The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-01
FROM PALESTINE.
The Political Feeling Somewhat Divided

The Political Feeling Somewhat Divided.
Special Telegram to The Statesman.
PALESTINE, April 26.-The demo-
cratic county convention for this
county has been called by a. w.
Gregg, chairman eX committee, for
Saturday, May "a, to select delegate s
to Fort Worth. The convention will
meet at the courthouse in Palestine.
However, there won't be any fun at
that time, but when Mr.. Gregg sum-
mons the clans to meeting in July,
as he proposes to do, for the purpose
of electing delegates to the guberna-
tOrial convention, then there will be
music in the air. There is by no
means any surplus brotherly unanimi-
| ty here on the nominations to be made
at Houston, and it looks very
much as tho the democratic yeomanry
of the county would be glad to see a
pretty clean sweep made OF the heads
OF the departments in Austin.
Col. Jim Ewing, of the Advocate,
Senator Gooch and George A. Wright
are fighting for at least the head of
the present state government, and
they may be able to pull through an
Ireland delegation, but it won't be an
enthusiastic or Interchangeable one by
| any means. SpC ahing yesterday to a
prominent county official, generally
set down as a strong Ireland man, he
launched forth into enthusiastic praise
of Geaeral Sui Ross, and declared the
general would make one of the best
governors Texas ever had.
PALESTINE, April 25.-Of all tibet
absurd reports that now and then ge
into the dispatches to the associated
press, that was the most senseless
which was published announcing the
formation of ticket 10y the green
hackers, ETC., having Judge Reagan as
candidate for vice-preSident with Gen.
Butler for president. Here at his
home in Palestine, where the Judge
and his opinions are well knOwn,the
report is laughed at by his friends and
by those who are known an recog-
nized as his staunchest supporters.
The Juggling in of the anti-monopoly
party into the so called conference at
New York gives the whole thing
away. No matter how eloquent an
advocate of anti-monopoly, the Judge
may be-no matter how much he has
done to pass the ever-youthful and
always-comiDg interstate commerce
bill. No one of his friends here have
any idea that the gentleman would
loosen his grip on this congressional
district to join TIE fortunes of Bold
Ben Butler. The good judge is not
just anti-monopo]y enough for that.
lie is perfectly willing, his friends here
say, to stay in congress until he passes
his inter state commerce bill, and then
he will gladly retire to private life. 1t
is true very many here neither
know nor care anything about the
bill, and the aspirants for the judges
congressional slippers turn up their
noses at it, and hint that it is a shrewd
political dodge Of the veteran con-
gresham, but all the same the horny
handed sons of toll roundabout here
win come in from the outlying dis
tricts during the fall campaign, and,
whilst the judge whites his pine
stick, viii listen, with mouths agape,
to his description of how the monop-
olists beat his bill They have heard
it before-that same story-and they
viii again; and they viii believe it,
and send the judge back again to fight
the Wind-mills of MONOPOLY.