The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-27
JUNKETING TOUR.
Judge Gerald has Something TO
Say About
REAGAN's TRIP TO MEXICO AS A
GuesL of Railroad Attorney simon
Sterne-A Prediction he Made Dur.
ing the CanVass-A COmmissioner
with the FanGOds and N Descrip-
tion of the Dread Disease.
The following is clipped from The

The following is clipped from The
Day
r the Editor of the Day;
AUSTIN, Jan. 23.-Chairman Rea
gan and wife left for tour through
Mexico in company with Mr.. Sterne,
the New York attorney of the East
Line bondholders. They have a
special Pullman aud will see the City
of Mexico in style.-DAllas News.
Some will remember chat when a
candidate that l several times express
ed fear that before two years elapsed
after the adoption of the amendment
that on some sunny summer morning
a special car of certain railroad mag
nate would be seen hurrylng across
the prairies, and through the fields,
bearing the commissioners, as guests
of the agnate, down to Galveston, to
enjoy week or ten days of free boats
and beach rides, free hotels,
etc, and that possibly some hon
est granger, plOughing his fields,
would stop his mule as the train roll
ed by, and lean upon his plow, and
when TO his nose WAS borne the aroma
of the fine Havauas smoked by the
guests as they lolled hack on the lux
urious cushions, that he nj ght posi-.
bly, exclaim as he caught the sniff of
the smoke, "Ah! lobe, | fear this is
all of our SHARE" But l assured
them if such should be the case, he
would still have another interest 10 it;
that the same breeze tina. bore TO he
and lobe the fragrant smoke would
play with the narrative of bis shirt, as
it struck out through the rents of his
bree ches, which he had made tOiling
with lobe to contribute his share of
the salaries and other expenses of the
three political Moses that were to lead
as out of the railroad wilderness.
The excursion has come sooner and
gone further than expected. Now,
who is Simon Sterne2 He is the
general attorney of the Missouri, Kan
sss and Texas railroad, railroad in
which Jay Gould is largely. interested
and he is generally called Jay Gould's
attorney. 1t is said of this Simon that
when boy, his father sent him to
S4.uay school, where he learned the
Lords prayer, which, on repeating to
his father, when he came to that part
which says "give us this day our daily
bread" the old man stopped him and
said, "Vat ish dat, Simon2" Simon
repeated it over, and the old man
looked at him sternly and said: Isl.
mon, strike him for pie" and Simon
has been striking for pie from that day
to this. This is the same Simon that
had that convenient cold tha* you
may remember of, in connection with
the International and Great
Northern investigation, and it's
dollars to dimes that somewhere on
the road during this trip, that Simon
will sit down and musingly say TO
himself Business is business, but
Jay Gould's attorney is the most in
nocent man on the road" IL law
yer accepts fee from a railroad in the
ordinary course of his business, there
are certain crowds In this state forever
bowling at him, Corrupt and bought
up railroad attorney" If a newspa
per editor who is so poor that he is
glad to get females and stale beer fol
his ratious, does not agree with the
gang, again comes the howl of the
"venal and subsidized press" Mr.
Reagan, the chairman of thej railroad
commission Of Texas, can go with hi