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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
TEXAS KISSES.

The Galveston girl bows her stately head
And fixes her stylish lips
In stern, hard way and lets them go
In spasmedic little sips
The Houston girl remoyeth her specs
And freezeth her lips with smile,
And she sticks out her mouth like an open book
And cheweth her gum the while.
The Waco girl says never a word,
And you'd think she was rather tame
With the practical views of the matter in hand
But she gets there just the same
The Fort Worth girl, the pride of the world,
In her clinging, mourntul way
Absorbs 1t all with yearnful yearn
AS big as bale of hay.
The Dallas girl gets grip on herself,
As she carefully takes off her hat,
Then she grabs up the prize in freazied way,
Like terrier shaking rat.
The Santone girl so gentle and sweet
Lets her lips meet the coming kiss
With rapturOus warmth, and the youthful souls
Float away on the sea of bliss.
We have sung of the girls who kiss
And 1t sets our brain in whirl,
But to reach the height of earthly bliss
You must kiss an Austin girl.
With your arms round her waist, her face up
turned
In q sweet, confding way,
You care not a cent for the whole wide world,
Though the winds through your whiskers play.
And closer together your lips do draw
Till they meet in rspturOus glow,
And the email boy behind the Capitol fence,
Cries gallagher! let her CO."
["The author ~ sends the above with priv
ilege to publish. Thanks. 1t has a familiar
sound, but not being bad of its kind-she goes.l
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
A Veterans Protest.
AUSTIN, March %, 1889.

AUSTIN, March %, 1889.
To this Editor of the Statesman.
Sam Houston was great man. There
are none to deny. But to establish this
fact | see no reason to defame and leave
stain on the name of his com patriots of
those days. Why speak of Fannin as
having lost life with his devoted band as
an act of disobedience? Why attempt to
stain the fame and patriotism of Rusk,
Bowie, Crockett, Travis, Lamar, Sherman
and Burleson in order to make the monu
ment to Houston higher? History will
show that General Houston never smeled
gunpowder but one time in the defense of
Texas, while all the other galaxy were in
continual service. All were equally patri-
otto; all had the same end in new; all
shine alike. Do not mar a page of fact
that is bright with the darkness of fiction.
Let men of those days tell the tale.
Hero worship and crocodile tears is not
relished by a
Texan OF FoRTY-FIvE YERRs.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

Interchangeable for the next two years
regardless of what humiliation of values
and wrecking OF trade it may engsnder
and precipitate. The time is critical, is
big with portent of evil to both the peo-
pie and the railroads. The STATESMAN
has earnestly advocated railroad leRisla-
ton that would aid the people, while at
the same time not injure the railroads;
aud it is utterly opposed to such radical
sweeping and undOubted menace as this to
both the people and the railroads, and q
hostile blow at the general prosperity of
the state. The house stands between the
people and such law, and to the house
the people turn for protection from its
ineq ualities and expressions.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
DEATH OF JUSTICE MATTHEWS.

Death has again invaded the high places
in our American government, and Fri
day demanded ransom at the hands of
Stanley Matthews, associate justice of the
supreme court of the United States. AS the
grave closes over his mortal remains, let
the new era of a reconstructed feeling of
amity and fellowship between the north
and south bury whatever of unpleasant
ness for Us the past may contain,
To fill this vacant seat what man
in the republican ranks holds such
just claim to preferment as VIM. M.
Evarts, of New York? That state tits true
has position, but minor one in the
cabinet we think it will be further and
substantially remembered by President
Harrison. And there is no legal luminary
among republican statesmen that shines
more brightly than Senator William
M. Evarts. He has the ability requisite,
he is from the right state, and we would
almost with certainty expect the appoint
ment
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
ACCIDENTS" REVIEWED.
The Able "Man About Town
Cheerfully Criticised.

To the Editor of the Statesman.
"When human intelligence is relying on
its own strength it presents a spectacle
both curious and pitiful. 1t is powerful,
yet weak; it elevgtes itself gloriously, like
queen, above nature, and it becomes a
slave that obeys all the whims of the i'm
agination and of the Senses" So it goes
with the author of the article on "Accid-
ents" in last Sundays STATESMAN.
The first reading of those utterauces
provoked merely smile; but it recurred
to my mind that these remarks, which
seemed to be written in fan, might be the
honest conviction of the man. For that
reason will summarily 60 through the
conclusions represented under sections 4
and 3, and show that they are not consist
ent with correct reasoning-thst they are
contradictory in form and expression and
blasphemous in their contents.
Our friend seems to be particularly tri-
umphant about the fact that new boiler
tried and tested by all the known and i'm
proved and modern and latest appliances
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
Captain Hutcheson's Reply to Old
Texan.
To the Editor of the Statesman.

To the Editor of the Statesman.
"a Texan of 40 years" objects to state
ments which appear in my address regard
ing the fall of Goliad and the Alamo,
Without wishing to wound the sensibilities
OF any man l stated what history states,
was not on the witness stand but dis
euSslng the case on testimony furnished
me by unimpeaohed history. The follow
ing extracts will sustain what I stated
and your contributor must impeach the
historian, not me:
THE fall of the Alamo was appreheuded
by General Houston" and "the command
ing officer had been ordered to abandon
ana blow up the Alamo. The orders were
discharged by the officer and treated with
contempt by the general council, who
promising to reinforce him, COMMANDED
the officer to defend the Alamo to the
last. Life Of Houston, PIP
62-63.
"On the 11th of March General Houston
sent another express to Faunin, inform
ing MN that the Alamo had fallen, order
Ing him to evacuste Goliad, blow up the
fortress aud fall back without delay upon
victoria and the Guadaloupe." "Fannir
nelu council of war and sent an expires
20 the commander-in-ch informing
MN that he had determined to defend
uoliad and was willing to meet the conss
9uences of disobeying his orders."-
Cranes History, p. 66.
these facts likewise appear in Yoakumf
history, copy of which is not before mt
and cannot give the pages.
j. @. HUTCHINSON
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

The Houston Post says: "If there be
any merit in the civil service reform idea in
Texas, W. B. Workman ought to be the
next state treasurer. And the Post is
rather inclined TO the opinion that he will
be promoted, as was Comptroller Nc
Call" To this The STATESMAN, with all
its heart, says amen! There is for the
position no better man in the great state
of Texas, none more worthy of the honor;
and his long, efficient and faithful service
in that department makes him in every
way entitled to the promotion.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
THE MARsHALsHIP OF WESTERN TEXAS.

There is little doubt that the new ad-
ministration has made blundsr in the
selection of Fricke, of Washington county,
as the representative of the executive arm
of the federal power in the western dis
trict of Texas. II Mr.. Harrison designed
either to afford an administration of the
marshalship that would command the
respect and moral support of the people
of this district, or to build up and
strengthen his party in Texas and the
south, a man who il the Washington
county cases turned his back upon
the people of his home to play into the
hands of their enemies would be the last
man to select, yet this is just what the
president has done. Nor could he have
made better play to solidify and still
further enlarge the democratic party Of
Texas. 1t is quite evident that, in the ap'
pointment of Fricke, President Harrison
has been made tool of by vindictivt
politicians in Texas to further the infa
nous schemes of Hoar, Sherman and
Chandler.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
THE PROPOSED MAXIMUM BILL A DE
LUSION AND SNARE.

The day after the senate passed the
Lane-Field maximum freight rate bill The
STATESMAN published it in full, and asked
our merchants to figure on it and deter
mine for themselves the result of such q
measure. Since that day we have for the
most part refrained from commenting at
any length on that bill, since, forsooth,
any opposition to it at that time would,
IN all probability, have been construed as
the result of pique at the failure of the
commission bill, which we had advocated.
Time has been given for the leaven to
work, and the result has been as fully ex-
pected. The cry of opposition to the
measure has come up from all over Texas.
The classification of freights in that bill,
made by men wholly unacquainted
with railroad business, has been
universally condemned. The inten
ton in the bill is evidently two-fold.
First to materially reduce freight charges,
especially on some articles, and secondly,
while doing this, yet to so arrange the
classification that the railroads would not
materially be injured. The result has
been confusion, utter chaos. The lumber
men, cotton congresses and other large
interests are up in arms and it seems the
railroads even have not been protected, as
by the Thousand their employees are petit
tioning against the bill because of the
starvation wages they dccare will folIJw
its enactment into law. In Mikado Ian
gusge, "Heres a state of things"
But, again, the fears of those interested
are augmented and emphasized by the
fact that these rates once fixed must hold
good for at least two years, unless an
extra session of the legislature
is convened 70 relieve them
of this incubus. For this law
has none OF the ameliorating
features of a commission law that would
shape itself to conditions and circum-
stances and fit the needs of the seasons
and crops. There is nothing flexible
about the proposed law; it is absolute and
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

The press of the state has been solicited
ty the Alamo association of San Antonio
to keep prominently before the people
that on San Jacinto Day all over the state
collection will be taken up for the pur-
pose of erecting on the site of the Alamo
a monument suitable to commemorate the
stirring and tragic deeds that will forever
stamp on the pages of history the now
famous word Alamo. committee has
been selected in Austin to collect our sub
scription, and Austin should take pride
in sending to San Antonio as large, if not
q larger, contribution than that of any
other city of like population in the state.
The committee might, in addition to its
general work, interest the school children
of the city in the cause. A dime from
each of them would amount to very neat
offering. If the assistance of their busy
hands could be secured the committee
would have veritable host of co-workers
Our people should remember the cause
and the time.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

rr1E SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY CALL
is handsome eight-page paper. 1t is IS
sued every Thursday, and contains all OF
the important news of the week. CLEANED
from every quarter of the globe, complete
ND to date of publication. 1t contains in
teresting special correspondence from all OF
the principal cities of the world and vast
amount of the best selected and original
general literature 1t furnishes the latest
and most reliable financial news and mar
ket quotations, and gives special attention
to horticultural and agricultural news, and
is in every respect first-class family paper
appealing to the interest of every member
of the household.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

Ex.PREsIDENT CLEVELAND has had four
years of combining, laborious, responsible
work; he is entitled to good long holi.
day. He has lately celebrated his fifty
second birthday, and with some of the
members of his cabinet has started on a
pleasure trip to Cuba. The people of the
nation over which he presided so ably and
equitably wish, with one accord, him a
pleasant and profitable journey.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
THE MORNING GALL.

(sEvEN ISSUES A WEEKI
Is live metropolitan daily. 1t has the
LARGEST CIRCULATION and isrecognized
as being the LEADING NEWSPAPER the
Pacific Coast. Either Of the above papers
We will send postpaid as premium on re-
ceipt of the following subscription prices
tor the combination
The SAN FRANCISCO WEEK CALL and
the AUTH WEEKLY STATESMAN will be,
sent together for one ye for $1.75.
The MORNING CALL aud THE AUSTIN Dali
LY STATESMAN will he sent together for one year
for S13 Terms invariably 10 adv nee Address
STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Austi T-Xas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
CLEVELAND TO JOIN TAMMANY.

This mornings dispatches inform us
that ex-President Cleveland has been
elected member of Tammany, and will
"ride the goat" at the first meeting of the
society next month. Ex.Secretary Villas
will also "climb the greasy pole" in Tam
many hall about the same time. In the
"goat" act the ponderous ex-president will
ne SUPP orted and assisted by ex-Secretary
Bayard, himself an old member of
Tammany. So Mr.. Cleveland will
hereafter be a "Tammany brave" Mr..
Cleveland would have made more friends
by staying out of the wigwam than by
going into it, even If he is honored
with the feathers of grand sachen.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

Business dilemma. A man SUFFERING
with couga obliged to keep his room-9
note 10 pay, no money in bank, and no, n
single bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup to
be had for ten miles. - W
Salvation Oil is safe ana reliable. 25
cents. -
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
THE NEW DIRECTORY.

The General Directory of the city of
Austin for l889-90 was issued yesterday
by its publishers, Messrs. Morrison &
Fourmy, of Galveston. This edition is a
fair sample of the painstaking, complete
and thorough work hitherto done by those
able and accurate compilers of CITY direc-
tories. The book in arrangement, and so
far as we have examined it in typograph-
ical accuracy, is faUltless. The "prefa-
tory" remarks by "the publishers" must
be taken with the allowance due to the
fact of a season last year most damaging
to Austln's commerce, because of a drouth
and later the impossible condition of our
county roads and the loss of trade inoi-
dent thereto. The completion of the new
capitol building and the negro exodus
to California have resulted in taking from
our population many more persons than
noted in the minus column of
the population statistics. Austin has
during the past year kept the even tenor
of her way, without any blare of trumpets
or cry of boom, but with a steady advance
that will tell in time. Her taxable values
have increased and dwelling and business
houses have in numbers been erected. The
ever-present and unenviable croakers to
the contrary Notwithstanding, Austin's
future was never brighter, if her business
and progressive men will only seize the
time and opportunity.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK says his pres.
ent visit to London is of private nature.
II the count is as profound diplomat as
his father, his statement must be taken
with some grains of allowance.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

In Connecticut last week a man vbo
pleaded guilty to killing another man was
sentenced to three months to Jail and fined
81. In Boston last week man who was
convicted of mutilating book BELONGING
to the public library was sentenced to fivs
months in Jail. N " i've
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

JUDGE GRAY, of the United States SD.
preme bench, yesterday announced his
approaching nuptials with Miss Mathews,
daughter of Judge Mathews of the same
court. Gray is 62, the bride-elect
under 30. She will certainly have for
a husband fine old yankee gentleman
who has always been bachelor. But,
when folks get beyond 6O-well comment
Is unnecessary" With one of the supreme
justices about to marry, the daughter of
another to wed an old bachelor and the
daughter of the chief justice himself
run off with freight agents son, it looks
like the supreme court is Eot going into
'inOcuous desuetude."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

The 6agging trust has been reorgan-
lied for the coming season, and, as there
is corner on jute, prices are exI ected to
go even higher than last season. How
long is the country to stand this thingg
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
THE PEOPLES FORUM.

Articles appearing in this column are written
over individual responsibility and are published
as matters that may be of general interest, and
simply to point discussion. The STATESMAN will
not tofe regarded as indorsing anything herein be-
low contained, unless fayorably commented on edi.
torialyI
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

HARRISON appointed a new postmaster
for Rockdale, Tex, yesterday. That and
the selection of Fricke for marshal is
about all he has done for Texas, so far.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

The rush of ofice-seekers at the White
House yesterday was terrific. Looks like
they will take the place by storm.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

caution: Buy only DR.. Isaac Thomp.
sons Eye Water. Carefully examine the
OUTSIDE wrapper None other genuine,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28

Entered at the postofice As second-clsss matter.
ONCE of publication, West Pecan street, next TO
postof1ce.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-03-28
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-07
PITTsBURG. THURSDAY. NOV. :, 1883
PTTTsBURG AND HER GUESTS.

Pittsburg Yesterday welcomed its visitors
from the nations of America, in a variety Of
ways. The columns of the city newspapers;
the official greeting of the committee which
met the guests before they reached the city;
the crowds which gathered at the depot
when the delegates arrived; and finally the
reception at which the leaders of society
and business greeted our visitors, were each
in their way expressions Of the general
welcome which the city extends to the
assembled representatives of the Western
Hemisphere.
Probably both popular gatherings and
formal receptions are by this time somewhat
familiar to our visitors; and to make the
visit leading part of their memories of the
trip, we must rely on features of their enter
tainment which are unique and fresh.
Fortunately in our picturesque and
impressive, as well as utilitarian, collection
of glowing mills, fiery furnaces and flaming
gas escapes, we can show them sights which
will afford a striking contrast to those they
have seen, either In the East or West. If
within the next two DAYS, our visitors can
trial capabilities, as well as of our novel
features, the effort for their entertainment
Will be fully repaid.
Beyond that, it is the fact that the well
come and the desire to entertain are born of
the community of interest and the desire
for unity among the American Republics,
which is the universal sentiment of Pitts
burg. 1t is not alone the desire for an ex-
tension of the opportunities for money
making. The community of feeling grow
ing out of sentimentality in political indie
pendence from Old World rule, extends to
the commercial interest The unity with
which European domination is abjured in
cludes also the mutual reliance to be secured
by the interchange Of products and the
union Of commercial enterprises.
With these views, Pittsburg devotes her.
self to the entertainment of the nations
guests, in the hope that what they see here
will not only interest them, but will prove
conducive to the great purposes for which
they have come to the United States.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-07
WITH AND WITHOUT PATRONAGE.

The ingenious people who deem it incum-
bent upon them to find the true reason for
everything, will be sure to discover half
dozen separate and conflicting ones for the
Republican setback in so many States on
Tuesday. Of course, the first thing to do is
to refer the results to the national admins
tration. That is a convenient habit. 1t
saves thinking. Accordingly, the country
will be told with equal gravity to-day that
the Democrats gained: (1) Because Presi-
dent Harrison and his Cabinet have not
lived up sufficiently close to their personal
and platform civil service pledges; (2) be-
caase they had too much regard for civil
service ideas, and did not turn the Demo
Gratis out of Office with the promptpess which
holy consideration of the eagerness of Re
publican applicants should have inspired;
90 because Corporal Tanner was discharged
from the Pensions Office; (4) because Cor
poral Tanner was not discharged soon
enough; (5) because the President does not
rely on his own convictions sufficiently, but
eOnsults the wishes of the leaders of the
party, in respect to patronage too much;
(6) because the President is not subservient
enough to the leaders. And so the wise
comments will run, ad infnitum.
1t needs but little reflection to realize that
any such attempt to sum up the vote of
Tuesday, and to lay it upon the shoulders
of the national administration is to greatly
exaggerate what at most was but one factor
among many. There were local elements in
the different States which were powerfully
active, and which had little or no reference
to anything which arose at Washington.
That the question of Federal patronage
and the manner in which it has been
handled may have produced dissatisfaction
is very likely the case; but the conflicting
character of the complaints shows that any
course the President might have pursued
would have produced dissatisfaction.
The truth is that the Republican success
of last year, in connection with the reverses
of this year, show, if fanything, that the party
is stronger without patronage than with it.