The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-05-15

springs with the sun, especially with mr.
the farmers. de
HEWITT is to take a little tilt at the hi
tariff. Even with the fate of MOrr- tn
son before his eyes. Ii
THE killing of the Morrison bill ~
took the sizing out of the democratic l.
ante convention boom.
THE base ballists are now in the h
midst Of the active campaign. Some Ii
excellent work is being done. Sc
THE music loving people of Austin :.
are promised rare treat at Millett's :
opera house tomorrow evening.
KENTUCKY democracy is altogether IL
free trade. There is no foolishness h
about it, or any branch or subdivision Il
of the blue grass article. r
No ONE but Governor Roberts him
self has power 10 commit him to e
Ross or anybody else. That is an act q
no man can perform for another. G
Now we begin to want to see some
systematic plan arranged by which a s
competent exhibition OF Texas '
products will be had at New Orleans. t
Poor Grant the trouble seems to
be far more serious than was at first
feared. We do sincerely hope that he
will not be Impoverished thus in his
old days.
THE patriots who are sitting about
on their launches waiting for county
offices are afraid to announce.
Wherefore all this wonderful ner-
vousness2
THE Houston Post will see eul-
tured militiaman every time it closes
its eyes for the next ten years. AS it
is now, they dance before its vision
like grasshoppers in Kansas.
WE have seen sprightlier papers
than the Gazette, but they are few.
It is very active, and squares up to
events very much as veteran would.
Fol a two-year old, it is pretty well
along.
WHY don't Austin have crack
base ball club She gets away with
the state,so far with her crack military
company, why not with the bat
J Boys, this suggestion is worthy of at
4 tention.
THE ladies of Austin are wise in
their day, and their wisdom is no
where more apparent than in the care
with which they cultivate flowers.
Flowers beautify the homes, as they
do the ladies themselves.
TIE lady who has beautiful rose
In her hair, q bunch of violets at her
throat, and boquet in her hand, can
never be said to be badly dressed, no
matter what else she wears. Stick a
pin here.
BILL STERRETT's modesty was
painfully apparent during all the
time the visiting brethren were pres
: emit in Dallas. AS soon as they left,
however, the clamp was taken off, and
the Times bloomed out again.
THEY are all feeling themselves to
sea how badly they have been hurt by
the failure Of Grant & Wards bank.
1t takes a hundred millionaire some
times to place his finger on so small a
thing as million or so.
THE Gazette cruelty suggests that
1t is pity the governor was not ap-
prised sooner Of Mr.. Hardenbrook's
onerous business cares, and thus have
saved valuable time. Those business
cares are doubtless heavy ones, but the
real reasons, why he did not accept,are
far weightier.
TIE Corsicana Courier is not de-
TERED by the awful fact that the Mar
tin boom is dead. and runs his name
to the masthead for governor. Their
is nothing like devotion In these cases
Now why don't the Ireland papers
howl at the Courier.
MODERN political means and modes
are very strange, and some of them
odd and singular. But those in use
about the time of the appointment of
HardeDbr brook and Elliott, and the de-
clination of the former, are among
the most curious We have ever seen or
heard of.
THE News effort to induce Gen. Ross
to head the thirds rule forces
is simply ridiculous one. Gen. Ross
is democrat, and not 10 he governor
would he depart from the venerable
old rule, so long the safeguard and
protector of party unity.
THE Sharon-Hill matter was never
very clean at any moment since the
troubles commenced, but just now it I
is growing dirty with vast rapidity ,
and sprightlineSs. The Hill was and ,
is a bad one, and the rose of Sharon
not exactly angelic in its own una
dorned goodness. I
AT Chicago, they will forge re-
buke to Mr.. Randall which will come
, very near breaking his heart. A full
/ fledged free trade platform will be
the means used. Randall needs sit
ting down upon, ABOUT as Dad as any
man in America and we will be sadly
disappointed by the convention if it 7
don't do that very thing.
THE Dallas Times impertinently en-
quires why, If Hardenbrook didn't
want the appointment, he made the
race for it. Evidently the Times In s
clines to the theory that MIR. HIS bu- p
slness cares took very sudden and
unexpected boom. There are some =
very strange things in this life, to be 7
sure, and this appointment and ev- y
erything connected with it is one of
them, surely. b
GEN. d. S. STANLEY has already 2
arrived in San Antonio. He has
many friends all over Texas who win r,
warmly welcome his '+urn. We are n
sorry, however, that tie noble band