Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-12

gin lively. New York, Chicago, Gin
cinnati and st. Louis are in the field
already. It is safe tosay that Chica.
go, if that place can't secure it, viii
see that st. Louis doesn't get it, and
vice versa.
IF THE killing off process is kept
up in Louisiana at the rate that it has
been carried on during the past few
weeks of the Nichols McEnery Xii
kenny cat contest for the democratic
nomination for governor, there will
not be enough voters left in the state
to elect the nominee.
The Globe-Democrat says that
Bro. Blaine could turn the conven-
ton into love-feast next June by
getting up in his seat and declaring
that he is not a candidate, never
was, wouldn't have it any way, and
concluding by nominating Roscoe
Conkling for president.
Gov. MCENERY has called the at
tention of the legislature of Louis
lana to the means at present in use
of carrying out sentence in capital
cases. Like all other crazes this
will have its day, and will result in
retaining the old method of hanging
by the neck until the criminal is
dead, dead.
In 1868, at the height Of the war,
the average duty on imports under
a tariff to provide revenue for war
expenses, was 1852 per cent. The
average duty now is Al per cent.
With the war debts settled and the
'infant industries" grown to be
strapping, lusty youths, where's
the argument, reason or justice in
robbing the people longer
The republicans are deriving
great deal of comfort from the pre-
diction made several years ago by
Gen. Grant to the effect that. when
the democratic party regained ascen-
dency its backbone would be broken
across the Allegheny mountains on
the tariff issue. The person who
would disturb the 6. o. p. in this
comforting. assurance is brute
W. K. VANDERBILT has purchased
Earl Buckingham's magnificent es-
tate in England, consisting of five
thousand acres, which originally be-
longed to John Hampden, the fam
Gus roundhead revolutionist. This
is the first step toward an American
landed aristocracy in the old coun-
try. Who knows but what some day
the Americans will own England.
ST. JOHN, the apostle of prohibi-
ton, declares high license a fraud
The sooner his party accepts high
license as the only practical solution
of the liquor. question the better it
will be for it. Wherever high Ii
cense has prevailed it has done Won
ders. In Ohio, where it only re-
Gently went into effect, the number
of saloons has been reduced almost
half.
A GREAT sensation has been Gre
ated in San Antonio by the arrest
of Messrs. w. E. Hilton and n. A.
Young, among the most prominent
real estate dealers in the city, on a
charge of embezzlement no doubt |
maliciously preferred. Nobody |
who is acquainted with them can be
made to believe in their guilt, and a
triumphant vindication is sure to
follow.
So FAR, the BANNER ventures to as
sert, this city has been less inflicted |
with tramps than any town in the
state Marshal Swain and his
worthy assistants, Officers Whitman |
and Lockett, possess kind hearts,
but make it a business to keep their
eyes peeled for this gentry, who are
spotted the moment they strike the
town and are firmly but persuasively |
invited to move on.
THE New York Press, which was
recently established in that city as a
sheet to counteract the |
mighty tide that has arisen in favor
of democracy and tariff reform, is
yet an infant in its swaddling
clothes, but it is a bowler from way
back. 1t goes heavy on protection,
and has an abiding faith in the eff