San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-03-30

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This little misrepresentation is
worth discussing, Houston bases
her claim to a greater population
than San Antonio upon her regis
tration in the present municipal
election, and also upon the gain
over the preceding registration
These figures show that in the last
presidential election Houston
registered 6,325 voters, and that in
the present municipal election she
registered 1881, gain of 2,056 in
the seventeen months elapsed be-
tween the November election of
1892 and the April election of 1894.
Compare these figures with the
official figures of San Antonio
registration and Houston is not in
it. In the Novem Der election of 1892
San Antonio registered 6,732 voters,
and in the February election of
1898 she registered S,555. These
figures show that her registration
over one year ago was greater by
several scores than that of Hous-
ton today, Notwithstanding all the
gain that Houston claims to have
made in the year. Not only so,
but San Antonio gained in the
three and a half months between
that presidential election and her
municipal election a total of 1928
registered votes. Arguing on the
Houston lines then, she would
have gained in seventeen months
a total of 1888 votes, as against
the 2,056 over which Houston
crows so loudly. This is not
all; in the last municipal cleo
tion held in this city it was
claimed that there were at the
lowest calculation over 600 unreg-
lstered voters. 1t must be taken in
to consideration how the popula-
tions of the two cities differ, that
Houston is composed in large
part of young men employed on
the railways and in the mills
who have no families, so that the
registered strength of the city
bears a far larger proportion to
the population than it does here.
Taking all the facts into consider
alton and allowing for the increase
in this city during the fourteen
months since the last registration,
the conclusion is inevitable that
San Antonio can register at least
a thousand more voters than
Houston and has at least fifteen
thousand more population. Next.
Thorough org anization in every
county of Texas for the purpose of
waging an earnest warfare in
every congressional district of the
state, is the work that is before the
Republicans of Texas.
Coxey announces that his army
is organized in the interest of free
silver. This is mistake, there is
no organization perceptible, but
disorganization is the keyn Ote Of
the whole movement.
The quality of the harmony oil
that was uncorked at Dallas by
Baker and MatlOck will be given a
final test at Dallas on the 18th of
August, when the clans assemble
in state convention.
When Galveston builds that
terminal road to Houston she will
build her own railway bridge over
the bay and make 1T nOminally
free. The old city is waking up
in her dotage.
Galveston feels herself shut out,
and is preparing to build her own
road to Houston so as to command
the advantages Of the net work of
railways that radiate from the
Bayou City.
Galveston capital was advised by
the LIGHT some time ago to quit
wasting money on the attempt to
keep ont the encroaChments of the
Gulf. Her taxpayers are taking
that advice.
The next congressional election
will be a contest for better wages
and more constant plOyment on
the part of American workmen. 1t
is their fight and they must come
to the front.