The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16
TEXAS PRESS OPINIONS.
HoNoRs ARE EASY.

Brennan Banner: The Fort
Worth Observation-Disclosures says the
governor does not have any partic-
ular use for newspapers. Honors
are easy. A good many papers have
no use for the governor.
WHAT THE HoRNEY HANDED WOULD
DO.
Blanco Star VIndicator: If the
horney handed, tax-paying yoe-
manry of the state were consulted,
Governor Roberts would be nomi-
mated for third term, but there is
no telling what the scheming poll
ticians in the convention may do.
Conventions nowadays are about
as uncertain as American juries.
THE PEOPLE WILL REWARD HIM.
Dallas Times: Among the prom
lnent names we hear mentioned in
connection with the governorship,
we fail to find that of Joe Savers.
We are sorry for this, as we had
"sorter" made up our minds to dance
with him the next "set." Savers is
one of our best men, and he does
himself great honor in keeping
away from the scramble for the gov
ernor's chair. The people will re-
ward him in the future.
WANT HONEST REPRESENTATION
San Antonio Times: The people
! of western Texas want honest rep
resentation, and would never ex-
pect to receive it from Republican
source. So far as protective tariff
is concerned, there is not even a
respectable minority of the voters
who desire to perpetuate the rob-
berry of the many for
the benefit of the few. Besides q
protective tariff is opposed to the
best interest of the state.
NOT MUCH LONGER.
Victoria AdUOeate Spectators
are said to have gotten possession
of all the timbered lands of Texas
adjacent to railroads, and they are
now preparing to gobble up that set
aside for the support of public
schools, with view to stripping it
of its timber and leaving it unoccu-
pied. In fact, about everything in
Texas has gone into the hands of
capitalists, and the Lone Star state
will not much longer boast of being
the poor mans country, if the pres.
ent state of things continues.
ONLY TWO TO BE FOUND.
Houston Age: "We learn that
Hon. Joe Stewart, of Travis county,
who has been for four years past
wasting his energies in a fruitless
fight against the old alcalde, has
just returned from a trip to eastern
Texas, and reports that in all that
vast region he found only two men
who are not for the old gentleman's g
reelection. A contact with the old
time Democracy of that section has
opened the eyes of Mr.. Stewart very
wide, and he is now as warmly for
the old alcalde as he was heretofore
against him." Was he convinced on
his own opinion or upon the pop
ular will?
WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A BOHEMIAN
OF CoNKLING.
Houston Age: Conkling declines
the United States supreme court
judgeship, and is now entirely out
of position. If there was vacancy
we would probably tender him a
position on the editorial staff of the
Age. He is a radicaiswe know; but
as men who claim to be Democrats
sometimes write for radical papers
and give entire satisfaction, as wit
ness the case of Mccullough, of the
st. Louis GLObe-DemOcrat, who
writes radicalism but votes Democ-
racy, we suppose a radical like Conk-
ling could, if he were paid for it,
write Democratic articles for a
Democratic paper, and give entire
satisfaction to a Democratic en-
ployer