San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-01
or $4,000 a year to scramble for one
which legitimately pays but $4,000.

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Railway companies bending every en-
ergy to secure the election of Judge
Callaghan as mayor. And it looks no
less suspicious to see the candidacy
of Mr.. Levy backed and bolstered by
the professional office-holders' trust
headed by Thad Smith and Jose Cas-
siano. Intelligent citizens can draw
their own conclusions.
The election of Judge Callaghan
would place the citizens and taxpayers
at the mercy of the corporations; the
election of Mr.. Levy would place
them at the mercy of an unconsciona-
BILE ring Of professional politicians.
Can the sensible, intelligent, rational
citizen consent to place himself and
his neighbOr at the mercy of either?
The friends of both Mr.. Levy and
Judge Callaghan should insist that
they resign their present offices be-
fore they ask support for another.
But they have got too much sunse to
| resign.
Both Judge Callaghan and Mr.. Levy
were recently elected for period of
two years to offices which yield them
respectively an annual revenue of
from $4,000 to $4,000. Why do they
desire to exchange them for one which
yields but $1,000 per annum and en-
tails much greater labor? 1t is a pa
triotic and unselfish motive to serve
only the people? Tell that to the ma
rines-or the MeXicans.
Col Geo. w. Breckenridge is blithe-
ly sailing DER the deep blue main, but
its dollars to doughnuts that he con-
tributed at least $1,000 to a certain
campaign fund before he started on
his journey. And he will expect to
get it back with interest, too, in the
way of increased water rates to con-
sumers, if his candidate is elected.
For a man of limited means, Mr..
Levy has been wonderfully success
ALPHABETICALLY. But then he has al
ways had Thad and Jose to boost
and back him.
Mr. Levy was city attorney for two
years and district attorney for like
period. If all the cOTruptiOns and
uldllGdSduCe eAlSlS VI tAlSleu WHICH
he charges in our city affairs, has he
not been grossly direlict in his duty
in not bringing the offenders to jus
tice, or at least in seeking to bring
them to justice?
The election of Levy would give
Thad and Joe as firm a grip on the
city as they have on the county gov
eminent. Is there q single resident
Of San Antonio who desires such
cOnSummatiOn?
1t need create no surprise to learn
at any moment of the withdrawal
Of either Levy or Callaghan. They
as we'll as their supporters know that
neither can be elected in the triangu-
lar contest, and as their motto is.
anything to beat Elmendorf," and
as their candidates. are of n cOmpan-
ion character, they will doubtless
pool their differences and one or the
other retire from the race.
The Levy campaign-but what's
the use of galvanizing a corpse?
Every one recognizes the contest. if
it can be dignified by such n term,
is narrowed down to race between
Elmendorf and Callaghan. with the
latter left at the post.
1t is not pleasant to contemplate an
early raise in existing water rates.
And yet that is just what may be an
ticipated in the improbable event of
Callaghan's election.
Chief Justice Chas. NJ. Barnes and
Chancellor Selig Deutschmann are
the active and prominent managers
of Mr.. Lewy's campaign, but behind
those learned jurists loom up Thad
and Joe like a lighthouse in fog.
They pull the strings which set the
candidate a-jumping.
No one should be deferred from vot-
ing for Mr.. Thomas Il. Johnson for
treasurer by the belief that his cleo
ton would tend in the slightest degree
to interfere with the publication of the
Light or curtail its proportions as the
best afternoon newspaper in Texas.
The Light will take no step backward,
regardless of the way the wind blows
or the election goes.
If Mr. Levy and Judge Callaghan
sincerely believe that they are called
by the people to serve as mayor for
the ensuing two years, why don't
they resign the offices they now hold?
Is it because they are cOnstitutionally
opposed to releasing their molars up
on one sugar teat until they have Sc
cured another more juicy and succu-
lent2 II looks that waV
Both Mr.. Levy and Judge Gala
CHAN pose as reformers and promise
IL elected to inaugurate policy of
economy which shall result in vast
saving to the people. Well and good.
But will they kindly give hint in ad-
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