The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
THE TEX AS PRESS.

| The L0cknarC Register says lnat
"Hogg is the best governor Texas ever
had" Poor old Texas.
The Gatesville Star pauses to in
quire: "What is it that Geo. Clark
don't want?" The good will of the
Tyler pie biters.
The San Antonio Express wants the
merchants to give their clerks Sat
urday half holiday. The Express be-
lieves in rest, and lots of it.
Editor Fred B. Robinson and bride
are on bridal tour and Marcellus
Foster is temporarily controlling the
destinies of the Huntsville Item.
The Farmers World, the new paper
born of the throes of the Texas ALI
ance says There is great war
being waged and the people will come
out victorious" And of course I'VE"
are the people!
The San Antonio Express kind y in
vites people who doubt the effective
ness of the New York method of hust
ling homicides from the here to the
hereafter to take a seat on its motor
aad look pleasant.
The BRENNAN Banner commends
the Indiana whitecaps for trouucing q
man who whipped his sick wife.
Seven to nine that when the woman
gets we'll she will appeal to the au
thorities to arrest her avengers. The
man who interferes in a family diff
Guilty has never made a careful ana
lysis of female human nature.
The Record saws that a "partv OF
Tyler people have gone out deer hunt
ing" Large game must be getting
scarce. Time was when Tyler man
would have blushed himself to death
if caught cunning for anything small.
er than a railway receivership or an
unearned seat in the United States
senate.
The Llano Iron City News says the
weather is now u part OF the war de
partment.' One would suppose so
from the way it is knocking people
out, but such is not the case. Your
esteemed Uncle Jerry Rusk is now in
control of the hiding place of the hail,
the storehouse of the rain and the nest
of the cyclone.
The Kyle Star-Vindicator says:
THE one-gallus gyascutis who is so
anxious to condemn Governor Hogg
for asking and demanding that the
laws be enforced and the red. handed
murderer and thief meet his deserts
ought to 90 off and pound worthless
sand into rat hole. He would be in
bis proper element Editor Lee j.
Rountree evidently graduated in Aus
tins afternoon school of journalism.
The San Marcos Free Press does not
STATESMAN and refers to Austin as &c
sleepy old town. Major R. s. Carver
is evidently hard to please. Will thi
distinguished journalist please take
day off and tell Austin and TIL
STATESMAN what they shall do to b
saved? In exchange for this courtes
the sleepy old town" will perhaps Is
sue bonds and purchase a half inter
est Majah Carver's gall.
The Graham Leader came out OF
the half shell last week, but founC
room to remark that "some of oul
thinking men ought to win Gibb
prizes. Let's organize a club anC
start the ball rolling. Who know,
how much craftsmanship may
Turk in the brains of Graham citizens?
Ii there is ten-year old boy il
Graham who cannot suggest q better
financial scheme than that put forward
by Barney, his father should appren
tice him to barber.
The Waco Day quotes the Houston
Age as saying that Manager Watson
of the Post is a Kentuckian, and adds
that Uncle Dan'l is mistaken. Wat.
son." says the Day, lis from West
Virginia, where politics is the ambition
of every man. hoop poles and ginseng
the chief staple in every market, and
mountain dew whisky the only recog
nized beverage in polite society" Both
the Age and Day are in error. Col.
Watson has to wear black surcingle
of double thickness to conceal that
beautiful cerulean hue which illumines
the front elevation of New Eogand's
glorious sons.
The BoLham News says that Gov.
Hogg has stood firm and solid upon
the platform laid down by him in his
speeches" Gov. Hogg said never a
word in his speeches about an APP
pointive railway commission, nor
building railways with the school
fund. Gov. Hogg has done number
OF things that fail to harmonic with
either 1.-THE platform laid down in his
speeches" or not laid down by the
state convention. But he recognizes
the necessity of an extra session to
correct the blunders of the Legislature,
and the people are inclined to deal
tenderly with him.
Col. Wiley Mangum Imboden of the
Cherokee Herald has not yet heard Of
the primary school recently opened by
The STATESMAN for the benefit of the
Houston Post. Col. Wiley should
hasten to join it. Of course it would
necessitate the establishment of an
other class, as the Post has already
learned that rights of citizenship
suffrage" etc., are matters in which
the Federal government has consider
able to say; also that by the provision
of Federal treaties the subjects of GER
tain foreign countries are permitted t
own land in the United States, thu
same as natives, state laws to the con
trary Notwithstanding. But TIL
STATESMAN will assist Col. Wiley il
every possible way. He will doubt
less soon overtake Brer Johnston, ant
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