El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-11

Don't you eat your pie with a knife, II
you want to, Jim and john and Bill
and Andy? pointing these worthy
Texas suffragaps out in the audience as
they sat enthralled by his eloquence).
And l plead guilty to the charge of
drinking water from a pitcher, too. L
do it because [ can get more at a swal-
low that way, by gattlins." This was
the spirit in which be met aud van
pushed the opposition. When the
convention Assem- beled no other name
was presented for governor.
Governor Culberson, the other men,
Der of the quartet, is one of the hand
soonest men in the United States. He
comes of a remarkable family. He is
the eldest son of ''Old Dave" who,
during the long service il congress,
ranked as the ablest constitutional
lawyer in the house. The old states
man has but two sons, and they are
both worthy of their distinguished
| sire.
! The governors political career has
been largely patterned after that OF
Hogg, whom be succeeded in both the
offices of attorney general and COVER
nor. He has inherited from his father
clear mind, a strong physique and an
aptitude for politics and statecraft.
The elder CulbersOn was prOtege of
the versatile and erudite Senator Nor
gan of Alabama in his young days: and
the impress on his character and mind
NJ ade by the able Albanian has been
transmitted to this sons. Charlie, as
the Apollonian young governor is af-
fectiOnately called in Texas, has the
breeziness,a and audacity of youth toned
by association with men of mature
j dgment and fixed aspirations. In
any assemblage of men he would be
conspicuous, both by his good looks and
his ability. There is a dash in his mo-
very fetching to the Texan tempera-
ment and in hormOny with Texas
ideals. He has an unbrokeu record of
political triumphs, and he will be dan
gerOusly close to the winner when the
group Of fleet racers fly under the wire
in the imposing Texas capitol in 1899.
Within the past few days Senator
Reagan, according to newspaper re-
ports from Texas, has decided to shy
his castor into the senatorial arena
test close and more exciting. Judge
Reagan occupies large and conspic-
uous place in the republic that has
been made since 1860. He resigned
from the senate eight years ago to &C
cept from Governor Hogg the rela-
lively lncOnSeq uentlal position
of chairman of the first Texas
railroad commission, which was Great
ed after one of the fiercest contests OF
recent times. In doing this he showed
a depth of conviction rare to the OBJ
servers of the present generation.
The weight of years upon him would
have sent less robust and careful
% an to his grave a decade or two ago.
But age has not dimmed his intellect
Or soured his nature. He is still alert
and active, and though he occasionally
gives vent to lugubrious forebodings
Of the tendency of the times, yet his
,vnicism has not destroyed his cheer
fulness, and he still sees sermons in
stones and good in everything" The
younger men will find that the aged
statesman has ginger enough left in
him to keep him neck and neck with
hem in the senatorial race.
Two soldiers deserted from For,
Grant Sunday night, and riding to
abandoned their horses and
escaped. A party of Indian scouts ar
lived yesterday morning in quest of
The fugitives but found them hown.-
News.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are for
nothing i'll the world but to keep the
bowels regular, the stomach free from
2 as and fermentation, and the liver
active.