San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-12
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For the Daily LIGHT:
All can see that three cornered CON
test for mayor can end but I'm one wav in
the election OF the ticket put In the field
by the Big Six. III those who are on.
posed to ring rule are going themselves to
split up into cliques and factions, and to
put forward two candidates for MAYOR the
Big Six ticket will have walk over the
track.
II men are opposed to ring rule and
claim to be animated by patriotic mo.
tives rather than sordid greed for Of
flee, they cannot, tn the least show of
consistency, go to work to divide the
forces OF the opposition for the sole pur-
pose OF playing the part Of the dog In the
manger. Patriotism Of the genuine sort
never sacrifices the public good to pro-
mote personal ends, or to crafty private
grudges, but makes the. public good its
undertaking chart In fair and foul wealth
er.
Is there any PATRIOTS m OF this sort left
in San Antonio? IL there be enough to
answer for leaven, in that case there is
hope for the redemption OF San Antonio
from the blight of ring rule, for we have
an assurance, that little leaven
leavenenth the whole lump" II there
be any genuine and old fashioned paJrio-
tism left in San Antonio, let it crawl out
OF its hiding place, and take front seat,
since 1t Is badly needed just now.
Patriotism has degenerated into paw
triOtism and one daily hears the remark.
patriotism be d-d-it don't pay, atal
there is no money in it, so let the public
good take the care OF itself, or go out of
business"
As genuine patriot recoils from sacri-
fcing the public good to crafty his per-
sonal ambition, or his private revenge, he
will not suffer pretended friends to use
him as tool to sow the ranks of those,
who stand forward for the public good
and. consequently, against ring rule.
To person up tree, things look like
there are individuals, who are fully de-
termined either to run for mayor, or to
play the part Of the dog In the manger.
There is not enough patriotism in such
a course as would half way fill the hide of
a yearling flea.
That Mission Garden committee has
become back number" an ante delu-
Wan affair and should, OF its own accord,
to retire whence 1t cometh IL won neither
eclat nor prestige by its corduct nf its
side OF the county canvass recently closed.
If that committee shall act for and rnu
the campaign of the opposition to the Big
Six in the city election, the result will be
disastrous in the extreme.
pie, composed of oad-gauged men, is re-
luired to engineer an effective and SUI
ceSSful campaign against whatsoever
ticket is groomed and blanketed by the
Big Six.
A campaign committee Of twenty mem
hers Is burlesque on campaign execu-
tive committee. 1t Is seldom the twenty
members can be gotten together, and
when they do all meet at the same time
and place they cannot agree on the right
thing to be done, and nothing except
make believe and puddering is ever done.
Is not the Mission garden ticket functus
otficio? Did not its delegated authority
expire by limitation, with the close of the
last county campaign? Was not the reso-
luton so to proOng its authority as to let
1t run the city campaign, voted down
with whoop and rush? By what au-
thority is this back number" committee
now acting? 1t is to be hoped 1t has not
itself become ring.
A city campaign committee is always
unhandy, cumbersome. diScordant, and
therefore, useless, whenever il con lists OF
more than five members. A campaign
committee Of three active, working men
would be far more active and effective
than one Of five, simply because they
Gould be far more easily gotten together
and then two out of the three members
would decide what measures should be
pursued.
The objective point with every sensible
and patriotic citizen of San Antonio, Of
all colorS, hues and shad IS of political
opinions is to keep the city government
free from the control, manipul ttion AMI
dictatiOn of the county ring. Then,
measures calculated to accomplish, that
worthy object, must be employed The
leverage must be equal to the task 1t has
to accomplish.