San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-15
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.

What the People are Saying.
The paid for puffs of the members of
the county ring ticket which appear in
the Express, are very amusing. These
puffs are as full of taffy as a molasses
barrel. The ring are all saints and only
need a pair of Sam Jones' wings TO
transport them to glory.
Saint Callaghan, for instance; how in
nocent and good he looks, posing for
county judge. What's the reason he is
willing to step down from the mayors
he has got a sure grip on the ballot box,
why don't he stick to his faithful ten"
and die mayor?
The paid scribbIer of the Express, who
finds in the endorsement of Peter Jonas
by the citizens meeting 80 much comfort,
should explain how it was that Old Judge
McAlliSter was put under to make room
for the city boss. II Boerner, Dwyer and
Umscheid deserve to be trusted and not
displaced, why did the ring in its little
dark chamber conclave throw the old
Judge out in the cold? Was McAllister
less honest and capable than his commits
sioners; less worthy to be again made
county judge?
Now let the buttered writer who is pre-
pairing puffs for Callaghan & Co., just
explain how and why Callaghan was put
on the ticket and MeAllister displaced.
Judge McAllister has some cause to be
sore over the slight courtesy paid him by
the citizens meeting, but he can attribute
1T to the company he has been keeping
for the past two years. But one thing is
certain, Judge, you were too honest and
conscientious to preside longer over the
county ring" court.
If, Judge, you had been pliable enough
the county ring would not have made you
the only exception and forced you to APP
peal to the people who have become tired
and Disguised with the rule of an Office
holders trust The people will now have
an opportunity of placing correct Judge
ment upon your official career.
Why does Callaghan want to be county
Judge? Has his experience in handling
estates made him peculiarly fitted for the
place? He certainly can't expect to take
trips to Paris to look up his clients, while
the public business is being run by
deputy.
He won't be able to spend weeks at Hot
Springs, or fishing off the Texas coast,
which the mayors position seems to have
OF. Why should he sacrifice all
these pleasures, travel abroad, rioting in
pleasant places,-for the humdrum Of
every day duty as county ,judse?,
What peculiar aptness has he developed
during all his official career as mayor for
the county judgeship? The truth is I'M
der his waSteful, reckless, extravagant
our city has been brought
to the very of financial ruin.
In his desperation, he has attempted to
pile up the obligations of debt, and bind
our taxpayers hand and foot for genera
lions to come, by bond propositions, but
the people have rebuked him at the polls.
The truth is, baId-up city has no longer
any attraction to Callaghan.
The Taxpayers have a chance TO vote on
bonded indie btedneSs in the city, but the
county judge and commissioners have no
restraint upon them, and when the city
boss found the people had blocked his
way to piling up debt, and furnishing I'M
bounded credit to feed his pets and favor
his political followers he cast his eve on
the slowly rising foundation walls of the
county court house; here are rich posi-
bilities for the near future. That job will
cost our county taxpayers over a million
dollars before 1t is done. 1t was over this
job that the ring tell out year ago, and
the county officials dissolved partnership
with Callaghan.
Callaghan, by reason of his position as
boss over the county aud city ring, de-
manded that his wishes as to the giving
out of contracts and the employmentof
architects and the general management
OF the job be the law; the county fellows
rebelled.
On every street corner and in every bar
room the boss was reviled and his in
fiuence diScredited. He may have failed
to dictate in the first place, but now he
wants to boss the finishing of the job.
The breach between the city and county
members of the ring has been healed and
Callaghan has at last been installed as its
permanent master. Oh, for clean, honest
man, free from all this chicanary political
jugglery and corruption, to turn over the
books of the county page by page.
When the buttered writer in the En-
press has run off his little, good, puSSey
stories ABOUT the ring can iidateS. the
people will tell them why they demand a
change.