
futility of their attempting to dictate
to the majority of the community. PO-
litical eclecticism is their true policy.
The giving man an office for life is
undemocratic, unrepublican and I'M
wise. Rotation in office is the best
safeguard against official insOlence,
official corruption and illegal fees.
The people of Bexar would do well to
lay this truth to heart next NOvem-
Der.
The Express, agreeably to it's own
admission, belongs to that class,
which "sees the right and yet the
wrong pursues." 1t is opposed to
placing wool on the free list, yet it
supports Cleveland. Comment is SUI
perfiuous.
City Engineer Maury, after acting
as consulting engineer of the Cross
Town railroad, ought to resign his
municipal office. There is quite a
conspicuous incompatibility between
the two positions. The council should
eject him from his office and elect an
other engineer.
The 'ringn wants to put its collars
around the necks of the people again.
The CassianO-Ca llaghan combination
is no more nor less than the old Bexar
county ring, with few horn blowers
added to gull the people.
The best way to boom San Antonio
is to elect a brand new set of city
officers, and to select men who will
represent the people and respect
the wishes of the people. The lone
man power" has sadly crippled San
Antonio.
Should the democrats gain the as
cendancy in the senate of the United
States, the Mills bill would be passed
in hot haste The defeat of Cleveland
is the only sure plan for proven ting
and the enrichment of British manu-
facturers.
The law, protecting American
wOrkingmen from contracts for inn
porting pauper labor from Europe and
China, is wrong, if protection of
American industries be unjustifiable.
The workingmen of America had
better "look before they leap" into
the abyss of free trade and British
commercial domination. Protection is
bread and butter to the American
laborer and he would be a fool to
quarrel with his bread and butter.
Harrison and Morton are "dead
suren to be elected. If the people of
Texas should vote according to the
dictates of common sense and enlight-
ened self-interest, Harrison would
sweep Texas.
To denounce the suppression of the
negro vote is styled by the democrats,
"raising the bloody shirt" Why
don't they count colored votes.
p. Nut.