The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-28
TEXAS PRESS VIEWS.

lENHo FhESS NIcWS.
The Crockett Patron is in favor of
an extension of the legislative ses-
sions.
The Richmond Nation opposes
both the constitutional amend
ments.
The Dallas Gazette has been
changed from a morning to an
evening paper.
Some of the Texas papers sug-
gest that Major Penn come over and
convert the Old Alcalde.
If the Waco Telephone be good
authority, the governor of state
has no right to an opinion of his
own.
The Crockett Patron says it
"mourns for Governor Roberts"
Who mourns for the Patron ? Its
readers?
The Fort Worth papers are ex-
changing such words as "liar," etc.
There will be no harm done, unless
some busy Dallas editor puts in "his
lip"
The Brennan Banner should not
be so vague, but should explain
what it means by the following /:
"Keno is absolutely correct in Aus
tin" .,..
The Dallas Times says the Green
back party is engaged in trying to
raise money sufficient to present its
late candidate for president with a
watch.
The Express keeps OH plaguing
the Galveston papers on the
"leading city" question. The funny
part of it is, the Express is telling
the truth.
The Houston Age advises the peo-
pie of that city that if they will fight
successfully for the medical college,
they must furnish the committee
with the "sinews OF war;"
Texas papers differ. The Fort
Worth Democrat says Jay Gould
owns an interest in it, and the Tyler
Courier AYERS that Jay has not
money enough to pull the reins over
its columns.
The Mckinney Inquirer needs
reconstructing. 1t says: "Score one
for the o. A. The next thing they
will want us to get down on Bonded
knee to thank God for the case of
sunstroke which relieved Blaine
from the Potter investigation COM
mittee."
The Erdminer thus tells how a
newspaper may become Zone of the
best" 1t says: "The Sherman
Courier Chronicle is saying many
good words for Waco on the univer-
sity question. 1t is one of the best
of our interior state exchanges"
For some time there has been a
a great deal said about the circula-
ton of the Galveston Meas and
Houston Post. The Galveston
Journal solves the question by as
serting that the daily circulation of
the NeaDS is $500, and that of the
Post 1900 and says it knows what
it is talking about.
The Denison daily Tribune, speak
ing of the announcements of the
cities of Austin and Waco in other
papers, says: GAS no announce
ments have been sent to the Tribune,
we take it for granted that those
cities do not know that it enjoys
much the largest circulation of any
daily ever published in Denison"
The Galveston NeaOs says some of
the Texas papers express surprise at
the great number of Texas veterans,
male and female, who report under
the new pension law. The Ne,1s re-
marks that there is nothing. like
pension laws and reunions of vete-
rams to recruit old armies. The
number of Texas veterans who will
come to the front for pensions will
surprise all but the credulous.
Sterritt, of the Dallas Times, is get
ting particular. He says: "The
editor of the Fort Worth Democrat
is in the habit of addressing us IN
his paper in a very familiar man.
ner. We do not know of having
been guilty of anything which would
warrant such familiarity on the part
of member of the last legislature.
Our character is being destroyed in
this community by such attacks"
Says the Galveston Neaos: "The
papers of Texas generally mention
the little alteration in the United
States court at Austin between
Judge Hancock and United States
Attorney Evans, in SUCH terms of.
disrespect toward the latter as to
render their remarks too pointed for
a place in this column. For exam
pie, the Flatonio argus says; Evans
is dirty cur, and everybody that
knows him is aware of the fact
1t is enough to say that Mr.. Evans is
decidedly unpopular and the papers
generally applaud Judge Hancock
The Houston Age is out with its
big birthday edition, and fine one
it is, being eight pages, neatly print
ed and well edited. The Age says
"The publication of the Aqe was be-
gun on the 18th day May, 1871, lit
tie more than ten years ago. Three
daily papers were then published In
Houston, all with bright hopes and
large expectations. They are all
dead now. The Age went as chief
to their funerals, and wrote
their obituaries. 1t has since then
assisted at the burial of thirteen other
Houston papers, making in all six
teen and it will probably perform
the same kindly service to as many |
As sixteen more before another ten
years shall have passed down the
vale of time"