San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-04
WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING
From the Evening Journal.

Put in Callaghan or Levy and the
Big Six will kiss and make up and
the city hall, as has the courthouse,
will pass under the control of the Of
| ficeholders' trust.
Thad and Joe are behind Levy and
Nat and John are hustling Callaghan,
and it is another case of heads l win,
tails you lose, for if it's Levy or Gala
CHAN, Thad, Joe, Nat, JOhn-Augustus
and Bryan win and the people lose.
The love of Bryan and Augustus for
| each other has never been surpassed
and equalled only by Jonathan for
David or Damon for Pythias.
Some people say Lewy's ticket is
like a rope of sand in that it is going
to pieces of its own weight.
1t looks as if poor Levy will inside
of a week be like kite without a
taail; he will get to wabbling.
They say that while Mayor Gala
CHAN sold the city two lots for gar
bage purposes, which have never been
not worth $50 piece today.
They say it would be more becoming
in Callaghan and Levy to talk less
about other people paying taxes I'M
less they pay their own.
The presumption is that Callaghan's
auditor knew it was wrong to use the
sinking fund except to pay bonds and
refused to draw it out, as there is one
warrant drawn on the treasurer for
$4,000 signed by Callaghan and his
clerk.
The blunder made by Callaghan in
condemnig the st. Mary's street
property cost the taxpayers $4,000.
1t is ineXcusable and would over,
whelm a more modest man than Cal
laghan with such feeling of incom-
potency and reckleSSness that he
would not have the hardihoOd to ask
| the people to restore him to any po-
Sition requiring the exercise or care
| or Judgment.
Lewy'S stock in trade is that used
by the demagogue, in that he criti-
ciSeS Elmendorf about the amount of
San Antonio National banks assess
ment. Levy knows that man now
on the Callaghan ticket received the
assessments and the equalization
board passed on them.
Elmendorf's experience as a busi-
ness man has taught him what Gala
CHAN and Levy yet have to learn.
And that is, that to increase the rate
of city taxes will be to seriously re-
tard and impede the city's growth.
Elmendorf realizes that taxes must
be reduced or held down, and that
it can only be done by reducing cur
rent expenses. Hence the great cut
in expenses made by his administra-
ton.
If the voters want Kampmann,
Breckenridge and Weiss and their
corporate associates to suck the very
life-blOod out of the city and to end
in having some member of the office
holders trust appointed receiver of
her remains, vote for Callaghan and
his ticket
If the suffragans of San Antonio
want every interest and industry
guarded and protected; if they want
individuals protected against corporate
greed and the rich and poor, the CAPT
talists and laborer accorded equal and
exact justice under municipal laws,
and the city kept financially in n
healthy condition.; her credit advanced
to a premium and her growth made
ment certain, vote for Elmendorf and
every man on his ticket.
There should have been $110, 1925
in the sinking fund when Callaghan
went out of office. 1t was not there.
What went with it? TASK Ferdy about
it,.
Callaghan increased the general
fund indebtedness at the rate of $10O-,
600 a year, Elmendorf reduced it ut
the rate of $72, S32. IA year, showing
saving to the city under ElmendOrf
as against Callaghan of S1T2,S32 per
year.
Levy says he would save the city
money by refunding her interest bear
ing Indebtedness as a lower rate of
interest. "a Daniel hath come to
Judgment" Facts are Mr.. ElmendOrf
las Levy doubtless knOws) has been
trying to do this very thing ever since
his induction into Office, but owing
to the cloud of financial depression
that has hung like q pail over the en-
tire country, has been unable to do so.
But all must cOncede that Elmen-
DORIS ability and opportunities on ac-
count of business connections 10 ac-
cOmplish these results are superior
to those of Levy.
Who wants a man with more back
bone than Elmendorf displayed in
handling the sewer contract? When
they wanted to dictate the actions of
the city in handling the fund Elmen-
dorf let them step down and out and
contracted with other persons who
would comply with the contract.
VOX POPULI.