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LABORERS AN!) POLITICIANS.
At M<" unt Tabor, in Lamar county, tliirty-
tLit e fanners alliances, Kniglits of Labor
fliarenjblies and Agricultural Wheels were
represented in a joint meeting at which
Jir. lie Morse, Mr. Dohoney and other great
reformers made speeches. Mr. De Morse
urged tbem to make all their political fights
inside the Democratic party, but they
passed unanimously a series of resolutions
in which they declared they would support
none but representative men for ofilce>
ana " only those who are moral and sober
and whose interests are identified with
ours." It is evident that these organiza-
tions, while prohibited from going iuto
politics as organizations, nevertheless
practically dive in and invite the inde-
pendents to build up a ticket. They'deolare
in effeet that they will not support Democrats
or Hepnbiicans unless identified with their
organizations. Now, Mr. De Morse has no
interest in the alliances, wheels and
Kn glits of Labor assemblies. He, with
Mr. Swain, Mr. Ross and Mr. Brackenridgo,
lives upon the profits and perquisites of
the middlemen. One of these four candi-
dates, Mr. Ross, is an amateur farmer,
but is not one of the blue jeans, horny-
handed grangers, who have a real Interest
in sowing seeds and "cussing" the poli-
ticians, lawyers and tradesmen. Mr.
Swain is a politician and office-holder, Mr.
Brackenridgo is a banker, and Mr. Dr>
Morse edits a newspaper. When the alli-
ances and wheels unanimously pledged
themselves to vote only for candidates
haviDg interests identified with the farm-
ing and laboring classes they scarcely had
any one of the four politicians named iu
view as worthy of support. Mr. Ue MorsJ
attemp'ed to bring himself and others
within the scope of the farmers' support by
defining the worker to be " all we laborers
whose daily necessities compel daily exer
tion, whether by use of the plow, jack-
plane, hammering and shaping of iron, or
any mechanical avocation; the handling of
type, the pen, the efforts in the forum or the
riding in the heat or cold to relieve suffer-
ing—all are laborers." " The efforts in the
forum " is good, but the idea would have
been better expressed by the term " wag-
ging the jaw " and followed by illustrations
such as the ancient Lubbock, the old al-
calde, the kid Gibbs, and other workers
and workers' friends. But the farmers
surely did not accept the I)e Morse
definition of " we laborers," for if
they did, lawyers, doctors, editors,
merchants, clerks, bankers, brokers, actors,
officers, lecturers, politicians pure and
practical, artists, and all others, except pos-
sibly the money-lender, capitalist and spe-
culator, are identified as laborers in in-
terest with the Farmers alliances, Wheels
and Knights of Labor assemblies. They
ceitainly will object to the latitude of this
definition. It is significant that the alliances
in their resolutions declared upon all, or
nearly all, the political questions before
the people, and yet avow their intention to
abstain from enforcing their views through
their organizations. If they meet and pass
resolutions upon political questions, and
only upon political questions, it appears
that the object of their organizations is to
advance certain favored political ideas and
policies by declarations of the organiza-
tions, but not by action of the organiza-
tions. This appears to be an absurdity.
If as organizations they are bent upon con-
trolling the decision of public questions
they will find in practical politics that, not
only declarations, but systematic organ-
ized action is necessary. Under their an-
nounced programme any action by their
organizations to carry into effect the dic-
tum of their organizations is not permitted.
Such organizations devoted to political re-
form must effect the desired object by po-
litical organization and action, or they will
amount to nothing. They will always find
" we laborers " of the forum and the pen in
possession of the offices. Enough has
transpired in this State to show that
whether tl.e rules of their alliances permit
it or not, 1 he farmers and others through
iheir organizations are taking a decided
part in the political contest, which they
have the right to do.
CLh VELAND'S FENCES IN TEXAS.
The first body of Texas Democrats to
meet in an official party capacity since the
advent of Mr. Cleveland's administration,
have rendered their verdict. The congres-
sional convention which met at Victoria on
AVednesday declared unanimously thus:
W liereas tills is the first Democratic Con-
giesslrnal convention litld In Texas, the ban-
ner Democratic State, since the inauguration
oi Grover Cleveland, a Democratic president;
and
Whereas the people, as the ultimate depos
itary ot all governmental authority and pow-
er. must pronounce the verdict upon tho3e
w ho hold public offices as a trust; therefore,
as the keynote ol' that verdict for the State
and as the exprcssslon of our judgment, be It
Resolved, that we recognize In (TroverCleve-
land a Democrat and patriot, who, under the
Leav\ t ares of his great office, lias displayed
masterly ability, unimpeachable integrity and
hi inie courage; that we commend the fidelity
with w hich he has fulfilled his pledges to the
people in the face of the greatest pressure to
violate them.
This is a strong indorsement of Mr.
Cleveland. There is no qualifying phrase
in it, no wavering fidelity, no subtle ex-
cuses, no damning with faint praise. The
indorsement is clear, pointed and em-
phatic, and it is safe to say that in a gener-
al way it voices the sentiments of an over-
whelming majority of the Democrats of
Texas. The Democrats of the Seventh Con-
gressional district, whose representatives
formulated the above declaration, are ani-
mated by the same feelings and inspired by
the same principles as the Democrats of
other congressional districts of the State—
so the indorsement of Mr. Cleveland, put
forth at Victoria, may fairly be con-
sidered the voice of the banner
Democratic State of the Union. For a while
Mr. Cleveland's popularity was an uncer-
tain quantity in Texas. The politicians
were against him, and the people were be-
ginning to lose faith in him. His attitude
on the silver question was not satisfactory
to the Democrats of Texas; and his half-
hearted advocacy of tariff reform in his re-
gular message to Congress did not come up
to the expectation of the people. He did
not ' turn the rascals out " fast enough to
suit the politicians, and the patriots who
were waiting for soft places sent forth fre-
quent murmurings of discontent. But
things have changed. Mr. Cleveland at
the present time is undoubtedly popular
with the Texas Democrats. The silver
question is in a state of " inocuous desue-
tude," and the president took strong
grounds in favor of the Morrison bill wh"e
it was an issue in Congress. Besides, Mr.
Cleveland has undoubtedly made a record
as a ring-wrecker. The courage he has dis-
played hi vetoii'g the fraudulent pension
bills, his consistent opposition to jobbery
and extravagance. his owdinate adherence
to his pledges and promises, the general
c'er.nliness of his administration
have endeared him to the people.
J he politicians, too, are reconcile.!. The
president did not" turn the rascals out" in
a day, but there were only very few of them
left in a year. Of course the disappointed
office-seekers are sore, but they don't care
to expote their wounds in public, knowing
that the people have little if any sympathy
for them. On the whole Mr. Cleveland can
felicitate himself on the fact that his fences
are in excellent condition in the banner
Democratic State.
A DUE .IK IN INDIAN LAND AFFAIR'S.
A movement is said to have begun among
the Cieek tribe of Indians,in the Indian
Territory, to sell to the federal government
their surplus lands and at once to remove
i ll opposition on their part to the settle
nieiit of the Territory by white people.
Coming to the ears of the other Indian
tribes, this report, in a circumstantial
form, is occasioning some agitation. The
"sacred soil" of the Territory, already
traversed by railroads and impacted by the
tread of herds of white men's oattle, will
ne\er again be more than a ten-cent para-
dise for the professional hunter; and the
Indian, since he obtained a taste of the
pleasures of a pensioner's existence, has
grown to like it amazingly and to study
above all things how to increase his fixed
income without the cares of management.
As for work, he never had
any inclination in that direction to be
cured of, in order to reconcile him
to feeing others cultivate the soil. He would
now like to be a landlord, if it were not
even preferable to be a bondholder, with a
government bureau to see to clipping his
coupons and collecting the cash from the
treasury. The element of distrust and sus-
pickn having been introduced among the
various Indian tribes, or nations so-called,
the r,ext session of Congress may witness a
v< lur.tary movement on the part of others
than the Creeks to terminate the present
anachronism in Indian land affairs. Bhrewd
observers, whether or not they actually see
the end of a thread or of a wire in the
present situation of jealousy and tension
among the tribes, will readily understand
that more liberal views fcmong the Indians
of any one tribe would be worth while pro-
moting by parties desirous of acquiring the
lands in question; and it would be policy
to let the other tribes feel at least that
something serious was contemplated,
tiiut the other Indians might be brought
to anticipate the inevitable and not
be left behind by the enterprising
Creeks. The lobbyist and speculator is
not usually a much worse man than circum-
stances invite him to be. The Indians can
not use the land. The absurd, medieval
policy of government in maintaining an
oasis of semi-barbarism in a center of civil-
ization has been a long standing invitation
to the craft of special agency to bring its
diplomacy to bear upon the Indians them-
selves, and what should have been done by
a wise statesmanship will be done by hook
or by crook to overcome an arrangement
which, since the growth of Kansas and
Texas in population and the settled ways
of the w hite man's industrial life, ha3been
increasingly felt as an obstacle and a mar-
vel of perversity. But whether the same
cure shall be given to the proper disposi-
tion of the lands released by|the Indians as
to the lands retained by the Indians, with a
view to homesteads for white men as well
as homesteads for Indians, depends pri-
marily upon Congress, which has thus far
sanctioned the medley of malarrangements
corepiised in the chapter of Indian settle-
ments and reservations.
SOME OF CLEVELAND'S WOIIK:.
There are two feats of the present admin-
istration on which Mr. Cleveland could af-
ford to go to the country for re election if
he bad nothing else to recommend him,
which he has. These are the strangling of
the thieving private pension schemes, and
the suppression of the naval ring. Since
the conclusion of the civil war the naval
ring filched hundreds of millions of dollars
out of the pocke's of the tax-payers; and
the pension knavery was becoming more
flagrant year by year. Both the naval
thieves and the pension robbers existed by
virtue of Republican patronage. John
Roach, as the head of the naval
ring, found it profitable to contribute
hundreds of thousands of dollars
to the Republican corruption fund on the
o.ccasion of each presidential campaign.
The pension bureau was converted by the
Republicans into a wholesale bribing insti-
tution. Pensions were granted almost with-
out question, or on the flimsiest pretexts,
to Republicans or doubtful voters who pro-
mised to become Republicans, pending an
election campaign. It is on record that the
late commissioner of pensions, Dudley, dis-
tributed blank pension certificates among
the Republican managers in Indiana during
the last campaign for the presidency.
Senators and representatives discharged
their obligations to faithful " workers " by
rushing private pension bills through Con-
gress. During the present session 412 pen-
sion bills were passed by the Seuate in one
afternoon, with only three senators present
or paying any attention to the proceedings.
These three senators were Ingalls, of Kan-
sas, who presided, and Blair, of New Hamp-
shire, Republican, and Camden, of We3t
Virginia, Democrat. The other senators
were scattered through the committee-rooms
and lobbies, or lounging listlessly in the
senate chamber. Ingalls rushed the busi-
ness and afterward boasted of the record
he made in passing a bill a minute during
the afternoon. The Democrats of Congress
must be held equally guilty with the Re-
publicans foj, the pension robbery. They
were afraid to raise their voice against the
fraud. The southern members were afraid
of being accused of a lack of sympathy for
the "saviors of the Union," and the north-
ern Democrats were afraid of the
soldier vote. Mr. Cleveland, how-
ever, is neither afraid of the
soldier vote nor of the demagogic
denunciation of Logan and Blair. The
president has proved that he can veto
fraudulent pension bills as fast as the bril-
liant Ingalls can put them through the Sen-
ate. The naval ring was knocked insensi-
ble ere the Democratic administration was
two months old, and there is not enough
life in it now for even Chandler, Robeson
and Roach to perform resuscitation. The
squelching of the naval and pension rings
alone should endear Cleveland to the
American people.
rresident Warrkn, of the Boston uni-
vi =11:■, in an essay written in opposition
to compulsory taxation, instances the mu-
nicipal management of the four large cities
which were known as the Free Cities of
Ciei many. For a very long period before
Mr. Bismarck got his grip upon them all
their municipal needs were provided tor,
not by compulsory taxation, but by volun-
tary contribution, and the proportion of
non-contributors was smaller than is that
of delinquent taxpayers in the large cities
cf Ajterico. If it should seem practicable I
in some of the burdened cities of this coun-
try to try the voluntary plan, with of course
certain benefits witheld from property-own-
ers tvho did not contribute, it would avoid
delinquency and abolish demagogic rule
for non-property-holders could not expect
to have any control by vote or otherwise of
the voluntary contributions of property-
owners. Since municipal government as it
is, is not generally considered to be auy
very grand thing, a change could be tried
somewhere without much risk of g<iug
from bad to worse. In no place was there
ever better order or a greater freedom from
burdens of public administration than in
tfcellanse towns.
Hancock seems to be forcing the fightln;
on Terrell. When Hancock talks about
demagogues exciting the people and such,
a blind man can see that he is firing at his
talented neighbor. How long will Terrell
stand a racket of this kind?
The Washington Post states that the
Hon. Win. Henry Crain is the hero of Con-
gressman Foran's new novel. This is
piling honors on our own Wm. Henry
thick and fast. First a unauimous re-
nomination for Congress, then the hero of
a novel which is said to be a sequel to the
Breadwinners. It is to be hoped that the
fly Kid will wear his honors easy, and that
he will not grow too big for Texas before
the expiration of the Fiftieth Congress.
People who thought that the ancient
Lubbock would die in office are liable to be
disappointed. The grand old veteran, it
seems, can't be prevailed on to acoept a
nomination for the state treasurership for
another term.
Have Ireland and Hancock smothered
their differences and pooled their issues?
The ugly rumors from Russia are liable
to have some influence in settling the Irish
question in Great Britain. Certainly it
would not be advisable for a British prime
minister to lead his country into any Euro-
pean entanglements with Ireland discon-
tented and liable to play her cards to the
best advantage. It was long the maxim of
O'Connell that England's difficulty was Ire-
land's opportunity.
A con respondent writing from Austiu
nominates the Hon. John Henry Brown, of
Dallas, for state treasurer. As there is a
very general understanding that the an-
cient Lubbock desires to retire, it is hith
time that the Democrats were thinking of
providing for the succession. As our cor-
respondent says, the office of state trea-
surer is of the highest importance and
should not be filled at haphazard. Mr.
Brown is a citizen of integrity and ability,
and there is no doubt that he would make a
competent official. But why can not the
Democratic convention try a little civil
service reform? Mr. Wortham, the assist-
ant tieosurer, has been in the service of the
State for a number of years, and his hon-
esty and capacity are unquestioned. Why
not prcmote Mr. Wortham, instead of look-
ing around for an entirely new man?
Terrell's mule is doing considerable
traveling these days.
A Pennsylvania man lately refused to
marry a girl because his father's ghost,
through a " medium," advised him not to.
He has money, and the girl is suing for
some of it- The fact of advice from a
medium does not look like a good defease.
But is there not another girl in the case,
who tipped the medium to effect a split be-
tween the parties ? It would astonish some
people who go to fortune-tellers and clair-
voyants if they knew what their friends had
done to prime the oracles.
Swain and Ross seem to be pretty eveuly
matched, but Marion Martin is not liable to
hold the balance of power.
There seems to be an impression that
Adjutant-general King, of Texas, is not al-
together pleased because an officer of the
United States army has been selected to
command the troops participating in the
Galveston interstate drill while in camp.
Yet there is no substantial reason why Gen-
eral King should bo displeased. The
managers of the Interstate drill politely
requested the Texas military authorities to
name a commandant for Camp Magruder
during the drill week, but receive! no
answer, and after a month had alapsed ap-
plication was made to General Stanley,who
promptly and politely responded. It is,
perhaps, on the whole more appropriate
that a United States officer should
command the camp, as there
will he troops from several States.
If it were a purely state encampment of
course it would be more appropriate to
have a stute officer in command, but as it is
likely that militia companies from eight or
ten States will be at the drill, it seems to be
entirely proper that a regular army officer
should be placed in command. It will be
better for the participating troops, too, to
have a United States officer in command,
who will enforce strict discipline, teach the
boys the ways of the true soldier, and be
strictly impartial between the troops of the
different States.
Hov.e rule might be repulsed, but it will
not be squelched.
A few days ago the faculty of the Yale
law school gave a young lady the regular
degree of bachelor of laws. They re-
solved that the school shall be open only to
male students," except in specific cases."
The ambitious girls smile and hope to make
numerous specific examples. The faculty
seems to be inviting a siege.
D. C. Giddings would be a nice name for
a dark horse.
The significance of Russia's action in
closing the port of Batoum is that by the
treaty of Berlin It was declared a free port.
It lies at the southeast corner of the Black
sea and was a Turkish city until the Turco-
Russian war. It is the only decent road-
stead in all that district of the Euxine, and
was ceded to Russia on the distinct under-
standing that it was to remain an open en-
trance to traffic with North Amenia and the
Kur valley. Some curiosity will be felt to
learn what the German government think
of having the trep.ty of Berlin further in-
fringed upon. Russia may say, indeed,
that the change in the status of eastern
Roumelia justifies her in making another
change.
Terrell and Hancock are bound to make
the fur fly off each other before the present
campaign is over.
Among the curious things Jag from the
records of the histcy of American inde-
pendence is an extract from a book by Lord
Sheffield, published over a hundred years
ago. The States had just been recognized
as independent. Lord Sheffield declared
that the West was practically valueless—a
mere wilderness of waste laud, which could
never be reclaimed. The Allegheny
mountains, he asserted, were the natural
vyesteiii boundary of the States, and the
settlers beyond " can not become commer-
cial" and would never increase, because
there was no way to get their goods to a
market. Men are just as confident to-day
as his lordship was u century ago that they
can measure the things of the future.
In a speech at Brainerd, Minn., July 1,
Judge O. P. Stearns gave some interesting
incidents of the early days of the Northern
bar and bench. The judge said:
For twelve years I have gone In and out bo-
fore you, and my mind naturally returns to
the early days of the circuit work. When I
went oil this bench there was not a full set ot
Minnesota reports west of Dulnth, and there
was not a court-bouse 111 the district. We
held court where wo could—. n churches, Iu
stores, school-houses, and sometimes in
places not quite so respected. I remember at
Detioit once, we used a saloon, u sort of
donblo barreled saloon, that had the liquors
in the front room and another ivom back. Wo
took hold and moved the liquors into the
l iu li loom and held court In the front—close
by—a very convenient arrangement tor
feme of the attorneys. As wo
had no libraries nor books, only what
we carried In our hands, It va* a rough
kind of Justice we dispensed, but I am glad to
say, looking back over the short space that
has shown so marvelous a development, that
It w ns, I hnheve, a fair justice til it we adminis-
tered. When we bad no law we simply did
the best we could and relied on our hearts and
our heads to do the light and just tiling, and
to leach just equity between man and mail.
Sir. Comstock used to say that there was no
lawyer among us who knew enough to take
nn appeal, and therefore ours was a court of
last resort. 1 remember once, In trying a
criminal case, tin; jury was charged and sent
out, occupying for its deliberations an old
room that had a crack In it, through which we,
wait ing in the court, could ovorhear all of tholr
discussions. Finally they struck a pjlnt In the
charge, and we heard one juror proclaim, "The
judge says so and so, and Comstock (one ot
tl.e counsel) says so and so; now, how the
devil are we to know who is right?" Of course,
I had to recall tlicin and linpreis on them that
os hetween jndge and counsel thev had to
take the Judge for it. Once, over in llecker
county, there was a Juror who was determined
to go to sleep. After a w hile the clera cadcd
my attention to the juror continuously asleep,
and i called the counsel up and asked if we
should stop and wake the furor. Counsel said
no, let him sleep. When I came to charge the
jury, I charged the eleven, and to the sleeper
said: " You have slept all the while and haven't
heard the evidence. Hut you can go out with
them, and if you can manage to find the. samo
verdict as the other eleven, why, well and
good." This he managed to do.
Another cargo of Mormons arrived in
this country from Scandanavia yesterday.
Of course they will be transported to Utah'
without delay, where they will be taught
how to declare their intentions to become
American citizens, and to pre-empt home-
steads. After these things are done the
priesthood will then go to work systematic-
ally to teach the embryo citizens that the
government of the United States is their
natural enemy, and that it will be one of
their duties to God to hate it, and thwart its
officers as much as possible. Uncle Sam is
a very indulgent old gentleman, but he is
making a fool of himself when he permits
the Mormon priesthood to train his new
citizens.
It appears that there is a prospect of no
little delay in the Maxwell case. There is
the usual appeal to the State Supreme
Court. Should this be adverse to the con-
vict, or should it result in a new trial or a
series of trials and convictions the end
would not be reached, the report indicates,
without an appeal to the United States
courts to determine whether the state law
•upon challenges of jurors is constitutional
or not. No one can foresee an end to the
trinls that might follow by such a process.
The criminal law procedure is an elaborate
tie-up, with few terrors for the man who has
plenty of money or attorneys interested in
makiBg a great reputation, which follows
the successful conduct of a hard case of
much notoriety. It is worthy of reflection
that if Maxwell happens to get off without
going to the federal court the question of
the constitutionality of the Missouri law on
challenges would remain to perplex some
future case. Of course there is no means
of having the point decided without an
actual case appealed, yet the question is
purely one of constitutional law, which can
be as well apprehended in the abstract as
by a case at bar. Why is not provision
made for a mode of legal inquiry into such
questions to have them settled as soon as
the doubt arises ?
Serious negro troubles are expected in
Arkansas, the colored Knights of Labor
being almost in a state of rebellion. The
sheriff of the county where the trouble is
expected seem% to be doing all in his pow-
er to head it off, but the governor of the
State refuses ^o take a hand until the fire
is started. THfe governor is evidently poor
material. A couple of hundred state troops
on the ground would he liable to awe the
rioters and prevent an outbreak, but the
governor refuses to act until some overt
act is committed. Perhaps when the riot-
ers have killed a dozen men, and burned
houses and crops the executive may con-
clude that it is time to act. It is strange
that so many people are addicted to letting
the steed go before locking the stable door.
Russia appears to be menacing her neigh-
bors in two different directions, but the
more immediately important point is the
Russian province of Bessarabia, on the
borders of Austria, and the Danubian
States. That region serves as the key to
the eastern approaches of Prince Alexan-
der's dominion and Turkey. What the
public has learned about war rumors is
that they may be many and grave without
war, but when war is really determined
upon it is apt to come without much warn-
ing. An affectation of desires for peace
and good will is among the preparations for
taking a lunge at a neighbor.
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Newspapers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
Mr. Hardiu Walsh informs the Austin
Record that Tom Chalmers lately killed a
rattlesnake that measured five inches in
diameter and six feet four iuches from the
back of his head to the first rattle.
The bummers are having a good time in
Junction City. The Clipper says:
The boys are now making the candidates
whack up on all occasions. They appear
to be quite a liberal set, though, and usu-
ally respond without a murmur.
Beggars for drinks are hardly above those
who beg for food and clothing, when you
come to consider the subject closely.
The Vernon Guard is mistaken when it
says:
Editors permit editors only to join their
organizations. The Knights of Labor are
more liberal. They will take in anything
from a thick-lip negro up, provided he can
put up a little stuff.
Not so. The knights .draw the line at
lawyers, leaving the bar outside the pale.
The Guard says:
Such a thing as editors organizing for the
purpose of establishing prices upon their
advertising columns, job work or subscrip-
tion rates, or to select certain firms with
w hich to deal is unknown. Their organiza-
tions are not secret anil are of purely a
social character. Certainly farmers have
the same right to organize as have editors.
Nobody denies that. But who ever heard
of editors, or any other class ex ;ept fann-
ers and wageworkers. being bigenoigh
fools to give some demagogue,and lazy
galoot ."r 100 per month to go about over the
country organizing them?
The Wichita Herald reports a serious out-
ting affray, in which two meu were wounded,
growing out of rough jokes while some of
the parties were drinking. Several parties
are to be tried for an affairthat commenced
in sport.
The Shcnnan Register says:
The Grayson Rifles have been drilling re-
gularly every night now for some time,
pieperatory to entering the contest at tho
GaUeston Interstate drills. The Grayson
Rifles band has been summoned to attend.
The Register raises a (newspaper) col-
umn to its glory on the foundation, " the
Register declared that the people would
woke up and secure the southeastern road
and they did. The propheoy was made and
it came true." Next time the Register pro-
phesies anything you had better believe it.
The seer already sees such things as the
following in the near future:
A mammoth cotton gin to employ 100
men.agiain elevator to employ a large
number of employes, and cost .fit),000, a
railroad which will put 300 more perma-
nent resident families in the city, and give
a half a half year's work to ot least 1000 la-
borers, end tile constructlon of waterworks
which will employ at least 200 men for six
months. At the least calculation within
thirty days there will not be less than 1203>
more employes spending their earnings ia
the city than are now.
Will some one bo good enough to say oa
with the boom? The Register does not.
The Houston Age will have to revise it»
railroad map or cease claiming that Hous-
ton is the bub. The Abilene Reporter has a
new map, making that city the spider in th»
center of the railroad web. The Reporter
says:
It will be seen from this map that Abilene
is the nearest geographical center of tha
State of any city in Texas. Abilene, now
only five years old, has a population esti-
mated at 6000 people, and is located in the-
center of the richest and most fertile sec-
tion of onr State.
The map makes the line between Abilene
and Galveston as straight as a loon's leg,
and leaves the Bayou city side-tracked-
But it agrees with the Age in leaving the
Houston branch of the Santa Fe out. The
Reporter gives Houston but a single road,
passing through like the intestiual canal of a
heron.
The Brenham Banner remarks:
A few days ago the Port Worth Gazette-
published a map showing Fort Worib as
the railroad center of North Texas-and Dal-
las to be a way station. The Banner knew
it was only a question of time; The Dallas-
News put the engravers to work and it has
now produced a map showing Dallas to be
the railway center and giving Port Worth
only four railroads, while Dallas
looks like a Chicago, St. Louis Of
Kansas City. This is paying the
Gaxette in its'own coin. The mapisaccom-
Ssnied by an elaborate write-up of what
alias is to-day and her future prospects.
It is claimed lor Dallas that $2,000,000 are-
invested in manufacturing industries, pay-
ing $f'00,000 a year for wages, and turning
out .fJ,000,000 in products.
The Ballinger Bulletin prints the names
of the purchasers of lots iu that nev town,
at the iate sale. Among the Galvestoniaus
are R. H. Willis, six lots, for $1070; J. H»
Hutchings, two lots, $-">90; W. R. Parker,
one lot, t37o; W. II. Masters, one lot, ,f30">;
W. Norman, one lot, $27o. The Bulletin
says:
We understand that the contract has been
awarded for the immediate construction of
a large, commodious hotel, to co-it $10,000.
The Denison News says:
Political excitement is running high over
in the Chicasaw country. There are six
candidates for governor and each has a
strong following. Prom this polot of view
It is impossible to give a guess aM to who-
the successful man will be. The candidates,
are Pres. Mosley, Bob Boyd, Bill Byrd, Bill
Guy, Burris and — Wolf.
The El Paso Times in indebted to Mr. A,
Kaplan, clerk of the El Paao custom-
house for ihe followinglist of importations
during the month of June, 1886: .Silver ore,
}08,105; Mexican silver coin, .$573,048; Mex-
ican gold coin, $0,559: silver bullion, $105,-
072: gold bullion, $55,238; total, $838,022.
rfl'he silver ore weighed 1242 tons, orau aver-
age of 41 2-5 tons per day.
The Times says:
There is plenty of ore in western Texas,
but we need a good mining law to induce
people to search for it. If El Paso had a
smelter, a good deal of Texas ore would
come here to be treated. For instance, Mr.
Wm. Noyes, superintendent of the Chinatt
mines of Presidio county, testified under
cath before the board of equalization that
the shipments of bullion from his mines-
during the year 1885 aggregated $173,000.
. . . .The present Congress has proved it-
self quite friendly to the silver interest. It
has done nothing inimical to it, and with-
out the concurrence of the House of Repre-
sentatives, even the all-powerful executive'
can do nothing.
The Times also says:
In nine cases out of ten, when a man gets
into trouble, a woman will be found at the
bottom of it. This is more particularly the-
c-ase in El Paso.
In other counties whisky beats the women
by a large majority.
Newspaper men are working men from
the nature of their vocation. It does not
require a label 6f the vote of a secret or-
ganization to entitle them to the name. The
Vernon Guard says of its editor:
This scribe has carried the hod and held
the plow-handles; has followed the cradle
and the reaper in the harvest-field, and
knows what it is to work through heat and
cold, wet and dry, not as a novice or for
iun, but as a necessity to keep soul and
body together, and we know from expe-
rience how to sympathize with those who
toil with their hands. But we also know
how to feel for other classes of workers,
and whenever you see a man going about
over the country howling in the ears of
farmers and wage-workers "oppression
and unfair discrimination," you may in-
valiaIsly put him down as a demagogue
whose only purpose is self-interest.
JHE STATE TREASURERSHIP.
A Bccm for Mayor John Henry Brown, of
Dallas.
To The News.
Austin, July 7, 1886.—As it seems to be
generally understood that Hon. F. R. Lub-
bock will not be a candidate for re-election
totheoffkeof state treasurer, it is time
that the Democrats were looking around
for a competent man to sncoeed him. The
office of treasurer of the State is of the high-
est importance, and only a man of knosva
integrity and good business training should
be selected to fill it. Governor Lubbock
has made a good, faithful official, aai
tl.e Democrats of the State have reasoa
to be proud of him. It will be necessary
for the delegates to the Galveston conven-
tion to think long and well before selecting
Govtrnor Lubbock's successor. Permit me
to suggest a man to tbe Democrats who
would lif t only honor the partv. but the
State. I nominate the Hon. Johu Henry
Brown, at present mayor of Dallas and at
one time mayor of Galveston. He is a
Texas veteran, a man who has been faith-
ful to every trust and who deserves well of
his party and State. r.
The News Sustained.
Boston Ilerald.
Tw o St. I.nnis papers having erroneously I
attributed, one to Doi sev the other to Stew- .
ait I. Woodford, the hint for "a bloody j
shirt canipi.ign with money." as the road I
to Republican success ia a past presidea- J
tial campaign, the Galveston News ssts j
thein right in stating that the expression j
was used by Judson Kilpatrick, iu a letter *
during the campaign of 1870. This phrase
fairly iiidrrates the sincerity and the poli-
tical'morality of the noted stumper, tie
was fittingly rewarded by Mr. Blaine wits
at appointment as minister to Chili.
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