San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-01-09
LOCAL POLITICS.
(BY OUR DEMOCRATIC CONTRADICTORY

(BY OUR DEMOCRATIC CoNTRIBUToR)
The LIGHT Of the End inst. under
the heading Of "a Sample Ticket"
furnishes the only sensible means
OF voting that ought to be used at
a Observation-Disclosures. At the
last state and county election,
neither the Democrats, nor Repub-
licans had county ticket, although
by courtesy or for some other rea.
son our Commissioners court gave
one column to very small Re-
publican faction, in Difference to a
few persons who called them
selves a party. There will be no
genuine party ticket in the field at
the coming city election unless the
Populists again desire to see their
weakness in our midst.
Had the ticket you propose been
adopted in November last, l firmly
believe few of the officers now
counted in would see their competi.
tors the successful candidates; for
your ticket Is so much easier I'M
derstood than complicated affair
that is liable to make mistakes,
intentional or otherwise, and 1t is
through such errors or mistakes
that the intelligent voter can be
defeated Of his rights, and ignor-
ance and fraud run into bossism.
Our people have been used
to non-partisan city elections,
and here better than elsewhere
politics may be eschewed, and the
best business men Of all parties,
men worthy of confidence, selected
to guard the municipal interests.
There is an imperative demand
that 1t should be so at this time,
for, too long have party organiza-
tions been disrupted to at once re-
sumo and offer-after years Of cor
ruption in managing conventions
and elections by a set Of political
bosses of loose adherence to
any party-an unimpeachable
ticket on 80 short a notice. The
Democratic party under its pres
ent chairman may find the means
to purify it before the great cam
paign Of 1896 overtakes us, and
when that is done we will
be able to offer thereafter a
set Of candidates that will
command the respect of all
opposition and the hearty support
of it's members. Bossism and
strangling is not our present DEM
ocratic chairman's aim, and when
he announced that he was not
committee and only its chairman,
he told truth, that had it been
followed by our congressional chair
man of few days standing only,
and by an appointment unknown
to any mem Der OF an ignored COM
mittee, perhaps a solid Democratic
delegation would still represent us
in congress. Still we are satisfied
with the result, since the election
Of spotless Republican in our dis
trict was an element in the con-
domination OF bossism in politics.
But away with the past, let
us look to the future; municipal
bossism was downed to the tune
OF $500 votes on February 13, 1898,
and two years is hardly long
enough for it to have recovered
sufficiently to put it in fighting
condition now.
Now who will lead the spoils-
men and the slaves Of bosses up to
the polling places to cast a vote
against the aims Of the late Mayor
Paschal.
Hereafter when the disastrous
policies of joint politics are dissolv-
ed and disused, when each party,
fairly and thoroughly organized
puts forth its best people 1t may be
pardonable to put out party
ticket for the city again, but until
this is done, the best people Of all
parties will vote for those who will
best look to the welfare, progress
and healthfulness OF our city, be
they Republicans, Populist or
Democrats.