San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-22
WHY TURN OUT EXPERIENCED
OFFICE HOLDERS?

signed "B. c." &C. H." and other
meanin gless nomdeplunes. Now the
public must not be deceived by this
little ruse; these puffs and communi-
cations are all paid for and emenate
directly from these Office holding
patriots. They nominate themselves,
and then parade themselves, in the
columns of the Express as the only
persons who can run the peoples
business correctly, and the only re-
liable candidates In the field. Men
| who have the cheek to nominate
themselves, have plenty of cheek left
to puff themselves. The poor scrib-
Ter who dresses up these ringsters in
| fine phrases earns his cash. every
cent of it. It's a dirty job, and he
does it just as scsvanger
cartman handles a barrel of stale slop
and defunct cats. The people will
not be deceived by such literature.
Why turn these expert office hold.
ers out asks the scavenger man; they
know all about the business and no
business man would hire osrpen-
ter to make horse shoes. Now
II it were true that our county offices
| must he turned over to professional
| office holders forever, it Is time the
people were appraised Of the fact, and
that some means were taken to open
q school to train up another set be-
cause life is so uncertain a thing and
| even the street cars are dangerous,
| and some of the veterans now in
| Office might, and no doubt will liz time
| pass in their checks. This Is all
| poppy-cock talk. There is not an
office in Bexar county that can't be
conducted by new man tomorrow
as efficiently as it is by the present
crowd. Nat Lewis stepped into the
district clerks office succeeding Geo.
Dashiel who had been in office for
several terms until it began to be
thought he was the only man who
| could run it. But Nat has the credit
of even dispatching his business with
more prOmptitude than Dashiel. If
Nat can run an office well why can't
a new man do so; but in this particu-
lar case, his opponent is a trained
man and has served as chief clerk
under Nat and his predecessor.
If the ring want the people to be-
leve that it is necessary to re-elect
them in order that the public bust.
ness may be carried on correctly, and
not put In charge of new men, why
did they shelve old Judge McAlIister?
He has had two years practice as
county judge, while Callaghan has
never had any experience in judi.
cial position, except now and then
acting as recorder and passing on the
drunk and down unfortunates picked
up by the police. Why turn old Mac
out and rut in Callaghan, if it is nee.
essary to keep in official experts?
Opposed to Callaghan, the people
have put up Geo. c. Altgelt, a man
capable of presiding over the highest
court in our state. \ man per-
fectIy equipped for the place,
and more than that, just the
man the people want now, to turn
the chip over and find the rotten
bugs that have accumulated under
it. Talk about employing exper-
ier ced agents to conduct the public
business, the people not only want
competent men but above all things,
tn ey want men who have not become
experts in the method of fleeing the
public in the manipulation of Their
offices. We want change and
when it is proposed to put
Callsghan in the county judgeship
it is simply transferring a man from
the city hall to the court house. II
there is man in BeXar county who
is entirely unfit for the county judy
ship and whose election would be a
public calamity it is Bryan Call
la CHAN.
Thad Smith has elected himse (
perpetual county clerk, and Thad
tells the people, through his paid
scavanger, that Degener is unfit to
perform his arduous duties. Now,
the hardest, most difficult work Thad
does is in manipulating the Mexican
voters. Degener would not be able to
to touch him in this particular, but
there is not man who has
business with the county clerks