The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-05
STATE PRESS.

radiant brightness.-t Medina Times.
ABEN BUTLER PERFORMANCE.
Temple Houston's attack on the adj :
ministratior in the interest of the
Frsnck lyn Land snd Cattle company
Is straight Ben Butler performance.
-lBelton journal.
SMALL INDUSTRIES.
Small INDUSTRIES should be encour.
aged. II starteu on . very limi, ed
scale. II properly patronizsd, thets ~
no telling how soon it viii he before
they Will be doing y great business. =
IAlvaIa ado Bulletin.
vANQUIsHED BUT NOT FOREVER.
This prohiuitiOnisGs have Useu van
quished but not snnihilatea, IL thew
would expnnse the idea OF new party
from their creed ana fight for tennpar-
ance only they would vet be- g power
in Texas - Plano Review.
now STANDS HE?
Docs General Rosa favor yepealug
the present local option law ana clint
mating the local opEioo clause from tbs
constitution? VIII the Waco Exgn,i.
ner, the wind power OF the Ross cam
paign, please give us an uueuuiyOoal
answer on tin point Limestone New
Era.
NO PROSPECT OF BLOOD.
Dallas has ner Two mOrAine dsiUes,
THE HERALD snd the News. As they
are both OF the digrino6 and higher
order OF newspapers who understand
tao official caurt,sits, we anticipate
that there will be- no trouble in their
getting along smics0ly,-- DenisoS
Herald.
FREE GRASS FOREVER!
The Fors Worth GazetJe has the viz
tue OF continuity, Various questions
may CONS and go, ths proprietors of
that paper may step down ana out, The
prohibition craz0 may come and be on
the eve Of going, but the free graes cry
goes ON forever. Verify, verify, we
suffer much.- Denton Chronicle.
THE SILVER PROBLEM.
NOV That TIE time ia drawing near
for Congress to convene, tho papers
ere writing heavy leaders on "The Sil-
yer PI0blbm." The only problem
which the silver dollar has ever sug-
gested to us is how TO act it, and dinged
II man will be likely 10 solve il salts
factoriiy through tho medium Of O
country weekly = Colorado Graphic.
PR0HiDrtIoN.
prohibition recently stepped out
upon the political eTena With a Grand
flourish that would have done credit
to French buglest, out was quietly
and firmly sat down ON BY the "grand
OLD party" Democrats sra rocked in
O cradle with g solid froat, and ii il
beat into them from infancy. They
NAV be finslly killed, bat Il viii be-
diilicult to scare them TO death,-IBon
ham Review.
THE PUBLIC ROADS.
Ihe next Legislature should pass n
Dill allowing counties to work State
convicts, free OF charge, on public
roads, and IN draining the lowlaudg.
~ such al arrangement both the
state and counties would be bene.
htted, bssites placing tho convict
"Where ne would do the most good,D
ana not come in competition with
honest labor Houston Post.
THE COMING MEN.
THB DALLAS HERALD comes 60 tho
mont with = donnie,lesdcd editorial In
iaver OF Hoa. Sawnio Robertson ,ol TIE
Ysllas bar, - successor to Judge q. 8,
West, resigned, aud from the axpress-
1ons OF appcpVsl from Vii parts Of the
country, TIE HERALD has named this
right man, q Unless bo is TOO highly
rec0mm5pded, Aun Sovsrnor Ireland
plays Cleveland llttle, no will no
doubt receive no appOlutmenb.-[P Fl.
lot Point Post
a BCsiEHSS MAN FOR GOVERNOR.
Ihe Democratic nsgs arc being trot-
TED over tho guberuatorial track, lust
TO sec how they move. SWain is ia the
lead and VIII coma out ahead by sew
eral lengths i North Texan.
fN q A.
man l0f governor IL developingrapiGly
Win the agitation OF the gupernatOrial
question, and because Of the fact that
SWAN mas record that absolutely
meets tho require ments of that wish,
he Will undoubtedly, as he deserves to,
leao Ia the race.-lSulphur Springs
Gazette.
CAUsTIC CRITICISM.
Tnere 10 bsiil another particular In
which tho Galveston News has the ad-
Venlage OF The Times. That great Jour
nal has u nunierously populated pri-
vate graveyard, wherein lie the many
candidates whom the paper hes aus
ported for Office. The Times would
rather be the least OF tho organs, and
with the organs stand, than 10 no
haunted nightly by tina ghosts OF the
politically deiunot who misplaced
their confidence in this power OF tho
News 10 pull them throug h.-[San An
tonic Times.
INCONSISTENT PAPERS.
Some OF thv "lesdng' Democratic
papers, as they label themselves, are
very inconsistent. They declare them.
selves for freq trade aud denouuco =
protective tafill, aud then turn about
and favor high license on tho whisky
question and try 20 bond nowsdealers
10 sell no other Texas daily but their
own. Talk al out sOalless corporations
and oppressive monopoltes, but 4 this
IS not pBttpruing after it, 10 is q dis
tinction without difference TO our
mind liesperian-Iimes.
MEXIA PROSPEROUS.
Wednesdgy's cotton receipts num-
pered .O5 bales, making 2,573 bales 70
Gate Corsicana OBSERVER.
30 Mexia bad received by actual
count 2,6SS bales upto tho time Corsi.
cana had gotten 1878. This is doing
pretty well for our town, considering
that Cofsicsna, according TO the Oh
server Of some wteHs nae, has been
getting as high IA CD bales per day
from "ar0und Mexia." Tho Observer
must have Dsun counting the "luuren
cotton purchased by ia buyers -
lNsxla Ledger.
SLANG.
Hyoung ladies who, through ssso.
clstion with young mon whose lin
lted adupation and poverty OF ideas
compel tho uso Of slang IN linu OF cor
rect Expressions, conpcuhended the
meaning OF many OF tue terms thuu
pat In their Innocent mouths, they
would be shocked at tho Vulgarity Of
their companions. Almost without
exception words and phr,spe pupu.
inrly donomlnAtod "slang" aie drawn
nom tho slums. They aro the invsn.
slon OF the mos. d0praVod elements OF
human society, and should be- avoided
ny peffons with any nrptentiOu u 70,
nmnement and gontility.-[ Navasota
%, FREE GRASS issue DEAD.
III ~ mos Unfortunate that the roiu,
VenNted Fort Worth Gazette should
continue t. ride It's eli hobby of tree
grass. That ISSUE 10 stone dead, sno
no roWpr can bring IL 10 lifn. The faui