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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04
THE CRACK COMPANY.
Co mpany D---And No One Is Jeal.
GUS That 1t Is So Called.

Perhaps the most celebrated company
in the whole state guard is Company ID
of this city. 1t won the second prize
at the Washington encampment last
year, and has won prize after prize in
local contests. Company ID has always
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04
SOLDIERS, EVERY ONE
A Solid Body Of Solid Young
Men Is the Militia Living
in st. Paul.
They Are Not Dudes, But Men
Engaged in Honorable
Business.
A Guard That Is the Pride
and Boast of the
Citizens.
Personnel of the Three Com
panies Whose Homes Are
in st, Paul.

NE of her products
that st. Paul has a
right to feel justly
proud of is her cit
|izen soldiery. At
all times and under
all circumstances a
state should have
at least a small
body of troops well
drilled and ready
for any emergency.
The Minnesota Ma
tional guard has
been organized to
meet this necessity.
There are no W
three regiments of
this state guard
well organized and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04

Exclusive of the amount specially re-
served as a contingent liability to tontine
dividend fund.
rover and above 4 per cent reserve on
existing policies of that class.
And it is this kind of a company that
proposes to improve the appearance of
St. Paul with building that is COM
mensurate with its importance and the
volume of trade that is pouring in from
every quarter of the great Northwest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04
PURIFY THE BLOOD.

THE marvellous results of Hoods Sarsaparilla
l. upon all humors and low conditions of the blood
prove it the best BLOOD MEDICINE. Such has
that that MT nearly se every family 49, whole
neighborhoods have been I ~ taking it at
the same time. 1t PURI-/ " /FIEs, vitalizes
and enriches the blood, 4 on I cures dyspep-
STA, bIllousness, and ali 4 ~ arrangements OF
the stomach caused by 4 IS 4 impure blood or
a debilitatcd condi- ~ /tion of the nervous
system occasioaed /cS Jog excessive mental
or physical cure 4 /labor or dissipation. 10
eradicates scrof i - ula and all foul humors.
and restores - /and renovates the whole
system. A ~ /peeuliar point in Hoods
sarsaparn. I - ia is that 1t creates an APP
petite and I N/builds up and strengthens tho
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-04

eystan and proves Invaluable as protection from
diseases that oit2late IN changes Oh the Seasonal
OF climate and OF lie.
Messrs. G. T. Hood It Co.: Gentlemen-It affords
me much pleasure &c ieC o.nueue Hoods Sarsaparat
My health has been scce tS1t Cor some years past
have been Obliged 20 tse -cnic OF some kind IN the
sprirg and have ra-sT fcC=e anything that hit n.y.
puriaes my blood, sharpcns my appetite, and seetn4
10 make ME over. Respectfully years, y r. lHohfNl
Sold by druggists. Price 81 a bottle, or SIX LOT m
Z. l. HOOD i CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass asS
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
THE OLD TICKET RENoMINATED.
The state democratic convention j

The state democratic convention Just
adjourned renominated the present state
officers throughout, with one exception,
that of a supreme judge. This might
look pointed were there anything that by
any possible twisting could be turned
against Judge Walker, the deposed su-,
preme court justice. No one can for
moment contend, nor will any one ever
insinuate, that snch could be the case. No
man in Texas stands higher for honor
and probity thsn he, and his great legal
ability is unquestioued; it was such as to
attract the governors attention and in
duce him to appoint Judge Walker to fill
a vacancy in the supreme court that oc-
Cured less than year ago. Since he took
his seat upon the supreme bench, Judge
Walker has performed his share
of the duties with marked faith
fulness, dispatch and ability. The
supreme court in its last few terms has
been called upon to decide some OK
tremely important questions of vital in
terest to the state, and in every iustaI ce
Judge Walker proved himself the equal of
his associates On the bench, and, like them,
perfectly fitted to pass upon such ques-
tiOns. The supreme bench should not
have been touched. But Dallas, with its
great influence in the northern and
eastern part of the state, had its man and
scheme, and the fight was made On
judge who had not been elected by the
people but appointed by the governor. 1t
was stab at the administration, if any
motive other than the securing of the ap-
pointment of their man is to be copsid
cred. But we believe neither reflection
upon the governor nor upon Judge
Walker was intended. It was simply a
square out fight for Judge
Henry, and it proved successful.
San Antonio sent up delegation
hostile to Austin, and it joined the north
Texas ranks of the Henry contingent.
But with this exception the entire state
ticket is as it was last time. And the ad-
has well earned this endorse
ment at the hands of the party. Gov
ernor Ross has been firm, progressive,
successful, and his entire administration
has been one of advancement, and, bar
ring the drouth, prosperous. Custom in
Texas returns an administration for
another term, but, in this instance, justice
and due expression of confidence and
appreciation would have dictated such
course to the convention had the custom.
not been in vogue. These nominations
are, of course, equivalent to election, and
the state is to be congratulated upon the
prospects of another two years. reign of
good law and honest, sound governmental
administration.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

viduaI license high and exclusive tariff
gives individual manufacturers to extort
tribute from all consumers. These trusts
are the legitimate outcome of such sys-
tenn of taxation and, in fighting the cause
it is eminently proper to attack its nat
ural results. Possibly the most important
recommendation of the convention, next
to the demand for deep water port, is
the plank favoring "the enactment of
prudent and efficient mining and irriga-
ton laws to dsYelop the agricultural and
mineral resources of our state" After
much debate, the legislature at its last
session passed law creating a geo,og-
ical bureau, and this recommendation of
the convention is fitting supplem ent to
that law, and, if carried out as intended
the two together will work a wonderful
revolution in the agricultural condition
of the state, and, through mineral finds,
will vastly increase the wealth
of the state. As whole the platform is
unique for its brevity, its comprehensive
ness, its aptness, its earnestness and its
sound and excellent policy. The conven-
ton certainly well performed that part
of its lRbors.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

they should establish the rule of perma-
hence in position during good behavior.
The late scramble at Dallas for place on
the highest courts of the state illustrated
the importance of the change suggested
and pointed the truth of the statement
with which this article opened. These
positions were flung upon the convention
exactly as were those of the executive
branch of the government. Some, and
indeed nearly all, say the judgships
should not be struggled for. But why
then put the Offices in the field at all?
Why when in the field should they not be
subject to all the influences that surround
he quest for other offices? The prin-
ciple itself is wrong, and the sooner
the state adopts some method of correc-
ton the better.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
POLITICAL JUDICIARY.

A state convention develops many facts,
none of which become so glaringly ap-
parent as that if you want anything you
must work for it. Ia the business world
the successful man wins his position and
profit by dint of continued effort; in
politics the rule none the less surely pre-
walls. Politics are graded up from the
hangers on at elections, the ward politi-
cian, and on up to the candidate for gov
ernor and president. In each graduation
there is different species of work TO be
done, but that work by whomsoever per-
formed must be done, if the successful
end is reached. In politics, man goes in
essentially to win or lose-there is no
halfway ground. The desperateness
of the chances taken is what leads to
the adoption of the many questionable
means that have given politics the black
eye it has "for ways that are dark and the
tricks that are vain" But this, while an
attendant evil, is not necessary evil.
Pure, honest and noble men dip into the
quest for office and emerge from the
plunge as pure and honest and noble as
before. It is not politics itself, but the
professional politician, the trickster, the
wire puller, the ward hummer, that have
created and given occasion for the infec-
ton of the voice in speaking of politics.
In our representative form of govern
ment there is no higher duty man owes
his state than that upon its call he submit
himself to its will and assume designated
Office, created for its careful and success
full administration. The state owes it to
itself to chose its best men; and these citi-
zens then owe it to the state to obey
its summons. But IN thus providing for
state officers it is held by many, indeed
nearly all of our best citizens, that while the
executive and legislative branches, being
sprung more directly from the popular
view of government, should be in the de-
termination of the accepted means of
elections, should be the outgrowth of po-
liticsl measures and methods, yet in the
case of the judiciary, the appellate judg-
ment seat of the executive and legislative
branches, the great check on each, that it
should be, as far as possible, exempted
from the touch of politics. But it is con-
tended that our governments elective, and
hence one of its chief branches should
not be appointive. Is not the federal
government founded on the solid aud
enduring principles of represent
alive elections by the people, ard
yet what better Judiciary can be
found in any state of the union than the
federal Judiciary that is entirely ap-
pointive? The people of Texas we know
are opposed to this system, but they do
want the good result attained by it,
namely: The freeing of the judiciary
from contact with politics. They can
attain unto this end, at least to a great
degree, by making the terms of the
judges longer and thus putting further
apart the times of their reelection. And
again, especially in the higher courts,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
THE CORNER IN BAGGING.

People reading about the trusts have
sort of vague idea that these institutions
are away off, and, therefore, they have
little to do with them. The increase in
the price of bagging should open the eyes
of the farmers of the south to the prac-
teal effect of the vast combinations of
capital called trusts now overshadowiDg
the consuming classes of this country.
Last year the price of the sort of bagging
usually purchased by the cotton
planters of Travis county was eight
cents. This season the same bag
ging is fourteen cents. Its real value is
to-day no more than it was one year ago.
Why, then, this fictitious value? The
Austin merchant who sells the article will
tell you it is on account of the bagging
trust of New York-a combination of
manufacturers to cut off the supply and
fx the price to suit MISUNDERSTANDING
out competition. This they have done
The increase of six cents per yard, which
represents the amount of this bare-faced
robbery of the planter, is the result
The trusts are the immediate authors of
this cool and infamous swindle. The pres
ent high protective tariff is the cause of
the trusts. The republican party is the
cause of the high protective tariff. Who
O n deny these facts! If they are true,
what citizen of Travis county Or the city
of Austin can conscientiously vote the re-
publican ticket in this campaign, the is
rue of which is tariff reform? Whoever,
in Travis county or out of it votes the
republican ticket, votes for high protec-
tive tariff, continuance of these same
trusts, and forcing the cotton planter of
this county to pay fourteen cents for
yard of bagging which is worth but eight
cents. In other words he votes to impose
burdens upon his neighbors TO bleed them
of money earned by hard ticks, sweat and
toll, in the cornfeld and cotton patch.
Who would vote that ticket?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
The Branding Iron,

AUSTIN, August Is, 1888.
To the Editor of the Statesman:
| An item in The STATESMAN of yes
terday, being similar to many con-
stantly going through the press of
Texas, deprecating the loss to Texas
stockmen in branding, would lead the I'M
initiated to believe that stockmen are not
vigilant in watching the economies of
their business. Such is not the case. 1t
hurts the stockmen worse to burn the
hides of his stock than it does the horse
buyer or butcher, but experience has
taught the stockman that beef in half a
hide is worth more than no beef and no
hide, aud horse with Queen Anne dec
orations," as Bill Nye would say, beats
travelling afoot. Some horse breeders
who have large pastures and reliable hands
constantlyf on guard, have successfully
bred horses without brands, but the great
mass of farmers and small stockmen who
cannot afford to do police duty day and
night have found the branding iron
their only protection. The remedy is
not in the hands of the stock asso-
in the Legislature. The Colorado River
association at its last meeting, pc
titioned the approaching legislature for
better laws, and it is hoped they will he
needed. The five million dollar loss is
nothing compared to other items of ex-
pense entailed on honest farmers and
small stockmen by the horse stealing sys-
tenn, but until more stringent laws ure en-
acted against horse stealing and its sister
in crime, perjury, the branding iron must
remain the stookman's sheet-anchor
Horse stealing is the most expensive
crime the state has to deal with, and if the
press will use its mighty efforts toward
suppressing it, the stockmen will anti
cipate the result by laying eside the
branding iron. STooKMAN.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
THE STATE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.

The platform adopted by the state coz
vention still in session in Dallas, is, save
in two planks and two closingresolutions
general in terms yet thoroughly compre-
hensive and covers every point at issue In
our state and our states relation to
national affairs. The one and absorbing
national issue is several times referred to,
and the stand the democracy of the union
has taken for tariff reform was particu-
larly commended and the state pledged to
its support. The question that SO
strongly exercised the state a year ago
and tended to create chaos among exist
ing political parties was not referred to in
words, and only by implication, as the Fort
Worth platform was endorsed and also the
national democratic platform that is al
ways against sumptuary legislation. This
was right, as the question is dead so far
as the democratic party within itself is
concerned. The question lives still, but
only as an enemy to democracy and every
other organized political party in the
state.
Other than these general features, four
points are noticeable in the platform
Urging the passage of mining and irriga-
ton laws; the states taking control of
freight and express charges by rail-
way and express companies; the defin-
ing and suppressing of trusts, pools, ETC.,
and lastly the vital question of deep
water port. Every one of these
are live and important questions.
OF the last nothing need be said as deep
water has been the cry on every lip for
six months past and the convention but
filled pressing demand when it passed
the resolution. As to railroad legislation
that was attempted two years ago at the
regular session of the Twentieth legis-
lature, and this present demand is in a
line with what was then begun and but
very imperfectly accomplished. The de-
nunciation of pools, trusts and such SINH
lar combinations was in conformity with
the ratification of the effort the democracy
is now making to crush out the unjust
tariff oppression that gives occasion and
excuse for the creation of such combina-
tions All these latter are but the ulti-
mate outgrowth of the single and indi-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

IT MAY have been az advertising scheme,
as urged by some gentlemen in the con-
ventiou, but it does seem that when in a
northern city there are published two
great newspapers, one of which in every
way is friendly to state, and the other
loses no opportunity to malign it and stab
its people, that there should be no imp
priety in the state convention of that
state passing a resolution commencing
the kindly disposed journal to the favor.
able consideration of the people of the
state. The st. Louis Republic is an excel
lent newspaper and should be more
widely read in Texas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
THURMAN TO OPEN TUE CAMPAIGN.

Allen G. Thurman will open the demo
cratic campaign with speech at Port
Huron, Mich, August %. This simple
announcement in the dispatches means a
great deal. Every time the Old Romen
opens his mouth, democrats and all lovers
of honest, economical and constitutional
government listen for his words of wis
dom. The place chosen is also signif-
can't. Michigan this year is by no means
sure state for the republicans. In
1880 Garield's plurality in that state
was $500, with 34,795 votes cast
for the greenbaok candidate, Weaver.
In 1884 Blaine's plurality was only 3,308,
with 1S,4O3 votes cast for st. John, the
prohibitionist. Now it is not at all likely
the prohibitionist vote in that state viii
fall off either in amount or per centage.
The vote of the state increased from 1880
to 1884, $4,000, and the republican plural
ity fell off $4,000. Given the same rate
of increase during the last four years, and
with half the same rate of republican
decrease, and the democrats will have
the state by very snug plurality.
At all events the effort will this
year be made to wrest the thirteen cleo
toral votes of that state from the repub-
lican column. Thurman is starting the
fight in the right place,a the democracy,
aided by the known disaffection existing
in the state, on account of the tariff mis-
magement of the government, have every
hope of snatching another brand from the
burning.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

The state convention sat down with a
dull, sickening thud upon the proposition
to hold constitutional convention. Not
that revision of the constitution was not
needed, but the fear was entertained that
the same gentlemen who controlled the
last constitutional convention might con.
troll the next and matters might be even
worse than at present. The convention
preferred to trust to the legislature fol
yet while longer.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
Travis County Democratic Ticket.
For Representatives


FELIX f. SMITH, w. X. HANDY.
For County Judge-James IL. Burts.
For County Attorney George S. Walton.
For County Collaboration w. Kelly.
For County Assessor-H. NJ. Metz
For Sherin-Emmett White.
For Clerk of the District Court-Jas. p. Hart.
For County Clerks. G. Cranberry.
For County Treasurer-M8t johnson.
For County Superintendent of Public Instruc
tom. w. Maxwell.
For Hide and Animal InspeCtor-R. E. Ca
perton.
For County Suryeyor-John +. Wallace.
For County Commissioner, Precinct No. /
Ed. IL. Rogers.
For County Commissioner, Precinct No. .
J. p. Schneider.
For County Commissioner, Precinct No. 3
Hugh Mcclure.
For County Commissioner, Precinct No. A.
John w. Cloud.
For Justices of the Peace, Precinct No. 3-George
Calhoun and j A. Stewart.
For Constable, Precinct No. 3-Walter NJ. Rob
ertsor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
The Old Reliable.

The cd reliable MIlburn is still ahead
of everything on earth on wheels. The
best seasoned material, careful workman
ship by skilled mechanics, make the
wagons and other vehicles of the Milburn
Justly celebrated all over the continent.
All things considered, the. Milburn is the
best and cheapest wagon built, and the
farmer who buys one will find it SO. Dick
Cunningham, the courteous agent in this
city, has big stock on hand. He also
has carriages and buggies, and they have
no equals for the money
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

AND now some interested parties on the
Lower Rio Grande are swearing there is
no yellow fever at Matamoras. They
swore TO the same thing at the beginning
of the last epidemic in Brownsville and
Matamoras, and kept on swearing till
more yellow fever corpses were carried
out than the sexton could well inter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

II will be the "Iittle Cavalryman" and
the LUCKY man from Eastland" again
this year. The people are satisfied with
Ross and Wheeler and are more than
willing to give them another trial with
the reins of government.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
A Voice from the Colored Race.
MANOR, Tex, August 19.

To the Editor of the Statesman.
Being an old subscriber Of your valua-
BILE paper, which brings me so much fresh
and interesting news every week, cannot
help but congratulate it on this certain
fact. 1t is the fairest&democratio paper
in giving news concerning the poor COL
ored race of any in the United States. 1t
seems to have some sympathy for the
poor down trodden race. There are hun
dreds of cOlored men who are constant
readers of your paper like myself, that
cannot keep from feeling happy while
reading the interesting pieces you give on
the general welfare of our race. May The
STATESMAN live long aud prosperous life,
whose course seems to be nothing but
honesty, upright and just to all.
EssIE WHITE.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

SENATOR COKE did not vote against the
Chinese bill recently passed by the senate.
The bill passed without division, the yeas
and nays not being taken. Mr.. Coke
voted against taking up the bill out of its
regular order, but it is now stated he
voted for it when it. was acted upon by
the senate. His record is straight on the
Chinese question.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

The communication, elsewhere to be
found, from one of the colored sub
scribers of The STATESMAN is published
with pleasure. We take the opportunity
to assure the writer and all of his race
that we desire to see fair and just treat
ment, and the full protection of the laws
accorded our colored fellow-citizens.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

GENERAL CLAIBORNE, the erstwhile can
didate for state comptroller, is a wiser if
not happier man. 1t takes strong
provocation to make a prudent man
monkey with state convention.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

The entire democratic ticket national,
state and county, is published this morn
ing. Now let the lines be drawn, and as
the summer days reoede let the political
pot begin to boil. There is warm work
ahead before November is reached.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

A POLITICAL kindergarten is to be es-
tablished at Dallas, with Seth Shepherd,
SaWnie Robertson, Nut Crawford and
Colonel Holland as instructors, and the
Travis county delegation to the Dallas
convention will be entered as pupils in
the primary department.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23
STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Governor:
l.. s. ROSS.
For Lieutenant-G Governor;
II. b. WHEELER.
For Attorney General
j. s. HOGG.
For Comptroller.
JOHN d. MCCALL,
For Treasurer:
FRANK X. LUBBOCK.
For Land Commissioner:
II. NJ. HALL.
For Superintendent Public Instruction:
o. IL. COOPER.
Supreme Court-John w. Stayton. Chief Justice
X. X. Gaines, j. L. Henry, Associate JUSTICES.
Court of Appeals-John p. White, Samuel
Wilson, James ii. Hurt.