San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-04
CAMPAIGN DYNAMITE.
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For The Daily Light:
Contrary to expectation neither Mr..
Levy nor Judge Callaghan have with
drawn from the mayoralty race. But,
then, there yet remains four days be-
fore the election for them to settle
their differences. pool their issues and
determine which shall play the star
role in the martyr act and immediate
himself upon the harmony" altar.
Seriously, can one, single tenable
reason be urged or assigned why Au-
gustus Levy or Bryan Callaghan
should be elected mayor at the ap-
preaching election? No; not a single
one.
Under which dynasty, that Of Bryan
and Nat, or Thad and Joe? Citizens,
with one acclaim, announce, Neither!
Judge Callaghan is not a rich man,
neither is Mr.. Levy. Why should
the citizens of San Antonio compel
them to reliquish a position paying
them $1,000 or $4,000 a year to serve in
one that legitimately pays only $4,000?
1t is ungenerous, unkind, to ask or re-
quire them to make such a sacrifice.
Has any act of Mayor Elmendorfs
administration equalled in ignorance
and extravaganza that of Mayor Cal
laghan's in the condemnation of the
Grandjean property, wherein $4,000 of
the taxpayers money was wantonly
and indefensibly squandered? Sins
of omission may be laid at Elmendorf's
door, but surely none of commission.
The chief complaint urged against
Mayor Elmendorf by his rivals and
their followers is that he refused to
recklessly plunge the city into an
ocean of debt and bankruptcy. Be-
yond this, they have no charges to pre-
fer nor complaints to utter.
Should such an improbable event as
the election of Mr.. Levy take place,
doubtless Hon. Edward Dwyer would
be selected to fill out his unexpired
term as district attorney. In the like
improbable event of the election Of
Judge Callaghan, Hon. Joe Dwyer, heir
presumptive, would most probably be
invested with the judicial toys and
draw pay as county judge for the en-
suing two years. Selak!
The growth of Mayor Elmendorf's
strength is a matter of surprise, amaz-
ing as unexpected. Two weeks ago,
even one week ago, those best inform
ed were at sea and 10th to express an
opinion as to the result. Today, the
subject is not one of any doubt. 1t
would create no surprise if Elmendorf
should receive a majority over both
his opponents; provided of course, both
remain in the field, which is hardly
probable.
1t cannot be said that the growth of
Mr.. Elmendorf's strength is due to any
special personal popularity or of I'M
popularity of the gentlemen opposing
him. 1t is due solely and entirely up
conditions upon which the candidates.
OF Messrs. Levy and Callaghan are
based. The sober. conservative, re-
fecting citizen and Taxpayer cannot
reconcile the utterances of those gen.
tlemen with their acts. They cannot
conceive why they should be so an
xious to relinquish remunerative offices
to which they have been only recently
elected. merely to assume the cares and
burdens and responsibilities of another
which yields them scarce half the sal
airy. They feel and believe that there
is some Interior purpose to be served, /
and that that purpose is not one which
will rebound to the interests of the
people nor the benefit of the city.
There is another cause, none the less
potent than that above advanced.
There is an universal belief in the. COM
whether we'll founded or not.
that Judge Callaghan is the special
friend and champion of corporate in
terests, and that in a large measure