San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-31
MUNICIPAL CHATTER.


Brine: feeling the pangs of nights
previous jag Whatare the people saying
about me today?
Claud: A great deal yer honor-against
you. They say that lately you've been
drinking too underwater.
Brine: The people be id! I'm run
ming this town and they'll find it out be-
fore the city hall is built.
Claud: When it comes to running the
town, consider me somewhat in it also.
You know that I've kept you figured
ahead so far; and you know that the bond
question is hard one to wrestle with.
Besides, at the rate you are issuing bonds,
you will soon have the town so plastered
with them that they won't be worth as
much as one of your old messages.
Brine: L want no more sass from you,
Ed. made you aud l will run you to
suit myself. All you have to do is to work
and saw wood.
Claud: / am doing all that and much
more. And besides, l am not up in poll
tics like you are. 1 might be, though,
when we get up in the new city hall.
Brine: Yes, that brings me to mind that
want my picture painted for the new
chamber. 1t would not be complete with
out it. By the way, who would be
good one to paint it?
Claud, who thinks that his mug is al
ready well painted: could tell you, yer
honor, but | will wait until after the
election, until-well, I'm tired answering
questions, anyway.
Brine: / worked my letters of gold
racket all right after all. You take
walk-don't take anything discover to
st. Mary's street bridge and see what nice
letters they've put through my name.
They are daisies and don't you forget to
mention them In my next message-that
is IL I'm put back.
I'm xxriII ha hao l.
way; because If you are put back the
town will be put back also. Mind you I'm
saying this to you and not to the outside
world What do we care anyhow?
Brine: Wonder if they've found the
difference between low and high truss
bridge yet?
Claud: Maybe they have-yes, l heard
| fellow figuring on it this morning. He
| said the difference was just what it cost
| to put those letters of bronze on that
bridge. He said also that 1t was a sort
| of bridge of size, or signs. He said the
builders couldn't make the letters any big
| ger for the money, or the difference,
myself that two thousand dollars was too
much to pay for those letters.
| Brine: The letters are not quite up to
the size, know, but those ID con-
tractors don't know that l am such a
big man as l am: They took my measure
/ 6uIlItIy W Suldlls III dloO dlTdlu LlldJ
they amt genuine-that the rain will
| wash them off.
| Claud: You spoke something about the
| smallpox before you took that last drink
| last night. Yes--let me see-oh! now
have it. You wanted to know il the
people are really onto you for importing
the smallpox here last fall to vindicate
that political remnant. Yes they are,
| with all their feet. One fellow goes so
| far as to say that much as he dislikes you,
have you bring any more of it into town.
Brine: Him be id! / will do as
| like and build a pest house on every hill
in the city if it pleases me. I'm running
this town to suit myself and not
them. Let's go out and take a
walk. But stop,-there goes that id
Dutch editor and l don't want him to
| see us taking anything.
Claud-you shouldn't DIN him like
that. Don't you know that the did
Dutch" put you where you are?
Brine--No, don't. The Mexicans put
me in and will keep me in. l don't care
j about the Dutch or their beer either.
| I'm their boss now, as their country
aldermen well known.
Claud--But suppose they would throw
you overheard into the San Pedro, as it
| were.
Brine Then / would send to Mexico,
| my own country, for more Mexicans and
| drive them out of town. Oh, I've the
Dutch under my thumb and don't you
| forget it.
| Claud-- Maybe so, maybe not.
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