The Daily Texarkanian., 1898-09-09
HERE 1T is, NOW LAUGH.

AS stated Yesterday tue sOlS-
heads, the outs, the republicans,
goldbugs and wishywashy politi-
clans of Bowie county, who are
troubled with the "ofiice itch gath
cred at the Boston flats and had a
high old time in nominating each
other for office. The ticket Sc
lected is as follows DR.. w. h.
Elliott, County Judge; R. B. Harri-
son, district clerk; A. T.. Whittle,
County Clerk; R. n. Woodward,
Treasurer; ], W. Cunningham, COL
lector; c. H. Moores, sheriff; Joe
Robinson, Assessor; W. G. Knight,
County Attorney; Bud Harris, cot
ton weigher, at New Boston; ]. n.
Eddings, cotton weigher at DeKalb
and Prot ]. C. Johnson, represent
ative.
There Is not much use of intro
ducing this conglomeration of
"office wanting rot" to the voters
of our city or Bowie county, and
we only in a casual way refer to
part of the ticket,
DR.. Elliott, we believe, held Office
by the grace of the democratic
party tor fourteen years, and when
he finally turned loose the demo-
cratic teat, made a dive for the
goldbug side of the question, and
made a few of his characteristic
speeches to the man in black dur
ing the campaign, and since then
he has been playing about the
back yards of the republican party
and anywhere else he would be tol-
Grated in his effort to get solid for
votes. Politically speaking, the
doctor is a decomposed bad egg
and the democrats will hold their
nose when they see his name
printed on the ticket.
Charles Moores, our Charlie, was
raised a good democrat-didn't loYe
a negro, and could not bear the
smell of one, until he contracted
the "ofice itch" He then realized
that a negro was as good as white
man on election day, and he used
him for all he was worth. Charlie
was still democrat and the demo
Gratis nominated and elected him as
commissioner and then sheriff, and
kept him in office tor several years,
but finally dumped him tor some
other democrat. This did not suit
the sheriff, and he cried fraud, fell
into the populist camps and offered
himself for Office, and since then
has Ebecome a full fedged republi-
can, with Mckinley proclivities.
R. B. Harrison is postmaster at
New Boston. Dick, as he is known
here, never dabbled in politics be-
fore, and got his appointment as
postmaster at New Boston because
be was the only white man living
about that Democratic center who
had the nerve to claim the Repub
lican party as the one be affiliated
with. We haYe nothing to say
against Dick, only ask the voters to
scratch him for being in bad COM
pany,
Prof. Johnson, who claims that
his composition is made up of Creole
and Indian blood, but who has been
regarded here always as a mulatto,
is the candidate selected for repro =
sentative. AS we believe grand Old
Texas is a white mans state and
can get along without employing
"colored labor" in the halls of the
state capital, we ask the intelligent
white men to vote against Johnson,
early and often, and see that Bowie
county is not represented by any
thing tinged with color,
The balance of the ticket we
know not, but suppose the candi-
dates can be judged by the company
they keep, and this being the case,
the Democrats should not only
scratch them, but see that they arc
all beaten badly, Let us all turn
out and repudiate the last one of
them on the day of the election.