The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23
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i -T~~ - -. pHtASA man iiftS uOsl
achanee for tiie' eovernorship as Ion
as the cash balance continues to in
crease. Roberts totes the longes
pole. .r.,.rr ....,,.,........, -.
| bThf CorsiSana Cogrie,' beasts tina
i s@Ta7ithe first paper in the stat
~ Il, D2yer. IN Senator Martin thos
hs nd admirable qualities whicl
tttef Tin 10 acceptably I'LL the ex
hey0 position OF chief executive.u
sBben Dallas Times remarks
"Houston is further up the creek
than Galveston, but she has discov
cred that deep water on the Calves
ton bar is just as important to Hous
ton as it is to Galveston"
The Orange Tribune comes to til,
defense of Senator Maxey, and says
considerable effort is being mad,
10 implIcate Senator S. b. Maxev il
the star route frauds, but we shall
not believe him guilty until som,
substantial evidence to that effeet
has been adduced."
A temporary armistice is occa
sionally INDUCED by Fort. Worth
and Dallas, judging from this from
the Democrat: Neither of the Dial.
las papers that reached our office
yesterday had a word ofabuse about
Fort Worth. The regular corps OF
writers were probably at the
races" .-... -, ...-.., .......
The Georgetown Record thinks
people ought to practice what they
preach. 1t says: "Ono of the most
amusing things to us, is to read some
newspapers in their TRADE for pro-
hibition, when we know the editors
of these same papers are in the habit
OF getting jolly on every possible
OCCASION
The Mckinney Inquirer grows
profane while poking fun at Dallas.
ltsays: "A friend of ours, who was
at Dallas yesterday, suggests that
the translators of the New Testa-
ment committed an error in substi-
tuting the word 'hades' for hell.
They should have called it Dallas
for 1t is the hottest place on this
planet" -f"t 'i -
Dallas Times: "Austin wants a
cotton factory, but wants foreign
capital to build il. The Galveston
Ne,cS kindly tells the STATESMAN to
make the people of Austin build
the factory. The STATESMAN should
tell the -NelcS to make the people of
Galveston dig a channel across the
bar, and to quit bowling for more
money from the government for that
O.
II is thought by the Brennan Ban
ner that some Improvement is prob
able in the A. & M. College. The
Banner says: "At the commence
ment exercises at Bryan college the
governor and the present directory
will retire and the new directory,
composed of five, provided for by
the last legislature, will be installed.
Politics are to be banished from the
institution" .r.... ..
The Kaufman San finds new use
for the Democratic banner. 1t says /:
THE focal option question is grad
nally gaining on the boys in the in
terror of Texas and in rural dis
.ricts of Georgia. AS Texas. and
Georgia have heretofore had South
ern politics and whisky pretty much
-hair. nVun uyox- tharo 90, ho - -
son. why that beautiful banner
should not be awarded to tho State
hat firstgets sober"
The Dallas Times has this to say
If two leading gentlemen of Texas: :
Senator Maxey will deliver an ora
ion at Galveston ON the 4th of July.
lie will 'orate' at the request of the
artillery company. Gov
,rnor Roberts will also be present,
md will probably make speech.
+ that artillery company can sit for
N hour under the drippings of the
loquence of these two gentlemen,
he company is prepared to go to
var without further drilling"
The Castroville quill gives some
quotations as to the price of reputa-
ions in west Texas. 1t says: ~.
,. Newcomb, of the San Antonio
sUening Light has sued the Express
Or $4,000 libel. The Express re-
reduced an Austin papers charge
hat Newcomb was liar and scoun-
rel, and Newcomb says his char
cter is damaged $4,000. Anybody
an cut off two 0's of that amount |
nd call us that, and if they are a |
reap bigger Wen give 'em still
ettcr trade"
The Dallas Tones seems to think |
ne big little Republicans in this
tate are initiating those at Wash
lgton Itsays: "The Republicans
this state are as much divided as
ne Republicans are in New York.
4 the latter state, they quarrel over
he custom house and Conkling. In
exas they quarrel over who shall
iad the darkeys and postotfices. |
Whenever one set gets a soft thing
10 other set are diligent in irving
put them out. A Republican
no holds an Office in Texas for any
myth of time must be strongly an
lored."
The Brenham Banner, in lead
lg editorial, thus refers to the in
institutions called col
ges in tins state: "There are too
amy colleges and academies and
Universities, and entirely too few
bod solid schools where plain but
seful English education can be ac-
lired. In all the colleges, etc,
attn, French, German and the
igher branches of mathematics are
'ught: After the student gradu-
.es, with the highest honors, and
nters into the business world, the
lances are about three to one that
Q can't make an ordinary calcula-
on correctly; and, as to spelling,
,me of them could do as well when
ley had reached words of three
in the old-fashioned blue
acked spelling book"
The San Antonio Express is utter
opposed to prohibition, but re-
larks: ain the course the temper
nce party propose'to pursue, ac-
ording to the report from their
they will secure the aid
very large class of people who
'ould oppose them in any effort to
'sert the supremacy of their policy
y arbitrary laws. To make a po-
teal issue of the temperance
lovement would bring to its |
lpport only the more fanati-
II friends of the cause, for the more