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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1884.
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Saturday, May 17, 1883.
SHUN 'I HE GAMBLERS.
The spirit of financial speculation, the cen-
tral nerve of which is Wall street, New York,
is one of incredible audacity. Its tendency is
to play upon the confidence of the country, to
suck into its vortex the money representing
the wealth of the country, to invest enough
here and there to obtain control of enterprises,
necessary or unnecessary to the public at pre-
sent, but promising to afford profit for a time
to the stockholders. With speculative and
solid business intermixed what is sunk in the
one branch is drawn from the other, and
the credit system centering at the metropolis
of commerce becomes unsound. Losses of mil-
lions by firms that never possessed millions of
property represent the misplaced confidence
of other parties, and in proportion as the
dealings of Wall street are on account of cor-
res| onding jnstii uti< ins throughout the coun-
try, one concern goes down by leaning upon
another that collapses. People nave been
abundantly warned not to buy shares on mar-
gins, but to buy out and out or not at all.
i'his is the simplest form of precaution. The
speculator deserves no sympathy, receives
none, usually asks none. 'I here will always be
speculators where it is & ■: .:! It; to speculate,
as there will perhaps always ho gamblers In
the ordinary meuniiig oi' the term. Specu-
lation is a form of gambling. The important
■point to be eonnidcn.n is the intermixing of
ambling (alias speculation) withr-jgular busi-
ness. Would any sane 1 anker or merchant in-
trust his funds to an vgnu1 it that agent were
known to be in the i- -'"it ' using his resources
indiscriminately for rc<ul^r buying and -e 11-
ing or for gambling, for lending at interest
on security or betting on a horse race,
and if he were known, for the purpose
of betting, to pay large sums for
the keeping of race-horses, in the hope that
they would win money or sell I'or more than
they cost.' Many speculative investments in
which money from real industry is swallowe l
np art of no more utility than a race horse.
They cost money, but profits if any must come
from the losses of other people. It is neces-
sary not merely to abstain from speculation,
but to refuse to bank with those who specu-
late. Wall street must entirely reform its
methods or cease to have the semblance or any
decent pretense of being the financial center
tor the business of this count r . People might
as well take gambling houses to be their banks
as talre gambling banks for their denositaries.
In the latter case they have their eves open; in
the former they should liav them open, espe-
cially as to Wall street. If the other great
cities of the country remain perfectly solid it
will be a demonstration of the rottenness of
Wall street that should end its supremacy.
Tbet e is a move in Congress to secure more
-trict inspection and better guarantees of the
i olvency of banks. Whatever can be done in
that line is due to the public safety. It will
not do to expect too much, in any real crisis,
whenever such a crisis shall come, from the
I est efforts of the treasury. It may have been
a good expedient, in intention at least, to call
bonds and pay out money therefor, when
mcney suddenly becomes worth '■! percent, a day.
The action of the treasury supplies money.
ri he idea is that such money will be offered
and the stringency will be relieved. Really,
about the only benefit is the confidence created
bj know ing that the government with all its
I ower is on the side of stability and doing
something. What it does is not very specifi-
cally related to the cause of the high rate of
interest. That high rate di 1 not result from
a lactc of money, but from a lack of confi-
dence and a general feeling of insecurity.
Putting several millions in the hands of par-
ses holding bonds and struggling to save
themselves was not the, logic f the treasury,
for the actual owner of the bonds could
always sell them. But the government paid
out the money and took t,ho bonds so that the
former owners of the bonds might be in the
market with money in their hands to lend at
rterett. If, however, the feeling of insecurity
vas great, thej' would uot take their
money into Wall street to lend it. The
K vernn ent could not furnish the induce-
ment to a real capitalist to go into Wall street
f.iid help the concerns that were in need. It
is a melancholy b et. that speculation, from its
v.-rj nature, & ims n.'ou every help to make it
n In.-is of further ' ".tion, precisely as
professional niendicnr.c} feeds upon benevo-
ki ei ;;r.n ] e.rasitie piaius n the vitality of
these tbr.f have root in the g'ound. Til" causa
of the i■! In.]. ' of Fisk \ Hatch was specula-
tion in government bonus ba n I upon the ex-
pectation of the passage by Congress of a bill
to relieve the national banks. The specula-
tive firm bought 4 and 4' < per cent, bonds, ex-
pecting that the bill would and that the
banks would then want to bir more bands,
which would cause a rise. Fisk & Hatch have
1 aid tin.' highest price for the bonds. The bill
lias not yet passed. The boH'S'#'clinod some-
what. Obviously the spennf^yjip' did not buy
the bonds out end out, but contracted for
them on margins, as it was a call for more
money on margins on the bonds that broke
Fisk & Hatch. Such transactions amount to
this, that even the legislation ex-
picted of Congress to relieve the
tacks became a matter of I letting,
e nd to Bitch an extent that a firm reputed to
lie wealthy isroined simple by ihe slight de-
cline of government bonds, occurring when
people were selling such securities to raise
money, doubtless, to cover their margins in
speculative securities. The rule should be to
have no banking business with any firm that
deals in margins. The honest way is to bay
and sell property, shares and bonds, not to
buy options and chances; and also to have no
transactions involving trust in firms that en-
gage in any way in speculative bargains short
of the complete purchase or sale of property,
commodity or security, or the loan of money
on the pledge of the whole value of the pro-
perty by the owner. Here is the line between
gambling and business. Upon this principle
11 e Wall street system must go, and all that is
akin to Wall street money and share methods,
whether it be dealing in produce options or
other options on a capital, judged by the
i.mount of values nominally handlod, only
adapted to gambling, not to mercantile busi-
ness. To the man who has resources sufficient
for a real purchase it is not gambling to buy
on an option. Ho nan lose 3 or 3 or 5 pjr
cent, and retain the property, haviug the
ability to pay for it and hold it. But if ho
speculatively buys twenty times asnluch as he
cun really pay for he is clearly betting his all
that the property will not decline
5 per cent. It is gambling. In sug^estin *
that Wall street methods must go, it is merely
meant that they must be severed from real
business. Like a Bedlam or a leper colony,
let them be 6et apart from what i» sane and
healthy in business. To this end the action of
law and the prudence of individuals and firms
should be united to make it clear who is en-
gaged in gambling. Then shun all credit re-
lations with the parties so engaged in any way
w hatever.
COUNTY CONVENTIONS AND THE
STATE fXECUTlVE COMMITTEE.
The interview with Chairman Claiborne, of
Jhe Democratic state executive committee,
published elsewhere, shows that the Demo-
cratic brethren who imagined that they were
getting in their work for this or that candi-
date for Congress or governor, were a little
previous. The county conventions, called by
order of the chairman, so far, were called to
deal with the single business of selecting dele-
gates to the State convention, to be held at
Fort Worth on June 11, for the selection of
delegates to the National convention. Chair-
man Claiborne has not yet ordered county
conventions for the selection of delegates to
the Houston convention for the nomination of
state officers, nor has he ordered district
conventions for the nomination of mem-
bers of Congress. Presuming that the
chairman is acting under the in-
structions of the State executive committee,
any action of county committees on their
own motion must be regarded as irregular.
Chairman Claiborne states that it is his inten-
tion not to issue a call for county conventions
for the selection of delegates to the Houston
convention until after the Fort Worth conven-
tion. There will be plenty of time to select
delegates to the State convention between tho
8tb of July and the 19th of August. The Fort
Worth convention and the preliminary county
conventions have reference to national poli-
tics. The counties can instruct their delegates
to elect delegates to the National convention
charged to vote for certain per-
sons for president and vice-president,
a, d to promote a certain lino of national
i olicy. When the national ticket is in the
tield, and the party platform promulgated, it
will be naturally in order to send delegate* t >
the State convention to nominate candidates
for state offices and to make a state platform.
If all tho conventions were to be jumbled up
together at the primary meetings, there was
no sense in calling two state conventions. This
action was taken by the executive committee
so as to keep state and national politics as far
apart as possible, and to prevent dickers and
deals between candidates for delegates to the
National convention and candidates for state
offices. If the orders of the execu-
tive committee aVe not carried out by the
county committees, what is the use of having
an executive committee? If a county commit-
tee can act on its own volition in one matter
why not in all? If there is any necessity for
party discipline it should bo exerted by the
high court of tho party; if not, abolish conven-
tions altogether and let us have a free-for-all
race, every candidate standing on his own
merits. Perhaps this last course would on the
whole be the most advisable; it would cer-
tainly be the most democratic, and for this
very reason it will not be looked on with favor
by the party bosses. However, it seems to be
the intention of Chairman Claiborne to carry
out the instructions of the executive commit-
tee, and order conventions at the proper tim9
for the election of delegates to the state aud
congressional conventions. As, presumably,
tho State convention will declare the action of
the chairman regular, the county committees
who have taken time by the forelock and jum-
bled up the whole business together will,
doubless, find themselves badly disappointed
and sorely left.
WAR OF WORDS AT THE STATE
CAPITAL.
The governor of Texas appears to be in no
imminent danger, and yet war hovers over the
state capital. At that place, the civil
authorities, represented by the county at-
torney, and the military authorities, repre-
sented by the Travis Light artillery, are hav-
ing as yot a bloodless contest in the courts aud
the newspapers. It appears that the military
have the advantage in projecting invectives
in the papers, and have the better of the con-
test in the courts, but no one can predict the
ultimate result of the war afterward. Out of
it, experience teaches, there aro likely to be
eerious and unhappy rencounters. The news-
paper controversy abounds in unparliamentary
language. Epithets are provokiugly hurled
by the military men and by the
chief of police or city marshal, such as are
likely to lead to affrays. Out of it finally
may come some one qualified as Ben Thomp-
son's successor. In a trial of the artillerists
for shotting their guns in the city, tin county
attorney, who made the complaint and who
proved the offense, it is said, was utterly
beaten, the jury taking sides with the soldiers.
It was a bad time for the civil officer to make
this issue with the .military. The soldiers are
fresh from their victories at Houston. A. man
without a uniform and sword or guu is at
great disadvantage in any contest with
the bold soldier boys. At present
the civilian is held at a "largo discount. Ha
had better discreetly recognize his status. A
soldier's scSiled garb takes even with the fair
sex more than that of the dandiest of dudes.
I'ossibly it is tho protest of the timos against
these stifling days of peace, but certainly all
over the country there is a growing favor to-
ward the soldiery. Probably the governor and
the adjutant-general may be able to keep the
peace, but from a perusal of the Austin papers
it appears that there is blood on the moon. The
artillery has been spiked, it is true, by some in-
dignant civilian, but who can spike all the six-
shooters and bowie knives? If the editors had
spiked the unparliamentary and provoking
letters submitted for publication it would have
been better for all concerned.
A Turki^j diplomat remarked to an Ame-
rican that we should pronounce Tevflk, not
Tewflk. He did not explain why Americans
and English people get wrong. The general
reason is one that suggests a revision in the
manner of spelling many foreign names. It is
this: We get words through the German,
French and other languages. A German would
writo Tewflk and pronouuee it Tevflk. The
French write Khartoum and pronounce it
K1 artoom, khedive and pronounce it kay-deev,
with i he accent on the first syllable. The
name of the Russian newspaper, tho New Era
or New Times, is pronounced Novoye Vremya.
The Germans, to write this sound, have to
spell Nowoje Wremja. It is often copiei from
the German. Czar ought to oespelled tsir in
Fnglish to give the sound, and Suwarow
should be Suvaroff. There ought to be no ob-
jection to a plain English spelling of the sound
of names from such languages as have an en
tirely different alphabet, and which can not
therefore be copied from the original—the
Turkish, Arabic, Russian, etc.—that is to say,
as far as our barbarous alphabet can be made
to indicate sounds.
The "forgotten woman" almost failed to
get alluded to in Mr. Blaine's book. In look-
ing over the table of contents of the entire vol-
ume, we find only one little single reference to
any woman being alive in the United States
from the time it became a nation up to the
present day, and that is that, in enumerating
the aggravations piled on General Stone dur-
ing the war, he was denied a visit from his
wife. Save that one accidental allusion, there
was not a Woman in the whole country worth
mentioning. Not a word as to Martha Wash-
ington, not a line as to Abigail Adams, not a
scratch about Mrs. Madison, not a remark on
Harriet Lane, nor a whisper as to Mrs. Lincoln
or any of the first ladies of the land. Bessie
Bramble, in the Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch, notes
the peculiar fact.
The reconciliation between the English Con-
servative leaders, which was foreshadowed by
Lord Randolph Churchill's speech before tho
Tory members, was finally scaled and ratified
by a meeting between Sir Randolph and the
Marquis of Salisbury. The former agrees to
be a more tractable follower of the Marguis of
Salisbury.
Tite shares & the Atlantic cable companies
forming the present pool are noticeably
affected by the new transatlantic enterprise
of the Commercial Cablo company, and fluctu-
ate daily according to tho progress reported
made by the steamer Faraday in laying tho
new cable. »
The progressists who were invited to Prince
Bismarck's reception the other .evening did
not attend.
The Greenbackers can now ask themselves
whether they can trust Weaver. He would
like to put up Butler and Holman as a Demo-
cratic-Greenback combination. Holman is a
straight Tilden Democrat without sympathy
for Weaver's late party or its principle.
. The following gein in the way of an apology
for Blaine in his relations to a railroad com-
pany, some years ago, appears in a Republican
paper, the Wilmington (Del.) News;
TVe conceive that some allowance should be made
to Mr. Blnine for the speculative public atmos-
phere in which he was then living. The injury
done to public habit* and public morals by the war
lias not yetlieen repaired. The country had grown
rapidly and in almost every direction, aud the
moral adjustments required by a sensitive and
scrupulous care for reputation under these new
mid alluring conditions had not yet been perfected.
It was the period and the atmosphere which pro-
duced the moiety frauds on the treasury, the whis-
ky ring, and liindred but lesser abominations.
The mjaning of which appears to be, they
all did it.
Wonder if anything more will come out
about the use of duplicate pay accounts ? m
A further report shows that the titled
Briton who languishes in jail at Clerkenwoll
is a wretch whose degradation and poverty
have long been matters of notoriety. He is
the poorest nobleman in tho House of Peers,
never having had more than £40 a year in-
come from his property. His wife was rich,
but she obtained a divorce from him last year
for his misconduct.
Within a few hours after Mr. Watterson
telegraphed to his paper that—
There is no doubt but the majority of the dele-
gates to the convention (Kentucky) are heartily in
favor of our admirable Old Saddlebags. Several
of Mr. Carlisle's hero-worshipers are Industriously
working a boom for the speaker. Tlioy claim that
Kentucky should instruct tor him without a dissent-
ing vote. It is hardly possible that the convention
will take this view ot it. There is practically no
sentiment in that direction.
The convention passed a resolution indorsing
Carlisle for president, and said nothing of Old
f addlebags. Amateur reporting by the editor-
in-cLief must go.
Bismarck proposes to take care of the work-
ingman at the expense of the state. Bis-
marck's paternal state will bo apt to exorcise
all the authority such a relationship allows.
Perhaps the workingman will not be held to
labor, but it will be strange If the stato takes
care of him without exercising a correspond-
ing authority, so far as the arrangoment ex-
tends.
If tho proposed commissioners are appointed
to junket down in South America, would it
not be more to the purpose to provide that
they shall be proficient in tho Spanish lan-
guage than to authorize three of them to
employ one clerk having such proficiency
One or more of them should be proficient in
the Portuguese language if Brazil is not to ba
ignored. The sum of $70,000 isn't worth
talking about, however, the time of Congress
is so precious.
" The victory thus far is all to tho advan-
tage of the Republicans," says tho Albany
Evening Journal, referring to the striking out
of the enacting clause of the Morrison bill.
To the advantago of the bosses possibly, but
when a Republican pays two prices for the
necessaries of life, he is not participating in
an appreciable manner in the victory.
Rather strange that Mary Anderson has
rot beiome engaged to a Scotch lord. She has
been between Edinburgh and Glasgow for a
whole week, and still the cablo has boon silent
about mashes made on the susceptible Scotch
heart. Grandpa Griffin must be taking his
vacation, or this golden opportunity would
not bo wasted.
If the Republican convention shouid con-
clude to nominate Grant, the following plank
would suit handsomely in the platform;
"Spend the surplus."
A sensational scene of an unusual kind,
even in Irish murder trials, occurred at Car-
rick-on-Suir, county Tipperary, Ireland, on the
10th instant. The victim of tho supposed
murder was Michael Blaney, of Kilcash, whose
body was recently exhumed and was fouud to
show traces of arsenic in sufficient quantity to
cause death. Suspicion rested upon the widow,
and she was arrested and placed upon trial
at Carrick-on-Suir. Her two children, of
very tender years, were produced as^vitnesses,
but on being placed upon the witness table
they stubbornly refused to utter a word. They
were threatened with imprisonment, and were
evidently much frightened, but threats aud
persuasion alike failed to elicit from them a
single morsel of evidence. They were there-
fore committed for contempt of court and or-
dered to be kept in confinement separate from
their mother until they purge themselves of
contempt by giving their testimony in open
court. The severity of the judge's action un-
der the peculiar circumstances caused a great
sensation in the neighborhood and turned the
sj mpathies of the people in favorof tho widow,
who had been regarded by most of the neigh-
bors as guilty.
Atam Badeau seems to have subside!
mighty suddenly. If he hadn't been a thick
and thin adherent of Grant, his tirade against
the state department would be suspiciously
Elainey.
Looks as if the Illinois Democrats ware
abut to commit suicide this year. Nearly
all ti e county conventions have instructed
delegates to vote®or Carter Harrison for gov-
ernor.
With Grant, Rabin and Chaffee in financial
fetters, this looks like a bad your for Repub-
lican statesmen. Blaine's book is soiling like
hot cakes, however, and Mulligan has not
been heard from for a year.
Tire river and harbor bill having boen intro-
duced, with the item of $250,000 for Galves-
ton harbor included, it has been reserved for
Congressman Ochiltree, representing the Gal-
veston district, to have the item concerning
Galveston harbor eliminated from the bill
when that measure reaches committee of the
whole. In this action tho somewhat novel
spectacle will be presented of a rofus.il to re-
ceive an appropriation from the government.
Inquiry into such a proceeding will develop
the conclusion reached here and elsjwhero
that a further appropriation for
harbor improvement at Galveston,
under the present administrative sys-
tem, is a simple waste of public money,
and that to accept it would be to encourage
wanton extravagance, without a hope even of
ultimate results being attained. Such inquiry
aud elucidation can only serve to strengthen
the Eads measure before Congress. Congress-
man Ochiltree is now charged with the most
responsible duty which a large portion of his
constituency can possibly require of him, and
it is not doubted that he will ably acquit him-
self iu the premises. Of late the Galveston
deep-water movement has been well managed,
and promises results at last.
The Saturday Review, one of the politico-
literary journals of London, bewails becauso
the " gifted Roscoe Conkling" is not brought
to the front for president. This has caused
many of the truly loyal organs of thick and
tliin Republicanism in the United States to
sneer, and insinuate that it was a London joke
to call Conkling gifted. It is true that Mr.
Conkling is not a gifted thief. He is not a
"tattooed man." Ho never bartered his vote
for lucre. He never wrote to a railroad presi-
dent asking to be let into a job and promising
not to be a deadhead. He was never investi-
gated for •any crookedness, and after nearly a
quarter of a century of public life he retired
with his honor untarnished. This is such a
i are thing for a Republican statesman that it
ie no wondor that the organs sneer. If Conk-
ling hed loss honor, more unscrupulousneis,
and carried ouc the peculating traditions of
Republican statesmen, it is more than prob-
able that he would now be a prominent candi-
date for the presidency, if not an ex-president.
Fx-Senator Sharon, the light of Republi-
canism on the Pacific coast, will hardly have
time to attend tho Chicago convention unless
the court should get sick of the revelations
made and take a rest for a few weeks. Never-
theless there will be some good company at
Chicago. Kellogg will be on hand, as will
Brady, and perhaps Dorsey. Mr. Robeson's
sylph-like figure will gracefully move around,
and the late Keifer will flit around expecting
a lightning stroke. Mr. Sharon will be missed,
but the old gang will be mostly on hand.
Grekham is a well-groomed dark horse, and
basks in the smiles of both Arthur aud Logan.
Etjpfose somebody should propose a state
ticket reading something like this: For gov-
ernor, Oran M. Roberts, of Texas; for lieuten-
ant-governor, Marion Martin, of Navarro?
The Jeannetto investigation is likely to con-
tinue until the next Arctic victims turn up.
Beecher told his flock lately that if all the
the chestnuts he Btole in Boston when a boy
were to rise up against him on judgment day
there would be a pretty wormy time. Wondor
if the ex-officio Rev. Henry is afraid of any-
thing but the chestnuts.
There is a good deal of sentimental gush
wasted on General Grant. The ex-president
received a sufficient competency from his
country and countrymen to keep him com-
fortable for life, and he had no business
monkeying with Wall street. If he got bitten
he can blame himself.
It is now stated that Dorsey Is luxuriating
in the Panhandle. Perhaps he is on his way
to Dallas to visit his cousin, Governor Sterett,
and hasn't the least idea of dodging Mr.
Springer's summons.
The Chicago Herald has just celebrated its
third anniversary. It is in a flourishing con-
dition, one of the neatest, ablest and cleanest
papers in Chicago, aud under its present edi-
torial management can hardly fail to continue
prospering and growing.
If the Now York Times and Evening Post
don't let up on Blaine there is liable to be
another sunstroke performance ia Washing-
ton.
The St. Louis Chronicle puts the work of
Randall and his forty traitors very handsome-
ly as follows:
There will be no disturbances of the great indus-
tries of the country, but eyory workingman wno
wears a sixty-cent woolen shirt will still continue to
pay ¥1 25 for it.
And yet a business man's bootn was Grant's
strongest card for the presidency.
Benjamin F. Butler is carofully nursing
bis boom and will be duly on hand at Chicago
with all his native cunning. Strange that a
man of Butler's wit and wisdom can not see
the utter impossibility of a Domocratio con-
vention nominating him for president.
The Tburmau boom is mighty quiet, but it
will show it self when it can do the most good.
The position of Mr. Wm. E. Chandler in
this presidential contest is one of the enigmas
of the times. For years he had been Blaine's
ardent tool and trusted lieutenant, but now he
is a cabinet officer by the grace of Mr. Arthur,
hence his position becomes interesting. It is
safe to say that William will land on his foot
at the right side of the fence when the convon-
tionpronounces its verdict.
Mr. Dana has been interviewed. Mr. Dana
is hard to please. He says Tilden is impossiblo,
Bayard and Tburman are out of tho fight, Mc-
Donald has no backbone, Morrison is neither a
statesman nor a politician, but Judge Holman
is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever. Mr.
Dana said nothing about Randall, but it can
be safely set down that Holman is a dummy,
and that Randall was in his mind's eye.
STATU PRESS.
What the Interior Papers Say.
The Rusk County News does not class whisky
and tobacco among the necessaries of life.' It
says:
Let the tariff on the necessaries of life be re-
duced before the tax on tobacco aud whisky is
repealed.
The same paper says:
The average Texas editor is reforming. A reso-
lution was introduced, anil reported favorably by
the committee, by tho Press association requesting
the next place that entertain thu editorB not to sot
up a free bar. >
The Overton Opinion does not take
"cooters" in payment of subscriptions as a
general thing, though it calls them by another
name and spoils it a now way. It says:
We received through the postoftlce, on last Friday
morning, a large and fully-developed tirtlo. Now,
we are not out of meat, nor do we have any pre-
dilection for tlrtle soup. But if ttie aforesaid tlrtle
was sent by some poor cuss, who Is too hard np to
pay his subscription to the Opinion, and if ho will
ccmeupand say bo, wo will return to him his
tirtle and give him u year's subscription free of
cbargo. Tittles not taken on subscription.
The Opinion is behind the time3. Terrapin
and tirtle head tho list of choice dishes among
Northern epicures.
The Houston Journal says:
The festive cow and the public-spirited horse still
crop the emerald grass of the sidewalks, and have
become so civilized that they do not bite people,
and only kick when punched with a parasol.
Tho cow should bo hold sacred in Houston.
That city took its rise from the ox-team trade,
and President Peirce, of the Sunset road,when
a Boston wholesale merchant, doing a heavy
business with Houston, on arriving in the lat-
ter city at midnight, snuffed the fragrant
essence of the oxen and oxclaimed with de-
light that trade must be goo '. Tli^ recalai-
trant mustang, however, should go.
The Laborers' Champion estimates that it
takes $48,000 to support the dogs of Shelby
county. The dogs kill a great deal rnoro mut-
ton tl;an they eat. »
Says the San Antonio Timos:
Let no Northern Republican ever again open his
mouth about the " color line." The line has been
so Btrongly drawn by the white and colored Repub-
licans of the South that it has taken the shape of a
yawning chasm.
The Belhille Stun lard remarks:
Before appointing Mr. Elliott state commissioner
to the New Orleans exposition Governor Ireland
" tendered " the posltien to Mr. Hardenbrook, of
the Houston Post. All thfi circumstances sur-
rounding the tender go to Bhow that tho Post man
had previously pledged himself to decline the ten-
der. The affair reflects no credit on tho governor,
and may possibly disgust some of his lroretofore
warm supporters anil admirers. As the State suf-
fered no Injury by the tender, anil a good man was
secured for the position, the ridiculous little affair
isn't worthy of much comment.
The Corsicana Courier calls the attention of
the police to the nuisance of idle and disor-
derly negroes who nightly crowd the waiting-
rcoms and plat forms at the depot of that city.
This is a complaint frequently made by papers
of the interior. Tho depots seem to have great
attractions for idle negroes.
The Courier savs: " There is no general sen-
timent in Navarro county favorable to county
nominations." It also says:
The Courier agrees with the Fort Worth G izette
in remarking that the emotional tirade of the
newspapers against the pistol is barren of res ilts.
They cry aloud in great iui£uish, " the pistol must
go!" but how can they make it go? The great
trouble with all these emotional performers is that
they ignore the meannesses of men as the prima
factor of evil, aud direct their highly-wrought in-
vectives against some inanimate object that is dan-
gerous only when it couies in conjunction with tin
innate meanness of some men.' Kirst detect on-1
punish the mean man. and then talk about sup-
pressing the other things.
Tho papers say a negro in Dallas was sent
to jail in default of a line of for smoking a
cigar in the court-room. He should have pro-
ceded the indulgence by asking the court
whether smoke was disagseoable to'the judge.
That is the way with young men.
Men of methodical and economical habits
know how to niako and save money, but it
takes newspnpers to tell thorn how to spend it.
The San Antonio Times, a paper that generally
attends strictly to its own business, falls into
the prevailing habit of lecturing men of busi-
ness and wealth w_hat they should do in that
city:
Men who have invested their means in San An-
tonio within the past few years have a right to ex-
pect that, others who have long resided here, and
made their fortunes here, will be active in keeping
up and extending the businessof the city, and fore-
most in promoting tho public weal. Recent com-
ers to this city have a right to expect an enlarged
public spirit among our wealthy men. There are
wealthy citizens here, who havo grown with San
Antonio's growth, oud whose wealth has been
poured into their laps almost without effort on
their part, who are as callous as an iceberg toward
public enterprises.
What the Times wants is the investmont of
the surplus wealth of the citizen in railroads
and manufactures.
The Dallas Timos gives this little point to
papers that are always predicting tho.destruc-
tion of Galveston:
Galveston island is not yet washed away. It is to
be hoped that an indignant Providence will allow it
to remain above tho tides till the Press association
can have the opportunity of convening there.
The Clipper is still booming its town. It
says:
Five years from to-day will find Colorado a city of
25,000, a grand railroad center connected directly
by rail with Galveston, Austin, San Antonio,Corpus
Christi, Kansas City and all the great cattle mar-
kets of the West
Cows are to doit. The Clipper proeoeds:
There may be those who doubt it, men who are
not familiar'with Colorado City and the vast terri
tory of rich grazing country tributary to her, but
men who have been on the ground and are familiar
with the coiuit.ry north and south for hundreds of
miles, do not doubt It.
The Clipper is anothor Mosos or Bismarck m
regard to the American razor back. It says:
Hog pens area nuisance in a town which ought
to be suppressed, especially where they are lo-
cated so #s to contaminate a whole neighborhood.
The bog must go.
Mr. Jas. Kibbee has purchased the office of
the Fort Davis Rocket and changed the name
of the paper to the Presidio County News. Ha
proposes to stay until the country grows up to
ability to support even a larger aud better ua-
p«r than heretofore. The News is an indus-
trious reporter of local affairs—au excellent
thing in a newspaper.
Politeness pays. The El Paso Herald says:
Nothing tends more to make the situation agree-
able than to be surrounded with polite attent ion.
In another place the same paper veils bow
politeness to a traveler was rewarded near that
city:
The Fnglish gentleman who was taken in over
the i iver a few days ago is a colonel in tile lirit; ■
army, and has seen service in the four quarters; el
the globe. 'An utter stranger forced himself on his
notice by assisting him iu opening his baggage to
the scrutiny of the customs officers, aud when, li-
ter being seated in the cars, the stranger as ,eii
him to cash a - honk on a Chihuahua bank for hint,
he unsuspectingly complied with the request.
Moral: Bunco men should treat strangers
politely.
The Mason News opens its eyes and says:
We have published the last, long-winded free
notice v.-e ever expect to in this paper. Hereaftei
if syndicates or individuals have a projeot in con-
templation they want advertised they must pay
for it. It takes money to run a newspaper, and as
for glory and honor we have all we want.
FiTil's Industrial Exposition—\umber of Ap-
pointments Made.
Washington, May Id.—The board of man-
agement of Ford's Industrial exposition to-day
elected Dr. G. B. Loring, commissioner of
agriculture, as chief of the department of
agriculture; Hon. John Eaton, of New Hamp-
shire, as chief of the department of education
and instruction; Captain James B. Eads, spe-
cial commissioner to the Great Britain and
London exposition.
The American exchange in Europe, limited,
was appointed as agent of the exposition in
Europe, Asia, Africa. Australia, South Amori ■
ca and the West. Inilia islands, for the dis-
tribution of information and forwarding of
exhibits.
EFISCOFAL CONVENTION.
Third Day's Session at Brenham.
It cports Submitted—Officers Elected — Church
Work Among Colored People—Resolu
tlons iif Tlianlm, Etc.
ISpecial to Thk Nkws.I
Bhenham, May 10.—This was the third anil
last day's proceedings of the Episcopal con-
vention. The roll-call showod tho arrival of
Delegate P. G. Rucker, of Bolton.
The memorial committee submitted a brief
report appropriately recording tho virtues and
worth of Rev. J. E. Meredith, deceased. It
was adopted and a memoria^page of the
journal was devoted to its publication.
Rev. B. A. Rogers, for the committee, ort
that part of the bishop's address in reference
to home missions, reported a plan for putting
in operation a self-sustaining missionary work.
The report and plan were approved, anil it is
probable that Rev. W. W. Patrick, of VVeatli-
erford, will enter upon tho work in October
next.
Tl:e convention then elected officers, as fol-
lows: Rov. L. P. ltucker. Rev. 8. M. Bird,
Rev. T. B. Lee, W. J. Hutchins anil A. 8.
Richardson were elected the standing commit-
tee, with Rev. S. M. Bird as president and A.
S. Richardson socretary; Robert M. Elgin, of
Houston, was elected secretary and T. S.
Mnxey, of Austin, treasurer—all being re elec-
tions of gentlemen who have served in their
respective positions for from five to twenty
years.
Attention having been called to the removal
of Rev. J. J. Clemmen8 to a distant field, reso-
lutions offered by Rev. S. M. Bird were adopt-
ed expressing the regret and pain of those who
remain, and commending Mr. Cletnmens as a
hard-working and faithful priest, bidding him
godspeed in his work with heartfelt praisos.
Rev. B. A. Rogers, rising to a question of
privilege, asked that the Banner anil Galves-
ton News be requested to publish in full his
resolution of Thursday in reference to the
work among the colored people to supply some
omissions in the synopsis published in this
morning's papers. The resolution reads:
Resolved, that tho diocese of Texas recom-
mends to the next general conference such ac-
tion in regard to church work among the col-
ored people of the South as shall give tho col-
ored people tbemselves;the management there-
of, subject to such constitutional and economi-
cal control as may bo deemed expedient.
Yesterday's notice of a proposed change in
the order of business was called up and passed.
The finance committee reported an approval
of the reports of the secretary and treasurer,
thoy being properly attested by accompanying
vouchers. The treasurer's report showod that;
all the expenses for the year had boen met,
and that available funds aro in hand or within
reach to meet still further demands. Tho
money on hand belonging to the widows,
orphans and infirm fund, was ordered to be
distributed among the poor peoplo entitled to
it, and arrangements wore made to havo the
amount increased during the year.
A resolution was offered by H. MoClung.
expressing the thanks of the convention to tho
Brenham Bannor and Galveston News for
courtesies extended, which was adopted.
Rev. Geo. Patterson, D. D., was appointed
to preach the Council sermon next year, with
Rev. E, M. Parkman as alternate.
Rev. B. A. Rogers and James H. Raymond
were appointed advisers and assistants of ths
bishop of the dioeese on missionary work.
Rev. S. M. Bird offered a resolution of
thanks to the members of St. Peter cliuroh
and their friends for tho kind hospitality
with which they have received tho members
oi' this body. Carried unanimously.
1 he convention then adjourned to moot at
Bryan, May 20, 1885. Several of the delegate3
will remain in this city until Monday nest,
and w ill assist Bishop Gregg in the rites of
confirmation on Sunday night.
I'OMTK>! liy OH'l' I1EMI.
The Candidacy or Captain Peareson —Curr'.ut-
Comment onil Comparison--Interview with
Judge liurkhnrdt.
[Special to The Nkws.1
Richmond, May 1G.—The candidacy of Cap-
tain P. E. Peareson for Ochiltree's seat in Con-
gress has assumed a most formidable stmpe.
The county of Fort Bend being so connected
with Galveston us to make their interests tha
same, would seem to indicate that Galvestoa
would stand in its own light if it did not give
the gp.llant captain an undivided support. At
a lawyer, scholar, citizen and statesmen, he
has no superior and but few equals. Always
and at all times a pronounced Democrat of the
advanced school, he would at once take front
rank with the rest of the Texas delegation ia
Congress, and make himself seen and felt in
the interests of Galveston, which is the inter-
est of all Texas.
A news-gatherer, in his rounds this morn-
ing, interviewed several leading Republicans,
all of whom were bitterly opposed to Ochil-
tree's re-election, and prefer a straight-out
Republican, and, to this end, are in favor of a
Republican convention; but, should none bo
called, and the roll narrowedjdown to Peare-
son, a pronounced and positive Democrat, and
Ochiltree,Jit is safe to say tliatjPeareson would
got at least three-fourths of the colored votes
of this, Brazoria, Matagorda aud Wharton
counties. Here Captain Peareson has lived all
his life, and whereverer known aught against
liis reputation can not be said; always a friend
of the colored man, outside of his politics they
love and respect him, aud between him and
Ochiltree, who claims to bo independent, their
course is plain. They say that tbey know
where to find Captain Peareson—always in tho
Democratic fold—battling for Democratic!
men anil niensures, aud therefore thoy would
prefer an honest Democrat of pronounced
ideas and opinions to Ochiltree, who dodge3
every important question, vacillates and de-
ceives, and who refused to outer a Republican
caucus at Washington. The Nation of to-day
is out iu no uncertain 'sound for Peareson,
Richmond's loved and honored son.
"your correspondent, in his rounds, cams
across Judge Burkhardt, when tho following
conversation took place:
"Well, Judge, I suppose you have seen tho
local in The News, of this morning, in which
your name is used in connection with the race
for Congress ?"
" Yes, I have read it, and I wish you to
state in The News, which I have always re-
garded as a fair paper, and the leading paper
in the South, that I am not a candidate—
never bad the remotest idea of boing one, and
could not and would not under any circum-
stances Become one. While I, iu common
with tho Republicans in this county, and I be-
lieve in my district, prefer a clean Republican
ticket-, and will work to that end in oppo ition
to Ochiltree or any other independent, yet I
could not consent to run. At the solicitation
of my friii-.Is ! have consented to again be-
come a candidate for ro election to the office 1
now hold and have been honored with by my
peoplo for nearly fourteen years, and tliere-
fcre all allusion.; to my candidacy for any oth-
er position urn fallacious, and unwarranted by
me."
lip to this dniv—the closing of our District)
Court—R. K Baon-'V, our e.blo district attor-
ney. bus secured ei^iiii delegates to iiuntsville.
FORT WOBTI1 VOTE*.
Terrific Hainslorm Train Delayed-Conflagra-
tion, Etc.
ISpecial to The News.1
Kort Worth, M y Pi.—A very heavy rain-
storm occurred liero early this morning, fol-
lowed by one r-till more severe this afternoon.
The central part of t he city was floefded for a
timtf, the drainnge-pipes being insullfftient to
carry off the immense volume of water.
The regular west-bound mail train on the
Texas and Pacific road hail to stop here, in
consequence of several bridges beinu;,washed
away west of hero. The same Strain will
transfer baggage and passengers, and will go
east in the morning. The extent of the dam-
age is not yet known, but two bridges near
Benbrook, in this county, were washed
away.
A fire broke out on Houston street at 3
o'clock this morning, destroying a small -.'ramo
building anil injuring another. Both were oc-
cupied by stores, and belonged to W. T. Mad-
di x and J. 51. Haitsfield. Loss about $800 on
the houses, partly covered by insurance. Loss
cn stcck iu stores, iiioOO; insured for $1300.
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