San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-09-03
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.

What the people are saying.
Now that the people are getting
over the cholera scare public aiten.
ton is being directed TO public ~
fairs.
The cholera ordinance passed by
the city council will, OF course, be
generally acquiesced in, although
some its provisions are fragrant With
municipal joDDery and elecGlOneeriDg
designs. -
The privy vault clause Is q sanitary
mistake, lmpracIlcable and runselen-
ufc. 1t is strange that the doctors
fail TO profit by experience or look at
the practical working OF q measure
intended to secure q better sanitary
condition. The deep deposit of black
lime soil that NoveTlays our valley,
resting upon n loose gravel has
been the chief sanitary advantage
of U city; this heavy black
soil deposit constitutes 3 hitter,
through which all noxious deposits
pass, and there being no clay subso'l
To hold moisture near the surface, our
city rests upon a natural but perfect
sanitary foundation, and O that well
water has been abandoned for pure
hydrsnt water, the ~subdrsinage is
not dangerous to water consumers.
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1t has been the wonder of every OBJ
serving peraon how a city of 10000
souls could long exist without q
system OF sewerage; u soil iounda-
ton explains it.. Water tight vaults
have proven q nuisance II will be
pest breeding pools IN spite of all the
precautions of the authorities.
At tie same meeting that passed
Bergstrom's shot gun ordinance, the
school board proposed al increase Of
salary for the school superintendent
and certain other teachers of the pub.
JIG schools. Alderman Lock wood OBJ
jected, because of the financial condi-
ton of the city, with prospective
increase of expenditures for sanitary
measures. Now, what in the lame
of James Stephen Hogg, a the TX,
pendltures for sanitary measures 10
do with the school iuDd.
Does Lock wood and his political
compadTes propose 10 take the school
fund TO pay off the c~artocracy, and
the two months electiOneers employed
under the guise of sanitary inspectors;
II looks like it.
There is no telling what the city
administration will do in its desperas
tion. The city should be cleaned up
in two weeks instead Of two months.
The whole thing will turn out TO be a
trick to spend the peoples money to
boost the Callaghan ticket in the
coming election.
The citizens association will open
their next meeting in the hall back
OF Rische's opera house, with an Aus
tralian ballot practice. 1t is high
time the people were looking TO the
requirements of tie e law.
The registrar should be furnished
with the names OF competent depu-
ties by the several political parties,
80 that all the interests of the people
may be properly guarded. 1t is Inn.
portant that the people take an NC
live interest in this matter.
Clsrkism and Cuneyism have become
synony nous political terms according
to the San Antonio Express. The re.
publican party is making an effort to
shake off Cuneyism. The Express con-
graduates itself that Clark Will get
the benefit OF the shake.
The political health of state is
| best preserved by q well balanced
party opposition. Texas has become
100 much one sided. The democratic
| party has run TO Hoggism.
Does the remedy lie in cutting the
| Rogg in TWO pieces? There will be
iust as much democratic pork left
Both Hogg and Clark float the nation
al democratic Hogg at their asst
head.
If the people have become tired Of
democracy Why should they vote FOL
either OF the democratic candidates
for governor; they both claim 10 ht
the simon pure article and the cleo
ton of either will be u democratic
victory.
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Putting it fairly, Clark's fight is no
against the democracy but sgsins
Hogg. Hogg's fight Is IOr the de
mocracy as the regular two-thlr(
nominee of that party.
If Cuny is able TO deliver the negr'
republican party of Texas to CLARK, !
may add to mis- strength, but it will
solidify the white republican vote to
the state republican ticket now In tn
field.
The colored voter in Texas has hi
opportunity to make friends with hi