San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-04
SHORT STOPS.
what the people are Saying

what the People are saying
The Mexicans who constitute Gar.
za's band, and the population from
whom GarZa's forces are recruited
live ON this,side the river, and consti
tuie the voters who send democratic
candidates to congress; help swell the
democratic majority of the state, and
elect the local officials in many of the
counties of this border.
| They vote as American citizens but
never become such, and never intend
to become American citizens. This
ques ton of citizenship must oe set
tied, and now is q good time to do it
while the democratic party in the
state has . big majority to draw on.
|
| Should Garza's movement rise to
| the dignity of q national revolt. the
! imported voters, who made up Judge
| Kings majority. will be found on the
other side along with Cara, and In
Or any kind of pillage or robbery.
Neither the general nor the state
government can afford 10 permit Q
rowing population OF ignorant Indians
to harbor, live, labor and vote on
American soil, and at the same time
remain Mexican subjects, and ready
at all times and upon the least excuse
to organize and take up aims to over
| turn the Mexican government. or fol-
| low any bandit leader who holds out
| q prospect of plumber and rapine.
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The Caucasian must come to the
rescue of the ballot box, and our local
governments must he put in the
hands of men who do not owe their
places to the imported bands OF Next.
cans, who can be cOlOnized along the
line of . bankrupt railway to debauch
| the ballot box, or massed upon city
and county JOBS, and driven to the
polls like cattle, to put in office official
| ringsters.
A scene In the recorders court H.
Illustrates the nationality question:
Six young, bright looking Americans,
comfortably dressed, stand up to give
their excuses why they should not be
jailed as tramps. They had been
picked up by the city police on the
outskirts of the city, and because
they were strangers and without
work, they were run in. Within
a stones throw of the judge
was score of Mexicsns idly summing
themselves under their blankets; over
| the creek could be found hundreds
more who have neither home or habi-
| tation or visible means of support,
yet the police never trouble them;
they are the voting pets of the present
city dynasty.
The six yonng Americans may have
been tramps; they acknowledged they
| were seeking work and we're without
money; the recorder put them in the
| city prison on the grounds that COM
plants of depredations on the, out.
skirts justified such action.
A glance ct the docket of the late
grsndjury, out OF 10 cases brOus hit TO
| their attention a very small proper
ton were whites; aud none of them
tramps.
The Mexican and Negro criminals
predominant, showing that our crimi-
nal class is largely recruited from
the other side OF the Rio GraDde. A
city government that will clean out
the Mexican tramps will take long
step towards relieving our criminal
dockets.
A reform in our system of voting
will end the irresponsible rule OF
local officials elected by alien tramps
and criminals. When the ballot is
taken from these aliens, or becomes
useless in their hands, they will
cease to be q mensnoe to the security
| of the interests of the community Oh
the peace of the republic over the
| border.
Appropo of the voting business. the
decision of U. s. Commissioners Price
| binding over Conductor Luke and
Eft gineer Conant, because they re-
fused to take out passenger train
in connection with the mail car, re.
wives "reminiscences Of the last county