The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-07
TEXAS PRESS VIEWS.

1--WE shall vote for the judiciary arti
Gle at the election in September, bu
we oppose the one hundred day
session of the legislature. We hav,
too many laws now without length
ening the sessions"
The Rockdale Messenger says tina
great many people have beer
praying for rain, but SO far withou
success. The Messenger says there ar,
some who have more faith in tn,
old alcalde than in anything or any
body else, and that they should ap
ply to him for rain"
The Waco Telephone says: "Comp
troller Brown has fired of his opin
ion on the new drummer tax. III,
says he will collect the new lieens;
and those who don't like il NAV %
into the courts and ask for relief
That is the place to go. The law il
certainly an outrage"
Says the Houston Aqe: "Jin
Newcomb has been reading an &C
count of Hoods brigade reunion a
Brennan, and makes believe that n,
smells rebellion. We say makes be
lieve. IL Jimmy really thought
there was about to be another re-
bellion he would again tuck his tai
and fly across the Rio Grande."
The Graham Leader SAYS that il
it is a part of the governors dutie.
to visit the colleges and normal
schools, the Northumberland
should visit the common schools
The Ledder wants the last named in.
dlvidual to come to Graham, prom.
ising in return therefora fish-fry and
q handsome turnout of common
school scholars.
The Dallas Times, the out-spoken but
conscientious and interesting organ
of red-headed Democracy in north
ern Texas, says; 1--WE don't know
all the editors in Texas, but we can
read our exchanges, and are pre-
pared to bet against odds that we
can tell the men who edit papers in
Texas who were born north of Ma
son ~ DiXon's line"
The Waco Examiner is in a com
planning mood, and says: "Politi-
clans rely mainly on the power of
the press to secure their election.
After advertising themselves gratis
during the campaign in the newspa-
pers, those who are selected to go
to Austin provide that all other adj
vertisements shall be made in OBJ
scure corners about the court houses.
If journalists were. not so unselfish,
they would insist that politicians
should advertise themselves in the
same way"
Says the Galveston journal: Jus
tifying his heartless and false TRADE
OF President jeff Davis, Gen. Sher-
man says: we must speak and
write, else Europe will be left to
infer that we conquered not by
courage, skill, and patriotic devo-
ton, but by brute force and cruelty
The general did not put the senti-
ment in exactly correct phraseology.
He should have said: In our
speeches and writings we must
bring stalwart lying to its very tip
toe, or the balance of the world will
ultimately know the whole truth
about the late war;"
Says the Brennan Banner: ''The
Houston Age is much older than the
Houston Post and is exercising a
kind of q supervisorship over it.
The Age has watched the political
course of the Post very closely, and
discovers that the mission of the
Post on earth is the destruction of
the Democracy, but the Age thinks
it will require better material than
E. j. Davis, Jim Newcomb, j. G. De-
Gress, Billy Holman and Dick Allen,
the latter colored, to wipe the Democ-
racy of Texas out of existence"
The Brennan Banner resurrects
some good advice, as follows:
"Would-be young lawyers might
give little heed to the remarks of
President Strong at the meeting of
the state bar association of Wiscun-
sin. He referred 10 the over crowd
ed state of the profession, and pre-
sented statistics thereon, and then
advised young men not singularly
adapted to the profession to avoid
il He said that less than one-tenth
of the lawyers in Wisconsin are
known outside of the counties
where they practice, and enforced
the idea that Jordan was a hard
road to travel for most young men,
bers of the profession"
Galveston Ne,cS: "AIr. o. N. Hol-
lingsworth, secretary of the state
board ofeducation of Texas, is inn
porting corps of teachers from st,
Louis TO instruct the Texas teachers.
They are to institute a series of
normal schools. These
schools are to be opened in different
places in the state, and continue for
a term of six weeks. 1t is not
doubted that Mr.. Hollingsworth is
doing very good thing, but is it not
a little singular that with all the pa
rade of legislation and organiza-
ton with reference to education in
Texas, there should be left sufli-
cient quantity ofignorance in charge
of the common schools to make such
a movement necessary. Perhaps it
would be well for the board to take
a few lessons before the next period
of examination comes round"
The Gonzales Inquirer has word
to say about that Finley inter-
view. 1t says: "George p. Fin
ley continues to harp about Gov
ernor Roberts employing his rela-
tives in state offices. Never once
have we seen the fitness of any one
of them for the position occupied
or seen any charges ofwant
of faithfnlness in discharging the
trust confided. Then why should
objection be urged? Governor Rob-
erts is held responsible for the adj
of state affairs, and it is
only natural that he should employ
men whom he knows the best, in
whom he has the most confidence,
and who, being bound to him by the
closest ties, and having his honor at
heart, will most zealously guard his
interests and the interest he holds in
trust. Come now, find some better
pretext for condemnation, or be
honest enough to hush."
The BRENNAN Banner of June 81,
in noticing the editorial in the Cor
sicana Obseyver-Iade1 advocating
Hon. Marion Martin as prospective