San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-30


Auditor-Albert Meyer.
Alderman at large-HenGy Elmendorf,
N. Mackey, Joe Beckmdu, Erich Menger.
Alderman, No. &c. Guerguin.
Alderman, No 2-W. L Smith.
Alderman, No. 3-General G. w. Russ.
Alderman, No. flames ii. trenGh.
Alderman, No. 5-William Hoefiing.
Sf.
Alderman. No. 6-Henry Limburger.
Alderman, No. ii. A. Daugherty.
Alderman, No. 9-Albert +. Beckmann.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
G. A. DUERLER. Chairman.
Fl. d. KAMPMANN, Secretary.
The report was received with an out
burst of applause that did not subside for
sometime.
Judge Charles NJ. Barnes then present.
ed the following resolution which was Sc
conded by the whole host of those there
and unanimously adopted with widest
enthusiasm:
Resolved that this meeting adopt the
committees report and resolve itself INTO
one grand central club for the ticket here
named tonight, and every person present
enroll his name as soon as possible, the
slogan 10 be Paschal, Progress and Pros
perity for San Antonio"
Mr.. Paschal was then called for by
the immense thrOng and addressed II
amid many interruptions of vehe-
ment applause, defining his position
and the policy to be pursued by him
when placed at the head of municipal
affairs, which would be frank and a
candid one which he hoped would secure
the confidence of the people.
HE FAVORED PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS,
but these Improvements must be econom--
ically and substantially constructed
and subject to the inspection of COM
nd
Struction to entrusted to those II
by contract who are the lowest
and most reliable bidders and il 10y the
city. were to be done by competent and
skillful workman. The qualification for
employment in construction shall not be
determined by the part that they may
have taken in any city or county election.
stead of partiSanShip, would be the basis
on which the affairs of the city shall be
conducted, the peoples dollar to carry
with as much purchasing power as the
individuals.
He would apply the pruning knife in
looping off Sinecure offices. and give every
official necessary to be employed as much
to do as his salary demanded. He was OPP
posed to neglecting the work of the city
until the arrival of a political campaign,
and then employing large numbers of Ia
borerS 10 hurriedly do inferior work, but
would have the needed improvements
made as continuously as the funds of the
city permitted and the occasions required.
He would pursue a financial policy which
would enable the city to meet current eX
penses without anticipating the revenues,
and reduce the rate of taxation In pro-
portion to the increase in the
valuation of property, making the
revenues suffice for the expenses and
not employ more labor than is necessary
to do the work and make substantial i'm
provementS. He stated that the revenues
collected by the city collector was SSl7,-
$40, 2S or $1,000 in round numbers per
month witch he believed to be am
ply abundant for paying the current eX
penseS of the city. Business economy is
opposed to work SlOVenly done and the
expenditure Of thousand o dol us in tear
ing up accepted block pavements while
many main thoroughfareS are left quog-
mireS. He was opposed to cheap work.
cheap material and cheap laborS.three OF
] the dearest things in the world he advo-
Gated that ali three commodities should
| be first class.
He advocated the appointment of a
| board Of health that would place and
| keep San Antonio in sanitary condition
| that would bear the test of the most rigid
| sanitary inspector on earth, and cholera,
| and very different inspector from the
| kind at present employed in this city.
| He wanted to make the standard OF
| public education in this city the highest
| in the state, by having the public schools
| placed in the hands of the most efficient
educators to be secured with the means al
the command of the city.
| He also proposed to increase the etfi-
| cheney of both the police and fire depart
mentS and not make them the means Of
rewarding political favorites:
| Mr.. Paschal also eXcoriated the city ad
ministration reciting with italicized en-
phasls, the fact that the people had thrice
| at the polls voted want OF confidence II
the parties in charge Of the present
management of city affairs, by refusing
to grant them the funds and appropria'
| lions for purposes specified in the PROPOSE
tions voted on. These appropriation
would have been very apt to have beer
granted by them II the people had be-
lieved that the sums appropriated woulc
have been spent judiciously and for TIT
purpose specified in the grants, but ap
preparations had been made severa
years ago for the purpose o
purchasing and constructing garbag
, furnaces and other improvement
as well for other purposes and tn
people had never been given any accoun
of what had become of the sums thus ap
propriated which had been spent and tn
furnaces had never been purchased o
built or other improvements secured.
The people of San Antonio are an
have always been ready and willing t
grant appropriations for needed improve
ments when they knew that the sum
9 appropriated would be judiciously, econ
D omically and positively used for the pur
pose for which they were granted an
r these adverse votes of the taxpayers wa
I an expression of an entire lack OF conf
u dence and faith in the present admins
! traton which gives no promise that ther