Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

SAVANNAH News: Slowly and sure,
ly the colored people are awakening
to the fact that they will not really
be free until they have gained then
political independence. And they
cannot attain that until they cease
to be the property of the republican
party.
MCKINLEY, of Ohio, author of the
crazy-quilt tariff bill, has been re
nominated for congress by his party
Since he was last elected the dis
trict has been gerry wandered by q
democratic legislature, and the major
will find that a reelection isn't quite
so easy as a denomination.
FORAKER is to take the stump in
behalf of the republican party in
Ohio this fall. And, yet, observes
the Kansas City Star, in the very
face of this evidence to the contrary,
there are plenty of people who will
go right on believing when a man is
dead that is the end of him.
The Houston Post says that 'this
years campaign has made some big
politicians out of very small men"
The Colorado Citizen suggests that
the converse of the proposition is
true, that this years campaign has
made some small men out of big
politicians. And the Citizen is right.
PosT-DIsPATcH: Some of the en-
thusiastic friends of ex-President
Cleveland count on his denomination
through the shelving of Gov. Hill in
the United States senate. But will
not the democrat who can capture a
New York senatorship be likely to
capture the New York delegation to
the national convention?
The lily white republicans of San
Antonio have preferred charge at
headquarters of offensive partisan
ship against Postmaster johnson,
because he helped the darkeys to
carry the day in the primaries. Did
you ever? What republican has not
been guilty of offensive partisan
ship, and what do they care about
civil service reform?
The Houston age proposes to
offer premium of 100000 for the
most popular bum. 1t is to be fear
ed the Age will repent itself of its
oily before the contest closes. 1t
1as thrown down the bars almost as
vide as its esteemed contemporary,
he Post, and will have to either en-
arge or refrain from publishing the
list Of competitors from time to
line, showing the progress of the
'ote like the Post.
THEY are mixing religion with pol
tics in Arkansas, and it is little
lificult to forecast the result of the
,ubernatorial election, which is to
axe place in a few days. The dem
'cratic nominee, Governor Eagle,
Who is the present incumbent, is
Baptist preacher. The union labor
nd farmers alliance candidate, who
as been endorsed by the repubI-
ans, is Methodist preacher Some
ear is expressed that some of the
oters will be Influenced more by reli-
ious than political affiliations.
Ex-Gov. IRELAND again aspires to
o to congress and is making still
unit. His emissaries are going
round over the district feeling the
ulse and trying to create senti- J
lent favorable to his candidacy.
ohm ireland is the gentleman who t
ecently characterized the popular {
emand for 'Hogg and a commits {
on" as a communist and demagogue I
'aze. He is also the gentleman |
no once upon time not very re-
ote wrote something in opposition r
immigration and said something !
bout elbowing into the sea.
Nor long ago it was announced
cable that the Russian govern s
ent had published an eGict of ban
hment against all of the Jews in d
at country. The United States I
'vernment took cognizance of the \
after and Secretary Blaine cabled a
the Russian government to know I
it was so. A fiat denial and con- .
ADDICTION of the report was the rel 6
1t. Nevertheless it is said to be a