San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-27
SUNDAY SHORT SNAPS.

SUNDAY SHORT SNAPS.
Big Tamale is happy; Boerner threw
up his white flag, before the first gun
was fired.
Let's prepare to turn over new leaf
for the New Year, in discarding per-
sonal politics.
How many aldermen and other. city
officials have read the city charter
and ordinances?
Every candidate who runs for city
office as the candidate of combine
wears the badge Of fraud.
We don't want any man for mayor
who will tell us: well do in the flu
ture as we have in the past"
What good citizen wants our ballot
boxes controlled by the votes of the
imported poems from Mexico?
Give the old political hacks rest;
there are plenty of men i'm San AntO-
Mo who would make good mayors.
Suspend about four market masters
and we might save little money to
sprinkle few of our dusty streets.
The waters of political oblivion
seem to have closed over Judge
Boerner as well as his late opponent.
The oath of office must have stuck
in some Of our recently elected cOun-
ty officers-they don't visit the saloons
any more. ~
VIII the intelligent people of this
city permit half dozen office-holders
to dictate who shall constitute their
city tickets?
About the only and most important
amendments needed to the city char
ter, is the cutting down of the big
salaries, and looping off the numer-
Gus sinecures.
Can the city's finance committee
tell the people what has become of
the 100000 supposed to be in the
sinking fund?
Now, let the candidates fortmayor
come out and discuss the city prob
lem. People would like to see how
much they know about it.
There are 5000 unpurchasable votes
in this city-enough to carry any tick
ct that may be put out, even without
the endorsement of the Big Six.
Can the treasurer, auditor, collector,
or even Col. Bill Hoefling, who has no
doubt. read some in the city charter,
tell something about the sinking
fund?
1t may need the vote of every good,
intelligent American citizen in San
Antonio to put down the officehold-
ers' combine and their Mexican allies,
but it can be done.
Was Alderman Mackey persuaded
to pull down his warrant resolution
to please the hard working money
lenders. A certificate of service" is
good enough for a working man.
What is an oath of office? Answer:
Why, it must be something like
glass of beer-it goes down the throat
of courthouse politician without
causing any trouble to the conscience.
When a smart man tells the public
that we need a new city charter in
stead of new city government it
shows that he don't know the differ
ence between city charter and dog
pound.
The Menger ought to have suits of
rooms with sliding holes in the parti-
tition to accommodate diamond mer-
chants from Cuba-it would save cut
ting the plaster.
Col Claudon, who really put in
good portion of his time while city
clerk taking care of the mayors Of
flee. while Mr.. Callaghan was out
fishing. says he would not object to
being city auditor: he can do the work
without the assistance of a clerk
DIR. Rose wants a new city charter
because he wants our streets clean
ed; that's about as good a reason as
some of the aldermen can give. The
DR. has evidently never read the
charter-and would not know what
a city charter was if he met it in the
road.
THE FLORES FAN.