San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-16
CONTRIBUTED SCRAPS.

between woman and a secret that
exists between oil and water.
The cry OF frauds In the elections
is portentious of peril to our institu-
tions and is significant of the decay
Of honesty and morality.
To be honest and truthful, man.
ly and fearless, Is sure to earn for
one the reputation OF being a dis
agreeable and eccentric fellow.
Another issue Of $50,000,000 of
gold bonds is to be made to satisfy
Wall street, whose puppet Cleve-
land is.
Sunshine and storm are strange
ly blended in the comedy OF life ;
the art of being happy consist in
searching the sunshine, and not for
clouds and darkness.
The Legislature will be criminal
ly recreant to duty should it fail to
throw additional safe guards
around the purity Of the ballot box
and the appointment OF the judges
Of election.
The law allowing men to vote on
their declaring their intention to
become citizens should be repealed,
as its sole effect is to lead unprin-
cipled office seekers to import
hordes ofignorant and venal greas-
ers from Mexico to Illustrate the
will Of legal voters.
The law should require a regis
tration Of all legal voters in every
county in the state, to be COM
pleted sixty days before every cleo.
ton for state officers and a list Of
all the legal voters in the precinct
should be furnished the judges Of
election in each precinct.
The official oath should compel
each officer, to swear, that he has
not directly, nor indirectly, by sup
plying other persons with money,
bribed one, or more voters, or used,
or been cognizant of the use of
fraud, to elect him to office.
The encroachment by greedy lot
owners, on the river, is a matter
richly deserving of the attention of
the mayor and council. The rights
of the public should be looked
after, and defended by the servants
OF the public, against individual
greediness and rapacity.
Those opposed to ring rule,
bribery and fraud, should continue
to fight them, with undated vigor,
in the interval that separates us
from the next elections. Clubs
should be organized in each ward,
to carry on the war against ring
rule and it's evils.
San Antonio must pull out the
teeth, and cut off the claws, of her
Tammany which now fills all the
offices, with it's creatures, and rules
Bexar to its own interest and profit,
totally disregarding the public
welfare and the wishes Of the peo-
pie,
No true and noble words, when
once spoken, or published, ever per-
ish. They may be smothered for O
season by prejudice and venal criti-
cism, but they are immortal and
cannot die. Silently, they will per-
form their mission and become
axioms and watchwords in the
future.
We are brought face to face with
ring methods and rule, and we
cannot dodge the fight, unless we
prefer slavery, bribery and fraud
to liberty and fair and honest cleo
tions. He, who is not boldly and
decidedly against ring govern
menf and methods, is in favor Of
them.
The business men will eventual
ly awake to the fact, that the rule
Of the Big 6 is a nightmare to the
city and the county, and, when
that time comes, the ring of the
Big 6 will be smashed all to
pieces, and it's members and its
trenchermen be forever expelled
from power. That is the object OF
the people of Bexar and 1t is an OBJ
ject worthy Of all praise.