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DIsPROP oRTIONATE REPRESENTA-
TION.

The new Constitutions Of South Car
ciina and Mississippi impose such re-
strictions upon the suffrage that the
greatly declined. Yet both States claim
representation in Congress upon a ba-
sis not warranted by the vote actually
registered or cast.
This condition has raised anew the
demand for decrease of the representa-
ton. It Is a logical and just demand,
and cannot be resisted with reason by
those States, since by their own action
they have reversed the rule of repre-
sentation-
It is gratifying to find a Southern
Democratic leading journal not only ad-
mitting the justice Of the demand, but
supporting 1t because it Is reasonable
and just The Galveston News" Tex
as, claims that provision of the Fed
eral Constitution makes 1t mandatory
reduction of the representation OF the
two States named.
The News points out that the
Fourteenth Amendment, after provid-
ing that representation shall be appor-
toned among the States according TO
their respective numbers, including in
the count all the persons in each State,
but not including Indians not taxed,
says:
But when the right to vote at any
election for the choice of Electors for
President and Vice President of the
United States, RepreSen tatiyes in Con-
gress, the executive and judicial Off
GERS of a State, or the members Of the
Legislature thereof, is denied to any
of the male citizens of such State, being
81 years of age and citizens of the
United States, or In any way abridged.
except for participation in rebellion or
other crime, the basis Of representation
therein shall be reduced in the proper
ton which the number Of such male
citizens shall bear TO the whole num-
Der of male citizens q years of age
in such State.
This clause was directly intended to
meet just such cases as those Of Mis-
sissippi and South Carolina 1t was in
tended to guarantee the rights of citi-
ZeaS SuILEO " TEpi piSSrAASdlloA. II WAS
a matter Of common debate when the
amendment was voted upon that the
clause was intended to prevent disbar-
ment of citizens from the electoral
franchise without good and sufficient
cause.
Now, then, IN 1890, according to the
Federal census of that year, Mississippi
had 120,611 white males Of the voting
age, and $50, o,469 colored voters: South
Carolina had 102. .657 white and 1872
$40 colored voters. In 1894 but 3d.
581 votes were cast for congressman
In Mississippi. and in South Carolina
but GO, 645. The average Congressional
district vote In Mississippi was but
6.655. and In South Carolina but
e,o82
Take Il Ia Texas. however. There the
average vote. says the News" was
$4,000. In Illinois $4,000, In Indiana 49,
600: and so 1t runs through other
States where voters are not crowded
out by obstructive measures.
The question Is. 10 It fair for Mis-
sissippf to have a. Representative In
Congress for every 5,655 voters, while
about six times as many voters in
Texas get but one Representative As
a mere question Of fairness, as q matter
of common Justice, is this disproportion
toierable?
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NEWCASTLE'S NEEDS.
One Is Increased Facilities for Ship.
ping Fruit.

A delegation Of citizens from New
castle, Placer County. composed of j.
F. Madden, Robert Hector, w r. Foun-
tain. T. w. Madeley and Fred c. Miles.
called on Acting Division Supertntend-
ent T. r. Jones yesterday for consul
tation in regard to the matter Of in
creased fruit shipping facilities at that
town. which is an important fruit
center.
The subject was discussed quite
thoroughly and the needs of Newcastle
explained by the members of the COM
mittee, and Mr.. Jones informed them
that the matter would be laid before
the railroad company's officials at once
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FOREIGN HEIRS.
Not Eligible to Administer the Had.
wick Estate.

Public Administrator w. B. Miller
has petitioned the Superior Court for
appointment as administrator of the
estate of Mary Hadwick, deceased,
which consists Of real estate In this city
valued at $500, personal property
valued at $1,000 and $4,000 cash in
bank. The hearing is set for Decem-
ber 18th.
Francis Mcmahon of Montreal, Mrs.
HAdwack's hrothAr, and who. Wtth Q
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A Lamp Explosion.

Early last evening a lamp exploded
in F. M. Woodson's printing Office and
Fred Boyle. one Of the employees, was
slightly burned about the face. The
blazing lamp was thrown into the street
and there was no damage done to the
Office.
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DEOEABER

sister, whose present name and resi-
dence are unknown are the heirs, ar
rived here too late to see her before she
died. AS he, not being a resident Of
the State. cannot administer, the pres
ent petition is filed, and the two heirs
will get their shares of the estate all
tha same
The record-union., 1896-12-08

W omen are
notoriously care
less of til cir
h e a1th-even
m ore so t b a n
men. Much of
their trouble
C ON e s from
chronic constipa-
ton. That makes
poor appetite,
biliousness, dys-
pepsia, eau S s
distress after eat
ing, dizziness,
coated tongu e
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Christmas Gifts.

- Finest ground concave and convex
lenses, scientifically adjusted. 50 so.
Gold eye glass frames. So. My motto
Is. Everyone to their profession, and
conscientious treatment to ALL" +. de
Wolfe Hennah, Masonic Temple.
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SaChett Powder.

Solon Palmers and Alfred Wright's,
25c o.; DR.. William Townsend's magic
plasters, 10c, 3 for 25c. at the C. C. c.
Drug Department.
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To Cure a Cold ia Ono Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money If 1t
fails to cure. Zoe.
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Finest ground concave and convex
lenses. mounted In solid nickel frames,
81 80. Gold eye glass frames, So. F.
de Wolfe Hennah, Masonic Temple.
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Here we go again! California is
spoken of as possibly to be honored by
President Mckinley with a Cabinet
chair rendered to a citizen Of the State.
No one seems to know just where the
suggestion originated, but no sooner is
II cast upon the waters Of rumor than
we proceed to name about a dozen fa-
vorite sons for the supposititious honor
and their several groups of friends be-
gin to wrangle. OF course, when ever
that happens, California gets left 1t
is way we have; we do not appear to
be able to agree upon anything among
ourselves where there is common
goal to be attained. The people of the
East have come TO understand this and
have sent Us face about to our business
often enough on that account, to have
taught us wisdom.
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For the finest homemade bread and
cakes in the city. go to The Pacific
[Grsvp Bakery, 62o J street.
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Speaking Of the curiosiues of the late
election, it Is notable that Mckinley
received his vote in States having 235
electoral votes with a population Of
40.343.000 out Of 71,659,OO0. The 172
electoral votes cast for Bryan came
from States whose total votes aggre-
gate 4,500, 700, or an average of 23, $50
for each electoral vote. But the States
whose electoral votes go to Mckinley
polled 100000 votes, or an average of
80, 800 for each Presidential Elector.
So then, 1t required Il, 500 more votes
to choose a Mckinley Elector than to
choose one for Bryan. If the electoral
votes were apportioned according to
the whole number of votes cast, Nc
Kinley would have 315 and Bryan 1872.
In Florida, Nevada, Wyoming and
Idaho there were but 1900 votes to
each Elector, while in Pennsylvania,
Illinois, New York and Ohio the aver
age votes to an Elector were 40,400.
These facts are worth setting forth in
the face of the statement that 10000
votes wisely distributed would have
changed the result In favor of Bryan.
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young who are brought up under the
droppings Of sensational journalism.
The newspaper class Is small in its In
dividual numbers, but the youth of the
land embraces all the hopes of the fu-
ture. If newspaper sensationalism does
not tend to bring on the rising genera
ton with the belief that all men are
liars, thieves and deoeivers and that
women are worse; all business a combat,
all government struggle for spoils, and
all human effort meanly selfish, then the
sensational newspaper press is entirely
harmless. We may not establish CEN
sorship of the press as to its expression
and free thought, but it is pity. a deep
lewdness, Righteousness, vulgarity and
filth in the matters of illustration and
miscellany, outside Of free expression Of
opinion and free criticism Of men and
measures. Fortunately for California
we have not the worst form of sensa-
tionalism and indecency in the press
here, though it Is bad enough. One
needs to take up certain metropolitan
journals of the East these days to find
the grossest examples Of the devilish in
genuity employed to corrupt, debase and
demoralize the readers minds.
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the grossest examples Of the devilish in
genuity employed to corrupt, debase and
demoralize the readers minds.
Some of the New York newspapers
have gone to such extremes lately in the
publication of repulsive and indecent
pictures and alleged humorous illus
trated colored supplements, and out
rageously gross and monstrous perver-
sions of art in the form of analytical il
Illustrations that they have been appro-
priately termed freak papers" One
lies before US now that is so disgusting
and sickening in it's illustration Of
things unmentionable and persons in
decent; so horrible in it's pictures of
crime and it's perpetrators; SO mon
strous in designs intended to illustrate
traits or make comparisons between
horrible things; SO absolutely sickening
and filthy generally as to cause a ten
derloin habitue to blush, and to make
men with any sort Of self-respect left
SlSildi1lSo VI lACII A4CACb IOA AZ
stance, is a quarter page given up to
the grinning skull of a man who at
tempted suicide and failed because a
bullet would not penetrate his head. He
being sti1l alive, despite his attempts,
why present picture of his skull as a
grinning deaths head? A half-page is
given up to can Adamless Eden" in
savagery; another half-page to a pic
ture Of hag stabbing someone to death
in his bed; a half-page to possible con-
fiagration; a half-page to a horrible
tenderloin district out Of fiction; nearly
half-page to the portrait Of a lewd
Chinese woman; q quarter Of q page to
a ghoulish graveyard scene, and the
"evil eye" Of an executed murderer;
picture Of testing death with dog;
pictures of half-nude women Of iu-re-
pute, and so on through list of stuff
too brash to repeat To what taste
must youth daily receiving such papers
be inclined? What must be the result
of such catering?
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-17

The ignorance OF the News is. II possible
worse than its subserviency TO the re-
publican party. 1t should know that such
qualification attached to suffrage has al
ways been held not denial or abridge-
ment of the right to vote. Congress IL
therefore. powerless 10 act In such case. no
matter how much the News In its igno-
rance may insist.
People who are nervous about the ac-
QUESTION of cuba by the United States be-
cause of the peculiar character of the
islands population need not worry over
that appalen. obstacle. Cuba, with the
American flag over IL. would soon have
a million or 50 Americans among its pop
ulat,on and become the richest spot OF
earth on the globe.
"A now farmers organization has been
projected, with Hon. X. L. Smith of Oak
land. Texas. at it's head. The objects OF
the Farmers Improvement society, as the
organization is called. are set forth In the
prospectus as: First. to organize the farm
ers TO ilsht the credit sys,em; second. to
encourage the members 10 improve the
methods of farming third. to teach CO.
operation in buying and selling. fourth,
TO AID each other in sickness and in cases
OF DEATH to encourage those who
own homes to improve them and
those who are homeless to purchase
them. These objects are good and
practical and the order ought to
prove of great benefit TO the farmers.
Branches are to be organized in all the
farming communities.
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HOUSTON, THURSDAY, DEC. II. 1896
push TEXAS TO THE FRONT.

Texas ought to grow more rapidly In pop
ulation aud wealth. or taxable values IMAM
any other State in the American Union. IL
has a richer soil than any other state al
most. North. South. or West as eaeAp
lands and more delightful climate all
things considered than any other PORTION
O. the United States.
why has 1t not Developed IN evtn greater
degree than has been witnessed fcr the
pas, ten years? Simply because liz marvel
Gus advantages and manifold attractions
have not been adequately advertised The
State pendulum swung 20 the other extreme
after ST. experience with reFGbiicanisrn al
Ter the war. and the constitution prohibited
any appropriations foy = bureau o, imniErs-
ton. An agency Of tia, kind unde- good
democratic control now would sc q in
oalculaole Advantage 10 Texas for the next
ten years We ,e,, ,he need Of such STATE
aid daring the Chicago exposition, during
the Atlanta exposition and have telt the
practical POS, -beilun statesman 50 en-
Ne are likely 70 experience lors again
frot1 the ssz.,e source during the Teu1esse-s
es-ie au!al. The later exposition 'tiil De
held IL Tbs rery heart o, the region ~ m
vaica Texas hht Obtained It's largest inrni-
grz's9n AID stlil fruiifgl .ieid 20 cult
YEts.
We are helpless 20 The erteat Indicated
O, covrEs &c l7rg rs present constitutional
provisions r,aDd The necessity. therefore.
fof community ara ludigid.aal effort look
ing 70 the poorIius Of our tens of thou
sands e fertile acres and the further q
psuriua of sur promising cities ard towns.
ii at once apparent Texas could scc0mmo-
dsie 100000 more people without uowd-
ing anybody. aud 20 double The population,
provided ne proportion were Eeri NJ be-
tween the farming and Industrial and com
inerciel classes. woul5 mesu the doubling
Of Texas productive ehersy. q rs trade.
lis artirilies and e. is ,sxable values. or
wealth. The cities and counties can well
Afford to eo 10 10 littie expense "a making
their resources ard advantages and a,,rac.
tyenest AID Inducements generally. to rev
settlers known TO ;he world through such
great agencies. FOR example. as he Ten
nossee coatennial-and all similar exrosi-
lions in the future
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A WELL GOVERNED STATE.

The report OF the comptroller q, ,he
siste. published IN yesterdays Post Is
wen worth the careful rerufai Of the Gill.
Eens Of Texas and constitutes a sufficient
cefense Of the present State adninistra ION
arainst the reckless assaults by Opposition
ofsans and their core headed followers
The comptroller confirms officially III.
Claims made In behalf Of the State dom
ooracy during the campaign, that the ~
fairs o. the commonwealth had been wisely
and economically conducted. deficits Gu,
down. expenditure greatly decreased and
the public schools given generous attention.
Comptroller Finley shows that the two
years OF the Culberson regime resulted b.,
saving In expenses, compared with the
preceding two years. OF nearly 5000 600
While In the meantime an indebtedness left
over by the preceding administration and
amounting to almost 100000 was practt-
cally wiped out
Can better record be pointed to in
any State in the Union?
Nor was the preceding administration a
reckless or eXtravagant one. It's troubles
arose from mistaken idea that the taxa
ton. already lower than In three fonrths
OF the American States could be cut down
TO ridiculously small figure
The present administration simply en-
toyed the use OF normal and reasonable
but still comparatively low tax rate, yet
1t handled the receipts 30 economically and
skilfully as to cut down OK .,onditurcs and
wipe out deficits at one aud the same time
The school system was administered in
the same admirable manner until its EN-
barassments have disappeared and a per
capita OF $3.50 for some 700 900 and more
children, is provided for The current and
next year--a per capita that VIII compare
favorably with that OF the majority OF tho
States OF the Union.
The aggregate taxable values show a
small decrease. owing to the steady decline
In the values OF live stock. for which the
State is no wise responsible. also the elm
ination Of erroneous assessments and the
practical standstill of values Of real estate,
which is a condition coextonsivo with the
country. The record 10 one. upon tho
whole. which Ia cold facts and figures
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\ Good Suggestion.
Dallas Times Herald.

There appears in this mornings issue a
Simpson which is of such commanding I'm
| Iortance as to merit the consider ttion OF
every citizen in Texas VINO mas the inter-
est and advancement Of his State at neart.
10 open up the rives Indicated IN that
article TO navigation would be 10 orPn
lhdted, tor Texas an aren Of pro 'prr,.y ur-
exampled in the history .; the State.
There is no valid r. ,son why great
commonwealth like Texas with resources
that are practically iimi'l 'ss. should for
| ever grovel before congress Tor appropria
tiors that she has the p1v T TO provide
Lire is too short, our require hents too
PR sslngly urgent. to speAl y.ars q. ,ur
ilves in waiting for results hat We our
stl'es can command.
The bond proposed to be iss" al is pr, c.
ticaily bagatelle and oi.l be re,d,iy
subscribed at premium. The acl ii
FUNDS Of the State now lying idle might
seek such an Investment, provided this
lund could compete with the very consid.
cradle premiums likely to be offered by
OUTSIDE capi al Tor such an issue of bonds,
But who can reckon the measureless ad-
Nantages to Texas OF the easy navigation
OF our great rivers to the sea Uncoun et
millions of dollars could be saved In freight
rates to farmers on their cotton. grain.
wool hides, cattle, etc, and all classes
would be vastly benefited by reduction
on all merchandise. all farm implements
machinery and general imports into the
state. Factories would spring up as by
magic. and all Texas would take heart
again.
The temporary cost to our people of
thCse bonds is insignificant. On an esti-
mated population Of $500, 900 the per
capita charge would be about 10 cents on
present valuations and pre- cent population.
but even this infintesima tax would IN
course OF time be restored to the State
since congress, as n matter of justice,
must sooner or later reimburse US for
cur outlay
his bill or something similar to 1t,
should pass, ana accompanying 1t should
ne a Joint resolution Of the legislature
feques Ing congress to direct the secretary
OF war to place at the disposition of Texas
a board OF her most eminent army engi-
neeTs, TO outlire the intended work and
supervise its construction.
ne work heipg done TO the satisfaction
OF United States engineers. the Federal
government viii be far more likely to
regard with favor our request for reim-
hufscment
II Is sincerely to be hoped that the cities
interested In this great work will COOP
crate with each other and speed such i'm
rorlaht measure TO complete success.
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within the next two or three

bimetallism within the next two or three
years?"
Then. said Chandler. deliberately, I'VE
will pass at once to silver monomotnl,,sw
and II VIII be better for us than 10 arag
ourselves at the heels OF gold IN )romotn,s
lisni. But want to exhaust every Effort in
secure the free use OF gold and silver lere
and abroad Mt ratio Of 10 to I frst. / am
hopeful OF success, provided Mckinley will
doubt in my mind---will he do so?
An. you don't know. Well, I'm afraid
that the gold standard interests win con.
troll him, but we have got to succeed IN our
party in securing the use of silver. or We
ere done for. I" w
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wharton, Texas. December l6 The 10y
al Literary league had a very pleasant
meeting at the hosptabe home OF Mr..
ana Mrs. w. j. Groom last Monday.
The grand annual oyster supper given nv
the Lii. viii take place at the home OF
Mr.. l.. Piene next Monday night.
wedding cards are out announcing the
marriage OF Miss Leona Whitlen 20 Mr..
Robert Il. Moreland, which will take place
Wednesday noon, December %. al the First
baptist church Rev II. p. Davant ofhci-
ating.
Captain C.. c. Linn OF Victoria las been
spending few days In Wharton, the guest
Of relatives.
Mesdarnss Bentley, @. L. Rust and f.
Ellison have been on the sick Lat N
week.
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FROM ANOTHER.
To the Editor OF The Post.

Nacogdoches. Texas, December i'll
your issue of the 18th you publish an ar.
ticle from the New York Sun describing a
town called Nacogdoches, a sleepy old
rusty looking town. in the extreme north
eastern part of the State. with rugged
streets and rotting houses tumblng about
the heads OF their occupants
Please let your readers know that it Is
some other Nacogdoches you speals Of
and not our bright growing town, proud OF
her history, proud Of her former illus
'rious citizens. occupying the prettiest To-
cation NJ East Texas, with two banks at
ice factory, electric lights, bottling works,
waterworks, thirty brick business houses
and annual cotton receipts Of from IA 900
to 10000. e. A. Blount.