The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-08-13
GALVESTON COUNTY POPS.
They Are Not Camping on the Island
for Their Health.
EVIDENTLY AFTER THE WHOLE PIE
A Negro Wcmsa Seriously Wounded By
Another NsEress-A Young Man 10
Charged with Burglary.

dc wn ~ prc,inct commissioner, and have
m ade up their minds TO crrral every office
IN the gift Of the people. II such u thins |
lies within their power. For many years
the local offices In the city and county
OF Galveston have been regarded as non
rartdsan and no party ominations to I'LL
them have been made. each candidate run
n.ng on his own hook and his own merits.
Already a number of candidates for the
various county offices have announced
subject TO tho will OF the voters and thu
idea of the populists seems to be That -
c, ncentrating their strength uron thett
own nominees and presenting one cahd!.
date for each office. with the full strength
of the party behind him. as against the
scattered forces of democrats and linus.
per dents the populist ticket may win.
This was the suggestion offered by the
leaccrs to convert the anti-county ticket
rank and lille, but gone of Them woald
not accept 1t for tho reason that they had
Already pledged themselves to some othct
of the independent candidates ana wanted
10 be lett free TO exercise ene,r pe' s ,h,,
local Offices Hence the bolt Of a numpor
of the delegates from the county couNen-
ton held last night. But the eal pur.
pose Of the leaders was no. 50 much 10
obtain possession of the local OFFICES AS "
get "A greater number of workers III the
neld for the State ANA congressman
Noah Alien, who is the popuhst nominee
| for congress In this district against Hon
James H. Shplburne. engineered the coun.
| IS ticket DIAL through the convention. lie
| enid in oxplanation that every candidate
| for a county office would be- supposed tu
have from fifteen TO 100 friends who would
| get out and work for his election, and AT
| Tire same time whoop up tho state and
| congressional ticket. whereas II there were
| no county nominees many OF these p"nu'
| list votes might tot be polled at all. Mr.:
| Allen has not accepted the congressional
nomination OF his party a. an empty
| honor He has gone into the race Win
strong hope OF success and lac Is reaching
| for the pcrsimmOn.
| u rs highly probable mat X. ~, hawley
will SHE his castor into the CONGRESSIONAL
| ring as the republican nominee aud that
| lie VIII get considerable support from the
ma, Wah mf "a Sir q E"Ts fow i"s
and some more of the same sort beside
for it is confidently believed that MIR.
publican votes, that could not he diverted
| to Mr.. Rosa1thal With the ;opulst vote
solid and the democratic vote divided Mr.
Alien probably believes he will carry Gal.
weston county by good plurality. This
county. as every one knows is somewhat
urrls liable. having orco soup for Tom
nee for congress and very nearly gone
against Sir Miles in the last election,
Everybody KNOWS what saved the county
to Cnowlry in TINT campaign All the local
and so was the tide OF public sentiment
until The Post came to the rescue
1t Is not proper to say anything par
ticuarly about MIR. Hawlcy or his poss.h
chances lnasmuch as he II not yet IN the
that hc will LEARN how sharper than a ser.
points tooth Il Is to have the calcium light
, OF criticism turned on. the candidate foi
p,llic suffrage wher the aforesaid is ex.
; cessivey sensitive to criticism and also
how many votes are promised before Az
.lec'ton. which do not .matcrtalige IN tbs
count. Everybody knows that the
strength of the sound money democratic
issooit has weakened very perceGi'hy sine
weaker and may almost entirely disappea
when brought face to face with the choice
between republican and democrats
neem,in;e for congiess i, .n,,,- ,o ,n,,....
eion that this Is TO be popilltst year Il
Texas and that he VIII ride iniao congress
birne drops in on him and touches up tn,
animals ne may find that he has simpl.
he n jumping at conclusions.
| One thing Is certain. Galveston city on,
, county ca,, 20, Rive majority Of In
votes TO both Allen and IIow'lcy and MAJ
give. the hack Of her hand to both of then
are more unpopular fere than the fusion
J of sound money democrats and republican,
and the infection OF rartylsm into local az
!. fairs as nominations for county officer
Is called.
NEGRO WOMAN SHOT.
, This afternoon two coorcd women Nv
ing in tho east end got into y scrap On,
, ms a result one OF them is Mt the Seal
a hospital in a critical condition. What tn
( row started about has not developed. bu
the first blow was procipita,ed by Motti
Butler calling Ella Butler name not sug
= gesttve of chastity. After n short roun
/ with fists and finger nails. in which tn
: Butler woman got little the best of ne
antagonist, Ella went for her gun,
@ | revolver OF the bulldog variety, and iife
two shots, each of which took eTs,; J.
i the Butler woman's anatomy The wound
. cd woman was taken to police nca1uuar
. ters by her husband and complaint lodge
: AGAINST her nssailant and was then con
J veyed 10 the Sealy hospital. where n
q examination SHOWED three wonads' w
bullet one OF these was IN the left aid
of the face and another In the lett tid
Of the neck. The other wound was J
blade. and Is the most rerlous. IN" ~
!, tending physicians were not deHifci nj
: evening whether The bullet had renetrat
q ed the lung In which case The woun
would be considered very dangerous.
I The shooter, Ella Malone, was arreste
d within n few minutes after the nhco,in
a and the pistol was found. with Two chan
II hers empty charge IF assault TO fnul
der was entered against her. and pr
l.. lminary hearing VIII probably he had b
Il fore the recorder tomorrow lnornIhs'
q A BURGLARY CHARGE.
= bury was brought here from Houston tn
morning to answer n charge before II
= examining court growing out OF bu
" -icus a-ansacta5n. Several days az
n Sir md Mrs Roper. the former an ope
" ifor n the Western Union Telegraph o
il de-. IN home for II few hours, and wine
no r,,us-ned found that a number
/, af,',.ies OF jewelry had been stolen fro
= iGe house In their absence. Including
, pair Of hand cmbr ,idrrco suspendcrs, q
naaRt a
very hana mo pair OF snspen n,a1o S snl
E, ,.ss,,s' ,,,a he nailed them. The neg
y, fea M got ne susgs1ds fl fr9 gbo You
N LA "a uousion by the police of thu
u civ, afnoers whtiiessy ana Jo,oin WEI
h !, i,aho SINGS the arrest several of Il
slcn srtistes hsye been ~ r e., 7,
o. arrost ~, IN DESCRIPTION tclephoned fro
to Galvsston. tho name ~ the Eers2n want
Of not b,dng Known here at the time.
v cLEFERLY TRAPPED.
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