San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-06
THE TRUE ISSUE.
To the DAILY LIGHT:

tress and eutrench itself in power
and bid defiance to the people. No
man who is in his right senses and
who scorns to lie and cozen, will
seek to deny, or varnish over the
fact that the Big Six constitute a
ring, a close corporation,
and most detestable oil
carey in Bexar county. Facts
demonstrate the fact. No man
In Bexar, no matter what may be
his worth and fitness, can obtain
any county office unless he stands
in with the Big Six and flatters
and upholds the County Ring. The
least display Of independence Of
mind and manliness Of spirit
draws down on an individual the
wrath Of the Big Six and excludes
him from public office. ask every
citizen il this be not literally and
indisputably true?
Judge Callaghan is fully identi-
fed with this detestable ring. He
is in full accord and sympathy
with it. The most notorious facts
prove the truth Of this assertion.
He was brought into the field for
Mayor by the Big Six. Every man
is aware Of this fact, since it is no.
torious and undeniable.
Who constituted that commit
tee of fifty at Mission garden?
Messrs. Thad. Smith, Cassiano,
Froboese and Nat Lewis were on
that committee. All the other
members were thorough paced
creatures and parasites Of the Big
Six, who sneeZe whenever the Big
Six take pinch of snuff and cring9
and cover when they crack their
whip.
1t is in vain for Judge Gala
ghan's partiZans to attempt to
deny these facts and to mislead
and cOzen the people. 1t is pitt
full begging Of the question for
them to urge that nobody can ex-
ercise influence over Judge Gala
CHAN, should he be elected mayor,
as the past acts Of Bexar show Just
the contrary. While he was the
chairman Of tho Democratic Exc.
cutive committee, OF Bexar, he
never failed to play into
the hand of the county ring
even to the running Of the
organization Of the Democratic
party. While he was mayor, he
USED all his personal and official
influence to aid and elect the coun-
ty ring, and, in the elections in
1886, 1888 and 1890, he gave the
ring the influence and support Of
the entire city government. When
Jose Cassiano was defeated in 1886,
by the people, Mayor Callaghan APP
pointed him to city office, in con-
tempt OF the verdict of the people.
In 1892 and 1894 he ran on the
county ring ticket.
With Judge Callaghan in the
office Of mayor and a subservient
council, the city government will
be under the control Of the county
ring and be the executor of it's
favors and its prescriptions. The
policy of the city government will
be so shaped as to strengthen the
hands and perpetuate the power OF
the county ring. That such will
be the certain result admits OF no
sort OF doubt, or question. The
policy and measures of the city
government will be settled and de-
cided, in secret conclave in some
back room, by the Big Six, and the
controlling consideration will be
the strengthening Of the power of
the Big Six or county ring.
Will 1t be beneficial to San
Antonio to be bound hand and foot
by the letters Of the! county: ring?
Tammany aptly illustrates the evil
results OF ring rule. Bexar county
exemplifies the corrupting and
blighting effects of ring rule. 1t
has made our election styes of
fraud, corruption and bribery. A
county officer has been acting for
three months, without taking the
oath OF office required by the
statute. Another county official is
under indictment for bribing vot-
ers. The ring has for years car
ried Bexar by the vote of imported
aliens and by other frauds.
The people now have a fine OPP
portunity OF dealing a death blow
to the County Ring, and effecting
a publication of our election and
our political methods. They have
but to elect the Independent, or
Elmendorf ticket by a tidal wave
majority, to break the neck OF the
Ring. 1t is the bounden duty of
every man who loves freedom and
his country, and loathes ringism
and ring rule as a positive curse,
to use all his zeal and energy to