San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-04-20
SHORT STOPS,
What the People are Saying.
BY Col. JAS. P. NEwCOMB.

discuss their local affairs free from per-
sOnalitieS. 1t is immaterial, so far as the
facts and the argument Is concerned:
whether the writer OF short STOPS
holds down city sinecure or not. And so
far as the Express, our only morning
paper, is concerned, It's one-sded oppo-
sition to the present city administration
can be accounted for without resortng TO
personal reflections upon its paid editors
or reporters.
The people may be disposed to charge
sordid motives to the Express, but this
would not answer any argument that the
paper may set up, The Express was en-
titled TO the fat sinecure of official journal
that it held down for so many years I'M
der the past administration, and cannot
be blamed for being hot at DIR. Pedrito
Paschal," as they call him, for pulling
them off the public teat.
The item for city printing and adver-
Using under the past administration was
set down in the annual budget at $4,000,
and under the present administration at
s7.5O1 of which the LIGHT received the
sum of s9070 for, the official advertising
of the last year. So, at least, the official
journal under Mayor Paschal has ceased
to be fat Sinecure.
NOW the Express SHOulu uUJ SHOW us
teeth and howl Just because"Short Stops"
holds down a city office, created by
charter, that was never before discovered
to be a sinecure. The Office of recorders
clerk is the only sincicure our enterpriS-
ing morning paper has thought worth
while TO discover, and would never have
made this discovery but for its compadre
the Kansas City Sun.
The Express calls Mayor Paschal
CDR. Pedrito Paschal,'' just because
Don Padrito didn't make the Express
the official journal.
Well, PaSchal ought not to get angry,
don Pedrito" seems to be a very Shrewd
old man and much sought after, and be-
lieved in, and very freely advertised by
the Express. So, il anybody is hum
plugged, the firm of Pedrito & Express are
guilty.
But. maybe it's not because PaSchal
gave the public advertising to the Owest
bidder, instead of the Express. that they
call him pet names, such as "Dr. Pedrito
Paschal," but because Mayor PaSchal
won't agree with them about water
works, etc. OF course calling Mayor Pas
chal "Dr. PedritO PaSchal" is a knock
down argument.
Mayor PaSchalS message upon the an
nual budget was document every citi-
zen was entitled to read, and especially as
the Express has thought it worthy Of
criticism and ridicule. Yet the Express
wanted 20 cents line to furnish it to its
readers.
{ Don Pedrito may be fake and fraud
but he comes very much nearer being an
angel of light than theS Express does Of
being tirst-clasS newspaper.
No wonder the people have so little con-
fdence or respect for the opinions Of the
Express politically. religiOuSly or locally.
Now you can sit up on your hind legs and
howl ''sinecure," ''sinecure,' until you
are tired.
The intelligent masses of the people APP
pTeciate fair criticism, and homes: discus
sion, and even If the discussion of pub
lie measure should drift into an occasion
al personality il is better than no discus
sion at all. But what they do expect of
their newspapers is the publication of the
facts, from which they can draw their
own conclusions.
A newspaper only prejudiCcs its own
cause by SuppresSing from its columns
so important a document as the Mayors
message, which 10 our citizens is Of more
interest than the Presidents message.