Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-06-05


declare the two-thirds rule to be
-andemocratic. The Ellis county
convention also instructs for the
majority rule. 1t looks very
much as though the two-thirds rule
was goner.
The Dallas Herald says free
grass on the commons is all right,
and nobody opposes it, but free
grass on thirty five million acres
of school land when there is
money demand for lease, is an in
Jury to the children and tax pay
ers of Texas.
4 The Waco Examiner is now pub
lished by the Sunny South Pub
lIshing company, Capt. Elgin, cdi-
torial manager The paper has
been enlarged to a six column
quarto and greatly improved. 1t
is now paper of which Waco
should be proud.
The philosopher on the Laredo
Times remarks that, newspapers
that stoop to unjust criticism re-
ceive but deaf ear from the pub
lie. 1t also remarks that the few
homo papers that so bitterly OPP
posed ireland, without any excep-
ton, finds his administration en-
dorsed.
THE Austin Statesman is still
sure that the two-thirds rule is safe.
II says that only about thirty coun-
ties out of over two hundred have
spoken out in favor of the major
ity. The counties that have spok-
en- in favor ofthe majority rule are
ones and strongly Democratic large
at that.
FRED DOUGLASS arrived in Chi
cago Monday and was the most
eagerly listened to man of any at |
the Sherman house. Fred said that
the colored delegates being mostly |
Office holders felt bound to vote
for Arthur, but when the break |
came the bulk of them would vote
for Logan.
The Charles A. Vogeler Com
pany of Baltimore, have sold dur
ing the past few years over seven
million bottles of st. Jacobs Oil
and have expended in single year
as much as half million dollars
in advertising, and yet there are
men who do not believe that ad-
vertising pays.
The Laredo Times is very rough
on Tom Bowers, late of the Lam.
pasas Eagle, 1t says that Bowers
finding out that he could not turn
the current of public opinion up
stream, quit the newspaper bust
ness IN disgust, and also that he
will not be missed from the journ-
alistic arena.
WHEN newspapers commence
blowing about the enormous in
crease in their circulation the pco-
pie commence doubling the truth
of the assertion When a paper is
in a prosperous condition its gen.
-eral appearance and make up are
sufficient evidence of the fact. The
public knows little something
about newspapers as well as pub
lishsrs.
The Collin county Democratic ;
convention passed resolutions en- II
dorsing the action cs the Texas
delegation on the Morrison bill,
and for tariff for revenue only
and for tho ahpQgatinn of the two
thirds rule, and instructing for ,
Governor Hubbard, Bill Sterrett,
Tom Brown, and Houston, of San {
AAhtonio, as delegates to the Ma,
tional 9nvention, y
A GENTLEMAN who has been @
through Eastern and Central Tex b
as and a portion of Arkansas in t
forms the News reporter at Crock 4
EFT, that in his opinion the cotton G
crop Of. Texas and Arkansas will v
be at least 100000 bales short this {
year, caused by overflow, wet "
weather and failure to get seed to +
replant, and that the crop will be t
about SIX weeks late. a
SAN ANTONIO Express: And now u
The white republicans are saying
to the colored brother: '.You are u
IN bad odor, and we cannot longer
associate with you" 1t seems that 6
Ethiopia has stretched forth its V
hand" little too far, and demand e
cd too much recognition, and 1t has c.
therefore been decided the colored h
man "must CO." 1t was obliged ST
10 come, and the democracy pre- X
iicted it long ago." r
The dynamiters have been get a
ing in some of their diabolical d
work in London. 0'Donovan Rosa p
IS in high glee and says "we have u
got England at last" The Hous- III
on Journal says that Rosa should n
De induced to criminate himself u
md then be hanged on lamp post.
Rosa is a crank and the sooner he 10
Ind those of his way of thinking -"
Ire out OF the way the better it u
will be for Ireland. u ~
The Galveston News give, an
elaborate review of the late firm of :
irant Il Ward which shows that
concern to have been one of the -,