Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-05-29
Tur Growth of Fort worth bas

y ShS "SO III SiAi''
$500 people and one railroad; she
now has a little over 5000 people
and two railroads and might have
had more, but she rested on her ma
tural advantages.
The San Antonio Express pre-
diets that the case of Willis
Adams, for the murder of Mike
Burns, set for trial at Dallas on
the first Monday in June, will be
continued. Admitting to bail was
the first point made in his favor.
and continuance will be the sec
ond one leading to ultimate acquit-
tai. IfAdams is convicted it will
be a genuine surprise.
TIE capitol syndicate had pro-
position before the capital board
on Saturday to substitute granite
for white limestone in portions OF
the state house now under con-
struction. The board rejected the
proposition, though the change is
considered desirable. 1t would,
however, have involved additional
cash, which the board is not auth
orizcd under the law to contract.
AT San Antonio the Bexar coun
ty. Democratic county convention
voted in favor of the majority
rule, the vote being So to Is. The
Parker comfy convention, held at
Weatherford instructed against the
two-thirds rule. Reports of the
action of conventions on this mat
ter are meagre, but there is SEEM
ingly fair prospect that the
"time-honored" two-thirds rule is
doomed to destruction.
RUMoRs that Wash Jones pur-
poses another race for governor
should be taken for what they are
worth, says the Fort Worth Ga
zette. He has no desire to do so
merely for glory, but if he sees
chance or imagines he sees one for
success his modesty will not stand
in the way of his making the race.
He wants the Republican support
and probably calculates on getting
all the disatfected Democrats.
The Dallas Herald had much
trouble on Monday; the press
broke down and form was pied.
1t published bogus communica-
ton and had more trouble; re-
porter had fight with a drummer
and an advertiser and an attache
of the paper came near having a
fight. 1t is an old saying that mis-
fortunes never come single. At
this distance sympathy is the only
consolation we can give the Her.
aid.
WE want men whose political
views are not completely wrapped
up in ancient political supersti-
tions. We want men with at least
a few political ideas less than a
quarter of a century old, says the
San Antonio Express. The old
time POLITICAL does not keep up
with the times; times change and
men change with them. The neces-
sites of the times are materially
different from those of twenty-five
years ago.
In a few moro years the South
will become a great manufacturing
district; then. it will be in the same
position regarding the tariff as the
New England states are now. But
the great mass of the people; the
consumers, want cheap goods, and
the advocates of protection have
failed to show that the operatives
or working people in the manufac-
tories get any increase in wages.
Protection protects only the capt.
tallst,
The San Antonio Times evident
ly does not want Galveston to get
deep water, and it thinks that Capt.
Eads grossly violates professional
ethics in appearing before a con-
gressional committee in behalf of
his own PROJECT, and to the dispar-
agement of the government e1gin-
GERS. Capt. Eads was before the
congressional committee at the re-
quest of the representatives of
Galveston, who want deep water
i they can get it.
The condition ofthe Central rail
way on Tuesday night Is thus sum-
married. in the Houston special to
the News: The main line is open
from Millican to peRisan: Fram
Houston to Courtney is all right,
but from Courtney to Millican the
road is impossible being under wa
ter in many places. The high wa
ter in the BrazOs blocks the Aus
tin branch, and connection with
this line is made over the Santa
Fe via R9senReFg and BRENNAN.
The New York Sun says of the
forty-one Democrats who voted
against the Morrison bill, thirt-fve
came from the five states of New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio and California, all of them
. classed as doubtful states in the
} NEXT presidential contest, and cast
ing not less than LOG of the POI
electoral votes needed to elect the
next president. Assuming that
) these men voted honestly it is en-
tirely unbecoming to call them
traitors, although we do not agree
with them.