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bad way. Not only is the personal
unpopularity of its leaders and of its
chosen chief driving it to the DENIM
ton bow-wows, but it is fast being
left without any ground upon which
to stand. A state of things which
has been for the past few years rap
idly approaching a climax is now
near fulfilment. The campaign OF
education on the tariff issue has pro
crossed to such an extent and is TAX
ing in so many converts from the re-
publican side Of the house in its
broad sweep, that the republican
party is beginning to feel that it is
standing on sinking ground, or is on
sinking ship, and like rats must
soon desert the vessel, else all hands
be drowned. Senator Allison, of
Iowa, and Senator Aldrich, of Rhode
Island, have already cut the bridges
behind them on the tariff issue and
have taken broad position and adj
vanced ground. The indications are
growing stronger that the republi-
can party will be compelled to re-
wise its position and to change front
on the tariff, and as an Offset and in
order to prevent themselves from
losing prestige, symptoms have al
ready developed of desperate effort
that will be made to revive the
bloody-sh;rt issue to make it serve
as ground ON which to stand. In all
its efforts, however, to revive the
bloody shirt the G. o. p. will simply
gnaw a file. The people of the
country are growing tired and dis
gusted at the cant, fraud and decep-
ton of the party of hypocrltical pre-
tentions, which has never a word to
say nor syllable of protest to utter
against the brutal outrages against
colored people in the North, but
which sets up a jackal cry and
hypocritical howl every time little
race disturbance occurs in this Sec
tion-all for the sake of making po-
itical capital. And not only have
5he people of the country dropped
IN to the methods of the G. o. p,
out, as Senator Butler, of South Car
ol1na, remarked the other day in re-
by to ssHonest" John Sherman, who
IT'LL claims to have a great love and
'olicitude for the ''nigger," notwith.
that he accused Alger of
'uying up his pledged ''nigger'
rotes from the South in the last ma
ional republican convention, when
,ver the Old Bill Chambers, Sher-
mans and Hears and Jayhawker In
yallses attempt to carry out their
hreat of another crusade upon the
outh through supervisors and Uni
ed States marshals for the purpose
# dominating elections they will
lave raking fire in the rear from
he men of the North who have car
led their millions of money and
heir interests into this section since
he days of reconstruction. To the
:. o. p. well may be it said, "cease
ipers, you gnaw file"
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APPLICARLE TO TEXAS

The court OF General Sessions OF
Edgefeld county, South Carolina,
convened on the Bird instant, and the
grand jury was duly organized in
the usual way and went to work.
After completing its labors the
grand jury adjourned, and in its
final report to the court made one of
the most severe and bitter arraign-
ments and the most caustic attack
on the court, of which it was part,
and of the court of last resort in the
state on account of the failure of
justice, that grand jury was ever
known to make. But while very bit
ter and caustic, we not only have no
doubt that it was merited, but make
bold to assert that it would have
been to a large extent applicable to
the laws and courts of Texas.
Among other passages the report
contained the following: eve find
in our jail prisoner indicted for
murder, who has been there for the
most part of four and a half years.
He has been tried five times. The
expense of keeping him and having
these trials has been a heavy tax
upon our county. The failure of
the law to punish him, if guilty, re
fleets upon the administration of
justice. The failure of the law to
give him hissfreedom, if innocent, is
an outrage upon the liberty of the
citizen. The flimsy pretexts upon
which the supreme court grants new
trials, thing unheard of before the
war, an innovation which we firmly
believe is the source of all lYnching
which has occurred in our state, can
not be too strongly condemned.
The state suffers in the estimation
of the world; the taxpayers suffer
from the e2 pense thereby entailed;
civilization suffers because every
lynching dethrones the law and
holds it up to contempt" The re-
port goes on to assert that the fail
IRE of the law to vindicate itself
casts obloquy upon it's administra-
lion, and that the granting Of con-
5inuance after continuance upon the
slightest pretezt and pretense weak
ans justice. There can be no gain
saying of the fact that every word of
he above is true, and that much OF
he blame of the farclcal administra-
ion of justice and the travesty of it
'ests on the shoulders of the su-
oreme court and court of appeals in
heir apparent eagerness to grant
lew trials on inadequate grounds.
The reversal of the case of The
State VS.. Drake, for the brutal and
,owardly murder of Prof. S. T..
5uinn at Waco, because the indict-
nent charged him with the murder
If L. S. Quinn and the proof showed
hat it was S. L. Quinn is a
ase in point. There wasn't
shadow of a doubt in the
mind of judge or jury or in the
minds of the members of the su-
irene court or of the sheriff of the
ounty, the clerk, jailor or anybody
lse Immediately or remotely connec
ed with the trial of the case OF the
out of the Judgment of the
curt, that S. L. Quinn and L. s.
fuinn were one and the same indi-
idual. The ground for reversing
he case on a frivolous technicality
7as wholly inadequate and made a
lockery of justice.
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party may proclaim its sentiments of
sectionalism, disunion, fanaticism,
and hate till doomsday. All patri-
otto citizens of America must con-
cede. that it would be national
blessing to bury the republican par
ty, on account of its sectionalism, if
for no other reason.
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THE SURPLUS PUZZLE.

The Washington Star, a republi-
can paper, says that the question,
what to do with the surplus in the
national treasury, will soon be
changed to what to do to get anoth-
er surplus. If the Star had said
that the latter question was what
practically puzzled the G. o. p. at
present it would have come nearer
an exact statement of the case. It
is true that the treasury has not yet
become exhausted, but at the rate at
which it is being looted and squan-
dered an actual deficit is SO near at
hand that the contingency has been
already anticipated and the repubI1-
can party is racking its brain trying
to arrive at some method or expedi-
ent by which it may get the funds
in the treasury to hold out until it
can redeem its party pledges to the
Pr@torian guard and other assail-
ants and boodlers with designs upon
Uncle Sans revenues. It is now
pretty generally conceded that the
Blair educational bill will fail to pass
the senate. AS it has passed this
body at least two or three times
heretofore, the most probable expla-
nation of it's failure to pass again is
because it would make too big a
drain on the treasury. As enormous
as the surplus was, yet at the close
of single year Of the present adj
ministration the threatened deficit is
SO apparent that already several
schemes to raid the treasury will
have to be abandoned. And as the
Blair bill is only an ezpedient to get
rid of the surplus, and as it can be
got rid of quite as easy without this
project, and as the Southern states
would get most of the money, this is
why the Blair bill will fail. Auto
crat Reed and his majority have car
ried things with a high hand. The
only object which they had in view
in unseating democrats was to get a |
good working majority in order that |
they could not be baked in their
raids on the national Golfers. But,
now, that their hands are unfettered
and they have free access, they are
yet practically long way from ac-
complishing their purposes, and the
question now is how large will the
deficit be in the treasury. The sec
rotary of the treasury puts the rev.
enues for the fiscal year at 1886, 1000
900, and the republican committee
on appropriations says the expendi-
lures will be S442,099,110. This is
said to be an exceedingly conserva-
tive estimate of expenditures.
Speaker Carlisle enumerates few of
the heavier expenditures to which
the republican party stands pledged,
which includes the repeal of the law
limiting arrearages on pensions, in
volving S471,000,000, the service
pension bill, amounting to S144, 1000
900, the pension for war prisoners.
S10,000,0O0, increased pensions for
loss of legs or arms S25,000,000,
pensions to army nurses S4,000,000,
making in all an addition of S704,-
100000 to the S10O,OO0,OO0 already
paid in the way of
pensions. "Gone, but not forgot
5en," is the epitaph which the New
York Star says the people will write
1T the congressional elections next
all in memory of the treasury sur
plus that was.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

TIE BANNERS contemporaries al
most without an exception are dis
posed to regard the report of the
tremendous hailstorm in this county
on the night of the 9Th as Mulhat-
ton yarn. Pity they couldn't have
been here to make few wagers.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

TIE Cleburne Chronicle is no SEN
timentalist, but is simply possessed
of mass of good hard sense, in
proof of which the Chronicle says:
"The whipping post for wife-beaters
is the best medicine before finally
impounding them with the dogs
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The present municipal campaign
is believed to be the quietest ever
known in BRENNAN. Only two weeks
remain until the election and nobody
has been mentioned for any Office
yet except the present incumbents.
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The BANNER joins in with the late
grand jury in congratulating the
good people of Washington county
on the material decrease of crime in
our midst.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

GROVER CLEVELAND is always say
ing something as full of wisdom as
an egg is OF meat. In an address
recently in Chickering hall in the in
terest of the circulating library, he
asserted that, man or woman who
never read and was abandoned to
minimizing torpor, or who allowed
the entire mental life to be bounded
by the narrow lines OF daily recur-
ring routine of effort for mere ex-
could not escape condition
of barrenness of mind which caused
the decay of individual contentment
and happiness.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

SOMEBODY has sent Mrs. Harrison
a neat blank-book with the re-
quest that she make note in it of
all the bright sayings of Baby
Mckee.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

SINCE the democratic cyclones in
municipal elections in New York and
Iowa the straws continue to show
which way the wind blows. The
democrats have carried Sacramento,
California.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

Thar recent special edition of the
Houston Herald is receiving a lot of
merited compliments.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

The News-Post war is about over.
The saddest incident of the little
episode was the playing false and
desertion of "Cousin Rienzi" by
"Cousin Can"
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/, The juveniles out at San Antonio
must besa precocious set. A num-
Der of boy burglaries in that ancient
city have recently developed, calcu-
lated to put. professionals to the
blush.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

WIGeNs, the Canadian weather
fraud, is again to the front. a dis
patch from Ottawa says he predicts
tremendous storms, which will sweep
over the globe. Their full force and
fury, he says, will be felt in this
country between the 21st and Odd
tomorrow and Saturday.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

The encouragement of Ohio rules
that because woman is not quail
fed voter she is, therefore, ineligi-
BILE to hold the Office of notary
public.
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The question of deep water at
Galyeston-or in other words of an
adequate appropriation to secure
it's nearer settlement than ever
before, and it is now of little conse-
quence whether Congressman
Stewart opposes an undivided appro=
priation or not, or whether Arkansas
Pass, Sabine or any other point
fights it. All of the large municipal
tiles, boards of trade, county com
missioners' courts & C of the ives
tern and northwestern states have
begun to flood congress with
memorials and petitions in favor of
deep water at Galveston until it is a
national and not local matter.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

JOIN WANAMAKER was afraid to
come South himself, but like many
another coward, hides behind his
wife's petticoat, by sending her
south with Mrs. Harrison.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

BosQUE CITIZEN: There are thous-
ands of men in Texas saying but lit
tie about politics who would like to
see Seth Shepard made governor.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

FRANK LEsL1E's and Judge coz
template senling newspaper ez-
ploring expedition to Alaska next
summer. To prepare place for the
republican party, no doubt.
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The United States senate commit
tee threatens to proceed against the
newspaper men for contempt in re-
fusing to tell how they get their IN
formation of secret session doings.
Contempt is good. The Chicago
News says the scribes cannot very
well help feeling contempt for a
body of men who are capable of
conducting such farcical investiga-
ton as the one in progress.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

The Hillsboro Reflector is a paper
of spirit and is not slow to resent
gratuitous filings. 1t says: ga I'm
ion Labor contemporary declares
that those engaged in amassing
colossal fortunes constitute the really
dangerous class. This is an insult
to the country newspaper men that
cannot be resented in terms too
emphatic"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

WERE not this an election year it
might be thought a little singular
that simultaneously with the gather
ing of the cattlemen's convention at
Fort Worth last week great many
politicians and ofiee-seeking gentle
men were seen on the streets.
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BLAIR is growing crazier than
ever in regard to his educational
bill He proposes to make it per
sonal matter and threatens to leave
the republican party if the measure
is defeated.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

MR. GLEN WEIBUscH says that the
prospects are fine for a good peach
crop yet.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

California can fruits at Galveston
prices, less the freight
at SLOAN & Hopes.
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For the benefit of any member of
the association who may desire to
attend the annual reunion of the
Texas Veteran association at Fort
Worth, which takes place April 20,
if they will send their names and
the station from which they will
start ION the line of the Houston &
Texas Central road and its branches)
to Capt. Andrew Falkner, general
and ticket agent at Hous-
ton, he will send them complimenta-
ry round-trip tickets. Free trans.
portation over the Central includes
all veterans who served Texas in
1887 and prior to that time, and en-
braces also the wives and widows of
veterans.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

HoN. Bill STzRRETT, formerly ed
itor of the Dallas Times Herald, and
at present Washington correspon-
dent of the two Newses, is said to
have taken a great fancy to bicycle
riding.
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Who knows but that the investi-
cation as to how the newspapers OBJ
tain their reports of the executive
sessions of the United States senate
will result in secret sessions being
abolished.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

The Jim Williams murder case has
been set for trial in the district
court on the 2Sth.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

EASTER Sunday will fall on the 9th
of April this year.
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JUDGE GERALD, ex-postmaster at
Waco, didn't meet with much en-
couras cement in his recent diatribe
against Senator Coke. The judge is
old enough to have learned by this
time that the public concerns itself
very little about peoples private
grievances.
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HE sentiment in favor of the pri-
mary system in elections is growing.
The Bryan Pilot says that the peo-
pie of Brazos county are strongly in
favor of it.
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The Victoria Review hoists the
name of Hon. VIM. Henry Grain at
its masthead as candidate for re-
election to congress. In this selec-
ton the Review shows better taste
and judgment and leads less for
lorn hope than in its choice for gov
ernor.
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TIE Nacogdoches Chronicle says
that Judge Jas. l. Perkins is likely to
succeed Col. Martin in congress at
the next election What has Col
Martin done that he should be SO
soon sheIveda
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

ILLINOIS STATE REGISTER: There is
a good deal of humbug and claptrap
in the "old flag business that is cal
culated to bring the stars and stripes
into contempt. rather than to 'incul-
cate patriotism in the rising genera
ton A tapping of bunting in the
faces of the people viii not do half
as much toward the promotion of
love of country as can be secured by
the enactment of good, wholesome
laws bearing equally on all classes of
citizens, and the honest and econo-
mical conduct of public affairs.
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Houston Post for showing DISPOSE
ton to defame the Rev. Sam Jones,
which the Dem. & Rep. says shows
either lamentable lack of informa.
ton or of prejudice, and that the
Post ought to be ashamed-espec-
tally since such citizens of Tyler as
Hon. I. R. Bonner, W. S. Herndon
and Judge Felix McCord united in
pronouncirg Sam a grand man.
Probably the Post has never seen or
heard the evangelist and only knows
him by reputation. If so the Post
should bear in mind that even his
satanic majesty is said not to be
quite SO black as he has been
painted.
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Roger Q. Mills is the leading dem
ocratic representative now in CON
gress, except J. G. Carlisle of course,
and his elevation to the senate vii!
be but the just reward of honest and
merited statesmanship.-Bryan Pilot
The BANNER enters the field of
prophesY and hereby takes snap
Judgment on the other papers by
predicting that Hen. Roger @. Mills
will occupy seat in the cabinet Of
the next president of the United
States.
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WHILE sanitation as a general
thing is good for city, the Memphis
Appeal truly remarks: ''DIany city
is retarded in its progress by being
too healthy. A few largely-attended
funerals are sometimes of infinite
advantage" There are plenty of old
mossbacks in every town OF any size
who not only refuse to contribute
themselves to the good of
the community in which they live
but actually attempt to retard its
progress by ridiculing the efforts of
others. The best service such fell
lows could render their countrymen
would be to go off and hang them
selves. But as they are too mean
for that, the next best thing would
be for cholera plague to carry
them of.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-03-20

Nor long ago the Dallas News
offered present of fine revolving
bookcase to the newspaper man who
furnished it the most practical and
original suggestion for improving
the paper. The premium was won
b. MIR. Frank CASTOR, of the Gran
bury News. The Hillsboro Refec-
tor says that the Fort Worth Ga
zette ought to offer prize for an
original editorial idea.
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The New Orleans Times-Democrat
is noted for being very staid and
conservative paper, hence it is lit
tie bit surprising to see it assailing
an old established institution in such
manner as the following: ''The jury
system, as at present constituted and
worked, is a survival from other days
that should be abolished. It is not
now, as it was for centuries, the pal
lsdium of personal liberty It's chief
function now is to cause the admin
istration of justice to miscarry."
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The Boston papers are making
war on the hand-bill method of adj
vertlsing, on the same ground pres
ented by this paper several times.
To scatter advertising dodgers broad
cast filters the streets and endangers
the lives of ladies driving in buggies,
whose horses are apt to become
frightened by the flying dodgers. 1t
is nearly always the patent medicine,
tramp and fakir classes who do this
kind of advertising, and there ought
to be city ordinance against it, as
there is in many cities and towns
throughout the country.
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most historic characters in Texas,
dating from the events leading to
the late civil war. He was born IN
Halifax, Nova Scotia, immigrated to
the South early in youth and finally
located in Texas. He was an emf
nent lawyer and for awhile graced
the supreme court bench. While
not an ofice-seeking politician,
Judge Devine was a nestor in local
democratic councils and was looked
up to and beloved by the different
factions within his own party. He
was modest, retiring and unassum
ing, and while he could have proved
a power in state politics, as he was
not an official aspirant he contented
himself with giving good advice to
the members of his party at home.