San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-04-30
LOOKING BACKWARD.
From the Daily LIGHT April sOth, 1894
SHORT STOPS.
WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING.

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WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING.
(By Col. James p. Newcomb.)
The people are trying to think
over and discuss their local affairs
free from personalities. 1t is i'm
material, so far as the facts and
the argument is concerned, whether
the writer of "Short Stops" holds
down a city sinecure or not. And
so far as the Express, our only
morning paper, is concerned, its
one-slded opposition to the present
city administration can be account
ed for without resortiug to per-
sOnal reflections upon its paid
editors or reporters.
The people may be disposed to
charge sOrdid motives to the Ex-
press, but this would not answer
any argument that the paper may
set up. The Express was entitled
to the fat sinecure of official Jour-
nal that it held down for so many
years under the past administra-
ton, and cannot be blamed for be.
ing hot at "Dr. Pedrito Paschal,"
as they call him, for pulling them
of the public teat.
The item for city printing and
advertising under the past admin
istration was set down in the an
nual budget at $4,000, and under
the present administration at ST.
800 OF which the LIGHT received
the sum OF $1,000 for the official adj
vertising OF the last year. So, at
least, the official journal under
Mayor PaschaI has ceased to be a
fat sinecure.
Now the Express should not
show it teeth and howl just because
"Short Stops" hold down a city Of
flee, created by charter, that was
never before discovered to be a
sinecure. The office OF recorders
clerk is the only sineCure our enter
prising 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 Pas
chal DR.. Pcdrito Paschal," just be-
cause Don Peurito didn't make the
Express the official journal.
Well, Paschal ought not to get
angry. "Don Pedrito" seems to be
very shrewd old man and much
sought after, and believed in, and
very freely advertised by the EX-
press. So, if anybody is hum
plugged, the firm Of Pedrito & En-
press are guilty.
But, maybe it's not because Pas
chal gave the public advertising to
the lowest bidder, instead of the
Express, that they call him pet
names, such as CDR. Pedrito Pas
chal," but because Mayor Paschal
won't agree with them about water
works, etc. OF course calling Mayor
Paschal "Dr. Pedrito PasCha" is
knock down argument.
Mayor Paschaps message upon
the annual budget was document
every citizen was entitled to read,
and especially as the Express has
thought it worthy OF criticism and
ridicule. Yet the Express wanted
90 cents line to furnish it to its
readers.
Don Pedrito may be fake and
a fraud but he comes very much
nearer being an angel Of light than
the Express does OF being first
class Newspaper.
No wonder the people have so
little confidence or respect for the
opinions Of the Express politically,
religiousIy 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 appreciate fair criticism,
and home discussion, and even if
the discussion of a public measure
should drift into an occasional per-
sonality it is better than no dis
cussion at all. But what they do
expect of their newspapers is the
publication of the facts, from
which thnu can draw their own