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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20
LET US HELP THE FAIR.

An officer of the Capital State Fair
association asks that THE STATESMAN
aid it in its purpose to hold fair in
December. If every officer of the
association had devoted himself to the
success of these fairs as has The
STATESMAN, for the ten years of the
associations existence, the annual ex-
hibits at Austin would now be second
to none west of the Mississippi river,
excepting those at st. Louis. Every
year THE Statesman has been devoted
to this interest and has advertised in
every manner of address the fact
that exhibits were going to be held,
whileit has urged the people of Texas,
and especially those of Austin and
Travis county, to ad in any manner
possible to the Effectiveness of the
exhibitions. When it was fixed that
the fair would be held in October,
while in activity signaled the course of
the officers THE STATESMAN attempted
to build up an in seres in the proposed
fair, and article after article appeared
in its columns, directing attention to
it, while it Jealous y urged the
PEG especially of this section of
the state, to prepare exhibits and have
them in readiness for the fail. That
THE STATESMAN should be requested
to aid the association is entirely I'M
necessary. The aid it has extended to
it has been continued
from year to year, for ten years. 1t
has been untiring; when officers
Jagged in duty, or neglected the
interest, THE STATESMAN has been
the associations constant and earnest
supporter. 1t is no new squirt of to
say that we hope people will come to
the aid of the association and do all in
their power to make creditable
show at the coming exhibition. We
asked everybody, time and again,
to show in October, and now we ask
them most earnestly to make exhibits
in December. THE STATE sMAN
is not backward in as
serting that Austin is the best point
in the southwest for holding such
exhibits as this association was organ
lied to establish and maintain. 1t is
in the midst of a region where the
finest natural and agricultural ex-
hibits may be collected; it is in reach
of superb herds of horses and cattle
and the finest focks of sheep and
goats in the United States. As good
agricultural exnipits might be
gotten up in A .stin as any,
where, but the as citation has
failed to deyot, itself to this inter-
est. Its live stock shows ought to be
particularly fine; and here where
there is so vast an opening for the
use of improved implements and ma.
chinery, there ought to be tb grand
est exhibitions of such applia ces. It
simply requires administrator ability
and zeal, instead OF lukewarn ness in
the cause, to make these annua ex-
hibits what they ought t be.
If an exposition of the
development and material pros aerity
of Texas were made the object of our
far as trial, it would be seen that
TIE STATEssIAss's advocacy would be
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20
a PROFITABLE SOLUTION

In treating questions that may come
before the cattlemen's convention at
st. Louis THE STATESMAN. heretofore,
has confined itself mainly to the du-
ties of Texans in defending their in
terests before that body. We have
agreed to the proposition that the trail
is necessity, for under existing con-
ditions it is, but these conditions may
BIZ changed, and it would take COM
paratively short time to change them,
Under the present order of affairs,
affecting Texas cattle interests.
there exists an absolute necessity for
the drive. Our immense herds can
be kept down to living number of cat
tie only by keeping the way to the north
west open for moving off our surplus
stock. Texas is the greatest cattle
breeding portion of the United
States. The nearer we approach to
the coast region the greater the in
crease. Herds grow with wondrous
rapidity and home demand for meat is
not great enough to keep down the in
crease. If left to satisfy home de-
mand alone cattle would soon be like
they were fifteen years ago-worth
only their hides and tallow-and to
prevent such decline the drive is a
necessity. Demand in the northwest
broke up the hide and tallow industry
in Texas. The great grazing regions
of Kansas Colorado, Nebraska
and Wyoming presented inviting
fields for cattle grazing, but there
were no breeding herds there from
which cattle could be grown. Texas
undertook to supply the demand
which for many years had been enor-
nous. The great northwest has been
stocked up from Texas, and the breed
ers Of that region would now kill the
goose that laid golden eggs for them.
Instead of being buyers of stock they
would like now, for some time, to be
sellers, to reap rich harvests through
the Texas breeders being closed out of
the northwest. They would stop the
drive from Texas, and then
their beef would soon be worth
all they might ask for
it. AS said, we have joined in tbs
general demand for trail. 1t is, as
things now stand, a necessity, but
Texans might just as well prepare for
a future of contingencies. The so
called national trail" may become a
reality; it may be defeated. Should
it become reality it will be owned
and controlled by a corporation
thing said to have no soul-and Tex
ans, who will be dependent upon it,
Will have to contribute to its
profits. The purpose, it is rea-
sonable to suppose, is to secure
right of way from the federal govern
ment and contribution of its lands, a
trail company securing the subven-
ton and then buy ing the private
lands along the way to make the
scheme complete. OF course, the COM
pany viii not allow its property to be
used gratis by any one driving along
the trail. Like the ships that pass
through the Suez canal, from sea to
sea, the herder will be required to pay
toll, and in this light the breeders of
the northwest. should they control the
trail, may lay an excessive embargo on
Texas herds. Looking into the u
ture there is no telling what the ina.
tionai traiin may bring forth, and the
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

st condary to success. Exhibits are
what visitors want to see. Make them
and the Capital State Fair Association
would be the grandest organization in
Texas, it would be doing more to make
the state known than any other inter
est. That it has not heretofore done
this is the fault of the association. But
let US give it big boost this time,
hoping in the future it may grow in
wise administration, and give us such
exhibits as would make all classes and
industries interested in its success.
MUST THE GOVERNMENT INTER
FERE.
Mr.. Stone, editor of the Journal of
Commerce and president of the AS
ISOLATED Press, makes the admission
that control of the presidential cleo
ton returns was in the hands of man
ayers of the New York Tribune, men,
bers Of the executive committee of
oAO AooOSiaIOu L lCSo- IL VIII UC ~
membered that during the period of
greatest anxiety about the returns
from New York and other states
THE STATESMAN expressed its belief
that the press reports were just such
as the Tribune permitted to be
sent cut. The fact, as stated
by Mr.. Stone, is an outrage upon the
papers, which pay the Associated Press
to supply them with the news of the
country. THE STATESMAN, for in
stance, pays the association a
large sum of money annually for the
! news we publish. A contract exists
between the Associated Press and the
Western Union, by which no
press news may be transmitted
to this point except over the Western
Union wires. Both the Associated
Press and the Western Union are
under republican influences, controlled
in fact by intense partisans, and the
press of the country is compelled. to
be able to give any news at all, tc
accept and use that which is often
false, made so to suit the pur
poses of falsehood and corruption
On the second night after the cleo
ton, the dispatches being received by
THE STATESMAN were Unexpectedly
cut off at 2 a. NJ, as it afterward ap
peared because unfavorable returns
for the republicans had been received
at the New York headquarters (Tri
bune office, and it has been openly
charged that when such unfavorablt
news was received, while the return!
were pouring in, such news was
pigeon-holed and the favorable news
instead sent out. The power is il
the hands of these corporations
these huge monopolies-to falsify mat
tiers relating to anything, and the fact
is suggestive of a duty of congress
If telegraph wires are to be used to
falsify and often, in consequence, tc
do great public as well as private i'll
jury, it is time for the strong arm o.
government to interfere in behalf O.
truth and honesty.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

The British cholera commissioners
have made an exhaustive series of ex-
perfments at the birthplace of cholera
in India, aid are preparing areport OF
their discoveries and conclusions. 1t
is believed that their report will dis
prove DIR. Koch's rnicrobe theory
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE forlorn republicans of Iowa
and Kansas, not knowing what else to
do burnt st. John in effigy. Why did
they not burn even the remembrance
of the Mulligan letters.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20
How to Spoil.

To spoil steak-fry it.
70 spoil tea or coffee-boil it.
To spoil custard-bake it too long.
To spoil house plants-water them
TOO much.
To spoil butter-do not work out all
the milk.
To spoil carpet-sweep it with a
stiff, half worn broom.
TO spoil pancakes-bake them on a
iukeWarm griddle.
To spoil breakfast-grumble all
the while you are eating.
To spoil potatoes-let them lie and
soak in water after boiling.
To spoil scissors-cut everything
from sheet of paper to a par of cast
iron.
To spoil pair of garments in their
making-cut them out carelessly and
ruin all the seams.
To spoil children-humor them in
everything they happen to think they
want,
To spoil school-change teachers
every time some one in the district
finds fault.
To spoil bread-use poor flour anG
sour yeast, and let it rise until toe
light and runs over.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE Philadelphia Times says there
is "no known system of arithmetic
that can give New York to Blaine"
1t is not arithmetic the republican
manipulators want. They appeal to
fraud.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

TRUTHFUL Ben Butler said he had
one million five hundred thousand
votes behind him. They were so far
behind that they never got mp to the
front on election day.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

PRESIDENT Moss, of the Indiana
State University, is learned man as
we'll as masheg. He is a ID. d. as
well as an l.. l.. D.-a divine deceiver
and a doctor of licentious love.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

CHOLERA is rapidly inc easing in
Paris; over eighty deaths per day
Where are the doctors who, week
ago, said it wouldn't spread?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE beheading of 500 Chinese pris-
oners by the Annamite auxiliaries of
the French in Tonquin is!nothing
strange.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

CONNECTICUT, New York and New
Jersey are all great manufacturing
states and they all voted for free raw
materials.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

CABINET makers are busily at work.
The STATESMAN proposes to leave
the lob to Grover Cleveland.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

No longer do the people look puz-
zled and inquire, "Under which king
Bezonian." Grover Cleveland is the
man.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE mental condition of a republic
can is properly termed the jimblaines.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THIS year we are willing to join
President Arthur in thanksgiving.
There is something to give thanks
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

JOE MULHATTAN, ilike the other de
feated presidential candidates, may
now resume his avocation. Joe is
engaged in manufacturing mammoth
lies
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE fair begins December 22nd, and
every body is asked to make exhibits,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

In Oneida county, New York, where
Conkling lives, there were $4,000 votes
and Cleveiand's plurality was % votes.
1t was the ominous one in thousand
which holds good at last in the entire
state.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

AND nov listen to that cheeky KEEL
logg, the fellow of Blaine. He says,
like the doomed knight, at Augusta,
Maine, that he has been defeated by
corruption, fraud, violence and in
tinidation.D
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE democratic party has great luck
with its bachelors. The Commercial
Advertiser says: "If Mr.. Cleveland
shall prove to be elected, it will be one
of the curiosities of presidential his
tory that the democrats went out of
power with the first bachelor ever
elected president, and come back to
power with the second. In the quar-
terof century that lies between they
have but once come near to success,
and that was with bachelor-Mr.
Tilden-for their candidate"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

AFTER elections ftful fever we
now sleep well.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE republicans Of New York
cried fraud, like The thief cries thief,
TO direct attention to another quarter
while attempting to commit fraud
themselves, In Ellicott, Chatauqua
county, the republican registrars il
legally increased the registry, which
gave Blaine a much larger majority
than he would have received. In one
of the districts of New York city,
which gave large Democratic ma
jority, the returns were spirited away,
it is supposed, at the instance of the
republican managers, and were found
broken open and perhaps changed.
The Democratic detectives are hav-
ing their hands full just now.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

BLAINE wishes, away down in his
soul, that my dear Fisher" had
burned those letters.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

CAPITAL State Fair-December 2
to inclusive.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE country may be said to breathe
freely.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

The largest majority for any state
officer, excepting Gibbs who had no
opponent, in Travis county was given
to Walsh, 3445 votes; the next was
Templeton, Bali; that for Lubbock,
1910; fourth for Swain. 1868; fifth
for Baker, 1851; sixth for Ireland,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE fact that Cleveland received
many more votes in Republican wards
in New York than Hancock, and less
in democratic wards is cited as proof
that he was sacrificed in many in
stances in the interest of municipal
candidates. Assertions to this effect
are not eontradicted.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20
Shetland Ponies.

There is an increasing interest in
these dlmlnutiVe members of the
horse family and successful breeders
find them very profitable Docile. in
telligent hardy, and easily kept. thew
are the Ideal pets for children. 4
Shetlad foal can be raised to its third
year for one half the cost of a steer of
the same age, while the former finds a
ready sale at 500 to $500. The great
est obstacles to success in breeding
"Shetlies" arise from pampering them
in the way of food and shelter. Their
native habitat is on the bleak. storm
swept Shetland Islands, with little or
no shelter save their thick, woody
coat, and no food h"t the scanty herb
age eked out witt; nsh. The change
from such conditions to warm stables
and abundant food, is so violent that
those who survive it are likely to be-
come barren. a pony which was i'm
ported from the Isle of Yell had been
raised so exclusively on fish-the only
food the barren island afforded-that
after its arrival in this country it only
learned to Craze by initiating its new
companions. a quantity of dried
fish was brought over and the pony
was fed to it while 1t was becomin :
gradually accustomed to vegetable food
A little wholesome "roughing it" is
far more better for them than PAM
pering.
The market value of Shetland DO.
MES is an inverse ratio with theiI
size. Nine hands high (thirty-six
inches) is highest allowable for a well.
bred pony, and one of only thirty.
three inches is salable at fully twice
as much. The forls, when dropped
weigh from ten to twelve pounds, and
are much more shapely than the
young of full sized horses. They are
as playful as young kids and as
tame and friendly as young kittens
Like most "fancy" stock, Shetland pc
MES can be bred with profit.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THURSDAY, : NOVEMBER go, 1884
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

Mr.. B. F. JONES, chairman of the
republican executive committee, an
nounced officially that the republicans
had carried all the northern states ex-
ccpt New Jersey and Connecticut,
and that Virginia had given amaior-
ity for Blaine, and that there was a
strong probability that West Virginia
and other southern states had gone re
publican. Truthful Mr.. Jones; he ac-
tually ignored the existence of Indi-
ana, and even New York. He Is still
engaged in efforts to deceive the peo-
pie, to even defraud them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20
PLAYED IT'S LAST PART.

For many years the republican
party has existed purely through the
power of Office holders. The princi-
Piles upon which it grew into influence
have long since ceased to be vital, land
there has lately been nothing to hold
it together, as was said, but combi
nation OF Office holders. These men
have been very powerful in more re-
spects than one. For many years they
have exceeded in numbers over a
hundred thousand, while thCif -..i,s-
ries and perquisites amount at this
time to over $3OO,OOO,OO0. Here then
are over one hundred thousand men,
who, it is estimated, and reason
ably too, control on personal
grounds 100000 votes. Besides
their Individual influence percent
age of the money they receive from
the gcver1 4ent is most powerful
thing in elections. On aggregate re-
ceipts of $500, 100000 an assessment of
ten per cent. would give 100000 for
campaign purposes. 1t has often
reached this sum, and probably did
not fall short of it. except during the
4 late canvass, when there was an ex-
sting statute which somewhat inter-
erred with assessments. 1t was i'm
possible to enforce collections during
this canvass, and the result
was that when money was
so much needed Blaine himself went
to Philadelphia and plead with the
rich republicans and monopolists of
that city for means to carry states. A
arge amount of money was raised by
various methods, but it has been
thrown away and the republicans are
left in despair. The forces which
held their party together have been de-
stroyed, and with them goes republic
canism. Unlike democracy it has no
principles to keep it alive. 1t has
made its last struggle in a federal con-
test, and in few years it will cease
to exist even in STATES. 1t had day
of usefulness, but that is long since
gone. A few years hence it will be
numbered with the things that were,
! and no one will then regret that it and
public corruption, having existed in a
state of dependence, the one upon the
other, have both ceased to exist.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THIS has not been the first close nor
by any means the closest election in
the history of New York. In 1850
Washington Hunt was elected gov
ernor over Horatio Seymour by only
262 votes, and Seymour was afterwards
beaten for governor by Myron 81.
Clark by only S08 votes. In both cases
the victory was claimed by partisans
on both sides until the official count
was made.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE price of sugar in London is
about two cents per pound; and yet
complaint is made here, because il
does not sell for more than six or sew
en- cents per pound AT even five
cents pound an acre of good sugar
cane will produce from $50 to $12C
per acre. There are crops of sugar
cane, in Brazoria and Fort Bend
counties of this state, which will av-
erage return of from $50 to $120 per
acre. 1t does look like that ought to
pay; at least nothing else yields Sc
much,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

The best sm oking tobacco is.Little
Joker
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

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Address
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

TIE present house is composed of
115 republicans and 1893 democrats,
with 9 fusionists of one kind and an
other. and with two vacancies. On a
strict party vote the division would
stand about 100 to 2OS, thus requiring
a change in over forty seats to give a
republican majority. So far as the
returns are settled, the republicans
seem to have gained thirty-five seats,
but this is offset by democratic gains
of ten, leaving net republican gain
Of twenty-five. Counting in the fus-
ionists who would on a close drawing
OF party lines vote with one side or
the other, we have 17S as the demo-
Sratic strength in the next house. to
147 on the republican side, net DEM
oeratic majority of 81 on q fun vote.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

81 BELIEVED have been elected pres
ident, and nothing but the grossest
fraud can keep me out of it, and that
we viii not permit" -Grover Cleve-
land. Had Tilden talked this way in
1876 he would have been made presi-
dent.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE Philadelphia Times, of Nov
ember IL, uttered itself assuringly as
follows:
honest count and return in New York
can rest assured that a dishonest
count, however desperately attempted,
will not succeed. There are two very
forcible reasons why it won't succeed
first, because it can't be made; and
second, because men dare not make it
if they could. Therefore, stay at
home; attend to your business; be pa
tent and keep cool.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

give as much butter as the second,
nor was the time of churning the
same, although she was treated in the
same manner as at the beginning.
Here we conclude that no average
can be made as to the ability of an
animal to produce a certain amout of
butter for stated periods, yet the
quantity of milk used at each churn-
ing was nearly the same. Estimating
the thirty-six pounds and 1911 ounces
OF butter at 30 cents per pound. we
have about $11, while the cost of the
feed may be placed at about cent a
pound, thereby yielding large profit.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

THE advance in wool does not look
very much like the success of democ-
racy is paralyzing trade. The fact is,
there will be greater prosperity under
democratic rule than without 1t. The
people will feel as though they are
governing the country, and popular
confidence will be supreme.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-11-20

BACK of the mountains, next to the
coast regions of Africa, are great
table lands from $500 to 400 feet
above the sea level. 1t is computed,
that the mean elevation of the conti-
nent is 1000 feet, or twice as much as
that OF Europe, and that the area in
South Africa, admirably suited to oc-
cupancy by white men, is six times as
large as France.