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THURSDAY. AUGUST 18, 1887.
NOIICE TO THE PUBLIC.
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Galveston, Tex., May 27, 1887.
If Commoner Keagan really wants to
know whether he can be "vindicated" he
can not do better than accept a trial of the
issue by resigning his senatorship and ask-
ing the indorsement of a re-election. His
power to placate the public has been equal
to all previous demands. It bore him safe-
ly through the odium of his Fort Warren
pnlings; it made him at once the darling of
the grangers and the admired of the juris-
consults in the constitutional convention of
'76; it steered him safely between the
Kcyila of corporate power and the Charyb-
dis of the labor organizations in placing
the interstate commerce fraud upon the
statute books. After all this tension the
power to wheedle ought to stand the small
strain of a reconciling of his position in '85
with his sentimentalizing in '87.
Ex-Governoi! Brown of Tennessee, now
receiver of the Texas Pacific railroad, in
speaking recently of election frauds, said:
"There is after all only one way by which
ballot-box stuffing, miscounting of votes
and fraud of that character can be entirely
stopped. It can be done by viva voce
voting. When the man comes to vote and
must stand up before the judge to proclaim
his name, his place of residence, age, etc.,
and then announce his choice of candidates
in equally open manner, the chance of
fraud will be diminished to the lowest de-
gree. There would still be some dangers
irom repeating, but those will always ex-
ist." The viva voce method of voting
jtotild doubtless go a great way toward
preventing illegal voting and might be an
t fficient remedy for ballot-box stuffing, but
it would also be objectionable in some par-
ticulars, one of these being the facility it
would afford for practices of intimidation.
Even with the secret ballot it is sometimes
difficult to prevent intimidation, and it is
too often resorted to, especially in the
northern states, by employers of labor to
control the votes of their employes. There
is no crime against suffrage more danger-
ous than this, and little would be gained by
an open ballot If, while serving to correct
other evils, it should have the effect of pro-
moting this equally serious one.
BELIEF FROM INCIDENTAL PHI
VATE TAXES.
The New York World has the talent need-
ful to make any question clear to the com-
prehension of its readers. When it likes to
use this talent some admirable articles are
produced. Replying to the Sun's oft re-
peated truism, that "the repeal of the in-
ternal revenue will abolish the surplus,"
the World candidly soys: "So it would.
But it would do several other things as
well. The repeal of the internal revenue
system would show to the people that the
democratic party has so radically changed
its principles and its sympathies as to ex-
empt luxuries and indulgences from taxa-
tion and leave the burden on necessa-
ries. It would relieve whisky of a tax paid
by manufacturers and dealers, too small to
be subdivided among consumers, and leave
a tax of 2« cents a pound on sugar, *12
cents a hundred on salt, 2'< cents per pound
on rice, 67 per cent on woolen clothing, 55
per cent on earthenware and china, 01 to
100 per cent on window glass and 37 per
cent on iron and steel manufactures—all
paid by the consumers of these articles. In
other words the repeal of the internal
revenue taxes would relieve a small aud
money-making class from taxation in order
to retain war imposts on articles required
and used by every man, woman and child
in the United States. It would perpet-
uate the war tariff, and that is the
animating purpose of those who favor
it. If this be democracy there seems to be
no good reason why the republicans should
not be called back to administer the system
wlich they built np and have stoutly de-
fended in the interest of monopolies." The
democratic party, after its professions fa-
voriDg tariff for revenue only, would be in
a more discredited position for having
made such professions than if it had lettbe
tariff question alone and had never said
one word upon it, or than if it had advo-
cated protectionism, if the party were now
to turn tail to the enemy and help to get
rid of sources of revenue without reducing
tariff duties of the more oppressive sort.
These are especially such as restrict
importations and tax Americans for private
firms more than for government purposes.
The classification "necessaries" includes
sugar with salt, iron and glass, but this
classification is defective for the purposes
of a fair discussion of thi3 subject. Sugar
is a tropical product, the bulk of the
amount used in this country being import-
ed. The government receives much revenue
from it, and the piotected interests receive
comparatively little. With several other
necessaries the case is the opposite. They
are eminently native products. They are
not imported to any great extent, but the
duty which yields a little revenue
inures to the private benefit of a few
American monopolists at the expense
of consumers. Thus the necessary which
is mostly imported is properly to be dis-
tinguished from the necessary which is
mostly of American production. The neces-
sity to the consumer is not the only idea
relevant in a tariff discussion. The repeal
of the sugar duty would compare favorably
with the repeal of the whisky tax from the
consumer's point of view, but the same con-
sumer would be much more benefited by
the repeal of some other duties. This is
how such conclusion may be readily
arrived at. Approximately speaking the
consumer is taxed 2% cents a pound
on sugar, of which V cent goes to pro-
tected interests and 2'j cents to the govern-
ment. Consequently if this duty were
abolished there would be no appreciable
diminution of protection burdens upon the
people but simply a diminution of tax. On
many other necessaries the proportion of
consumption of the protected domestic
product is such that to abolish 2ii cents of
the government revenue would incidentally
abolish 5 cents or more of private tribute
to the protected barons. So it was with
matches and with quinine. To abolish the
duties on iron would knock off 1>« cents
of private baronial tax for every 2K cents
of revenue abolished. Which way, then
is the best—to untax sugar for a sweeping
reduction of revenue with scarcely any in-
road on protectionism as a system, or to
untax other necessaries upon which the peo-
ple are now paying two or three times as
much profit to grasping barons beyond the
amount of the duty? If in abolishing fifty
millions of revenue from sugar congress
can incidentally abolish a five million pro-
tectionist grab, and if iij abolishing fifty
millions of revenue from salt, iron, glass,
earthenware and cloth congress can inci
dentally abolish a hundred and fifty million
protectionist grab, which way ought con-
gress to move in making its choice?
HOW MONUMENTS ABE EBECTED.
It is well that the monuments erected in
honor of great or distinguished men are
not commenced until after the death of
those whose virtues or deeds they are de-
signed to commemorate. The subjects of
such memorials would not in all instances
enjoy the same degree of pride and pleas-
ure in contemplating the honor proposed to
be thus paid them could they realize the
tardiness with which the people respond
when called upon for practical evi-
dence of their appreciation in the
nature of contributions of money
for the purpose. This is well illustrated by
the slow progress being made with the
movement to erect a monument in New
York to the memory of General Grant, and
the begging appeals and unbecoming arti-
fices resorted to for raising the necessary
amount of money. Although a New York
paper that assumed a sort of leadership in
the enterprise has for many months been
persistent and obtrusive in appealing to all
classes of people for contributions, and
subscription lists have been circulated in
all portions of the country, the total
sum thus collected amounted a
few days since to less than
$4,500. This sum, small as it is,
can hardly be said to entirely represent
voluntary contributions. Requests have
been made of employes of the federal gov-
ernment in New York through their chiefs,
which in reality have amounted to nothiug
more or less than assessments, whichmauy
employes doubtless paid from considera-
tions of policy more than from any sense
of patriotic duty. Ingenious plans for ad
yertising in connection with the fund have
been devised, one enterprising New York
firm of dry goods manufacturers adopting
the expedient of naming a grade of dry
goods for the Grant memorial, the
profits on which for six months
are to be given to the monumental
fund. These are by no means all o£ the
schemes that have been adopted to pro
vide the means required for the erection of
the memorial to the memory of the distin-
guished chieftain. These methods may
prove effective in the course of time, but
will the monument when completed stand
as a token of the love and gratitude of the
American people? If General Grant could
have known how slow his countrymen
would be in building it and the methods
Lhnt would be adopted in raising the neces-
sary fund he might even have preferred
that no effort should be made to commemo-
rate his worth and services, but that history
be left to perpetuate his fame. History is
after all the best and most reliable testi-
monial of true greatness.
CLAIMS BEFORE AND RETUllNS
AFTER.
Prohibitionists are early in the field claim-
ing to have polled a majority of the demo-
cratic vote of the state. This was to
be expected in any event. Before the
election, at which only a few fully counted
upon success, the least confident and most
conservative of their leaders claimed that
unless prohibition were defeated by more
than 25.000 majority it would conclusively
appear that more democrats had voted for
than against the amendment. This propo-
sition was not contested at that time,
though it might well have been. Now that
the majority is apparently four times that
upon which prohibitionists were before the
election content to base their claim to a
majority of democratic voters their present
claim appears too absurd to require serious
consideration. But a concise statement may
assist in undeceiving some who may be as
egregionsly misled In this matter as they
were in the result of the election. From
piesent indications it appears that some
300,000 to 380,000 votes have been cast, and
that there is a majority of 90,000 to 100,000
against the amendment. Taking the inside
figures they show an increase of 47,000 votes
in the state. At the last governor's election
in round numbers 313,000 votes were cast.
Of these, 65,000 were republican, 19,000 pro-
hibitionist and the remainder democratic
votes. Say that if the vote in 1886 had
reached 360,000, at the ratio given by the
vote of the three parties, 74,000 republican,
22,000j|prohibition and 206,000 democratic
votes would indicate the strength of par-
ties. Say that every republican vote was
cast against prohibition, and every
Dohoney vote for prohibition, then
there would be the 266,000 democratic
votes to account for. Say that the prohibi-
tionists polled just one-half the democratic
vote, together with the 22,000 Dohoney
votes. This would give them 155,000 votes.
If Ihey had received that many votes of
democrats and partisan prohibitionists the
majority against prohibition would be only
50,000. Oi to put it differently, allowing a
(10,000 majority against prohibition required
a majority of 40,000 of all the democratic
votes to be cast against it. But when it is
considered that at least one-third the re-
publican vote was cast for prohibition it is
apparent that to poll a majority of 90,000
against the amendment a majority of 65,000
to 70,000 democratic votes was required.
When it is further considered that the
22,000 Dohoney votes, and 32,000 republican
votes were probably cast for prohibition,
the conclusion is reached that the anti vote
comprised over 100,000 majority of the
democratic vote. From present indications
the vote may be placed at 135,000 for and
225,000 against prohibition. Of the 135,000
votes for prohibition 22,000 are original par-
tisan prohibition votes, 32,000 republican,
and 81,000 democratic votes, and of the 225,-
000 anti-prohibition votes 42,000 are repub-
lican and 183,000 are democratic votes. This
gives about the real status of the vote, and
shows a clear majority of the anti-prohlbi-
tion democrats over the entire vote of the
state on the opposite side.
The election returns of the recent state
election have been forwarded to the secre-
tary of state from every county, and will
all have been received doubtless by the 20th
of August, and yet the count of the vote is
not made until the 14th of September. The
law requires an interval of forty days be-
tween the election day and the day upon
which the state returning or canvassing
board shall open and count the returns.
This interval originally was required when
mail facilities were scant, but ten days
may now be deemed a sufficient interval,
and the law ought therefore to be changed
so as to conform it to the changed condi-
tions.
Roscoe Conkling is said to make $100,000
per annum at the bar. It is to be said to
his credit that he made nothing while en-
gaged in politics.
There is an honorable principle in human
nature which causes a victor even in the
hour of his triumph to feel for his defeated
adversary, but those papers that advocated
prohibition in the late contest are doing
much to crush out that generous feeling
when they exhibit such unwarranted malice
as to afflict the public with repetitions of
that chestnut about "Truth crushed to
earth."
At Austin the assassins of women occu-
pied public attention and exposed the in-
capacity of all manner of detectives during
a twelvemonth. Now women at the capital
seem intent upon turning the tables. In
another twelvemonth much can be done to-
wards rendering honors easy.
The Chicago Inter-Oaean declares that
the defeat of prohibition in Texas will be a
bar to immigration. Texas is in no par-
ticular need of the populating she is likely
to get from Chicago. This state is essen-
tially cosmopolitan, and doubtless gives
room to much for which it is no better. But
it has no dynamiters, neither does it need
them or the moral and social conditions
which produce them.
The Pegram Battalion association, com-
posed of the surviving members of bat-
teries which in the late war were attached
to the brigades forming A. P. Hill's Light
division, and afterward, as Pegram's bat-
talion, attached to the same division and to
the third corps of the Army of Northern
Virginia, has started a fund for the erection
of a monument over the remains of General
A. P. Hill, worthy of his fame and reputa-
tion. The association Invites aid in the na-
ture of contributions fromall ex-confederate
soldiers, and especially from those of the
Light division of the Third Army corps and
Army of Northern Virginia. It is desired
that every surviving member of the Light
division and Third Army corps shall re-
spond to the extent of his ability, no matter
how limited. The movement has the In-
dorsement of Governor Fltzhugh Lee of
Virginia, Governor 8. M. Bcales of North
Carolina, and other distinguished leaders.
Contributions should be addressed to Cap-
tain Thomas Ellett, president of Pegram
Battalion association, No. 28 North Ninth
street, Richmond, Va. Every ex-soldier
who contributes is requested to send his
lull name and rank, and the company,
regiment, brigade, division and corps to
which he was attached.
The Houston refrigerator enterprise of-
fers a safe and profitable opportunity for
investment which, if utilized, will turn into
the channels of trade a great deal of money
now lying idle in bank vaults.
The case of Injerd Jonson, the young
Norwegian woman, has called attention to
the immigration lawB of this country. She
is a poor woman, a house servant, with a
child that under the law has no father. The
woman was strong and healthy, and had
friends in America who proposed to give
her work. But because of her disgrace and
her child she was detained at Castle Gar-
den, and forced to submit to insults which
the whole country has resented. The pov-
erty of the woman was alone the cause of
her troubles. Had she come over in the
cabin instead of on the deck, as did Sarah
Bernhardt with her boy, there would have
been no questions asked her. She is per-
haps in all things a better woman than her
French ! sister. So long as she could
work, would work and had work offered
her ehe was not a subject for detention.
A correspondent signing Observer tells
an interesting story of President Cleve-
land's watchfulness over merit in the public
service. The correspondent terms the boy
a republican officeholder, but his meaning
is that the boy was appointed under a re-
publican administration. Honor, then, to
whom honor is due. A republican admin-
istration gave a place to that honest and
capable democratic boy, and President
Cleveland diligently inquired into the
merits of the case and continued the ap-
pointee.
A short time ago the fall of Charles
Reed, Guiteau's lawyer, went the rounds of
the press. He had been prosecuting attor-
ney of Chicago, fell from grace, tried to re-
cover himself by defending Guiteau, failed
and at last was nabbed while robbing a till.
The same newspapers now make note of
tho fact that a few days ago, he accom-
panied by a heavily veiled lady, walked
into a hotel and wrote in a large, flowing
hand, "Charles Reed and wife." Just what
interest the public takes in such news as
this can not be ascertained, and the papers
could publish it for no other reason than to
show that he had so far reformed as to be
able to withstand the temptation to steal
the hotel register.
Bikce there is some anticipation of hot
times in the next state democratic conven-
tion it should by all means be held in Gal-
veston, where the cool and refreshing gulf
breezes may serve to modily whatever heat
of passion may be generated by the prohi-
bition question.
The law by which the commission i3 gov-
erned in establishing the state reformatory
would seem to have been intended to re-
quire the institution to be located in some
unsettled portion of the state. The com-
mission is given $10,000, with which to pur-
chase a tract of not less than 610 acres of
land. It must be fertile land, well watered,
containing timber for fuel, situated in a
healthy locality and on a railroad. Proba-
bly these requirements will compel the se-
lection at a point distant from the state
government, from the general headquar-
ters of the penitentiary management and
from the populous districts. The legisla
ture ought to have considered other re-
quirements, or else have given the commis-
sion greater latitude and a larger allow-
ance for land.
Another post of the Grand Army has
gone wrong according to the teachings of
the Tuttles and Fairchilds. The post at
Evansville, lnd., has invited ex-confeder-
ates to join it in "celebrating the blessings
of peace and the glories of a union pre-
served." When Fairchild heard of it he
shook as if he had been hit with a stroke of
his paralysis.
The News is in receipt of authoritative
information, through a private channel,
that President Cleveland will not visit
Texas when on his western and southern
tour. The president has expressed regret
at his inability to do so, stating that the
limited time at his disposal and the work
that will be awaiting his return to Wash-
ington will not permit.
Hon. George Clark will be deeply dis-
tressed when he learns of the great dis-
pleasure his recent interview in The News
has occasioned the Gainesville Register.
The books of the assessor of Chicago
show that only twenty-two corporations in
that city render their property for taxation.
The books of the secretary of state of Illi-
nois show that there are 12,000 corporations
doing business in Chicago.
A curiosity from the Pittsburg Dis-
patch: "Congressman Miller of Texas led
the light against prohibition in that state,
and the big majority on his side has given
him a boom for the seat of Senator Coke."
UVALDE.
Indians in the Canyon—Prisoners Trying to
Escape from Jail.
Uvalde, Tex., August 17.—The Utopia
correspondent of the Uvalde News writes
under date of August 10: Parties down from
Vanderpoot report Indians in the canyon.
Up there at dusk last evening a Mrs. Foster
was down at the spring getting water when
OEe came upon her. He was armed with a
long butcher knife and bow and arrows;
his dress being only a breech clout. He
differed from most Indians In being gener-
oub. The report says he placed a ring upon
her finger and beads upon her neck and
allowed her to escape to the house, where
she held him at bay with a gun. Six more
were seen riding by Vanderpoot postoffice
with about fifteen horses.
The assessor's rolls just completed show
a decline in property values of about $200,-
000; the cause being the drouth.
Sheriff Baylor raided the jail this week
and captured several fine file saws from the
prisoners, who had cut their way nearly
out, one of the prisoners being Cruz, who
is to be condemned as soon as the District
Court meet3 in September.
Winaboro.
Winseoro, Tex., August 17.—The first
bale of new cotton was brought to this
place to-day. It was raised by James L
Taylor in this county and Bold to J. L.
Goldman & Co. for 10 cents and shipped to
Jamison, Groce & Co., Galveston. The
town paid $15 premium on it, The hale
weighed 446 pounds. ^
THE STATE PRESS.
What the Papers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
The Seymour Scimitar says:
Too many young Texans are ambitious to
become lawyers and doctors. Fewer in
these professions and better ones is the de-
mand. Even now Texas could well afford
to exchange three professional men for one
farmer.
King county does not count in the vote on
prohibition. A correspondent of the .Scimi-
tar Eays:
King county, owing to the fact that many
of her citizens were absent from home,
failed to take a vote upon this, what I con-
ceive to be, the gravest question before the
people of our country for arbitration.
There were hardly enough of us at home, to
be corraled at any one time, to perform the
duties of officers of the election.
The Scimitar says:
We understand that a party of prosper
tors in the city a few days ago were dissat-
isfied with the representations of the
county made by the newspapers. As we
said then we now repeat, with favorable
seasons the country surrounding Seymour
is as good as can be found in the state of
Texas. We are not running the weather
bureau, and consequently can not be held
responsible for circumstances over which
we have no control.
W. W. Durham of Barton Springs, near
Austin, tells the following snake stories in
the Farm and Ranch:
In the spring of 1880, while on a fishing
trip to Cypress creek, in Blanco county, I
was one day attracted by the barking of a
dog. On going to the tree, or rather bush,
where he was, I found two large snakes
near the topmost branches, tightly coiled
about each other, and evidently fighting,
from the noise one was making. This one
proved to be a coachwhip about six feet
long, and. although it seemed to hold the
other, which was a rattlesnake, tightly, the
rattlesnake was fast making away with
him. Last fall the workmen in the field at
Captain W. C. Walsh's brought to the house
on a pitchfork a large snake, well fastened
in the claws of a hawk, and also the hawk
was securely pinioned in the colls of the
snake. The men had noticed the hawk fly
down in the grass, #nd, not seeing him rise
again, went there and found the snake had
colled himself tightly about the neck and
over the butts of his wings, thereby prevent-
ing him from using them. Some years ago,
while ascending the side of Peak Saddle
mountain in Llano county, I noticed a hawk
fly up from the valley below with a good-
sized snake in his claws. After getting up
to a considerable height he attempted to
eat the snake, when the battle began. Hav-
ing the snake near the middle of the body
allowed him ample room to strike. He soon
made it too hot a task for the hawk and was
dropped.
The Willis Index was an earnest and hon-
est, but fair and reasonable friend of state
prohibition, but, like little George, it can
net tell a lie, and is therefore unable to ex-
plain why its party was beaten. It owns up
as follows:!
Ore hundred thousand majority mashes a
fellow so flat that there isn't anything to say
left in him.
The Index is unlike those who say mo$
where there is least to be said.
The Index says:
Galveston is about to turn herself loose
on another interstate drill, the grand pro-
portions of which will eclipse anything in
that line yet attempted in this country.
The Gonzales Gazette says:
There are business men in Gonzales who
are so close that they do not only refuse to
advertise their goods, but they naturally
from day to day borrow the local paper to
read.
The Houston Herald is small but
courageous. There are limits, however,
to valor, and the Herald feels a call to
make an apology, which it does as follows:
The Herald stated several days ago that
Joseph Bannahan Cozzo, the talented and
handsome editor of the Jobber, whose pic-
ture, always at the top of his editorial
column, is familiar to the thousands of
readers of that sterling commercial, mer-
cantile, railroad and manufacturing paper,
should be taken out and shot. The Herald
regrets exceedingly that such language was
inadvertently used, and assures the public
that Cozzo is perfectly harmless, except in
dog days, when he should be muzzled.
The El Paso Times says:
The two Mexicans who are confined in the
county jail charged with illegal voting still
languiBh for bondsmen.
The accessories should be punished. Most
of the illegal voting is done at the instance
of campaign bummers. The Times says:
Election frauds are notoriously difficult
to deal with. Y et El Paso can safely chal-
lenge any city or town In the country to
point to a more vigorous and effectual ef-
fort in that direction than was made at El
Paso.
The following were the imports of El
Paso last week:
Eight bars silver bullion, 7 bars gold bul-
lion, value $38,179, Wells, Fargo & Co.,
owners Hendy & Co., Ashenheim and T. F.
Huth & Co.; 13>a tons silver ore, imported
by Arthur A. Kline & Co.; 750,000 pounds
crude ore,value $15,000, Kansas City Smelt-
ing Co.; 120,000 pounds crude ore, value
$5400, G. Billing, Bocorro, N. M.
San Antonians swear in many languages.
The population and the lingo are decidedly
cosmopolitan. The Light says the city ad-
ministration speaks six different lan-
guages and is glottological from the mayor
down to the sage of Beanville. The mayor
speaks English, French and Spanish. The
aldermen speak all these and German
and Irish. No one is charged with speak-
ing Chinese.
The Fort Worth Gazette says:
Just after the heated campaign it is ex-
cusable if occasionally the liberty of speech
should descend to license, but when the
Houston Poet recklessly asserts that Dan
McGary is in favor of artesian wells a halt
should be called and a return ordered.
The Gazette is not well Posted on the
well question. Uncle D. wants the water
for the benefit of navigation as a feeder for
Buffalo bayou. "Water, water, all around,
but not a drop to drink."
The Gazette says, locating its facts in
California, but the moral is not so far
away:
There is a class of land speculators
whose business—and paying business it is—
is to buy town property, boom it and sell
out at a profit. They purchase what they
can as cheaply as they can until they are
pretty well "loaded," then they pay an ex-
travagant price for two or three pieces of
property and the boom starts. Special
trains are run carrying purchasers free;
fine meat and drink is prepared; lodging
and driving free to all, and the speculators
unload upon their guests and pocket the
profits. There are enormous transactions
in real estate recorded daily, but the in-
vestor sleeps but little until he gets his
money back. This state of affairs
can not last. Prices are unnatural,
values fictitious, people's heads are turned
by booms based upon airy and hypo-
thetical possibilities and the day must come
when cool common sense will reassert itself
and burst this bubble. Then there will be
wailing among those unfortunates who will
be caught with high priced property on their
hands. While the chances for people with
means are poor and investments hazardous,
the fate of the working man who goes there
to eup a living or win a competency is piti-
able. The speculative craze has withdrawn
all the money from the channels of normal
aEd healthy business and ingulfed it in the
maelstrom of land gambling. Material im-
provements have ceased, the slow work a-
day plodding of ordinary commercial pur-
suits is despised, and the working man
finds no fields wherein he is invited to
labor.
The Houston P03t says:
The strict enforcement or the Sunday law
in Houston shows what can be done when
the officers have a mind to do their duty.
The Post can't say that it favors the present
Sunday law in all its details. It is unneces-
sarily sweeping In its provisions, working
hardships in a few and inconvenience in
many instances; but it is the law, and be-
ingthelaw, It Is the duty of the officers to-
see it enforced. The Post can not refrain
from calling attention to the daily violation
of the six shooter law. These violators I
should be looked after, and when found I
with a pistol on should be panished. Tho f
man who habitually goes armed must ba
assumed to have murder in his heart, and I
is only waiting for a favorable opportunity 1
for it to come out. Violation of the Sunday ,
law, by selling some commodity, is a small )
offense compared to the act of the man who I
goes swaggering around with a six shooter
in bis hip pocket.
The Sunday law is also enforced in Mex-|
ico. The Two Republics says:
On account of the miserably poor bull-
tight at San Rafael Sunday before last,. J
Manager Pubilones has been fined $500 by f
the presiding regidor.
Another attempt is to be made to check: |
International horse stealing. The Laredo i
Times is informed by Deputy Sheriff
Yglesiaa that Hon. Jose T. Brosig, mayor |
of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, that:
On accoust of the considerable amount I
of horse stealing and petty thieving which. I
has been transpiring on both sides of thai
river, it has been decided to proenre tha I
services on that side of twenty oommis- |
Bloned rangers, who will be stationed tea I
on each side of the town up and down the-1
river, and whose business it will be to pa-
trol up and down the stream to apprehend
and capture thieves who are continually
crossing stolen stock both ways. Sheriff
Sanches has under his direction a largo
number of deputies on this side, and the; |
will look after the evildoers over here. Tho-
two forces working in conjunction will. |
doubtless take in some of these light-fin-
gered gentlemen.
BThe Laredo Times says:
Galveston will have to put up a better I
game of base ball than she aid when New ]
Orleans recently visited that city, or she
will stand no chance in the coming tourna-
ment at this city.
Loredo has, like Galveston, to learn tha
difference between amateur and profes- I
slonal base-ball players. The Galvestoa |
team does not get its living oat of the game.
Laredo is a good place now. Services j
were held there last Sunday in sis: |
churches—Catholic, Baptist, Presbyterian,
Episcopal and Mexican Baptist, besides
services at Fort Mcintosh, and the band on
Church plaza Sunday night.
President
Cleveland and
Power.
the Appointing:
To tho News.
Washington, August 10.—There are those I
in our state who are inclined to criticise |
our president in his exercise of the ap-
pointing power, and complain that he has
net turned out all those who obtained office
during a republican administration. To all
such I commend a perusal of the following;
account of tho manner in which at least one
such appointee came to be retained in office,
and I have no doubt that there are hun-
dreds of just such cases. It happens that
in this case I know the facts stated to ba
true.
A few years before the last republican
administration a widow in Virginia with
two small children was left destitute by tha
decease of her parents and the destruction,
of her home by fire. By working early and
late, sewing and teaching a small country
school, she just managed to live, until at
last her health gave way, and by advice o£
friends she removed to Washington to try
if possible to obtain work, where she would
have less exposure than in the country.
Her two children, a boy of 9 and a girl 11
years old, came with her, and as must hava
been the case (as their subsequent con-
duct shows), they both deeply sym-
pathized with their mother, and at that
tender age wanted to help their
mother to earn a living. The boy sold papers,
put away coal, and did anything else within
nis puny strength to earn a dollar, until at
last the mother was able to get them each
some small position in stores. The boy be-
came a cash boy on a salary of $1 per week.
Late one night as he was going home from
his store he was asked to explain why he,
so small a child, was out so late, and hav-
ing told the reason, the conversation re-
sulted in his being made a messengar boy
in the patent office by the gentleman who
had accosted him, who was a republican-
employe in that office.
When President Cleveland was elected
and before he had yet left Albany, there
was much uneasiness in the offices at Wash-t
ington among the employes at the prospect'
of being turned out. Sharing this fear with ,
the others, our boy sat down and wrote to' |
President-elect Cleveland the following
letter (names here omitted), which is now
on file in the office of the appointment cleric
in the patent office, at Washington:
Room 35, United States Patent Office,
Washington, D. C., February 17, 1885.—
Hon. Grover Cleveland—Sir: I am a little
boy 13 years old, and am a messenger in the
patent office, but am afraid I will have to
go out, and I thought I would write and tell
you how 1 got in there, and why I want so
much to stay in, and ask you if you won't
please keep me In? Why I want to stay is
that my mother iy a widow and has two
children, my sister and I. She taught
school and worked to take care of us until
her health failed and she could not work.
Then sister and I went in stores as cash
children. Now I want to stay in to take
care of mother and to finish getting ready
for West Point, and anywhere else I could
not make over $12 a month. How I got in
one night as I was going home from
the store at 11 o'clock an old gentleman on
the car asked me what 1 was out so late for,
and I told him where I worked and that
mamma was so sick,and he said come to hi mr
at the patent office and he would try to get
me something better to do, and he took me
to the commissioner, who when he exam-
ined me gave me an appointment at $360 a;
year, and last July 1 was promoted to $450
a year. My father was a democrat, and so
were my grandfathers, and although I like
the republicans because my kind friend Mr.
B. (who got me in) is one, yet I come from
a democratic family. I have no influence,
and thought maybe if I told you how I got
in and about myself you would like to help
a little boy who Is trying to take cure of his
motherJ|^k> help himself. Very respect-
fully. a. l. p.
Evidenfl^Bis letter touched the heart o£
the man who had been called to preside
over onr nation. He did not, so far as I
can learn, inquire into the cmestion of tha
politics of the relatives of the applicant,
nor whether they wielded any political in-
fluence: nor did the fact that the boy wa3 a
republican office holder [?] influence
him; but as I am informed, very
shortly atter he reached Washington
he did, through his private secretary,
make inquiry into the fact3 stated in the
letter and into the moral character of the
boy, and finding the facts stated to be true
and that the moral character of the boy
was good he at once suggested hl3 retention
if consistent with the good of the nubile
service, and caused the letter to be Sled.
And thus it happens that this boy, origin-
ally given his position by a republican, re-
tains position under a democratic adminis-
tration and is now a trusted employe ia
theofficeof the democratic assistant com-
missioner of patents.
If our president, in the midst of theheavy
responsibilities and grave duties of his high
position, could thus give thought and find
time to investigate for so humble an appli-
cant as this boy I think we may safelv trasf!
to his honest heart and sound sense in this
whole matter of appointments. President
Cleveland is emphatically a man it will do
to trust, and doubtless many retentions in
office of deserving republicans h»3 had be-
hind them reasons as sound as influenced
him to retain this employe.
His purpose is to do right, and those who
think that in all his official acts he is gov-
erned by policy, make, in my opinion, a
very great mistake, and little understand
the sterling honesty, sound sense afcd large-
heartedness of the president. Let disap-
pointed office-seekers cease their complain-
ing, and let him have our unanimous anil
enthusiastic support in the future.
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