San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-11-01
LETTERS OF A GERMAN AMERI
CAN CITIZEN.
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No. z.
Mr.. San Antonio LIGHT:
L think there is something wrong
with our old world Even Mr.. Thatle
Smith our county clerk Is not save.
Isn't that an outrage? He has in
heritet that office and now the tax
payers want to take that office away
from him depriving him of the right
to leave it to his SOD That's bad.
That poor Smith, who is worth only q
half million dollars and who is work.
ing now so hard to get the other half
think every man, especially every
poor man ought to vote for him and
help him to get the other half million.
1t is the duty of every poor man to
help that the rich man can get richer.
think they will do it?! =
1 classifiedsthe men who will vote
for Thatle Smith and / get four
classes.
LIST. Nearly all Mexicans, sure.
Thatle Smith has worked them up.
Every night, since the last six
months he ts out visiting them. He
shakes hand with the old man and
woman, kisses their children, talks to
the woman about making tamales,
after which he takles the old man
and tells him that the taxpayers are
after his scalp and to be sure to vote
for him and Mr.. Callahiono or they,
the taxpayers, will surely drive him
back TO Mexico. You see, that is
what creates with this, sometimes
innocent Mexicans, such bitter feel
ing against the taxpayers.
End. All office-seekers and such
Raen who are bought either by prom
ise of cOntracS Ur-money.
3rd. All such men, who say we can
not get along without Thatle Smith.
IfyOu hear man talk that wav, you
can be sure that he babbles only what
another fellow has taught him to do.
l don't think that any man, who has
learned how to read and write, and
who has seen o little of the world, can
talk so foolish and idiotic as that. By
history he will know than ten-timer
smarter men than Thatle Smith had
to go and still-the world goes on.
This foolish talk, that we can not
get along without Thatle Smith or
any other officer of the ring crowd,
reminds me of the wife of my old
friend Jones. One summer she went
to Kerrville to stay couble weeks
Old Jones had to stay here and had
TO, get along the best he could. Well,
he got.along splenditly. One night he
claimed he WAS in a lodge meeting,
he went home, happily. He had to
cross the Alamo often but he tumpled
in. Mortified and dead scared, be-
cause he hated water more than any
thing in the world, he grOwled out
The next morning he wanted clean
underwear. After little hunt he
found a clean shirt Next he went on q
hunt for pair OF drawers. He turned
everything in tho Office, no [ mean,
in the house UPSIDE down and after
| q full hours hunt he found his clean
drawers in an old box under the bed.
Then he needed clean socks. He had
to sit down first to take little rest,
! then he went in hurry-skurry way
| into the hunt after socks. Another
hours hard work and sweating he
found his SOCKS, raped up in news
paper under the wardrobe. The first
thing he did after that, was to write
letter to his wife. He wrote: "Old
woman you better come home, can
not get along without your
4th. This class are-well 1 will soy
innocent men. They are not edu-
Gated and don't know anything about
politics or political Jrickery. If q
public officer talks friendly with such
a man, he feels happy and proud.
| Thatle Smith knows how to do that.
He can talk so sweetly. with such
innocent face TO a voter, that he will
sure enough get away with an mex
perieDced man. Talk don't cost any
thing.
know of such q pitiable fellow
who went home one day, with joyful
faces and happy as king, and tax.
ing both hands OF his wife, exclaimed:
"OId woman, what you think hap.
pened to me today?"
At seeing the happy face and
sparkling eyes of her husband, 1t
went like lightning through the head
of the woman, that he must have won
first prize I'm the Louisiana lottery, or
had inherited from somewhere large
fortune and she asked with breathless
expectation, "what, what happen to
you?"
"Guess!"
80 tell mel" exclaimed the woman,
who had given the reins to her imag-
instion and saw silk dresses, horses
and carriage, 80 tell me, tell me
quick"
"Well will tell you what happen
to me. Thatle Smith did shake hands
with me-with me!-and called me
his old friend"
Yours truly.