The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-10

tact and integrity are what we want in a
comptroller. all of which j. d. Mccall has,
and while Mr.. Oglesby may be a clever tax
collector for Collin county. he has not the
experience that would make his election de-
sirable with the thinking people of Texas.
We had the pleasure eff Infringing a
turkey leg with Lieut.. Gov. Gibbs, at Dal-
las, on Thanksgiving day. Some have
accused the governor of trying to get on
both sides of the local option question,
but we can testify that he occupied only
one side of the Thanksgiving turkey, and
that's the outside.-L Limestone New Era.
Why don't you give the names of those
who helped you and Gibbs unhinge that
turkeys leg? No two men can unhinge
Dallas turkeys leg, unless the turkeys
there have grown much more tender than
they used to be. Once "a, but we will
not cause Dallas to blush, for Sterrett's
sake.
The Timpton Times quietly remarks:
'That man has a small soul who is en-
vious of another's prosperity. The smaller
the soul the greater the envy."-Gazette.
No house was ever big enough for two
families, and no body ever large enough
for a liberal soul and much envy. They
are antagonistic.
The Austin Daily STATESMAN on Deem
Der LIST changed its form to an eight-page
five column paper. 1t is model of typo
graphical neatness, and the Enterprise
cOngratulates its proprietors on this evil
dence of its prosperity Angelo En-
terpriSe.
At this rate The STATESMAN will have as
many thanks to return as Mayor Fulton,
of Galveston. Up to date it is nip and
tuck, and tuck is slightly ahead
Those who have not heretofore adver-
tised in the Houston Age are now coming
forward and filling the space with their
lads" that was created by the knights, and
there is private understanding in Hous-
ton that this shall be done so long as there
is any space open. This is a bad show
for the knights. There are several other
evening papers in the state that would
like to be boycotted, or girlcotted. Dallas
has one.
If Grover Cleveland should happen to
die at any time within the next three
years, a radical president of the senate
will become president of the United States.
The radicals can console themselves with
the reflection that President Cleveland is
middleaged gentleman, in robust health
and quite likely to live about fifty years
yet, and in that time he may serve out
several presidential terms. H custom Age
Don't get alarmed, gentlemen. Presi-
dent Cleveland will carua bic torr,, ont
unless he is pardoned before his time is
up. He was born under lucky star. Be
sides, he is too busy to die. People
when very busy, do not often die. 1t
is after all excitement is over that death
is apt to claim its own. It is true that
Harrison and Taylor died while acting as
president, but they did not keep them
selves as busy as Cleveland does.
The new dress of the Austin Statesman
is tony and refined, and all it now lacks
under the present management, is patron
age from the citizens of Austin, and if
they would act as becometh wise and SEN
sible business men, they will not withhold
their patronage, but encourage and foster
the effort of their home paper.-Mason
News.
That they are doing, Mr.. News. Look
at our columns of late. They speak louder
than words.
Laredo has the best daily paper of any
town of its size in the state, the Laredo
Times, and yet one of its citizens calls it
an insignificant" paper, according to the
Times, which says:
gentleman on Main street was 10th to
sign the testimonial in behalf of the safe
ty deposits law, on the ground that The
Times was too insignificant a paper to
move in such a weighty manner. The Times
is just what the people of Laredo make it.;
and so is the business of the gentleman in
question. Suppose the consumers of La
redo were to send to San Antonio for their
day goods, as he says he does for news
paper and for job work. The probability
is that he would be speedily frozen out
The man who disparages his local paper
cannot have the best interests of his com
munity at heart; and The Times bears
cheerful testimony to the fact that there
are but few such in Laredo, and they will
be ere long crowded out by enterprising
competition. Each man is the
judge of his own business, and
The Times does not complain of those
who do not advertise. They have a per-
feet right not to do so. But to disparage
the efforts of the local paper when it is
doing its best in the interest of Laredo, is
not the work of good citizen.
The gentleman on Main street, must
expect the little town of Laredo to fur
nish daily like the New York Herald or
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. Be this as
1t may, he is poor judge of newspapers,
If he speaks his sentiments, and he is let
off by the Times with much milder re-
Duke than he would have received in some
places.
The Fort Worth Gazette seems to be af-
hicted with a modesty equal to and some
what like that of The STATEsMAN's 'sWalk-
about" Just hear it:
If the Gazette were inclined to blow, it
could find plenty to blow about these
days. Our pretentious esteemed contem-
porarles have the hair scooped off of them
every morning. But the Gazette never
blows. Modesty is our great falling.
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