The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-20
TEXAS PRESS OPINION

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Crecnvlllc Banner: what in thunder
were YOU doing down there anyway and
similar unanswerable questions are now
being propounded General huston by
| Northern newspapers.
lanola Waterman; The hercsios Of OPP
ulsm were condemned by the voters IN
nearly every county in the state. Two
| years from now there won't be enough OF
them to get together and aold a oonyen-
| tion.
Colorado Citizen The middle II the road
| popuisjs, the honest men in the party in
favor Of genuine reform. could no; stand
| the dictatnn of that plcnary COMMITTEES,
and Went back to their first love. The old
| democratic party. These kind of people
are hot TO be bartercd and sold ike sheep
vi Canlo Eagle: Just why the Galveston
News should continue to wave tle bloody
shirt that Journal alone can answer. Its
inttmations of corruption and illegal Voting
IN the South are very unD2coming, inas-
much Az the democratic South ras sup
ported tho News in afliuCnCc tor IN nc th n
half n century The only existing oOYrdr-
tion that We know of has been advocated
by the Naws.
san Antonio Light (Rep) There & no
thing in the fusion outcome in The l1Ie
election, III Texas or elsewhere. VIVA the
| republicans or with any other parry. that
! IefNilnrnGS Il reptlltl0n OF the experiment
! as success. There is 10 doubt that in all
state and National elections he greatest
good Is attained by dealing in straight
Boods. Had Texas done this the Twelfth
and Eleventh districts would have gone
| republican.
Ennis Democrat The returns from the
state election show that in spite of th.
fight made on Culberson by the AIstin
| Spokesman, Dallas News ana san Antonio
Express he is running right along with
bNan Future candidates for gubornatoriM
houors on the democratic ticket would do
wen TO make note Of this fact ana uay
these papers to oppose thom Their fieht
on Culberacn has Undoubtedly made bin
votes
LaGrange Journal: The Calves on News,
thank the Lord can never pose agaiu AS
Ia democratic paper. 1t has MAST leraded
tor many years as n democratic journal.
and now that it has gone over to the
enemy there should be general rejoicing
among democrats, What IS true Of it is
true OF the Express and statesman The
democratic party Is now rid II hose sheets
and the Clark Hardy Matock gang. Here
after it will have easy sailing here will
be no Internal dissensions,
trockoit Enterprise; II is nob1ly's tus,-
ness why the heretofore populists of u,us.
ton county left the democratic IA ~. and
it's nobndy's business why they have and
Will come back to the democratic ,arlv
Whatever populsts in other cn,luties may
nave already done or may do m the fG'ttc,
II can he set down as a fact that the hulk
OF the rank and file of that party i'm tiy
county. az well as many Of The leaders.
ali 81 whom are amuuR our cry los. ofu-
ztnS, nave already made up their minds TO
r. align themselves with the demnrr,tic
party. which they have always claimed was
inc party OF their fathers. This is Just as
IL should be, and as the Datarpr ise les
before remarked, in the future there viii
be but one organized party eager Ia pro
mote good local government in Houston
county, and that Will he the dsAo,ratlc
party.
sherman Democrat. A. Il. Wilkinson
of Dcnson, who made speeches in ,hts
county and others during The late cam IN
derounclng Organism as a libel on Amer
form as proclamation t hieyes S1 ana rob- rob.
tcrs to take charge OF hi3 government
ard who supported the vmonErcl fusion
tchtt IN this state against ;he rcrvl,r
nominees of the democratic party VAS On
last Monday appointed by tho slplalnn
court OF Texas as court reporter lie viii
receive a salary of $4,000 a year and is. H.
lowed deputy at omaousatioa to tp
tlNea ny the court Though 'he reporter
mas to be appointed every two yo,rs nv
the court, II is practically n life Office as
the court rarely makes a change Wi,kin
sen Is man, In somo respects, " ,ndoun,-
tu aplIitN. or course il Is not a mans roi-
tiles that alone fiji him for raurt re,,,r,t,
nnt We are sorry all the same :hat our
democratic State supreme court has .,,cn
up man for that position so f,ill Of r7o,.
noiiticnl poison. This true dAnnor,ts rr
cas- VINO elected our supreme court hav.
p'Nh Drought 10 shame by this nranre
ana urloohed FOR selected OF a cour, re-
porter. ''' re-
Colorado stocl,man: l, is 4 fac, Inn, -.
present State administrator ~. -