San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-27
o sNAPPERs.
Money ruled the roost.

NOItl IulNh Nv AONoN
The nabobs won the first blood.
The mayor should have thrown the re-
sponsibility on his council.
The beef contract on the u Shore
road has not been let out yet.
The poor men of San Antonio cry for
work, and our city council kick the Gull
Shore road.
You can no more tell how an alderman
will vote, than you can guess the verdict
Of a petit jury.
The San Antonio city government is the
first in Texas to throw obstacles in the
way of a public enterprise.
A forty thousand dollar mortgage will
sometimes make a man act contrary TO
the dictates Of his OWL conscience.
Col. Breckenridge gives $500 in cash
for the Gulf Shore rOad and now volun-
tarily reduces water rates 25 per cent.
Alderman Limburger was not elected
by the ''nabObs'' and cast his vote for
the workingmen, on the Gulf Shore fran
chise.
Alderman Elmendorf is pretty level
headed, but no one pretends to assign the
reason why he voted against the Gulf
Shore.
Alderman Newton voted against the
railroad. He is a lawyer, you know, and
probably had North Flores street in his
minds eye.
Alderman Hoehing voted against his
own record on the railroad right-of-way.
See interviews in the LIGHT columns,
Wednesday.
II there is any credit due to u city
government for the reduction in the price
Of water, Alderman Jack D~augherty is
entitled TO it,.
The opinion prevails in the city today
that ChildreSs, who is being tried at
Boerne, will be acquitted or 1T will be a
hung jury"
The action of the council yesterday in
kicking the Gulf Shore road, has made
hundreds of friends for Col. Geo. w.
Breckenridge.
Col. Breckenridge wins the first round
in the peoples favor in voluntarily re-
ducing the price of water to families from
Sl2 to 50 a year.
The second ward PopuliSts will meet
Saturday the 2Sth, at 8 O'Clock p. m, at
203 San Saba street, cor. Buena Vista, to
elect county delegates.
The nabobs do not buy the soap manu-
featured in San Antonio, but our honest
old Alderman Erich Menger, voted
against the Gulf Shore road.
One of the kickers against the Gulf
Shore yesterday, vas mad because he did
not sell the road his property. He called
the franchise, a fran cheese"
Alderman Sinner must have smelled
another sewer running into the San Pc
dro creek, and voted No." in the Gulf
Shore right of way on Dawson street.
If Jack Daugherty had been allowed
a half hour instead Of ten minutes yes
terday he would have convicted some of
his ''weak-kneed" beloved brethren"
The little star chamber meeting held
before the regular session of the council
yesterday settled the vote. The people
know who attended that little nabob eau
Gus.
Alderman Hoefing voted to kill the
Gulf Shore road yesterday, but was very
anxious TO rush through the proposition
to sell the city DR.. Graves, ST., slaughter
house.
When Alderman Mackey delivers an
other Dennis Kearney, sand lot speech,
about the poor wOrkingmen, his vote on
the Gulf Shore will rise up and stare him
i'm the face.
HDr. G. G. Clifford will speak out be
can tell the "wOrkingmen of San Antonio
who is responsible for some of the OBJ
Gulf Shore road.
Il lie ldUUUc lllCu W SdNSh DbSN ~
with a few bottles of wine and a big din
der, but il Soured on his stomach. and he
threw il up, and stood for the people on
the Gulf Shore vote.
An investigation will likely prove that
the city has slept on its supposed rights
in the railroad reservation strip, and that
the Southern Pacific Railway company
has thai strip pretty well grabbed.
If San Antonio loses the benefits 10 be
derived from the construction Of the Gulf
shore road, by starting work from this
end. it will result in the change Of at least
1000 votes at the next election. Mark the
prediction.
The alderman who voted against San
Antonio's best interest yesterday kept
mum during all the speeches for and
against. The caucus before the meeting
in the mayors Office evidently decided
upon this plan.
The Gulf Shore can start work at
Yoakum. or Velasco, and build their
road, and thereby deprive San Antonio OF
the great benefits of giving our laboring
men employment, and losing the money
they will spend for supplies, and when
they again ask for a right-of' way.--there