San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-02-10
SHORT STOPS.
What the People are Saying.

Affairs have reached that point in our
city, that demands the greatest patience
and the most reSolute action on the part
OF every good citizen.
A demand is made for an ordinance to
provide for fair ballot and an honest
count at the coming election, and the peo-
pies request is trampled under foot in a
ruStlesS and arbitrary way-in a way
that is likely TO cause them to rise in
their might, and assert their rights re-
gardleSs OF consequences. Every good
citizen feels himself insulted by the high
handed acts OF a mayor who, clothed
with little brief authority, attempts to
play tyrant over free community.
All our readers are aware of the demand
for a fair and equal representation of
judges and clerks on the election. Every
fair minded citizen recognized this de-
mand, as not only proper, but that it must
be complied with; no one thought for a
moment that an attempt would be made
TO place the election machinery entirely
in the hands of one party.
No one believed that the city govern
ment would be used to force this outrage
upon the VOterS,-but it was. Mayor
lockwood has assumed dictatorship and
ridden over even the city council refuS-
ing to entertain an ordinance that pro-
VldeS Tor fair ballot and an honest count.
The city council, who remained in their
seats, determined to perform their duty.
are backed by public sentiment. i'm fact
they but Obeyed the overwhelming public
demand for fair play. The brief term
mayor, who is a candidate for CITY cOllec-
tor; Alderman Weber. who is candidate
for assessor. and PerSch, who is candi-
date for reelection. in boiling from the
council room. made themselves a party to
a foul conspiracy to defraud the people at
the ballot box. The people will remember
them on Monday next
Is it in the power Of Lockwood to de-
feat the passage and enforcement of the
election ordinance legally passed by the
council. Perhaps it is and that he will
use that power no one doubts. Then
what next? Are the polls to be run by
judges and clerks selected entirely in the
interest OF the Callaghan ticket? are
questions asked by a thousand anxious
Indignant voters.
1t is the peoples election and they have
the right to demand decent compliance
with the law and the rules of fairness and
honesty, and II 1t is not accorded then b
those presuming to exercise authority,
then they must appeal to higher authori-
~ until 1T reaches the highest authority
the people en- mass.
Our city is groveling in the shame of
official misconduct, our people are smart
ing under the lash of petty tyrrany, their
patience, their love for law and order is
being taxed to an extremity-how long
will they endure it?
The friends and supporters Of Mr. Pas
chal are making every endeavor to have
fair representation on the boards of
election, and will, no doubt exhaust every
legal remedy to secure their Just de-
mand, while the opposite party is
using every subUerfuge to prevent
1t. Driven to madness, our citizens
will mass at the polls and beat down
by their ballots the men who have
made the mistake of attempting to elect
themselves by manipulating the ballot
box.
Let the people be calm but determined:
let no act of violence mar the majesty OF
their proceeding; their ballots can crush
this thing out, and teach a lesson that
VIII be long remembered.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, FEBRUARY
~ z, 1893. Sealed proposals, in triplicate.
will be received here until IL {, clock a. m.
MARCH 10, 1893 and then opened, for the
construction at San Antonio Depot, Fort