The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-07
THE WEN AT AUSTIN.


Austin Texas. Octpber e-(Staff Core
spondencc. l-Wajor w. NJ Walton's let
ter 10 Chairman Bradley denouncing fu-
sion and announcing his withdrawal from
the place assigned him on the populist
State ticket is having an effect not at
all 10 the liking of the bosses OF tho
Tracy-Wiliams order, judging from the
haste with which they are rushing into
print to remark that "Old Buck" hasn't
got any influence and can't carry nifty
votes of with him."
If thai is So why was Il tina; at the
Galveston convention those same bosses
introduced and succeeded IN having passed
"a motion 10 dispense with speeches from
tho State nominees for fear that when ii
came 10 Major Walton's turn to tell how
honored he feel; at having been selected
AS The populist candidate for attorney
general he might give expression to his
well known views on fusion with the re-
pubicans and stampede tho convention9
And why was it that Chairman Bradley
found it necessary to deceive him up to
the laso moment by assuring him most
solemnly and most OFFICIALLY" that the
populist State executive committee had
not even dreamed of fusion while adj
been talking about 1t?
As the campaign draws toward the
close. and a. the supply OF rot for dis
sanrinatiou at the cross roads begins ~
run low with ;hc fIsionist stump orator.
their tales Of Voc become more and more
erotcsque and their assertions more and
mon nrennstcrOus
Their latest 'argument. according 10
reports from the rural districts, is that
Governor CUltcr~on ustG M 5000 of the
pc oples money last year 10 pay a gard n
ecutivc mansion, and that his ice bill was
Woo, said hill h-elng paid out of NE state
troa surN. 1t seems iIcredihir that such
assertions could he made before prcsulna-
bly, Intelligent audiences when, aside from
being paipahio eNags"ra7iohs. they can he
50 easily disproNed by IN" appropriation
bill passed by the TwrntY-foursh leslsla-
ture, a copy of which IS accessible TO any
voter desiring one. The very latest COM
paint Of the aforesaid fusion agents. how
ever, is that The administration IL sending
the available school fund TO Washiug ION
In view of the recklessness OF an assertion
which has already characterized TINS cam
naiEu. the above is not so very aston
fishing after all. yet the sGblmity Of tire
gall and the magnificent capacity for ro-
mancing displayed by those who are
springing tsis diversion OF the school fund
story challenges certain degree Of ud-
miraton. Perhaps, though, they do not
know any better, as it may he chat they
are ignorant OF the TACT mat the school
and other funds are not distributed at
the discretion of the governor or any
other head OF Department, bat that the
disposition TO he made OF the states rev.
nues Is fixed by the legislature and that
said revenues are disbursed according TO
certain plain methods explained and laid
down in the statutes.
The recent discharge of n number Of
passenger conductors by certain Texas
railway companies for the reason. as all
legged, that said conductors failed to coll
lect cents a mile from passengers ten
derlng cash fares. has aroused consid-
cradle feeling against the law authoriz-
ing railway companies to charge the lat
ter amount when tickets are not pur-
chased and it is more than probable that
thr rW.rfy-iiftn legislh turc Will b" called
upon TO repeal said Law. In the Twenty
third and Twenty-foul-th legislatures az
tempts were made in that direction, but
each time those who sought 10 Kill the
statute were assured by representatives
Of the railway interests chat II was wei
understood by conductors thai they
could accept cents When the cash was
rendered whenever 1t was found impossi-
bile or impracticabe TO collect cents
and that tho only reason, the railroads
objected to the repeal of the 1 cents law
was that its wipng out would greatly
diminish the sale OF tickets, NOW, now,
ever, that conductors are being dlschars'n
for no, in any case collecting cents, IN
spite of the representations above re-
called. the sentiment IL growing IN fayor
of the laws repeal out OF sympathy Tor
thing but plea SAINT under the circlm-
stances, 1t being a matter of history that
in the past several OF them have been
injured and AT least one Of them Killed by
lect cents per mhe fare. LAP.