San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-12-01
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.
BY OUR SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR.

- '1AN ~ isN ~ N'sN MIDI AN'AN'
There has been serious split between
| the county ring and the city ring, but
! what caused it remains secret.
Whether they fell out about the division
| OF the plumber, or one ring concluded the
other was too heavy load To pull
through with, is u matter of conjecture.
JOinted snakes are said to re-unite after
they are cut into fragments. and the
county and city rings may discover a
| cement strong enough to clamp them to-
gcther.
Family rows are proverbialIy bitter and
malignant and are seldom susceptible of
being compromised. Love turned to
hatred is the highest type of hatred
II the two rings would only make a
kilkinny cat fight of it the people would
have just cause for the most unbOunded
Joy.
The people should act upon the Suppo-
SitlOn that the two rings will be billing
and cooling in a few months and prepare
to trounce their united enemies.
But the movement of the people must
originate with the people themselves. and
not with few aSpirantS for office.
An uneXceptionable ticket is essential
to success, and in order to obtain such
ticket chronic office hunters and ward
manipulatOrS must be passed by in making
it up.
A reform party that does not reform
becomes ridiculous and contemplate.
IL is useless to smash one ring lust to
install another ring in its place.
A real peoples movement trampIeS nm
der foot all cIiQueS, rings and cDmbina-
tionS and selects the best qualified men
for the various public offices.
1t sacrifices personal and political
prejudiceS and differences TO secure the
success OF the common cause.
These are the brands and ear marks Of
genuine uprising of the people against
ring government.
A reform movement gotten up by hum
CRY office hunters. is merely war of the
outs upon the ms, and is hollow. hypo-
critical and fraudulent.
Such Il movement does not deserve. and
cannot command success. 1t is tiZZle
1t matters not of whom ring is COM
posed. ring rule is always injurious.
The men composing it may be honest.
competent and clever. still government by
ring is great evil and burleSque on
free government.
1t is a close corporation, double recti-
fed; 1t ignores all citizens that refuse to
fetch and carry at its bidding.
1t is in derOgation of the right of the
people TO choose their own officers.
The expulsion of on ering 10 make room
for another is the supremeSt folly.
It's apparent, there are two rival rings
contending for the offices. but the real
people should smash both the ring in
power, and the ring trying to get into
office.
In a progressive age, such as is the pre-
sent. none but progressive men are fit TO
have hold Of the helm
BY the term progressive" it is not
ment to include crankS and oriStS. They
are destructive, but not progressive.
To men truly independent, the chains
of slavery. whether made of iron or of
gold, or whether the links be square. or
round, rough or polished is of no conse-
quence-they gall the same.
There is evidently ring, that is now
out of power, that is itching to get the
offices in its grip.
There is no room for choice between
rival rings.
The people owe it to themselves to
knock all rings on the head