San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-07
"LoAVEs AND FISHES"
Written for the LIGHT.

EVERYTHING is distributed among the
| members of the close corporation TO the
| exclusion OF the great body of the people
of BeXar.
The close corporation feels so perfectly
,, secure, that il, in effect says, damn the
people" their kicking amounts TO nothing
and their growing is music to our ear.
Are the people of Bexar freemen or
slaves? Are they to be caught like flies.
by a little Sweetened water and honied
words?
Every citizen of Bexar has legal and
constitutional right TO be elected to
county office, but the close corporation
shuts the door against his being elected,
and the people ratify it..
Is not this literally true? Every man
knows it is.
The remedy is in the hands OF the
people. "A long pull, strong pull and
pull all together" on the part OF the
people would knock the close corporation
into atoms and restore power TO the
people, TO whom IL belongs, OF right, In
free government.
Will the people unite to break the close
corporation TO pieces, and to llberate
themselves from a slavery as degrading
as il is baleful.
The close corporation never puts forth
lJS Candidates uDUlI Il DtlOI OLC
election. 1t does this to Stave OIL discus
sion and keep down opposition.
Its cohorts are well drilled and wheel
into line at the word OF command. They
neither Sulk nor mutiny.
If the people desire to be free from the
close corporation octopus, they can, at
tain their wish by cordial union and co,
operation supplemented by an active and
aggressive campaign.
Put forward competent and unexcep-
tiOnable candidates against those OF the
close corporation, and move on the works
of the enemy in solid phalanX.
Local politics will be more mixed than
a jar of mixed pickles, and more tangled
than a tangled skein Of silk, this year.
There are premonitory symptoms OBJ
servable only by the ''skilful discernneSs
of the signs of the times" of an uneX-
pected upheaval.
1t is not likely that party lines will be
drawn in the local elections in BeXar.
The democracy is too badly split to ad-
NIT of the hearty cooperation Ofits hostile
factions.
On local matters the people will be the
plaintiff, and the rims will be the defend
ant.
In order to down the ring, the people
will ignore party names and lines and
unite for the common welfare.
When a parcel of public officers COM
bine together for the purpose OF Derpetu-
ating themselves in office, IL is ring to
all fntents and purposes.
There is no denying the fact that just
such ring exists in San Antonio and that
it names the county officers.
If an officer incurs the displeasure of
the ring by show of independence, he is
thrust aside and a more disable man is
put up for his place.
SubServiency to the ring is the principal
qualification sought for by the ring in
selecting its running mates.
The ring is a close corporation. No one
gets even a smell of the "loaveS and
fishes except he is in the close corpora
tion.
Every man in BeXar county knows the
absolute truth Of what is here said. He
knows the close corporation has existed
for the past ten years.
Hundreds have worked for its success,
election after election, who were reduced
into doing so, by vague promises of, reel
prOcity of faVOrS, who have never yet
| been admitted into the close corporation,
nor received any share.
| The close corporation is worse than a
| iointed snake for reuniting after it is
| broken TO pieces. Like Satan, in Milton,
is,
| Vital in every part,
| And cannot but by annihilation die"
There must be clean sweep made of
| the close corporation in order to eXtermi-
nate it, 1t must be destroyed, root and
| branch, by digging is up by the roots, and
| casting it into the fire.
To leave one member of the close cor.
pOratiOn in office will enSue its coming tC
life again. AID renewing its grip on the
thrOatS OF the people.
The people are sick and tired Of the des.
pOtic rule of the close corporation anC
long to be rid of it.
This feeling is half the battle. 1t mean!
vim and energy in the assault upon the
close corporation. 1t means a corda
union of the people for the common
good.
These things are the harbingers of {
popular victory over the close corpora
ton. The close corporation is alread.
Shaky and frightened over the signs o
the coming popular storm.
BeXar county is in a pitiabe and wOfu
Condition, If out of her 5000 votes, non
except the present county officers ar
! | competent to fill the county offices.
( Do the voters believe this to be true
: BeXar will be undOne and ruined, past re
9 demptiOn, when the present officers shaI
= die, If it be true, that they only are com
= petent to fill her county offices.
= Such a notion is slur upon the SOC
voters in BeXar and an evidence that sue
e as entertain it are the bOndsmen an
IS slaves of the close corporation, and afrai
n to say their souls are their own.
o Bexar has plenty of excellent materii
q for good county officers, you can find it /
: every nook and corner in the county an
is found in the anti-ring ticket now in tn
e | field. BALCAMAS.
~ Indictments
The grand jury indicted the folowir