San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-18
POLITICAL BOMB SHELLS

| on the city hall ticket for collector;whC
paid it and who got the money?
II $500 was paid to leave a blank
on the city hall ticket for county
clerk, who paid it, and who got the
money?
What two candidates on the court
| house ticket are in the deal to cut the
throat of Judge Camp?
What candidate offered a colored
man $500 if he would guarantee a
blank line on the Republican ticket
for county collector?
What two candidates on the court
house ticket are in collision with the
city hall ticket to knife John Camp
bell, Nat Lewis and Bryan Callaghan?
What candidates on the city hall
ticket are pulling for the two blanks
on their aggregation?
The $500 assessment knocked Ben
KioIbassa clean out of the brick yard.
John Campbell is in danger in the
house of his supposed friends.
If doughnuts were dollars could
Slayden pay off his unfortunate cred
itors?
Gambling in futures may be cOnsid-
cred a good school to learn the free
silver doctrine but the day of reckon
ing in good gold dollars has overtaken
more men than silver candidates for
congress.
Slayden is chasing butterflies on
the frontier but his friends are get
ting bluer and bluer every day.
If it takes a dollars worth of paper
to make a good paper dollar, how
many Slaydens would it take to make
a good silver dollar?
Slayden is not bad fellow by any
means-it's his party that is rotten.
Judge Noonan is as good as elect
ed now but the people should add a
few thousand more votes as an extra
endorsement.
Bob IngersOll says a gold coin with
julius Caesar on it as good today
as when that great Roman rode at
the head of his legiOns-that kind of
money has good staying qualities.
Frost's large wool storage houses
are now used as a stable and carriage
house; see what free wool has done
for San Antonio, and yet there are a
lot of crazy people who say they will
vote for Slayden.
Eli Cole, an old San AntOnian, now
in business in Mexico, is a staunch
gold man and hopes his own country
will never be cursed with cheap sill
yer dollars.
Texas is in danger of visitation
of hordes of starved out Mexican Ia
borers after Mckinley is elected.
Public cryer Copeland is a dandy
to boost cigars and candidates.
If it was Copeland instead of Stay
den the Popocrats might command an
audience. Cope can hold his own
with windbag Bryan.
Judge Noonan has proven himself
to be a veteran campaigner and is
as fresh as a rose while Slayden is
bagging at the knees.
Bright weather makes bright faces.
EVERYBODY who can cast an honest
vote should register.
Registrar Shardien would do SER
vice to his country by extending his
legal accumen to the Indian intention
paper voters. II a good American
white man who has served his coun-
try we'll enough to be put on retired
pay can't vote, we had better turn
our ballot box over to the heather
Chinese.
If John B. Walter could get away
from the Ell Paso court he could
walk into a good county office.
The Republican state ticket is still
in the field, and don't you forget it.
o. II. Skinner begins to look like a
county treasurer more and more every
hour; a good many people want Geo.
Paschars advice fOllowed-open the
books!
The Slayden literary bureau is hard
up when they print and distribute a
false congressional record on Judge
NOOnan.
The Republican county ticket has
just enough blanks to make it inter
esting to some Of the other fellows.
Judge Jack Evans is too sick man
to enter the local campaign.