Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-07-09
THE SPEAKERSHIP.

1t is announced from Washington
that Hon. R. @. Mills will soon be-
gin an aggressive campaign for the
speakership on the Western plat
form as opposed to the conservative
notions of the Western democracy.
The Austin Statesman, commenting
on the Washington dispatch, says:
when Mills lays violent hands on
these same conservative notions it
will be like a robust he-cyclone rip
ping up a plank turnpike and dri7-
ing it through the pulsating heart
of colored campmeeting. Mills
understands that the so-called con
sentative notions of the Western de-
mocracY' is but republicanism in dis
guise. Being an honest man, it dis
gusts him, and when he tacles it
something has got to tear. Mills is
a born leader, a man of brains, of
courage. He is no good-lord-g good
devil democrat, no dilletante in
craftsmanship. He knows what the
country needs and has the courage
to speak forth his convictions with
out any circumlocution or polite
qualification: He is such man as
an honest, God-fearlng people
should be proud of and feel honored
in following. He is entitled to the
speakership. He has, by faithful
service shown himself worthy of the
highest honors. He is the most
fearless, the ablest champion of
pure democracy now living"
LAST week Rev. Mr.. Crawford,
from New Orleans, a white man of
genteel appearance, wearing the
Grand Army of the Republic badge,
made his appearance at Dodd City,
in Fannin county, and delivered a
lecture to negro audience at night,
after which he went home with a
colored man and went to bed in a
room with two Negro boys. This
was species of social equality some
of the devilish white boys of the
neighborhood did not take kindly
to, and at once determined to resent
it. Some time during the night
they surrounded the house and fired
several shots, then retired and
awaited Developments, the first shots
not having the desired effect they
returned and fred another volley
into the house, wounding one of the
negroes. Crawford took the hint
and hurridly left the building and
made his way to Bonham, where
in a doleful tone he related his stale
of VICE." Served him right.
A DEBAAE on the race question
took place a few days ago at a ses-
sion of the Lake Mohonk negro con-
ference, at Lake Mohonk, n. Y.
The Rev. A. L. Phillips, a Southern
delegate, made speech in which he
urged that Northern teachers, while
maintaining business relations with
the negroes, should confne their
social relations to their own race.
That was sensible ADVICE and that
delegate knew what he was talking
about The whole trouble created
by Northern teachers coming South
to teach the negro, is that by associ-
ating with them socially they incul-
cate in them notion that they are
the social equals of the whites,
which will not be tolerated in this
section.
The Nashville American says
Harry Tracy, the Alliance state lee
turer for Texas, is, upon investiga-
ton, showing up an ugly political
record in Arkansas. It is shown
that he stumped the district for 1.
P. Langley, the opponent of G. R.
Breckenridge, for congress, and
worked in conjunction with the
state republican executive commit
tee. Thus the records and histo
ries of these Alliance leaders con-
front them at every turn.
The opposition to the alien land
law, it will be observed by those
who notice the trend of events,
comes from the money centers where
corporations have foreign stockhold-
ers, who little care for the system
of peonage that ensues where for
eign corporations get hold of the
land by plastering large tracts of it
with mortgages and buying it in.
The Bonham, Fannin county, Al
lance have entered their solemn
protest against the Endorsement by
the Ocala and st. Louis demands,
the sub treasury bill, loaning money
on lands and the demands in re-
gard to that section of said policy
to the final ownership and
control of railways add telegraph
lines in the United States.
The campaign against the accept