San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-16
SHORT sNAPpERs.

The easiest man humbugged is the
easiest man pleased.
A straddling newspapers opinions
carry but little weight.
John Campbell: that trap smells
bad; don't walk into it.
DIR. Whitaker should copyright that
idea of 16 votes for 81.
Bart DeWitte will be satisfied to
hold on to what he now has,
The black and tans have proclaimed
their endorsement of the Express.
The Gossipper begins to,show signs
of a stiffening of the spinal column.
1.-The itch for office, has even struck
a few LILLY Whites in North Texas.
There will be strong ticket in the
county this year against the combine.
Is the purchase of the new grave
yard by the city one of the dead is
sues?
DR.. Lindners sub" snarles with
jealousy at his more prosperous con-
temporaries.
The Sunday Law reformers have
evidently not been across the creek"
for some time.
Col. Silver-Dem-Pop. Minor should
see that a straight ticket is nominated
| in BeXar county.
The colored folks in San Antonio
will make mistake if they attempt to
raise the race cry.
No one wants another morning pa
per in San Antonio bad enough to put
up about 100000.
Mr.. "Gossipper" in the Express,
seems to have overlooked George
Walker in his taffy column.
The heightened club gambler is just
as guilty of violating the law as the
little ''tin horn crap shooter.
The old market house on Market
street would make a good Police sta
ton and, Recorders court room.
Plate matter and bargain sales ev-
en- knock out the Mergenthalers in Tie
Sunday morning blanket sheets.
Judge Noonan must continue in the
middle of the road. No dead weight
from the courthouse is desirable.
The membership roll of the Demo
| Pop-Silver club does not contain any
of the influential courthouse boys.
If public man won't be true to his
own convictions. will he be true to the
best interests of his constituents?
It's about time some enterprising al
derman would suggest the building of
that much needed market house.
A combine of the German and AM
erican vote in San Antonio would
sweep the deck clean of official cor
ruption.
Only one distinguished white gem.
man" attended the recent Quincy ban
quet and reception. They say he
made a speech.
The legislator who helped to pass
''the siX-shooter law" should-not walk
around our streets carrying big gun
in his hip pocket.
A man who says: Dam the newspa-
pers,' may some day find himself in
the same fix as the fellow who said:
"Dam the Dutch" f-..
The last issue of the Lantern read
as if it had not been edited at all.
It's hog wash must have been written
by some two-bit lOafer
The candidate who attempts to Sc
cure votes because he is n Methodist
or Baptist or Catholic or Jew, should
be tabooed by the people.
The Influential Republicans who
sent word to Judge Noonan to stay
away until the courthouse deal was
completed have not yet been answer
ed.
Hetty Green's boy is looming up as
favorite in the black belt for state
Kchairman. Hetty's boy is a well
heeled' game cock and smokes cigar
cites.
Col. Finley, one of the boosters
for the silverite Fulton, will probably
not say much about his membership
in the committee of 70 during the cam
paign.
| No Office hunter or Office holder
should be chosen on political exec
utive committee. When he does he
should hand in his resignation at
| once.
Our city attorney, (under a Repub-
can mayor,)is working so hard organ