The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-17

Of the South.
l In view OF the probable annexation OF
Hswan. and the fact that thereby Presi-
dent Mckinley Will have several snug
| berths to bestow. The Post dominates DR..
John Grant for the governorship of the
Territory. We are the first TO name him
for the job. and with the aid Of our tow
line we hope to yank him into the execu-
| tive chair.
Call or the dogs Of war. raise the quar-
antne, and let affrighted commerce re-
sumo her busy sway.
| The Wood County News, issued at Nine
ola and edited by Il. NJ. Smith, Is the latest
edition TO tho Texas weekly press. The
News Is democratic and well edited. 1t
starts out with bright prospect in the
way OF advertising patronage, the best
test of all dive towns.
| A great many people in New York seem
to regard "Crokersm' as a worse disease
than yellow fever. It is impossible to
please everybody.
| Congressman Bailey OF Texas has
''strIck It RICH" The New York World
and St Louis Dispatch have dumped
on him with both feet" SO to speak Mr..
Bailey ought to feel fiattered, Newspapers,
| like hunters, never waste their powder
| upon dead ducks"
| Senorita Cisneros has been Only a few
| days In this country. but even In that
short time she has won the affections OF
| Uncle Sam and has been adopted u full
| ncdGed American citizen.
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| Ono of the most versatile men In Texas
is General l.. s. Ross Az fighter he
| was II success, as farmer he was a sue
cess as a governor he was a success, and
as president of the Agricultural and Me-
chanicnl college-well, he Just takes the
| bakery.
President Mckinley would "nll a long
felt want by passing the political pie
this way, The republican patriots have
been subsisting long enough on the odor
OF expectation.
III Miss Clsneros IS rs pretty and charm
Ing as depicted IN the plcblres OF her,
there are few newspaper men who
wouldn't run the chance of rescuing Ter.
Reporters are always partial to pretty
wonderland most women are pretty.
While we are wrestling with the yellow
fever scare In the South. some of the big
cities IN the North are having "troubcs
of their own" They are dying of sun
stroke in Chicago.
In the removal of the quarantine by Co.
lLsi bus. Texas. that city has done an act
OF simple justice to this section and at the
same time conferred well merted COM
pim1nt upon tho honest Judgment OF its
eminent physician. DR. Il. II. Harrison.
The Green-Grant controversy goes on
with undininished activity each claiming
10 be the boss of the Texas republican
party. Why not settle the dispute, once
for an, according to the Marquis of
Queensberry rules?
The merchants of Taylor have set a good
example to the balance of the State. They
VIII advance supplies to farmers and aid
them generally IN holding their cotton for
better prices. That is the kind of pro
lection" the people most need
The farmers or Texas would do well to
consider tho wisdom OF increasing the
area of their corn fields. Outside tho
droUth belt 1T is profitable crop, and it
would be wise economy to at least
double tho present acreage.
Wonder II A. W. Terrells mule has
really gone to the political boneyard?
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