Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1884-06-12

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New York Times, and Harper's
Weekly and the Boston Herald
and Springfield, Massachusetts, Re.
publican, all firing red hot shot,
with Blaine's corrupt record for n
target.
IRELAND will be renominated for
governor ut the Houston conven.
ton rs sure rs the world goes
around, says. the Dallas Herald, and
it wants to know if the Austin
Statesman and other papers that
are now opposing him will support
him, or whether they will use their
influence for Wash Jones'. whom
they now eulogize so highly. II
may be that the papers named will
all sit down to a social dish oferow
A REFoRMAToRY for juvenile Of
tenders is one of the needs of the
state. 1t is q shame to send bows
under the age of is years to the
penitentiary. At the last regular
session of the legislature a bill was
introduced for the establishment Of
state reformatory, but for some
reason it failed. At the coming
session a bill for the establishment
of one or more reformatories
ought to be passed. 1t is an ur.
gent public necessity.
SHERMAN and benson are rival
cities; they are only ten or twelve
miles apart and when a stranger
comes to Denison he is told that
Sherman Is an old, worn-out town.
and the stranger in Sherman is told
that Denison is not much of a
place. Grayson is an old and pros
porous county, and her rival towns
are both live, progressive places,
and the day may como when they
will grow together and be a large
city. Such contingency is prob
able.
The Austin correspondent of the
Fort Worth Gazette comes to the
defence of Col. Buck Walton, wri-
ting over column to prove that
Walton should not in the remotest
degree be held accountable for the
life and exploits ofthe late lament
ed Benjamin Thompson. Perhaps
not, but the use of Walton's name
has probably given the book a sale
that it might otherwise not have
had. Be this as it may, Col. Wal
ton has not added to his reputa-
ton,
ST. Louis Republican: The
star-route ring made a president
four years ago, but then it was in
full power, with all its suction
pumps properly coupled on to the
United States treasury. In this
year of grace, 1884, the old ring
has proved strong enough to make
the nominee of the. Republican
party, but 1t is not connected with
the treasury any more, and the
people will see to it that it does
not make president this time.
Forewarned the country is fore
armed.
The Houston Evening Journal
wants to know, how can the people
generally be expected to improve
in literary culture, when such a
paper as the Dallas Herald prints
in display head, something about
q "Bursted Bank" The express
sion is far from being either. ele-
CANT or polite, but the general pub
lie understands to q nicely what
the Herald means. There is I'M
questionably too much slang used
in the newspapers of the day and
we are by no means sure that the
Journal is an exception to the rule.
It uses the word "cavortings."
THE New York Herald having !
lately published q statement that
r;lden will positively refuse to
accept the Democratic nomination,
It is as positively denied in a
Washington special to the Houston
Post. The special says that Sena-
or Vest, and Representative
Broadhead, of Missouri, were in
New York tbs other day and called
IN Mr.. Tilden, who entertained
hem for an hour. They came
way fully convinced that he is
'eady to accept the nomination.
representative Cox, of New York,
llso said that there was no doubt
Tllden would accept. His health
s said to be good.
DALLAS Herald: The Fort Worth
iazette says that people of Texas
lave made free grass an issue.
This will remind one of the anec-
Totes related by Franklin, of the
hree tailors who met in a dram
hop in Philadelphia, organized
themselves into a meeting and re-
olved, ave, the people of Ameri-
a" etc, The two or three editors
4 this state who favor free grass
hould meet at Fort Worth, in the
ooms of the Texas Investment
ompany, organize a meeting and
esolute, ave, the people of the j
tate of Texas" etc., etc. 1t would
e as presumptuous as the acts of ,
he Philadelphia tailors and twice :
S absurd.
The Galveston News publishes a j
ongthy and gossipy special from I
'ort Worth. II piyes n list of the S