San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-10
SHORT sNAPPERs.


Gus the Democracy prospers.
Cleveland "bit off his nose to spite bis
! face" when he gave Hill the "cold
shoulder"
( The LIGHT is identified with San An
tonic and ever ready TO champion any
scheme for its benefit.
| The entire Twelfth district has less
| than 1900 Negro voters, hence we elect
| Republican TO Congress.
II you catch "nigger" in the process
4 sion tonight, who you know voted Tor
| Houston, fire him out.
Let the intelligent white vote combine
| and we can knock out ignorance and cor
| ruptiOn every time.
Our neighbor, the Express, has this
| morning discovered that Judge Noonan
| is elected. The LIGHT published this fact
| two days ago.
Old Judge Noonan was backed by the
| intelligent voters, and knocked out the
| combined forces OF money, anarchists, and
the purchaSable ignorant cattle.
Although about one-half of the Negro
vote was pOlled for Gus Houston, his
| campaign committee claim TO have re-
ceived only one-third.
The chief bane of all former republics
has been corruption and it will ruin our
own country unless the people have
patriotism enough to maintain the purity
Of the ballot box against corrupt and un-
scrupulous men with money.
San Antonio is in fair way to become a
bye word and reproach to all honest and
patriotic men, because of the use of
doodle and fraud, In all her elections, to
override the will Of the legal voters and
to perpetuate king in power.
1t is time these corrupt arts and prac-
ticeS were unearthed, and the perpetra-
tors of them punished by the courts.
That is the only wav whereby our eiec-
tions can be purified, and be made to re-
| fleet the sentiments of the legal voters of
BeXar.
Bribery of voters and the purchase of
votes, is a regular business, at every
election in BeXar, and nearly every cleo
tiOn is carried by Doodle and fraud.
These crooked and illegal acts are noto-
rious, and the public good demands that
they shall be punished and stopped. All
good citizens will echo and endorse this
sentiment, and back up all attempts 10
expose and punish bribery, fraud and cor
ruptiOn in Bexar elections.
The county officers, who are elected by
bribery, fraud and corruption, should be
OuSted and punished. The people cannot
feel safe while men so elected are levying
| the people.
On the evening Of the election, an even
ing paper of this city charged that on
that very morning the candidates on the
Big ticket had been required to contrib
ute $1,000 for campaign fund This was
a second assessment Was this So 600
wanted for legal and honest purposes?
OF course, not.
1t is said that on Saturday evening a
friend and supporter of the Big 6 ticket
went to one of the banks and brought to
the headquarters of the Big ticket. on
SOledad. two shot bags filled with silver
coin. Was this money used for legal and
honest purposes? Hardly.
The publication of the election in Bexar
rises above party ties and party consider
ations, and every business man. property
owner and honest citizen has direct in
terest in all measures and steps taken to
effect such publication.
Cleveland boosted on all occasions, that
by electing him in 1892, the people had
expressly endorsed and ratified his views
concerning tariff reform, and that the de-
clared will OF the people must be carried
out. The people on Nov. repudiated
Grover Cleveland and his brand Of De-
mocracy, but he will not recognize it, as a
law unto himself and to Congress.
No party In the United States ever
suffered so disastrous, thorough, and
overwhelming defeat, as the people in
flicted on the pig headed Cleveland De-
mocracy, on the 9th OF November. 1t was
far worse than a Waterloo defeat.
The aspirants for the Democratic nomi
| nation for president. in 1895, have ''crept
into their holes and pulled the holes In
| after them" since the political cyclone
| swept over the Union on November 9th
| None Of them are spelling to lead for
| lorn hope and be slaughtered.
Vice-President Stevenson'S logic and
eloQuence from the stump seem to have
| increased the Republican majorities in
| the states in which he "shOt off his
mouth"