The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-10-12
TEXAS PRESS OPINIONS

| A PLEASING PASTluE.
Wash Jones having skinned Ireland is
now having the hide tanned for razor strops
for himself and cabinet.-IGalveston Mail.
THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE.
| Judge ireland seems to have rested
quietly at Seguin this week. But the Judge
| feels secure and can afford to rest. Wash
Jones never wearies, but puts in every day
but Sunday.-[Waco Examiner.
INFORMATION REQUESTED.
| Miss Jennie Beauchamp was the Texas
| vice president of the woman's suffrage con,
yention at Omaha. Now do somebody tell
us who Miss Jennie is, and where she
domiciles Austin Statesman.
FLATTERING.
Improvement is the, glorious watchwotd
| of Texas, and our people know just now 10
appreciate merit in every cause pretending
| to the elevation of mankind, and 1T IS get
| ting TO be a maxim that to be Texan is to
| be a gentleman-something every king was
not.-TClifton Sentinel.
A QUESTION OF TINE.
The editor of the Greenville Banner wants
| delinquent candidates to call in and settle.
| He should wait till after the election and see
with what supreme indifference they viii
| treat his very modest request for settle-
ment.- Mckinney Enquirer.
THE HoARY HARVEST.
! The largest crop of cotton made in Bas-
| trop county for many years will be gather
feecy staple, and cotton pickers are in de-
mand at 81 to S1.10 per 100 pounds. Ser
wants from the kitchen and the house have
| gone to the cotton patch, and many OF the
white ladies are forced TO do their own
kitchen and household work. Bastrop
Advertiser.
| A LONESOME CANDIDATE.
As far as heard from there is only one
candidate for the legislature in Texas rum
ming on the hobby OF paying witnesses Tor
the state in felony cases. The universal
opinion with men who have investigated
| the subject is that such law would not be
| carried out. or the expenses incurred under
il aid by the state, without change in the
constitution raising the maximum rate OF
taxation above fifty cents on the $lOO-
| [Greenville Herald.
| ILLIBERAL LIBERALISM.
The spirit of advance and hberaIity is
strong in the democratic party, but the
progressive wing wish 1t to be democratic
| iiberality and democratic progress, there
fore they have preferred TO tie themselves
| to the coat-tails of Mr.. Ireland as sad ne
cessity rather than accept Mr.. Jones with
his Independence To carry out their pro-
gramme, therefore, they are compelled to
dodge the main question, and, by every
possible turn and twist, to divert the minds
| of the people from the true issue at stake
| the political monopoly, with Its brood OF
eyils-charging on Colonel Jones matters
with which he has nothing TO do, and by
| leading of the scent from Texas 10 Wash
ington II Houston Post.
PRIVATE ASD PERSONAL.
A correspondent of the Houston Post,
over the very questionable signature
democrat" writes from Palestine that
| good democrats now affirm, privately,
! that the independents will carry the county
! (Anderson) in November next, and that
| Wash Jones will beat Ireland in the county
at least 100 votes.n The writer showed
great good sense in using the word "pri-
vately;;" it is useful word, and we like it.
But-privately speaking, of course-that
"Democrat' is q most formidable liar. He
conld have done better, though; he might
! have said that Jones would get coo ma
iority iust as well-he would have only
missed the truth by greater figures. Nota
bene-this is strictly private. ~ Pales-
tine Advocate.
THE NoBLEsT RUN 'UN OF THEM AL.
If every county in the United States
were raked fore and aft and transyersely
| for the widest fiat-money enthusiast. aud
| III prize OF magnitude were offered for the
county that would show the most intense
] one sided gICCubaCheI, DastrOp would PRO-
badly DEFY all competition; the premium
would 90 70 the home Of George ". Jones.
Captain Webb's supremacy as natatorisl
artist, or Hanlan's leadership with the
oar, is not better established than is the
fame of George W. Jones as in.
comparably and unapproachably
the widest, weirdest dreamer that ever
preached fiatism. In the presence of Jones,
] Weaver feels that he is but an acolyte at
| tending on bishop; and even the Rev, De
| la Matyr pays homage TO Jones, OF Bas-
/ trop, as one whose sublime faith illustrates
/ the highest reach, the last degree,
| the ultima thule Of human creduhty.
! Franklin Herald.