The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-21
TEXAS PRESS VIEWS.


The Colorado Citizen puffs a
neighboring paper and requests it
not TO puff the Citizen in return.
The course of most Texas papers
is upward, and, says the Castroville
Quill, the golden stairs have been
crowded with them.
The Victoria Advocate IL kind
and considerable enough to allow
Hon. John Ireland to be governor,
ii the people elect him.
The Dallas Times says it fails to
see hsw a quarrel with Reagan can
serve to "excuse. Maxey. But the
Times is so awfully obtuse.
The Huntsville Item does not
want the state university divided /;
il wants the literary and medical
departments all at one place.
The Houston Age thinks that what
is called the progressive, or young"
Democracy of Texas is made up
mainly of old aud young scratchers.
The Dallas Gazette seems to be
deeply in love with Senator Logan,
as it snaps at every paper that says
anything about the doughty gen.
eral.
Says the Castroville Quill: "There
is one way Galveston can get the
medical department. Let it promise
a few of its leading citizens as
clinical subjects"
This is the way the Dallas Times
announces the suspension of the
Republican paper at Denton: "On
last Saturday the Denton Daily
Press folded its little hands across
its breast and climbed the golden
STAIR"
The Victoria Advocate speaking
of the whipping post says: "As a
punishment for the lesser grades Of
petty crimes, it certainly would be
both more speedy and more effica-
cious than confinement in prison
walls"
The Waco Examiner puts it thus ::
"The six weeks summer session OF
the state normal schools will not,
we hope, complete the education of
the teachers to be turned loose on
the people. They can not master all
the arts in that time, hardly"
The Fort Worth Democrat thus ex-
plains how newspaper can be Gin
dependents" 'The Dallas Herald
takes a position in one issue and
backs out of it the next, and calls il
giving both sides fairly and impair
TALLY, and with the strictest jus
tice.'" l.. .-..,.... i.r
The Fort Worth Democrat pro
pounds query, and purposes giving
the prohibitionists plenty of time in
which to answer it: aft the laws
against gaming, Sabbath-breaking
and prostitution can not be en-
forced, would q law against whisky
selling fare any better% -..
The BRENNAN Banner closes a
long article on the pardoning power,
as follows: "The power to pardon
should not be exercised at the within
of the executive. 1t would be bet
ter, perhaps, that the pardoning
power be vested N q board, as is
now the case in some states."r
The Weatherford Commercial
says: "Fort Worth is likened unto
Sandwich" She has the city of
Weatherford on one side, and the
city of Dallas, on the other" To
which the Fort Worth Democrat re-
turns this reat bit of repartee {:
"That Is so, the meat. in q sandwich
is generally between the pieces of
dry bread.or .ii,, ,,,, ~. -..r-..
The Brennan Banner, after hand
ing Galveston red apple, says
something nice for Houston, as fol-
lows: "Houston has organized a
very strong committee to present
the claims of that city for the loca-
+. ton of the medical department of
the university. They are all bust
ness men and Galveston will have to
be quite lively if she carries off the
prize" ffIo aho. suQ .faa
Says the Nacogdoches Neaos /:
'Austin is decidedly the most APP
propriate place for the location of
the state university. We trust that
the voters of this county will
thoroughly agitate this matter. and
cast their vote according to their
best Judgment. We think, however,
that the decision of every fair
minded voter in the county will be
decidedly In favor of Austin"
The sarcasm of the Telephone is
overwhelming, at times. 1t says:
"The university campaign COM
mittee at Austin launched an
other shaft at Waco by in
ducing Teras ISiftings to publish a
long editorial, in which the state
ment is made that the late state
teachers convention held ITS session
at Waco, when it was at Corsicana.
Waco has to meet all kinds of oppo-
sition in this canvass"
The plain-spoken Abilene Re
porter, in discussing the state
university, very pointedly says /:
"But, unless the institution is to be
differently managed from the Ag-
ricultural q Mechanical college, 1t
had better not be located at all IL
it is to be made the tinker shop for
forging the thunderbolts of partisan
warfare, and .prostituted to vile po-
litical purposes, il had better be left
to remain one OF the glorious con-
summations of the future" L's
Says the Galveston Journal: ga
number of Texas papers are publish
ing sketches of men of the day.
with wood cuts of the individuals.
The sketches are written by New
York bohemian, and the pictures
are turned out by one of Gotham's
engravers. When the Houston Post
Austin Sittiags, Palestine Neaos, and
other papers, publish the same mat
ter, il begins to smack little of
sameness but then five dollars a
sketch and an electrotype thrown
in, Is cheap way of filing in with
original matter.s -
The Brenham Banner gives to
Galvestonians something to ponder
over. 1t says: "The Galveston
Journal, referring TO the future of
that city, says there is no danger
now threatening the future of Gal
weston greater than the disposition
of many of its leading citizens to