The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-25
TEXAS PRESS OPINIONS.
DoLEFsL DoGGEREL.

DoLEFsL DoGGEREL.
lie died Of too much tariff
And his district was too much string;
He mounted too quick his tall giraffe.
And descended too fleet on the wing.
But we weep all the same or his ashes,
And will smile when another shall ride,
When the news OF democracy flashes,
some mongrel will sleep by his side.
--[Rockport Transcript.
WILL STRIP DOWN AND OUT.
DAVIS now will doubtless step out Of
Texas politics.-fStephenyille Empire.
SINGING AWAY SORROW.
Wash Jones has now taken TO music. He
is singing, Empty is the Cradle, Baby's
Gone. u San Antonio Express.
TRICK OF THE TYPES.
In orr last issue our printer made us say
the Hubbard fund, when We wanted to
say the "Hubbell fund.- There is no such
thing as Hubbard fund. '-[Iyler Uou-
rier,
DON'T LAY IT ON THE FIGURES.
JUDGE lreland's majority is now 5000
with fifty counties to near from. N, B.
We say this with all Difference to TIE llous-
ton Posts Figures don't lie election table, "
although we feel constrained to assert that
either the Post or its table does.- Long
view Democrat.
WIPE OFT THE INIQUITY.
There is decided feeling among thought
full and intelligent citizens against the
present fashion Of eecioncering. II is ex-
pensiye to candidates and annoying TO
quiet citizens, but how electioneering is to
be avoided is a question that is left UNI
solved lCaldwell Register.
THE cENTRE-poLE or THE CIRCUS.
Suppose, to illustrate the idea, that Jones
should, before another election, be called to
hnr hot off hn
Post or its party be than before the cleo
uon2 This is the question and one we
would be glad to have the Post ponder over
Il Ennis Commercial Recorder.
SHOULD HAVE BEEN CONSULTED.
The Evening Light of San Antonio
speaks very harshly of the appointment of
Governor Roberts as law chancellor OF the
State university. Come TO thiHk of it, it
was very laundering error that the board
of regents of the university failed TO con-
suit Newcomb before making the appoint
ments,-[ Houston Sun.
CORRECTION.
Some of the papers a,e making the state
ment that Major Tom OChiltree is the first
native Texan ever sent TO congress by a
Texas constituency. This is a mistake
Hon. William s. Hcrndon, of Tyler, Smith
county, was the first and only native
elected prior To the achievement of the
rubicund republican, Waxahachie Mir
r0r.
LESS TALK AND MORE WORK.
The democratic party has the majority,
ard, If this tariff business is such mon
strous evil, MS we have been taught to be-
lieve it, they have the opportunity to re-
lieve us Of the same. Give us that relief
gentlemen, which you have been teaching
us for the past few months we were in such
need ct. viii you do III We shall wait and
sce.-- Nolan County Record
CHANGE WANTED.
We need such change in this country
that a newly.elected congress may enter
upon its duties month, or, at iurthermost,
two months after the elections. No think
ing citizen, of either party, but will agree
tnat such change would give us really
representative legislation--a government of
the people, by the people and for the peo-
ple--n0 matter what party happens to be
he popular one for the time being Waco
Examiner.
AN UNKNow QUANTITY.
at is evident beyond any doubt that the
element in the democratic party known as
the Roberts faction assisted in reducing Ire
lands majority - Austin Statesman We
do not know who the Statesman regards as
the Roberts hctiou,' buf we happen to
know some OF the men and some of the
papers that, IN the very crisis of Roberts
administration, stood by him and fought
for him, earnestly aud zealously, and we
also know that the papers and men who
were the best friends of Roberts when he
most n,,d u friends, were among the most
gcalmlN aud enrRest of the friends OF Ire
land, both tor he nomination and in the
CANVASS Houston Age
WORD FOR TTHETICIsM,
Bat whel We think of the terrible Grim.
son parors of the past-parlors with their
gaudy wall papers, and superintendent
gliding; their heathenish mingling OF bright
colors, and compare them to the lelicate
tints, the elegant shapes givento our iurni.
turc; the taste that pervades everything
from the mingling of tints in the carpets to
the very fancy work done by our wives
and daughters the desire which every
woman seems to have to beautify her home
and produce the prettiest effects she can
with her meagre furniture, has certainly
given n charm to life for which we are
dcyotedly grateful Il Houston Post.