San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-08
LOOKING BACKWARD.
Retrospection of Two Years Ago
From the Editorial Columns of
the Express.

From the Editorial Columns of
the Express.
To the Daily LIGHT.
In the LIGHT Of February 7th,
| 1895, it is shown that a Taxpayer"
who has been furnishing the LIGHT
the Express against itself, might
have gone back to 1891 and found
the hidden animosity Of Bryan Cal
laghan towards the German race
yelled as his interview Of August
q, 1891, is behind the national
character Of a chivalrous people.
the French-but "Looking Back
ward" only promised to convince
any and every fair minded man OF
the utter lack OF respecta bility, and
Of the total Inconsistency Of that
same"political chameleon" Express
and promised to go back no further
than two years.
II the case OF the Express has
not been made out to an intelligent
public sufficiently strong to con-
vict it OF the basest SORT of journal
ISM, we ask no verdict against it at
heir hands but we calmly submit
TO the jury, the people, the taxpay-
rr-, aud the lovers of their homes,
10 again read our Quotations"
and say upon their deliberate
Judgment, that the EXpress-whose
politics are unknown-and sup
posed to be both Republican and
Democratic for revenue only, is a
consistent journal"
Purchased as Republican paper
from Messrs. Siemering and New.
comb, under the name Of "Free
Press" paper that at least was in
master hands and never inconsist-
ent-the thought suggested itself
TO the new management to call it.
self DE- mocratic; no Democrat in
southwest Texas was caught by
| it's chat and it was tolerated as a
newspaper OF some enterprise only.
Its incessant wars upon the lead
ers Of Democracy soon stripped
the sleeps clothing from the wolf,
and turned it loose as a preten.
tious guerrilla journal. Coke,
Mills and Hogg had the pleasure
OF it's opposition, and theirs was
success; George Clark had it's sup
port and went down in defeat.
In strictly local matters, who
does not remember it's advocacy Of
the purchase OF a $1,000 600 water
works plant; its opposition to any
effort TO restrict grasping private
| corporations in their eXorbitant
demands for fulfillment of almost
usurious contracts against the in
terests of the taxpayers; who does
not know, how side by side
with Mr.. CallagLan it fous hit
the late Mayer Paschai, in
his successful efforts, through
the assistance OF his mayor pro-
tenn, now Mayor EImendorf, to
give us system Of sanitary sew
ers, and who has forgotten how it
assailed the same poor taxpayers,
when through their representa-
tives in the City Council, they
sought TO ameliorate their condi-
ton by demanding cheaper water,
cheaper light, and cheaper
knowledge of the city's affairs by a
much cheaper official journal.
1t could hardly fail for "Looking
Backwards" to convince the Ex-
press own readers of its political
rOttenness, and il in exposing it, it
incidentally helped the Business
mems or Taxpayers, or Indepen-
dent ticket, "A Taxpayer" feels
gratitied to know it, particularly
now, when the opposition to the
best ticket ever offered to the suf-
fragans Of the city, tell their
satraps and hirelings to read that
same Express, and accept it as
their political guide.
II the Express is right now, it
was certainly wrong when it ad-
vised two years ago, to do away
with a rotten city administration,
and to supercede 1t by one Of I'M
Improbable honesty and business
skill.
AS a supporter Of the entire FL
mendorf ticket, 1 intended to do
my duty toward my fellow citi-
zens, and while the subject "getting
the Express against itself" is not
anyways near exhausted, l have
actually become disguised with it's
change since two years ago, and
with it's efforts to assist the political
combination now known as the Big
Six, with it's strenuous efforts to
defeat Judge Noonan over an auto
cratically called convention, by
factions of two parties, and more
recently with lending it's columns,
for pay, against the interests Of its
best supporters and class of bust
ness men who would never stoop