The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-02-25
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Red6eld, Of the Cincinnati Commercial,
is doing Dallas
C. r. Gibson is the Palinurus Of the
Waxahachie EataTTise.
The Men Era doesn't believe that Gov
ernor Coke viii veto it.
The Roekdale Messenger. would gladly
have Wendell Phillips ''exeurtn extensively
il the South.
Pay as you o. Giddiags Tribune.
Aes, and then you'll 60 as You pay, always
IN advance-and excelsior.
Tho Dallas Herald says that s'Senator
hamilton Is standing in his own light. Ii
not 1t rather gloomy standingl
The International Railroad question win
be lugged even into the munieipal contest
in Galveston, and yet the Legislature Is
calmC0.
Thomas Lubbock went to sleep and very
soundly, too, on the railroad track. near
Hampstead, last Wednesday, and was run
over by the cars.
Several newspapers are trying to ride the
Changers and to curry favor" with them
and this would not be il the publishers
didn's think the Changers were bridlewise,
and easily ridden.
We wonder il eli that catalogue of re-
spectacle citizens of Dallas have not
"called long enough and loudly enough
upon Mr.. Kerfoot to put down Tanglefoot
as chief magistrate Of ballast
The people of Gainesville, Fort Worth
and the press of those towns and of others
along the route of the NJ. X. & T. II. r.,
express keen anxiety as to the fate of the
charter befopa fha T.ocrfolofttra
The Age tells that $4,000 in gold was
offered for vote in the Legislature, which
wasn't for sale. If the international had
gold to thrust thus lavishly into the faces
Of honorable members, il would hardly be
In such straits for the $1,000, 900 State
bonds. Who is the virtaous memberl
The Legislature of Georgia has given q
seat on the floor OF the House to General
Barnes, who represents the International at
Atlanta. II the Age be not mistaken, the
General may stuff all the weak members of
that body polite with gold, even as he
stuffed Texas with people from Georgia.
One of DR.. DorOman's pupils, in Hemp
stead, mesmerized a colored man, and was
followed by him all over town. sThat boy
must have had small flask in his breeches
pocket on the sly. Hampstead whisky
makes men go to sleep on railway tracks,
and, of course, can mesmerize an African.
The Bonham Neacs denounces the Four
teenth Legislature as "a disgrace to the
State of Texas and the Democratic party"
The Dallas Commercial says this Is plain and
pointed language for Democratic journal.
Il is this or another Bonham paper that says
the STATESMAN is the hired agent Of rail
way.
The Denison Neics says that ''the Sherman
Register, with its usual magnanimity when
speaking of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railway, says it has no objection to
that road building branch road west"
but it thinks it unfair to have 1t start from
any place but Sherman, especially Denison,
because it will cut off trade from the court
house."
The Waxahachie Enterprise is Justly elo-
quOnt in laudation Of the energy Of Gen.
Bragg, now in that town. He was sere-
naded and properly honored, as was due
the truest, most earnest benefactor Of
Texas. However, we may be all wrong IN
this. If Gen. Bragg build his road Sena-
tor Ireland may take a notion to desert
Texas. God pity US.
The editor of the San Saba Nelcs is in the
city. he says that the people over in his
bailiwick are becoming thoroughly dis
gusted and as thoroughly outraged because
of the tame endurance of Ireland's and
Bryan's mastery of the Legislature. II the
international road be not finished the West
will not forget its friends, and Dick Hub
bard is the next Senator from Texas.
We were happy to greet Mr.. George
Dashiell, the Governors admirable private
Secretary, OF, the street. BE looks like 4
bill that had been vetoed and then passed
by the skin of its teeth over the head Of
His Excellency. In other words, he has
escaped, by a tight squeeze, from the
clutches OF ATkansiaR reconstruction, some
times called grim death, We congratulate
him.
The Democrat says that ''the Sherman
Register bowls terribly over the passage, in
the State Senate, of the bill granting q
charter TO the Red River and Rio Grande
Railway Company, because the Senate did
not compel It 70 zig-zag down to Sherman.
We suppose, now that the House has passed
the bill, that Martin will fairly shrek with
rage. Growl away, Mr.. Register, you can't
hurt anybody"
A soreheaded newspaper, always expect
ing somebody to throw a brick, and always
mad and lodging, always snarlinR, and
lives, and then thinking that somebody
pokes fun at II, is as disagreeable ns a wet
dog in the sitting room Of decent woman.
One such organ OF opinion, II stupidity
can have an opinion, could dissolve q State
press association, and render its existence
impossible.
We were astounded by the announce
ment in the editorial columns Of the Dallas
hat a~1 a
! the carriage containing three ladies. II Il
had been man that ran away with the
women in the carriage the yarn would have
become the place, the paper and the sensa-
tional atmoe phere Of Dallas. But Dallas Il
growing moral and dull and the Herald
must do the best il can. II men won't,
carriages lnast ran eway with the women.
We supposed there was a little birthstone
about the Sulphur Springs Gazette, and
| jocularly alluded to the fact that the edi-
tor, as we were led to believe, differed from
the owner and absent editor Of the paper.
/ Therefore the paragraph involved, IS VIC
are informed, misconception Of the facts.
The editor and the lawgiver, both thorough
| gentlemen, arc concurrent in opinion. We
never said or imagined that either was q
''bully," and thus we too have been mis-
represented. The Gasette Is one Of the
most sensible and valued Of orr exchanges,
and therefore we send Il our daily.
Only two millions Of fifteen millions
acres Of Texas land, granted 70 railways,
have been given 70 Western Texas, ana now
when It is proposed 20 build q road which
will cost TWENTY-FIVE or thirty millions,
traversing the whole State from the north
east 10 Tie southwest, there are those whose
ewes are 30 close together and views 20 naT-
row that they cannot stake three millions on
a result absolutely certain. IL the three
millions were 70 build q branch % the Cen
tTal, or struck Sherman and Bonham amid
ships, the Representatives Of these interests
and localities would be bowling derpishes
in Capitol square til the bill passed and
Governor Coke signed Il. Then they WouId
chuekie IN supreme ecstacy over their gains
and 60 home and help bend the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas til its back was broken
By forcing Il through sherman.
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