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G UBEHNA TOIilAL CA NDIDA TES
AND THE LAND BOA11T).
Citizen, a correspondent writing from
JIarlin, who must have a grievance against
Comptroller Swain, insists at this late day
upon fastening a UIock of Indiana lime-
stone about the latter's neck, and setting
him adrift in the treacherous sea of state
politics upon a condemned craft. This
craft—the state land board—has been con-
demned by every member of the state gov-
ernment. In an interview. Comptroller
Swain abandoned it: the governor had pre-
viously deserted it; the state treasurer had
declared that the people would condemn
it—which, from him, was equivalent to an
«'fficial "me-too;" and Walsh and Temple-
tcQ had, when it was first launched, de-
'^ared it unsound. This board, with its
ethoils and policies, is doomed; hcnce
the idea advanced by Citizen,
that Comptroller Swain could, with the
assistance of Commissioner Walsh, if
elected governor, retain it is simply pre
postc-rous. Comptroller Swain has said
that he would not perpetuate it if he could;
the people and press declare for its aboli-
tion, and yet Swain and Walsh, we are
told, for what earthly object no one can
divine, would defy the country and break
faith with the public to retain an executive
board that has caused them more trouble
and anxiety than all their sins. In the be-
ginning neither of them had any part in
making it. The legislature and governor
g«t it up between them. Hats leave a sink-
ing ship by instinct. This one, The News
is satisfied, Swain and Walsh would have
deserted long since if they could have clone
so without breaking faith with the
people. It is not so very plain that the
governor had any right to abdicate his
place on the board, but it is quite evident
thr.t the other members could not desert
without violating sworn pledges. Now, as
to what Swain would do with reference to
the lands when the board was out of the
way, it is only fair to examine his platform
formulated in the late News interview. If
Citizen would devote attention to that inter-
view and abandon the notion that two men
foolish enough to stick to this ill-fated board
would be smart enough to perpetuate its ex-
istence, he might help his friends and hurt
bis foes. If Citizen insists upon it, the
people might try it a while longer, but not
until some one like Swain or Walsh was
made governor, who would exert every
power of government entrusted to his com-
mand to enforce the laws of the
State against the lawless who
defy the people and the board,
While Tiik Nmvs considers Citizen's en-
deavor to frighten people with the idea of
a miraculous intervention to restore life to
the land board as ridiculous, if it is not
malicious, yet if the people of Texas onca
get it into their heads that these attacks
upon Swain and Walsh have their inspira-
tion in the apprehension that Swain as gov-
ernor, or Walsh as governor, would exe-
cute the law rather than abdicate that duty,
and remit to the saving grace of psalm-
singing its departed spirit, they might
easily be induced to give the board another
lease of life. The people might consider a
land board, headed by a positive, aggres-
sive executive, a not altogether unpromis-
ing agency, though intent upon its destruc-
tion otherwise. It is not certain that Swain
for governor and Walsh for land commis-
sioner, upon a solemn pledge to wrest the
school lands from the lawless possession
of cattle corporations by the execution
with state power of all the legitimate
requirements of the land board, would not
before the people overwhelm any opposi-
tion that had only the negative strength de-
rived from a mere condemnation of the
board and an irrational apprehension that
a Texas governor might destroy the liber-
ties of mankind by employing a squad of
rangers to protect state property. It is not
certain that the people would not prefer a
positive, fearless and even somewhat arbi-
trary executive, with a state land board
attachment thrown in, to a timorous gov-
ernor on a platform of land board abolition
and local execution of the land laws by
those whose interests conflict with the pub-
lic interests. Citizen forgets the universal
applause that followed the declaration of
war by the majority of the land board when
defied by cattle corporations, and the uni-
versal humiliation when this declaration
was vetoed by the governor. Where
Citizen seems to show malice most
clearly, however, is in the insinuation
that the capitol syndicate is highly favored
by the majority of the capitol board. If
this is true, Citizen is recreant to a oitizen's
duty in witholding the facts. People who
serve in state affairs ought to be exposed
and prosecuted when they corruptly or ig-
norantly prefer the opposing interest of a
syndicate to that of the people. The Indi-
ana limestone history is recorded, and the
capitol board may well stand upon the re-
cord. If it is not malice, but is a know-
ledge of venality, that inspires the attacks
upon the board, surely an honest citizen ac-
quainted with the facts would not delay a
day in giving them to the public. What
Citizen knows outside or underneath the re-
cord he should divulge, or cease what must
otherwise be deemed either a malicious
course inspired by revenge or a cold blood-
ed endeavor to knife a candidate in the dark
that he may earn favorable consideration
from an opposing candidate. Certainly
General Ross will not be made governor by
the use of slander.
TIIE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVEN-
TION.
God help the parents of the world is an
old saying, and yet ever new. Parents in-
deed have a good deal to contend with.
Parents have to watch over their ohildren,
guide them, advise them and endeavor to
lead them in the straight and narrow path
of righteousness. There is nothing half so
sweet in life as training the young when
they happen to be good. But wayward, un-
dutiful, ungrateful children are horrid.
Look at The Dallas News, for in-
stance. The uncanny, cantanker-
ous "Kid" has gone back on
the "Old Lady." "'Tis true, 'tis pity,
pity 'tis, 'tis true." In spite of the fact that
the Democratic state executive committee,
taken bodily, knows that Galveston is the
place of places to hold the Democratic
state convention, the frisky and erratic
child of The News kisses the back of her
hand to her parent and delivers herself of
this piece of rattling and sparkling apert-
ness:
While the Democratic statesmen of Texas
are looking about for a place in which to hold
a State convention they can not do better than
turn their eyes upon Dallas and keep them
there. Dallas would give representatives of
the Democracy a cordial welcome. She has
spacious halls and excellent hotels. Her rail-
roads stretchout all ovor the State like open
arms of welcome. Her people have warm
hearts and lots ol enthusiasm. A State
convention held at Dallas would give the
politicians of the South an opportunity
to become better acquainted with the future
center of political influence in this State. Al-
ready Dallas is the metropolis of northern
Texas, and unless all signs fail, It is destined
to be, in a few years, the largest Texas city.
No other town is growing as rapidly. No town
is more favorably situated. Witli a rich agri-
cultural country all about It, large stock-rais-
ing interests close by, ample facilities for
transportation, and a population distinguished
for thrift and enterprise, a still more rapid
growth is assured to Dallas for the future,
It would be in excellent taste for the Demo-
cratic party to recognize tills present prosper-
ity and future promise. A quarter of a century
ago Chicago was about the same sort of a town
that Dallas is to-day. Yet a president was
nominated there, as more than one president
has been since. By all means let the State
c onvention be held in the Chicago of Texas. In
eon el union, the Democratic leaders are assured
that they will find Dallas cold tea excellent.
Of course everybody knows, however,
that The Dallas News is a baby. Much
allowance may be made for the freaks of
infancy and the inexperience of youth.
With more years or months and more
schooling of experience, the " Kid " would
doubtless have done the opportune thing
by congratulating the Democratic dele-
gates, whoever they may be, on the pros-
pect of meeting at Galveston, where they
will inhale the fresh breezes of the gulf
and dally with the romping surf of
evenings when their toils are over. As it
is, the " Kid" banking on the "cold tea " of
Dallas, is bound to get left. The next Demo-
cratic State convention will be held at Gal-
veston, and " don't let it escape your forget-
fulness."
A QUESTION OF LAND CHANT AND
SUBSIDY HE CORD.
The Laredo Times—a steadfast friend of
Governor Ireland and a newspaper that
serves his cause effectively by a generally
fair, open and candid advocacy—occasion-
ally may fall into error through inadver-
tency, and so do an injury unawares to the
cause it represents with wit and wisdom.
The News, without being enthusiastic in
that cause, as the Times knows, but in the
general behalf of honest discussion, would
ask the Times if it has not erred in the fol-
lowing language: "In all his career as a
senator or representative, Governor Ireland
lias never advocated a measure granting a
foot of land or a dollar in money to any cor-
poration whatever, that we have any recol-
lection of." Surely it is error in advocacy
to remind the people that a legislator, dur-
ing the period when the development of this
State required legislative enterprise,
liberality and sagacity, was incom-
petent to select the honest, wise and
constitutional measures proposed from
the fraudulent and illicit schemes which
were being pushed through the legislature,
and in despair of being able to choose the
right, opposed all, good aiid bad alike. It
is also error in fact to affirm that the gov-
ernor never did as a legislator propose and
advocate a grant or grants of land to a cor-
poration. It was wise to do so when the
governor advocated the grants which the
journals of the legislature indicate that he
proposed, and no one will nowobjoct to him
on that account. The Times is positive that
the governor never advocated any such
grant, and the inference from the vehemence
of its denial on this point is that if he had
t dvocated any such grant of land or money
to any corporation, it was a fearful
and wicked blunder. Most people who
have watched the development of this
State, noting the prompt and excellent
results of liberal legislation, would justify
the governor, on the whole, even if ho had
mistakenly advocated one or more of the
doubtful schemes, which in 1S73-4-5 misled
as wise, patriotic and as highly-honored
men as he. The Times must not vaunt the
governor's record on the subsidy question
too iiauntingly in the face of the present
generation, which has memory, though the
journals and records may have been- de-
stroyed when the old statehouso was burned.
If it was thievery to advocate a grant of
land to a corporation in 1873, again in 1874,
and finally in 1875, the people of Texas by a
vast majority were thieves, for they voted
to authorize these land grants. Will the
Times say that all such measure* were dis-
honest or unwise, and still insist that the
governor never advocated any such
measure, with the implication that
if he had done so he would
have been unreliable or worse?
This if a reasonable inquiry which the
Times, in its usual fair and candid manner
of conducting discussion, should answer
yea or nay. But The News must want
the Times that a repetition of the sweeping
denial will not pass muster. The people
are interested in this controversy and have
had sufficient experience in previous cam-
paigns to enable them to discern the true
from the false records. Probably there are
less sagacious newspapers than the Times
that believe that all that is necessary to in-
duce the multitude to snap-dragon down any
baseless and deceitful assertion is to put it
in print. There is opportunity for the
Times to refresh its recollection and do the
governor justice.
Bless the blizzard. The government
tea farm in South Carolina was frozen flat
in the late cold weather. The New York
Evening Telegram calls upon tea-drinkers
to rejoice, for this reason:
It is the death of an experiment that threat-
ened evil, for If it had prospered it would have
produced an enormous rise in the price of tea.
Perhaps you do not see this, dear reader. If
so, it is because you do not understand the
protective system. The tea farm was the thin
end of a new protection wedge. Itwas intended
to organize another " infant industry." If the
plants bud done well there wore to be teft farms
wherever the conditions seemed favorable;
and when the farmers began to make ten or
fifteen pounds a year there was to be raised
the wail of an oppressed home industry com-
pelled to compete with the pauper labor of
the Chinese empire, and duties of 100 per cent,
were to be put on to make the fortunes of tbo
tea-growers, all of which is blown away by a
little breeze from the north.
A Boston paper claims that Massachu-
setts produces the greatest statesmen in this
country. It is evident that the organ of
culture never heard of Rutabaga Johnson,
of Texas. -
The federal government should prohibit
mince pies in the general welfare. There
should also be a bill introduced to prevent
children from going hungry and to take
tliem from the guardianship of bad parents
and (hrow the protecting arm of a federal
guardian around them—the future citizens
and mothers of citizens in the third geoera-
tion.
Will we never get our coast defenses in
serviceable order? Here is Oscar Wilde
preparing to make another descent on this
country.
It is reported that Messrs. Trevelyan and
Heneage, of the British cabinet, have re.
signed rather than support the Irish gov-
ernment measure proposed by the premier.
It would be better, of course, if the cabinet
stuck together, but so long as only Trevel-
yan and Ileneage retire the government
may be considered tolerably safe. Trevel-
yan is a very bright young writer, who re-
ceived many advantages from the Liberal
leaders because of his being a nephew of
Lord Macaulay, but lie has really no influ-
ence on British public opinion. Heneage
is an old-line Whig without a sentiment
favorable to the people in his make-up. Ha
is a cousin of Lord Aylesford, who died of
too much whisky at Big Springs, Tex., a
year or so ago. As long as Gladstone can
hold the heavy weights of his cabinet to-
gether he is safe. Gladstone, Morley, Earl
Spencer, Joseph Chamberlain and Lord
Roseberry can put home-rule through if
they stick together.
George Hearst will probably be the
next senator from California. Qualifica-
tions, $10,000,000 well salted down.
Undbh a decision of the Supreme Court
of Mississippi it is said to be doubtful if a
valid insurance policy exists in the State.
Now, will somebody tell what is the mean-
ing of the obligation of contracts, which
states are not to invalidate?
Tiiey say that Cleveland and Edmunds
are about the warmest personal friends in
Washington. Of course this is a free coun-
try, and humbug has a right to exist.
Dallas wants the Democratic State con-
vention. Dallas has four more or less dark
horse candidates for governor, viz: Seth
Shepard, Bamett Gibbs, W. L. Crawford
and John Henry Brown. No wonder Dallas
wants the convention. Galveston is a can-
didate for the convention, but has no candi-
date for governor.
Michael Hahn, congressman from the
Second district of Louisiana, who died at
Washington yesterday, was born in Bava-
ria, on November 24,1830, but when an in-
fant was brought to this country by his
widowed mother, who settled in New Or-
leans. He attended the public schools in
that city, and after graduating from the
high school began the study of law, attend-
ing the lectures in the law department of
the University of Louisiana. After his
graduation on April 7,1851, he entered upon
the practice of his profession. When but
21 years of age he was elected a school
director, and served for several years, be-
ing at one time president of the board. He
was a strong union man, and after the
breaking out of the civil war refused to
take an oath of offlco requiring fidelity to
the confederate States, and on the arrival
of the union forces was active in the recon-
struction of the State. In 1862 he was elect-
ed to Congress, but was not admitted to his
seat until Febrtiary 7, 18G0. After the
expiration of his term he was ap-
pointed pri».e commissioner of New
Orleans. He purchased and edited the
New Orleans True Delta, in which he advo-
cated emoncipation. He was installed the
first governor of Louisiana as a free State
by the aid of the military authorities and
was inaugurated March 4, 1804, receiving
soon after from President Lincoln the ad-
ditional power of military governor. Hav-
ing been elected United States senator in
1865, he resigned the office of governor, but
did not press his claim to a scat in the Sen-
ate. In the great Mechanic Institute riot in
180ti he was severely wounded though pres-
ent only, it is alleged, as a spectator. In
1807 he became editor and manager of the
New Orleans Daily Republican. In 1872, '74
and '70 he was olected to the State legisla-
ture. He was appointed state register of
votes in 1S78, and during the same year was
made superintendent of the United States
mint at New Orleans. In 1870 he was elect-
ed district judge of several parishes, was
unanimously re-elected in 1884, serving un-
til he resigned March 3, 1885, having been
elected to the Forty-ninth Congress as a
Republican.
The New York Financial Record—fairly
good authority—says:
Atchison stock will go to par very rapidly on
a settlement of the transcontinental rate war,
which will only be settled when Atchison Is
assured of an Increased percentage. The pro-
perty Is doing remarkably well, and lathe
very cheapest 6 per cent, stock on the list.
The strike is still there, but continual
striking is liable to wear out the hammer
rather than the stone.
E. G. FrankS, secretary of the Commer-
cial exchange, of Chicago, sends The News
a document complaining that sugar from
Hawaii is sold for rather less than Amer-
ican sugar. Why don't they call their insti-
tution the anti-commercial exchange?
Why does not the capitol libel-guarantee
company, ot Austin, pass a resolution in-
suring the Texas Figaro against pains and
penalties of libel law, and invite exposure
of the party referred to as a state official
who was mixed up in the Philips scandal?
Among the first rights of a freeman, is the
right to go to work, and the man or set of
men that would hinder him are tyrants.
The New York Herald's Washington cor-
respondent says that having spent nearly
all of Saturday in theCongressional gallery,
"he was surprised to read in the Record on
Sunday {hat a member from Maryland " ad-
dressed the House, and his remarks were
reseryed for revision." In the issue of the
same veracious and sensational publication
of the 11th, there are two pages of this
speech that never was delivered (if the of-
ficial records and memories of many mem-
bers are credible), interspersed liberally
with the word " applause." The correspond-
ent thinks it is time to put on the brakes
and check the unpleasant business of print-
speeelies not delivered, and adds: "This
is not all I know on this subject. Only a
few days ago I was in one of the committee
rooms and saw the manuscript of a speech
about to be delivered, all in tho congress-
man's handwriting, through which the
bracketed word ' applause' was liberally
sprinkled. Since then the life of a com-
positor in the government printing office
has seemed one of the most humorous
imaginable."
The house committee on education has
agreed to report the Blair bill adyersely.
This may be said to indicate the defeat of
the measure in the House. Is it possible
that there are better Democrats in the
House than in the Senate?
If Cleveland is " Charles," and Edmunds
" Cromwell," there are some grave doubts
that history may not repeat Itself.
ii b. Parnell advises his countrymen to
refrain from parading in Ulster on St.
Patrick's day. This is solkl advice. WThat
is the use of irritating? True, St. Patrick's
day is a national festival rather than any-
thing like a religious festival, but it is the
business of statesmanship to bring Orange
Ulster and Irish Mimster together. Parnell
evidently believes that molasses can beat
vinegar catching flies.
It begins to look as if Gladstone had
opened the bag, and that the cat may jump
at any moment. If it is a good cat, it will
be good; but under the circumstances,
almost any kind of a cat will be interesting,
Good cats are awfully scarce, anyway.
Ik the Hon. John Ireland is not the big-
gest man in Texas, what is he?
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Newspapers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
The Blanco Star-Vindicator says:
Calves ton should be eared for first. Deep
water is needed on the Texas coast, and
that badly. Aransas Pass and Sabine Pass
should also come in for an appropriation.
The Alvarado Bulletin says:
The Galveston News is having a She-
pard boom all to itself. Seth will have to
wait until he becomes acclimated before he
c an expect to gain entrance to the charmed
circle of northern Texas politics.
How long would the Bulletin want one to
tarry at Jer icho in order to grow a beard,
and would it have the beard as long as
Judge Norton's?
The Brenham Banner says:
It is beginning to dawn upon the political
economists that the cause of the present
general stagnation in business is not so
much over-production in business as it is a
lack of consumption. People as a rule are
willing to consume a great deal more than
thev have the ability to buy. In flush times
all kinds of products are high, money is
plenty, the people spend it freely, and busi-
ness in all its branches is brisk.
The Greenville Appeal says:
Sam Jones and the devil seem to be on
good terms. Sam says the prince of dark-
ness is a gentleman.
Sam may be one, too; but ho has not the
speech or manners of one. The Grimes
County News says:
There are some refined people who would,
no doubt, like to go to heaven, but the style
of the modern evangelist is not calculated
to win them. It is said that Sam Jones has
a habit of pointing into his congregation,
while denouncing sin, and saying, " I mean
you, you old red-nosed, blear-eyed hog."
The Waxahachie Mirror says:
Many papers of the State favor General
Maxey's return to the Senate. The truth is.
the Mirror believes he has more supporters
among the press than any other one aspir-
ant The commercial interests of all
Texas demand deep water at Galveston.
The Waxahachie Enterprise says:
Two more suicides occurred at Fort Worth
—both caused by excessive use of whisky.
Off with the bust.
The Laredo Times says:
Mr. George H. Campbell, the gentleman-
ly and efficient agent of the International
and Great Northern Railway company at
this place for several years, has been or-
dered to Galveston. Mr. Campbell has made
many friends during his long stay in La-
redo, and his absence will sever pleasant
associations on the part of many. May his,
lines bo cast in pleasant places in the
Island world, and the Gate city be not for-
gotten until we meet again.
The Austin Statesman vindicates the
truth of political history as follows:
The Laredo Times says it is n«t believed
that Governer Ireland ever advocated the
granting of a subsidy to any railroad. In
this the Times is sadly mistaken. The
journals of tie Senate, second session of the
Fourteenth legislature, will show that Gov-
ernor Ireland, then senator from the Segain
district, on the 9th day of Maroh, 1876. in-
troduced a bill granting to the Internation-
al and Great Northern Railroad oompany,
twenty sections of land to the mile, amount-
ing, in the aggregate, to 4,000,000 acres, and
exempting this land, together with the road-
bed. rolling-stock and-other property of the
company, from all taxation — state,
county " and municipal—for twenty-
five vears, and permitting said company to
hold'one-half of the lands for fifteen years,
and the remainder for twenty years. It is
also well known that Governor Ireland was
the special champion of this bill, and it was
passed and became a law, and this at a
time when the International railroad com-
pany proposd to take three million dollars
m full settlement of their claim against the
State. The bill also permitted the location
of said lands in solid bodies, when all other
railroads were required to locate their
lands in alternate sections, and these lands
to-day, exempt from taxation, are worth
not less than twelve million dollars. Thes i
are facts from the record, and can not be
gainsaid.
The Norris County Herald says:
The Stetson Hat company will realize at
least J50,000 worth of profit through the ad-
vertising it has received in the state of
Texas on account of the boycot
Among the best daily papers published in
the South is The Galveston News, pub-
lished at Galveston. It has a branch publi-
cation office at Dallas, where The Dallas
Morning News is published. Both papers
are published under the same management.
The weekly edition of both of these papers
is filled up with the cream of the daily,
and no better family paper can be found in
the State. If you want a paper filled with
all of the latest and best news of the day,
subscribe for The Weeky News.
The Gilmer Mirror is a model of modesty.
It says:
Candidly, we don't know who will be the
next governor of Texas.
The Mirror says:
The Knights of Labor seem determined
on one thing—to be forever on the strike.
The Jackson County Progress remarks:
The Blanco Star-Vindicator is one of the
liveliest little weeklies in the State, and it
only speaks the true sentiment of every
other country paper when it says The Gal-
veston News stfll maintains its position as
the leading paper in Texas. As a reliable
chronicler of passing events throughout
the world Tmh News has few equals and no
superiors in the United States. Every
business man in tie state of Texas should
take The Daily News and every farmer
and working'man The Weekly News.
The Progress tells how a certain class of
farmers get on:
The German is pre-eminently a lover of
the soil. Tlje acme of his worldly happi-
ness is the possession of land. He inherits
this trait from a long line of land-tilling an-
cestry, and he brings it with him across the
water to the land-seeker's paradise. His
prime motive for leaving the old country is
to acquire land in the new. He has no fears
of his ability to live and thrive on the land
w hen once it is his own. The main point
is the getting of it, and his own strong arm
will make a living and provide for his fam-
ily. He takes a chance, but in nine
cases out of ten the German immi-
grant succeeds where almost any other na-
tionality would fail. He gets his land and
he is happy. No power of reasoning can
convince him that there is any other road
to wealth than the persistent tilling of the
soil. And so he works on, year after year,
and he always " gains on it." Seldom do
we hear of a German farmer going into
bankruptcy. As a rule, the Germanfarmer
is "good" in a commercial sense, any-
where. Inborn tendencies to frugality help
to make him so. He need only to follow
the traditions of his father. If they could
live and save in Germany, he can live and
save in this country, and he does.
Men can not always see the silver lining
in the clouds or secure the sympathies of
the less sensitive. The Sulphur Springs
Gazette says of a contemporary of a mel-
ancholy turn:
Our esteemed friend of tho Banner had
the fever of retrospect on him in his last.
Rainy days and a suspension of silver re-
ceipts will produce melancholy, and from
melancholy to sentiment tho step is short.
The Banner writes well and his soft image-
ry hath the gentle power to clothe the sad,
moaning pines of east Texas with an inter-
est that restless progress, as she cuts them
into lumber, can hardly appreciate.
The Cherokee Standard has this to say of
the deep-water problem:
Every point on the Texas coast is asking
for deep-water appropriations. The argu-
ment in favor of such expenditure is that it
is the moral duty of our national Congress
to improve every possible harbor on our
coast. This theory we think entirely falla-
cious. We want the power of the govern-
ment to be represented by improving hon-,
estly and freely the harbor that is and has
been used by nine-tenths of our population,
and not for the benefit of speculators who
have invested in these imaginary ports as a
matter of personal interest. Let each pro-
posed place be considered with a view to indi-
vidual merit, and the efforts that have been
put forth by the inhabitants as an evidence
of the faith in the plans proposed. It is a
suspicious circumstance, to say the least of
it, for persons to insist on improvements at
points where they are the only parties di-
rectly interested, and have never made a
single effort to assist themselves. The
moral power of this government should not
be represented by extravagant expenditures
in improving possible harbors that have
but few claims on habitation. Heroic efforts
of New York syndicates, in the interest of
selfishness, asking appropriations to im-
prove their real estate, are being made in
our midst daily, under the guise of the
moral duty of our great government to its
citizens. - -
The Laredo Times remarks:
Never before in the history of the world
was labor so restless and antagonistic, and
usless some legal mode for the settlement
of its differences with capital is invented
the inevitable and irrepressible clash will
come alongstfce entire line—from the Rio
Grande to thdSt.Lawrence and from ocean to
ocean—the consequences of which in) Hving
man can fori?tell any more than he>.mav
hope to escape thfe safne, for all will be in-
volved in the ruin.
The Texas Review has a Urge number of
involuntary subscribers, it says the
the Review has been mailed regular-
ly from' the first number to all the busi-
ness correspondents of the publishers;'and
also to members of the legislature' and
other officials, agents, banks, etc., all of
whom are expected to pay.
The Alexander Tribune says:
Laboring men have many grievances
which need righting; but it seems to us that
the leaders of the present agitation are not
striking at the root of the evil. Boycots and
strikes will never secure the public sympa-
thy that is needed in order to secure the
passage of just-laws.
An advertiser .in the Alexander Tribune
bait3 this little hook for the editor of the
Dallas Times:
Eggs for sale fqr setting;, price $1 for 13.
Every chicken raised from these eggs is
sure to be a prize, winder.
Nothing is said about forty flutters in a
minute. Brother Sterett knows a game
chicken when He sfees It, even in the shell.
He does not invest his money in " domi-
nickers " or their eggs.
An exchange quotes,as applicable to a class
at present, the lines of the corn-law rhymer:
" What is a communist? One who liatli yearn-
ings.
For equal division of unequal earnings.
Idler or bungler, or both, be is willing
To fork out his penny and pocket your shil-
ling."
The Henderson Times does not cry, " Go
it, ye cripples," but says:
Sympathy for aspirants to office on ac-
count of their misfortunes \flthout taking
into consideration the time-honored test:
"Is he honest? is he capable? is he faith-
ful?" will lead to the destruction of all po-
litical institutions unless it is subdued by
men of intelligence, and whose return to
active politics would elevate the-
standard for office that has in many in-
stances fallen far below par.
Honest, faithful, competent men,
who have become disabled in a
good cause to perform manual labor, de-
pendent upon the same for a living, and
whopossess the physical strength to servo
the people in the capacity of public ser-
vants snould have the preference. But the
mere absence of a leg or an arm should not
be a test for office. Our country needs a
wholesome influence infused into every
branch and fibre of its political affairs, and
it is to be hoped that the best men will
ccme to the front, and select for their
standard bearers men fit for the offices.
The Orange Tribune says:
The Drummers association, after careful
investigation, find that the charges of mean-
ness against The Galveston News toward
them are unjust, and the old mother journal
is again in favor with the traveling men.
The meanness was located elsewhere, and
played the boomerang on the inventor.
The Ennis Recorder is critical in the use
of words. It says:
TnE Galveston News says the Prince of
Wales will soon visit this country, and that
a great display of flunkeyism will probably
be made toward him. That's the first tima
"we ever heard decayed vegetables and an-
cient eggs called by that name.
The Recorder should make its meaning
clear to the average reader. It is not ob-
vious. Everyone knows what is meant by
flnnkyism. It can hardly be possible that
the Recorder means that the prince would
be pelted with rotten vegetables and eggs.
Such a suggestion would hardly be made
by a communist. As a word-slinger the
Recorder is.not always fortunate. It says:
A peculiar intertangling Qi words made
us use an expression entirely foreign to the
real meaning of the sentence. For " and
enuervate the city" read " and innerve the
city." The former word was a jumbling of
the two words, enervate and innervation.
We are indebted to Bro .Fears for the cor-
rection.
Papers that make merry over the slander
on Swain or ridicule attempts to discover
the author seem indirectly to approve of
such tactics toward a candidate. The pub-
lic will not tolerate them.
The Glen Rose Citizen says:
Charley Miller is responsible for an ex-
travagant rat story. He was out at George
Shackelford's place a few days ago, and
while there Mr. Shackelford was moving
an oid grain-house. A colony of rodents
was discoveredafid the bottle that ensued
resulted in slaying fifty-nine of the tribe.
Mr. Whebler also has a rat story. There
has been great mortality among his kids of
late, and the other night one came into the
house for shelter ana protection. He put
it - in an outhouse for the night, and next
morning, on opening the door to turn it out,
found only its hair and bones. It had been
killed ana eaten up by the rats.
Nothing incredible in this. During the
war, State Press saw a pile of 114 large rats
killed and counted bv closing the doors of
a lerge smoke-house used to store provi-
sions and removing the articles contained
in it. There were hundreds of rats also in.
a warehouse at the end of a wharf on the
sarce premises, yet in a large barn on tho
grounds, where grain was stored, not a lat
was to be found. The barn was open to
owls, and goats had the run of tho lower
story. The former kill rats, and the scent
of the goats is said to drive the rodents
away, but whether the absence of rats from
the barn was due to either is an open ques-
tion. In many places rats are not only a
nuisance but the cause of great loss to farm-
ers and others. It is said that they have a
great aversion to the odor of chloride of
lime, and when it is mixed with water and
poured, into their holes they usually vacate
their haunts.
T-ilE STATE CAMPAIGN.
What Are the Issues—Men or Measures?
To The News.
Marlin, Tex., March 3,1886.—The average
voter who is informed as to the views
heretofore held and expressed by our can-
didates for state office, as well as certain,
newspaper editors, are somewhat puzzled
by the present attitude of the last named.
The difficulty is to understand how a
newspaper, for instance, which has con-
demned the policy and action of the land
board, can advocate the claims of the mem-
bers of that board to re-eloction, or elec-
tion to any other position, in which they
would again be members of the said board,
and so far as one may judge their future
by their past and present views, would
again renew the same or similar policy and
course of action. There is no controversy
at present, we believe, upon the utter fail-
ure of the land-board policy, either to raise
revenue or encourage the settlement of the
unpopulated portion of the State. This
board has raised the price of lease
beyond the statutory provision,
without enforcing anything, com-
paratively, and have at the same tima
placed the actual settlers, the pioneer
farmer, in such a restricted and disadvan-
tageous position as to deter him from en-
tering upon unsettled territory, and in
many cases has resulted in driving out the
small farmer with his-little bunch of stock
from the sparsely settled counties upou the
border of our agricultural districts.
The action of the land board, as to its
policy of price and restriction, has beeu
peculiarly harmonious. Of late two of the
members seem to have repented as to price
of lease, -and manifest a disposition to be
law-abiding in this respect; but of these
two, one is not a candidate for election to a
position where he will again be called upou
to annul or construct land legislation; while
the other, having lived his allotted period
of years, is likely to be called hence at.any
moment. The land commissioner (Walsh)
and the comptroller (Swain) are both un-
repentant, as per the last vote upon the re-
duction of lease to the statutory figure.
' s for
d
the disposition of the public lands largely
at their disposal. Mr, Swain as governor,
and Mr. Walsh as land commissioner,
would, by their official positions and patron-
age, their long experience in public life,
and personal friendships, be able almost
to dictate, by their combined efforts, the
land policy of the State for another two
years.
Under these circumstances, how can
newspapers or voters, who are opposed to
the past action and present views of Mr.
Swain and Mr. Walsh, advocate their elec-
tion to positions where their views would
in all probability again control tho land
policy of the State ?
The same line of reasoning might be used
in regard to the capitol building contract.
Mr. Swain and Mr. Walsh are both upon
record as desiring the capitol to be built of
Indiana limestone, but consented to Burnet;
granite in the rough and without the grand
porticos, which in effect gave the building
syndicate a gratuity from the state trea-
sury of a quarter million dollars. Mr. Swain
and Mr. Walsh are men of backbone; they
are not down as repenting of their action
upon the capitol contract, and they may be
relied upon, we take it, to continue their
policy toward this highly favored syndi-
cate.
How is it, we ask for information,that gen-
tlemen who condemn the policy, action and
present opinions of these candidates, upon
questions of public policy, can advocate
their re-election or promotion to positions
where they would be enabled to fasten upon
the State tor another term a continuance of
the same policy pursued in the past? Do
the people want public servants to repre-
sent and execute their opinions upon mat-
ters of public policy, or do they want cer-
tain men to have and hold office, irrespec-
tive of their opinions and actions?
Are men or measures to be considered in
our coming canvass? Citizen.
The last week in January 99,206 persons
received parish relief in London.
These two are lusty candidates for p osi-
tions in which they would, if elected, have
the disposition of the public lands largely
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