The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-06-12
VIEW At AUSTIN.

Reagan, M0yiicli aud Storey lead for the
railroad commits ioncrship,. win fc,ytoh
making n good showing. Professor Ken
uai OF Honey Grove seems TO have cap
urci enough instructions for superintcn-
hent of pubic instruction to worry the
lrsseu, incumbent.
Colonel Marion Williams and Colonel
Tone ScrLchins are determined that
Gct rgc tiassoock's ,onogean forehead and
combination breakfast face shall not DIS
appear from the Ninth district popullst
gallery OF living pictures. They are not
gong 10 let him wan ter OFF into the Jun
giles OF independ sntism II they can help
II. II tlry will keep him IN line thcy
are prepared To feed h m large chunKs
thereof. They are Wiling, even, II ~ suS-
rec,cd. that he be put up for congress
again Indeed. i, need not surprise any
one IL the Georgetown statesman IS ie-
inssateo. The 4 ravis county crowd may
tight him II his ramc is presented 70 the
tlgin convention on June ~, but. all the
same. 1t has lost ITS grip and VIII no. be
Very few tears are being shed here over
the defeat OF Colonel Dudley for the con-
eressional nominat!on in the Fourth dis
,r!ct. The truth of the matter is that The
colonel mas In the La, SIX months Sue
coeded IN quccrirg himself all around and
That the popular estimate OF his ability
70 direct party affairs is rather uniavot-
0hlc to him Already It s being sag
sested that 1t would be in order for hin
10 resign the state executive committee
cnairmanship at the coming Stni. con
Ient-on. and LEFT Johnson Is benv spoken
Of as good man 10 put IN his nIacc.
Johnson Is splendid organizer. q hard
worker and quiai and transformations
tpntit man.
4 Occupation tax collections for 1926 arc
rahiiinE out splend.dly. as tn" result of
the diligence of State ReVonur Agent Nor.
rlson and owing to the amendments pro-
viding Tor tho better ascertRinmrnt of
n 'rchan,s' classes passed ny The TNcnty-
fctrth legislature. These amendments 10
iHi. as has ben as.'r'al hy msinformci
writer's for NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. pnpers.
increase the occunauo taN-s. hut simply
pre- vide way for preventing an evasion
classified themselves as " suited thar
own sweat fancy. Now they must swear
to fhoir class. tus. ms Tho plan. ordinary
tax payer swears To hia Inventory. which
makes something Of a difference aud IN
creases the revenue derived from ort nna-
,'on taxes In linrr's county alone IN"
Indications are that about $4,000 will he
corrected TINS year on account of tn" &c
eurai:cn taxes. This is tho lhrsest col
mc,lan OF The End on recort from sny
from rauor heaiars' taxes. which have
neretotore been pretty generally evaied
ihore.
1t is unot1ically given out from the at
rrney generals department that county
commissioners courts have no authority
10 aprroi rate money for the purpose of
paying an agent 10 prepare delinquent
TAX lists provided FOR un,ier the Colouitt
an'. said act charges tho comptroller with
the dlity of getting ont yqid liSts ami the
EQUITIES must walt for IN m uniil his de-
rartn1en' can work them up
Tbn
district pop leaders goes merrily On. For
week or so certain members If the
Giasscock crowd have been shooting il 10
Brother NeIms of Williamson county mud
others on the strength of a letter he is
supposed to have received from pirson
Baird Of Lulng. disclosing a base con
spfacN TO do mp Giasacock. Toby helms
comes back at them With various and sim
drS remarks about people who VIII go to
mans desk ana extract tharefrnm and
ruhlish his private corrcsp oudence for
the ediicaiion of his democratic enemies
| He hurts defiance at his ropulist d.
tractors and Informs them that they can't
| sqnelch him. Altogether the situation ia
,ght iunny ana calculated to stimulate
IN" BUSINESS of viewing one another with
suspicion and alarm, In which the re-
formers have been enseg ed for gone time
&c reobouts.
While none of the Dallas conferences
seriously contemplate being able to com
iess the defeat of the democratic state
ticket in November there IS no doubt bu,
nat they intend to do up several demo-
cratic congressional nominees Already
,ney talk coniden y of ihc defeat oi
| Crawford IN the Fourth and Of Henry in
/ mo seventh. In either Of those districts
/ the democratic margin IS mighty small
ard with confcrencer candidate in tho
j ~ the prospect of populist success would
/ b. pretty bright. In the sixth AMI in the
Eighth the conferences also held tho bal
nnce OF power ard 1t goes without sayinA
that these. too. are willing to let n third
| pariyite go to Washington.
The case of thu railroad commissi IN .or
'fexas w. the 1ous'on and raxas Centiel
railroad. on appeal before tho court OF
civil appeals of the Third supreme Judi
ciai district, mas been sot for trial in DE-
TONER II is to be regretted that said case
Was not disposed of n; the present torn,
AS Ii involves the power of the commission
TO max" rules for the compr ,ssere Of cot
ton in transit, question which shonld
nave been sotil a hnfore tho onarinr of
the next Gotten season as II is closolv
alice to tho important question of cotton
Tho schoasti, census for ,hc present
year, which is beginning to ocmo in gives
Sor Antonio scholastic population of
lll,s9s. houston. asl2. and Galveston sre.
rays eoun'y, excl lsiNc Of .snstiu comes
free school privileges.
Following the example Of tho conferen-
GERS III" pops arc dancing with glce al
what they term the Reputation OF tho
'nhch.ne," eNidsncei by the small attnnd
once at last Saturdays primaries. and
hgging them selves becauae of the in
u'prnaence manifested by the free and
Hntrainmeilcd democracy. As usual Tho
| iops arr on cold tran, vet The facility
win which they can extract consolation
out OF the most barren prospects is " u
ny OF admiration. People who can en-
ttnse over the result OF "A primary election
winch VAS but SHINY attended sltnplv
hocause the opposition was too small and
lns'sniiitant to move the democracy tc
exert Itself, need never he hard ~ for
hope under the most distressing c.rcnm,
stances.
Said n prominent popuist to me re-
| comfy; NO wonder the people are al
| ways broke. Here's the Federal govern