San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-17
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condition.
Before you join the taxpayers
club be sure your own taxes have
been paid.
The young men of the city are
invited to join the Republican
league club.
Bonds are mighty good thing
for the Office holders only, just be-
fore an election.
Sixty thousand dollars in county
bridge bonds! Nice, fat pickings
| for the Aztec sandal tourists.
A large force of men are now at
work extending the West End car
line to the new Catholic college.
If "Thad" is tired of being coun-
ty clerk he can act as treasurer
| for the new Brownsville railroad.
II you continue to wait for some.
thing to turn up tomorrow, you are
on the straight road to the poor
house.
Give us Judge Geo. H. Noonan
for Congress, and the "Pops" can
have hide inspector and all the
country constables.
There is an old man living at
West End who says he is "Dim-
ecrat" because his grandfather was
prosecuted in Ireland.
"Bryan" will popularize him
self with the people by purifying
county politics in calling for
straight Democratic ticket.
Our "Fritz" knows the need of
his friends in the country, and is a
red hot advocate of roads and
bridges just before an election.
San Antonio has a Republican
League club, a Populist club,
Single Tax club, and numerous
other clubs, but no Democratic
club.
The sale of refrigerators has not
been very brisk since the last
Jockey club meeting. "Investiga-
tor" made some Of the boys very
Chilly"
The Republican League club will
select delegates to the State con-
vention, at the meeting tonight.
All wide-awake Republicans invit-
ed to attend.
There are several hundred fami-
lies in the Third ward and West
End suburb, who are yet COMPEL
ed to cart their water in barrels
and buckets.
The saloon and restaurant at
the San Pedro Springs is promised
grand cleaning up for the open
ing OF the Summer theatre, next
Monday night.
John T. Hambleton & Co. have
something big to offer in the shape
of little piece of the Republic of
Mexico, of about 10000 acres of
land at 70 cents an acre.
The business man who sits in
his office and talks about the
weather, Society" and lodges,
and looks wise, does not travel
well with live hustler.
The Pops" of Bexar county
need not whet their teeth for a
slice of those $4,000 bridge bonds.
There will be plenty of Aztec
tourists to chew on this pie.
We should by all means have
our census taken in the latter part
of October, as those 100000 in
county bridge bonds will increase
our Indian voters at least 1000 to
1900.
AS the LIGHT is the only Repub-
lican daily, published in the only
Republican city in Texas, it is not
in competition with the other 600
or more Democratic papers in
Texas.
Will Alderman Hice please
waltz around in the Third, and
see how badly this ward is sighted |
in the way Of public improvements,
and get up in the council and cry
hallalujah
Although Sheriff John Campbell |
lives on Nabob Hill there is moth
ing about his appearance to indi-
cate that he was either a nabob or
a dude. "There's nothing the mat
ter with John; he's o X %
There is strong talk of the home.
stead owners, and property tax
payers of West End, organizing to
protest against the payment of
city taxes, since they get nothing
for their money. They will likely
engage one of the best law firms in
the city to fight the case in the
courts.
About the only money spent by