The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-06-19
STATE NEWS.

Free grass is rs bad as the deadly
upas; many Il candidate will discover
this to his sorroW.- Fort Worth Demo
crat.
Some of the Fort Worth establish
ments have more space in the Gazette
than they have in their store rooms
Waco Examiner.
The Fort Worth Gazette, the organ OF
the millionaire cattlemen, stands almost
alone in its Stree grass" heresy and in its
opposition to Barnet Gibbs for Lieuten-
nt-Governor. 1t is amusing to see how
it raves because none of the other papers
will follow in it's wake.-lSan Antonio
Times.
Hon. C. X. Bell, .of Hamilton, has
views which command the respect of the
people and should be embodied in our
laws. He favors Il reformatory institu-
ton for young criminals, so that they
may be separated from the hardened
class. This is one of the many points he
makes in the canvass for the State.
i Meridian Blade.
| There is hardly doubt that the Hous-
ton Convention will follow the Fort
Worth Convention in abrogating the
two-thirds rule, and if so it will be for
ever dead in Texas. The days of moss
backism are numbered. = BRENNAN
Banner.
The organization of joint stock COM
pany for the purpose of building large
wool warehouse with separating and
this week, and work on the building
will be commenced at an early date
Il Abilene Reporter.
The fence-cutters have new dodge in
Atascosa county. They pull the posts
out of the ground and place long forks
under the wire, and by proping u fence
post, an ambulance can pass under the
| Va II TO- Il Ia l,,,.-
The Marienfeld farmers are harvest.
ing their wheat crop this week; and not.
outstanding that the recent hal
storms damaged the crop nearly so pei
cent, it is yielding an average Of twelve
bushels per acre, and wheat of most eX'
cellent quality. The result is most salts
fatory to those engaged in that business
there, and highly encouraging to the
agricultural interests of this sectiOn.-
big Springs Paragraph.
A tax of four bits on each lie that will
be told between now and the end of the
campaign in Texas would fit up the AL
amo and run the free schools for three
years. This thing has been closely cal
culated.-[ Arlington World.
The Pittsburg Gazette asks "wher
will jealousy between rival newspapers
cease?" 1t will cease, friend Gazette
when all the men engaged in the news
paper business are true journalists
This jealousy that you speak of orig
mates between the blacksmiths thai
happen to get charge Of printing offices
Envy is born of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Advance.
Cuba is an island of volcanic proclivi.
ties, in political matters. 1t never has
been governed, and never can be gov.
erned, and never will be until it is an
nexed to the United States. 1t takes
$30,000,000 to run it's governmental ma.
| chinery. This enormous sum is raised
by heavy taxes on the producers. The
present state of affairs cannot long con.
! tinue. If the United States can get the
island for merely nominal sum, il
would. do well to buy, but it can't afford
to paw much for q rotten borough San
Antonio Times.
The free grass idea rightly interpreted
means the right of might, or freedom to
fence in, or line-ride and hold, adversely
to all the world, as much territory as
one has money, greed and audacity to
appropriate Austin Capitol.
The reader is asked to read what Bar
nett Gibbs has to say on the "free-grass'
question, in an article on the outside OF
to-day's paper. Mr.. Gibbs is a promi-
nent candidate for Lieutenant-Go Governor,
and it is important that the people
| should know what he thinks on the sub
iect. His talk has no uncertain sound,
and it will prove pleasing one to the
people of Texas, for it has the ring OF
right and good common sense about it.
= Denton Chronicle.