The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-25
The Texas Press.

The Cameron Sentinel has a new
editor, Mr.. E. A. Stevens.
Round Rock has a new paper
called the TtcO Round Rocks.
Dallas is to have another evening
paper, which will make three.
A writer in the Laredo Times sug-
gests Hon. John Ireland to succeed
the o. A.
The Huntsville Item has adopted
the revised edition. 1t uses the
word shades" altogether.
The Sherman Democrat very
wisely says: "rO pass an unwar-
ranted criticism ON the newspapers
is the occupation of the fool"
This laconic is from the Brenham
Banner: "Tyler is very nice town
and all that sort of thing but Tyler
will not get the state university"
The Houston Age remarks that
San Antonio may have more
children and taxpayers than Gal
weston, but Galveston has the larg-
est bar"
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STATESMAN says it will refuse to
support Austin for the university
when it becomes necessary to abuse
other places. The STATESMAN is
right"
The Dallas Times thinks sour SEN
ator" is satisfied. 1t says: "Sen-
ator Maxey having established his
innocence of any connection with
the star route business, by calling
the Farmers Alliance of Tarrant
county a "passle" of falsifiers, now
hangs his red sOx over his veranda
and smokes his pipe in peace"
Says the Sherman Courier ChrOni-
Gle: "a money-grasping Yankee has
already in print a book on the at
tempted assassination of President
Garfield. An enterprising and dis
eliminating public will just natu-
ally sit down on that fellow and his
useless book. People will not pay
fifty cents or dollar to peruse
what they have already read in a
live newspaper which only cost
them five cents"
Says the Gonzales Inquirer, in
speaking of the university location
eve shall give our vote to Austin,
because it is the capital of our state,
becauselt is the loveliest location in
the state, because it has forty acres
of grand building site, because it
will eliminate the lunacy of division
of the state, and finally because
there is an eternal fitness i'll every
way in having it at Austin. We
hope and trust every man in wes-
tern Texas will vote for Austin"
Pittsburgh Telegraph (Rep.): 1t is
with shame that the better class of
Republicans Of the north admit that
the influence and example of the
Republican party leaders i'll North
Carolina were thrown against the
prohibition there not because these
Republicans think prohibition Il
measure which can or ought to be
carried out anywhere in its rigor,
but because they looked OH it as an
honest effort to stir up the southern
mind to the evils of intemperance,
and help to save the southern blacks
=, from their worst temptation.
Says the San Antonio Express !:
at is very popular just now to say
that all that Texas needs is immi-
grafton. 1t is true we have great
need of more laborers for the fields,
more experienced wool growers and
cattle raisers, more trained workers
in every employment, but not for
the various professions. Every city
and town is full of briefiess lawyers,
unemployed doctors and statesmen,
book-keepers and clerks who are
leading a precarious existence, while
| from the farming districts is coming
a constant increasing demand for
honest laborers. Texas is a para
disc for the working men, but it is
not good for the respectable idlers
of limited means and pre-eminent
mediocrity who seek large salaries
without being able to do good hon.
est work"
The editor of the Hico (Hamilton
county, Times thus gives the senti-
ment of his county in regard to the
university location: "From what
we could gather in conversation
with these gentlemen regarding the
university question, Austin has the
ascendancy. Why Waco has been
so blind as to presume that it would
require no particular effort to carry
this county is more than we can see.
1t is evident, from their actions,
that they consider this section solid
for Waco, or that they consider our
1000 votes not worth their attention.
On the other hand, Austin has taken
advantage of the situation and push
ed their claims, believing that the
vote of a rough farmer of cow-man,
cast for Austin, would count as much
as that of a silver-stocking, mush-
room aristocrat of four-by-six city.
One very influential citizen inform
ed us that it had been his intention
to support Waco, but since their &C.
ton in censuring Governor Roberts
in an indignation meeting, he would
use his influence for Austin. Some
Waco advocates claim that Austin
is not fit place for the university ;
that the temptations are too great,
and besides Austin is always want
ing something. In response to
which an Austin man claimed that
when it was likely to rain soup
Waco's dish was ALWAYS ready"