The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-12-24
TEXAS TIDINGS.

papers regard him as being deficient as
politician. All the more reason that he
be placed at the head of our free school
system.-Waco Examiner.
The question of politics should not be
considered, when a.superlnntedento of pub
lie instruction is to be chosen. We are
not now living in those days when a man
had to join the Loyal League before he
was qualiedf to fill that Office, as was once
the case to T. It's certain knowledge. In
fact such an officer should not be politi-
clan, only so far as to be able to vote the
democratic ticket.
Waco cotton is something to boast Of
Examiner.
Barlow must sleep, drink, dream and eat
cotton. He has had cotton on the brain
so long he has become mono-maniac on
the subject
I The Gazette claims that Fort Worth
| lays over all the other towns in the state
in all that constitutes true greatness, and
that it is bound to become the metropolis
of Texas, and then comes the Waco Ex-
aminer and says:
Waco is second to no other city in Texas
in the extent and importance of her com
mercial operations
This arouses the Post of Houston and it
asks:
How does a city with ten railroads cen
tering in the corporate limits, and with
direct connection by water with all the
seaports of the world strike the man who
:, Lon
or an investment for his surplus capital?
Houston is the place. She has nearly
$4,000 inhabitants and a commerce that
caps that of any other city in the state.
Certainly Texas has got some of the
most remarkable towns to be found inside
or outside of the universe.
There is not prettier, better paper in
the state than the Austin Daily STATES
MAN. The improvement made in it re-
Gently is very great, and highly commend
able. We prize it highly.-Texas Pa
| tron.
The returns are all in. No, here comes
another.
Recent improvements in the Austin
STATESMAN have convinced US of an opin-
ion long entertained, that Austin is the
best field in Texas for thorough-gOing,
well-edited democratic paper, The pres
ent proprietors have removed the barna-
cles from the concern, put on new dress
and different form, and are making the
paper success.-Colorado CITIZEN.
"Barnacles" is good at a safe distance.
Some of our exchanges are coRying our
''Walkabout" by the column. Th@ Llano
Rural is the latest one to do SO, that has
come to hand. Well if you will fol low his
advice it will not set you back Bit. He
has had as much experience as any man
in this state.
In looking through the exchanges q. T.
is weekly reminded that the Bolton jour
nal is the best weekly paper published in
the state, if we except the weeklies fhat
are furnished by those who publish daNies,
and even then the Journal does not suffer
- comparison.
~ Mcclellan, Hendricks and Vanderbilt
went away to the far on country in the
twinkling of an eye, and now B. Gratz
Brown is added to the list. 1t behooves
every man to set his house in order, for
none know when the summons will come.
I-D0lGOH 0Ourud1.
Since the big fellows have begun to die
off so rapidly, T. T. is setting his house in
order.
The editor of the Henderson Times has
got new suit of clothes. That is matf
ter which should be looked into. All $he
merchants in Henderson and OvertoR are
70 kiDr on account of ctocE
Now comes the Marlin Ball with its
eight pages on tinted paper. This, too,
is one of the best weekly papers in the
state. 1t has been conducted by T. G.
Oltorf ever since he was child.
Mr.. Reagan has a bill ready to be intro
duced in the house of representatives pro-
viding for the construction jof the Eads
ship railway. 1t stipulates that the gov
eminent shall guarantee for fifteen years,
two thirds of the interest on the money
invested in the enterprise, the guarantee
not to take effect till the railroad has
been demonstrated to be a success. In
consideration of the guarantee, the rail
way company agrees to carry United
States and Mexican shipping at 25 per
cent. less toll than charged for that of
other MISUNDERSTANDING Chronicle.
Judge Reagan's head is generally level
but T. T. fears that if he succeeds in get
ting that bill through he will regret hav-
ing done so before he is three-score and
ten.
Sam Randall seems to stand on the
wrong side of nearly every measure his
party favors. He must be made of about
three parts egotism to one of Democracy.
-Mexia Ledger.
One of republicanism you mean.
We do not know whether it will be Ross
or Swain, or some other man, and we
don't care who he is so he is good one.
Texas will need governor with sub
stantial vertebra to engineer that lease
law and the public lands matter. And
then, too, he will have to meet and with
stand the opposition and assaults of the
Galveston News, like all the governors
who went before him. Yes, our next