The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-24
TEXAS PRESS OPINION

Navarro News. Lieutenant Governor
jester. Attorney General Crane and j. W.
Blake will likely make the race for soy
uruor IN *.
Hillsboro Reflector: Ruto Hardy can pack
his glowing ouloEy of Cleveland away on
ice until next summer when be may het
1t baptized With Mckinley christening
Ennis Meteor: Ellis county gets back
about two-thirds OF her state aud county
taxes In tuition alone, and yet poor men
with large families Viii Kick about Align
taxes and governmental extravaganza.
Decatur Free Press: Davis. Ashby Tracy,
Wood, Bradley and Williams have become
political warts on the republican party o.
Texas and the question with that parry Is
now how to get rid of these oXcrosceneos'
GAINESVILLE Times; The gold democrats
have issued an address calling upon the
country to surrender and be reorganized
by. them. The 1900 democrats OF Red River
county will take pleasure in being recon :
structed by lG yellow hammers--we don't
think
Ennis Democrat: Texas Farmer takes
the judges OF the supreme court severely
TO task-and rightly. too--for giving the
place Of supreme court reporter to such
an open and avowed opponent Of democracy
as Wilkinson. The Farmer shows Wilkin-
son TO have been one Of the iercest enemies
that the democracy of the Fifth district had
to deal with in the late election.
Williamson sun: The recent appoint
ment OF Judge Wilkinson of Denison. as re
porter of the supreme court ut Austin. has
caused an ,iproar among The democrats Of
the whole State, and especially In North
Texas. Judge WILKINSON opposed the en-
tire democratic ticket in the late campaign
and made some very bitter speeches against
what he was pleased to term BNanism.
Kyle -Vindcator: Why did the
News single out Texas. Mississippi and
louisiana upon which 20 unload It's venom.
slandcr and force hills? rhC states Of
Maine California and Nebraska would also
vote for president the News no doubt
thinks that they are perfectly honest and
need no force bills, while the South must
manhood and citizenship lagrantly insult
ed.
Grecnyille Herald AS the Dallas News
has virtually announced its opposition to
the reelcction of Hon. K. Q. Mills in 1888,
aud It's opposition to such men as jim Hogg.
Joe Bailey, the senior an the Junior Cul-
berson, is well understood we may look
any time for the News TO declare for either
Colonel Cuner OF Galveston or SAM l7,anna-
gan OF Flannagan's Mill Gregg county.
Such allegiance would harmonic with the
present position of the News and its re-
cent affiliations
Kaufman Sun: The Twenty-ifth legs
lature should not fail to amend our pres
ent assignment law SO as TO shut off pre-
terrci creditors. When a man fails all
creditors should have an equal showing.
\ f,w preferred creditors SHOULD not be
permitted to stand IN with the insolyent
and gobhle up what he has and beat all
other creditors ONT of their honest claims.
Such a luW MS Np now have Is cloak for
dishonesty. aud frequently enables parties
who fail to make preferred creditors o.
parties to whom they do not owe a cent
thus swnlling honest creditors ont Of
their just debts. No law should be party
to crime or shield such dishonesty.