San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-24
Chr 9utlY Eight.
CONTRIBUTED SCRAPS.

ent to the welfare and prosperity
Of their city, should they suffer the
courthouse ring to gobble up the
city government.
That is the stake for which the
Big Six are playing and scheming
in their sly and stealthy manner,
80 characteristic of that astute and
wise working ring.
The Big Six are on still hunt
for capturing the city government,
and the citizens must counter mine
them.
The election Of Mr.. Ed. Dryer to
the office Of city attorney clearly
foreshadowed the desperate at
tempt, which the Big Six will
make to gobble up all the city
offices and run the county and the
city In cahoot.
Taxpayers and business men
would consult their interest and
the welfare of San Antonio, by put
ting on their studying caps and
turning over in their minds the
dangerous consequences OF suffer.
ing to Big to cram their creatures
into the city offices.
No man, who affiliates with the
Big Six layout should be placed in
any city office at the election in
February. We want city Govern
ment, that will not be run by
boss, or a ring but be perfectly in
%
1t has been surmised by some
persons, that the making Mr.. A. l..
Lockwood, chairman of the monde
script convention Of the creatures
of the Big 6, at Convention hall
was an indication that he would
be their candidate for mayor.
The same persons also cite the
fact, that Mr.. Lockwood has taken
to mixing with the people as can
dates inembry, will do, since he
presided over that nondescript
convention.
OF course, "Barkis is willing"
1t is asserted by others, that
the Big 6 will put forward Judge
Callaghan for mayor, now that he
has fraternized with the Big 6, as
they fancy he is thir strongest
man. He stands in with the Big 6,
and should he be elected moyOr, he
would continue to stand in with
them and work in cahOot with
them. That will settle his hash.
The municipal battle will be
fought on the line Of hostility to
the Big and its layout. The city
government must not fall into
the clutches of the Big 6, or rather
the Big 8. This will be the battle
cry in the city campaign, and 1t
will win, with good management.
1t is stated that the big have
been promising Tom Mccall a city,
office in case he will not contest
the election. This is gall, yard
wide, and as thick as your foot.
Just think of the big promis-
ing a city office, in advance Of the
city election. They imagine, that
they are supreme dictatiOn, aud
that the people are their lackey's
Is it not corrupt to try to buy
of Mccall, by promising him a
city office? 1t looks that way to a
plain man. Tom Mccall will
never sell out to the big She is
not built that way.
The corrupting, debasing and
pernicious effects Of ring rule were
exemplified by the Boss Tweed
gang rascalities and by corruptions
unearthed by the recent investiga
tions of the Lexow committee.
The natural tendency of a ring
is corruption. They have to ust
money so lavishly in order to OBJ
tain office as to compel them to re
plenish their drained purses by
crookedness and Doodle. A ring i!
forced to wink at the crookednest
OF its creatures in order to retair
its hold on them.
When a ring ceases to feel afraid
Of public opinion and regards itsel
strong enough to defeat all at
tempts to dislodge it from power, /
drifts into crookedness and corrup
ton.
The Tammany OF Bexar is com
priced Of eight bosses and the Mex
leans, some mercenary whites, anC
as many negroes as they can blu!
on the eve OF an election. Fac
one Of these bosses has a clientel
Of few warm personal friends an,
parcel Of bootlicks and lick-spit
ties.
Let the people reflect upon tn
manner in which the Big Eight ar
antranchad in tha nnhlic nfficas Il