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Announcements. For Con crew. THK HTATKSMAN IS AUTIIOBIZEO TO announce Major Jo. D. Kayers as a candidate iorCongres from the 10th congressional district, subject to the action of the democratic convention at New Braunfels, August 14th.

For taM Meaator. WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE H. Fiber. of Williamson county, as a candidate for state senator from the 94th senatnr-IhI district, subject to the action of a democratic nominating convention. WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE Oeo.

W. Glasscock as a candidate for State Kenator from the 24th senatorial district, coin- lol Travis, WUllainson and Burnet coun- FEI.IX R. SMITH ATTUORIZEH THE Statbhmak tm announce him as a candidate for the Nineteenth legislature of Texas. for IMntrlet Attorney. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A candidate for the office of District Attorney, of tbewfch ludlcial district composed of the counties of Travis and Williamson, (now the lfith district) suDject to tne action oi aemo cratic convention.

Jxmkh 1L Robertson. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE of District Attorney of the 16th judicial dis trict suDject to me action oi a Democratic con vention. James D. Shkkks. For County Attorney, WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE Mil F.

H. MoKRia as a candidate for County Attorney oi iravis county. For Innpector of Hides and Animal WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE Mr. R. H.

Caperton as a candidate for Inspec- to oi ma aua antmais tor xravis county. For County rk. FRANK BROWN IS A CANDIDATE FOR re-election to the office of county clerk, of jravis county at un next, election. For Sheriff. WK ARK AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE M.

M. llornsby as the democratic candidate for re-election as Sheriff of Travis county at cuimug election. For County Judge. z. t.

fulmore, county move of Travis county, having been re-noml- nated by the democracy, is a candidate for re- RiecLion. For Collector MR. M. M. McINNIS IS ANNOUNCED FOR tlie-o'lice of Tax Collector of Travis county.

WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE A. Morris as a candidate for re-election to the office of Collector for Travis county, at the rtovemoer election. For Assessor, WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ANNOUNCE Mr. Iiiiin Metz as a candidate for re-election to the office of Tax Assessor for Travis county, at mo ensuing election. For County Treasurer.

A. J. JEKN1GAN IS A CANDIDATE FOR re-election to the office of county treasurer of irayis co'inry. Far District Clerk. JAMES P.

HART IS A CANDIDATE FOR re elect ion to the office of Clerk of the District Court of 1 ravls county. For Justice of the Peace. FRITZ TEdEtfER ANNOUNCES HIMSELF a candidate for re-election to office of Jus- ol the Feace of justice precinct No. 3. MR.

D. C. 8ANDEL ANNOUNCES HIM elf in the Statesman ft a candidate for the fliue of Justice of the Peace of DreclnctNo 3. itaifn of Hnljsrrlptiou to Dally 410 per annum, if paid In advance. Per mouth, $1.00.

Rates furnished on application hi nrs will be stopped when the term of a serioi.ion exDlres, unless otherwise ordered. Parlies changing their address are requested to 'ive me oiu. as wen as ine new auuress. STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Wm.

Gainks, President Jno. L. Babtow, Manager. THE STATESMAN. AUSTIN.

TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, August 14, 1884 Is Marion Martin booming yet A little more rain, Captain Ha- zen. Trie two-thirds rule will be re tained. The twin governors, Billy Burgess and John Ireland. The lobby will be the heavy part of Houston convention.

The Galveston Record is a small thorn in the side of the News. Corsicana hasn't ben lucky with her nominations here recently. The Houston Journal has sound views anent the two-thirds rule. In politics we like to see a man either democratic or republican. TnE Galveston Record claims the largest circulation in the city.

How is it? Gould's resignation of the presi dency of the Wabash road attracts attention. The Market House hall at Houston is a shaky affair. It won't do to crowd it too much. The "let-up" in the heated term has been very grateful to the sweltering citizens of Austin. The News' has been very deter mined in its bitter warfare on Ire land, and it shows no signs of "let up, Matters are pointing up toward New Braunfels.

Sprightly times are looked for in that sleepy old town on the 14th. The railroad accident in North Texas reported in the dispatches, this morning, happily was not as disas trous as it might have been. Isn't it just a little singular that the republican papers of Texas are all supporting Governor Ireland? He has very winning ways, to be sure. What has become of Marshall Tarkersley? "Old Tank" was wont to be a politician of both point and pith, in the days of the long, long ago. Independent politics in Texas do not seem to bo rampant.

Things are now tending toward a straight-out republican ticket, with an old liner to the It is a grand thing to have a stock of credulity sometimes, but the Aus-tiacorrespondent of tho San Antonio Times has just a little too much of that commodity. They are having a quiet little racket in Houston, over their representation to the convention. It Isn't all harmcny that is called by that name ia the Bayou City. The movement of the advanced liberals against the House of Lords is taking shape. It seems to be the intention of the English masses to curtail the power of the peerage.

Jour Bright is good authority. According to him the English work inj classes are more prosperous under lie free trade Bystern than under old fashioned protection, so hotly advo-c ed by the tories forty years ago. The Houston Tost utters the most and 1 defamatory black-i. irdisni, and the ean Antonio not only copies it, but leads it ut and adopts it in a leading edito- This is simply and only shame- The latest is the organization of a pmy of Performing cowboys on i of Dr. Carver's Indians; to life on the plains.

It is novel ttiir.j, and doubtless is "Oroxl money" in it. The at present ia San The Texas Machine. Take the press of Texas, especially the democratic press, and we will place it against the press of any state in the union for the heartiness and unction of its condemnation of ring measures and clique morals; and yet, strange to say, there is no state in the union so thoroughly and completely under ring domination as is this blessed Texas of ours. The papers, apparently, cannot or will not see that there are ten, or at most twenty-five men in this state who parcel out its patronage as absolutely as though they owned the entire state and peo ple, and from their decision there is not the hope of successful appeal. This riug influence does not alone exist at Austin, or any other single point in Texas.

It is as wide in its sweep as on the boundaries of the state. It contemplates in its opera tions only its own members, recogniz ed and approved beneficiaries. All others are sedulously excluded from7 all benefits and privileges other than those ot voting and working for the machine. The Texas ringsters are virtuous, honorable men, and they inveigh against and affect to cordially dispise all such combination, which is prob-ablv genuine, but it has never a thought or a purpose which travels out of the charmed circle for one to share its benefits. This ring does not contemplate alone the actual disposal of patronage, the vulgar offices and the like.

It forms, controls and di rects the policy of Texas. The legislature makes laws, the governor approves or vetoes them, not upon their own merits, or his apprehension of them, but as the ring directs. It is the closest of corporations, and its councils are never betrayed, except when some poor devil is side-tracked without his own consent, or, over his own vigorous protest. Then he public has a chance for a glimpse at the internal machinery. Though usually that is so brief and evanescent as to afford but a very little idea of the real machine or its dreadful power over the manhood of the people.

In ev ery county and in every precinct the ring has its petty beneficiaries and its papers. These get the prom ises and the help. The papers slavish ly support the doctrine or the ring, whatever that may be, and by all the methods usual and common to ring organs, work upon the people so that an apparent expression of popular will becomes a perfect cyclone before the pec have grasped the smallest idea of either its significance or its ul timate purpose. John Ireland is to-day the fruit, the offspring politically of this combination. Without ability, without plausibility, without experience and without -a single quality out of which to construct a leader, he Is at the front and held there simply and only by the power and will of the ring.

Ireland was in the line, within the swoop of the ring and was taken in not upon his merits or fitness to enjoy its good things, but because he happened to be in its path' He has proven a lord to it, rather more indeed, than has been found either pleasant or profitable to carry, They would gladly unload him but that cannot be done without an ex. posure which would be awk ward, and there is nothing left for it but to give him another term as gov ernor, and finally push him along to Maxey's seat in the senate. Does any sane man doubt this asser tion? If so, will he please point out to the audience what was at the bottom of his selection the first time, or what he has done during his first term which entitles him to this second almost unanimous nomination? This, too, in the very face of the fact that he is to-day not only cordially hated, but actually de spised by four-fifths of the democrats of Texas who have come in contact wf him, either as a man or as an of ficer. His administration has exhib ited only the puling weakness of utter and abject political infancy, Nowhere is seen a single strong or manly sentiment, idea, pur pose or action. It presents only a pitiful record of incompetency, of yascillation, unformed purpose and nervous fear of political consequen ces.

Each aay provides its own poll cy. Yesterday is no indication for to day, with Governor Ireland. It is all nap-nazara, au guess wors. Me may be pro-lease to-day, but to-morrow anti-lease, free-grass and for the fence- cutters. His official record made in the last two years warrants this state ment fully and completely.

His whole administration stands unrelieved by a single flash of genius, by a single vig orious. outright manly or independent action. It is the same level dead- wall of inanity, of purposeless weak ness and inertia. There has been no vigor, no strength, no wise or precient policy, and the strangest thing about it all is the ambition to succeed himself in the very face of this tremendous failure. The machine does thus warp men, It places such men at the front, and so represses the manhood of the party as that it supinely bows to the behest to him in power, when by all the rules he has sacrificed the original consideration upon which he was elected.

This Texas machine is now getting squarely across the hawse of public opinion, and it will have to get out of the way, or the democracy will go under in the tussel. The Tariff Issue. It would be a very serious mistake for the Texas democracy to make did it conclude that because it was thought best to defer the, tariff issue at Chicago, the party had either gone over to protection, or had weakened in any way on the Issue, which is, par excellence, the active and vital question upon which the party is planted, and which gives it its hold upon the people. The pernicious doc trine of protection is as distinctively republican as the grateful principle of free trade is democratic, and it mat ters little that the party authorities, for prudential leasons, "hang it up" for a season. This fact argues no cooling off in the ardor of the free trade people.

It indicates only the settled purpose to "fight the devil with fire" for one time. It is the 'stooping to conquer." It is a pity that such necessity exists. It is indeed shame uL but we are not responsible for the situation, and accept it as we have before done, as the least of two evils. It is simply the failure, for sufficient reasons, to shoot at the foe in sight, it does not represent either a surrender or a conversion. The day will soon come in which this great in the dark days of adversity, will be glorified, and will shine out as beacon light of renewed hope in the ultimate triumph of democratic theories and policies.

It is a poor paper which glories in the temporary abasement of the democracy In this way. It would be in keeping with a republican paper, but in an ostensible democratic sheet, it i3 reprehensible in the last degree, and pitiful in the meanness it displays. There is no getting away from the fact that by far the larger portion of the democracy of the union is devoted to free trade, and the concession at Chicago was. made only because we cannot afford to give away a man. The nobility of the free traders, the vast majority of them, in fact, consenting to torego the principle for this one canvass in order to insure the most perfect har mony, is very touching, and it is worthy of all sorts of commendation.

The ribaldry which throws the fact in their faces now a3 a taunt and a bolster for its own concealed and covert republicanism, i3 mean and con temptible almost beyond comprehen sion. These protection democratic papers have gone much further in this way than any republican paper has done. What is the deduction, the logical and fair conclusion deducible from the cir cumstance. Only that their democ racy is a mask, a cheat and a delusion resorted to only for business consider ations, because an open an avowed re publican paper would not be supported. Let all true free-traders, all true democrats for the terms are synoma- mous take heart of grace.

The day will surely dawn soon, when we will dare announce revenue for tariff only, not. only upon the house tops, but in the platforms of the national party, as well as the accepted and acknowledged policy of the government. It cannot come a moment too soon. The destroyed com merce, the rotting navy, the slipshod policy and the commercial stagnation of the country, all point to the great necessity existing for the re-assertion of democratic theories, and the re-establishment of commerce upon a practical free-trade basis. This will be done, beyond a question, and it is only a question of time, and that of the briefest, when the democratic gospel of free-trade will be fully es tablished.

Give the Feopie a Chance. Much has been said concerning the apathy of the people, In the present condition of our state affairs. The people are blamed with unpatriotic negligence, in permitting the political machine to dictate candidates, who are unfit for their high office and dis tasteful to the public. The public are called upon to de clare their disgust lor certain men and methods.and to recommend others that comport with decency, honesty and public virtue. Who of our pub lic men ha3 proposed to the people to hear and voice theirsenumeuti upon the question agitating the pub- mind? It is well known that we have men of ability, democrats without re proach, men accustomed to the ros- trum, well informed ana utterly op posed to the Ireland administration Ireland principles and Ireland meth ods.

Why do not these men speak to the people and arouse their thoughts to feelings and call out an express ion? If Judge Terrell should announce that he would address the citizens of Austin, Waco, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Galveston, any city or town of 5,000 inhabitants in the state, upon the issues of the day; it is well known there could not be found a house large enough to accommodate the people who would come to hear him. The same can be said of Judge Fleming, of Judge Hancock, of Judge Devlne, of Marion Martin and many other men of our state. The people are anxious to hear, and willing to speak their sentiments if given an opportu nity. Why have not some of our public men, that are competent, and can af ford to speak to the people without hope of personal reward, or fear of per sonal in jury from the political machim why have not some of these men the love and pride of state in their hearts to call the people out What sort of patriotism is it, for these talented and wealthy gentlemen to lie supinely in their comfortable homes, and let the toiling masses be imposed upon by the political jugglers of the day Have the people no trioune in all the broad extent ot Texas? Mass meetings of the citizens, and a free discussion of issues will bring forth a condemnation of the machine and its methods. Would it net be better to" have this done before the convention meets, and save the party from dis ruption iiat'll the Statesman do when the Examiner joins the News on the democratic mercv seat, as it is sure to do very soon i Laredo Times.

What difference can that possibly make to the Statesman? We shall keep the faith no matter who falls away, or who abandons the fight. It isn't a question of success with us. It is a principle and we'dare not stop to consider, if there are more people on the other side than with us, nor would it make a particle of difference it the odds were overwhelming. One half the papers supporting Ireland to-day, are doing so because they consider that he has the bulge, and is likely to get away with the honors at Houston, and not because they esteem him the best man, or even a passable statesman. It is this lickspittelish sort of truckling time serving which ia play ing the deuce with Texas politics.

Every now and-then some paper comes to Its senses on tne two-thirds rule question. The Houston Journal with anaivette most charming pro jects the paragraph on the. subject which we republish elsewhere. It is true 83 the Journal says, the sober heads, the conservative men in the party all stand by the rule, and will not see it abrogated to suit the personal convenience of John Ireland or any other man. The meeting of "the emperors Francis Joseph and William, of Germany, is hailed as an auspicious event, indicative of a continuance of friendly relations" between the two empires.

The two emperors have, doubtless dis covered that the prosperity of their subjects will be forwarded by harmony and peace, not war and the be tes ta of imperial ambition. doctrine of democracy will again triumph and then the sacrifices made by the true men of the party Wicked Expenditure. The Terrell asylum affair i3 one which will give us a good deal of bother in the future. We have not seen holaof nf T- a tTo i Vi a rms Aac1 Iff such thing had been done by an 8d. Pn he while he was governor, and the ap- pointee had been a republican, the whole state of Texas had been thrown into fits, before which epilepsy or "Kenipsnun naa oeen inueea tame diseases.

Think of it, a radical legislature passing a law to build an asy lum which would consume two years, before a single patient could be ad mitted, or before there could have been the least semblance of need for a physician or a superintendent. and a radical governor appoints a radical doctor to the place, because in pleasing the friends of another doctor he disobliges those of Wallace, and to placate those of the latter, the new asylum, which is, as yet, without torm or substance, and the patients, who are expected to fill it, many of them have not yet gone crazy, must have a superintendent, and the super intendent must have a salary, garnish-el with perquisites, etc. Ah! had Governor Davis done such a thing, the state ot Texas would have rung with the indignation of the people. The democratic papers would have been wild, and public meetings from one end of Texa3 to the other would have voiced the indignation of the people in very emphatic ways and in no uncertain or ambiguous words-Now we may not have very clear conceptions of the difference between a democratic and a republican adminis tration in such things. But we cannot see, if it were wrong in a republi can, how a democratic administration can do such a thing and escape condemnation.

Nay, not only that, but use such a policy as a leverage; to procure another term, a re-election. All chaffing aside, but isn't this cairying things with rather too high a hand Indeed it is well that we have one hundred thousand majority to enable us to push a policy such as this. Now radical or democrat, the man who projects such policy, who approves it, who defends it.ought not only to sacrifice his political standing with the people, but he ought to be made to restore to the treasury of the state a sum abstracted in such a manner and upon such flimsy excuse, There is not an insane man near Ter rell that diligent inquiry has as yet unearthed. Then why should Dr Wallace, skillful and all that he un doubtedly is, oe paid an enormous salary to look after and superintend an asylum there which, yet, has no legal or other existence whatever. This is" not only downright hum bug, but it is worse, it is downright dishonesty, and his excellency and ti beneficiary are both equally, or nearly equauy guuty ot receiving ana pay ing out the money of the state when no service has been or could have been performed whatever.

It won't do to slur over such a thing. The time will come when the people, the indignant, hard-working, tax-paying people of Texas, will ask ugly questions anent this affair. Stripped of all the garnishment of words and the matter will stand thus: Wallace, by appoint ment of the governor, has been paid two thousand dollars a year for two years' serylce as superintendent of the Terrell insane asylum, and that asylum is not yet built, or if up it has not now, and never did have, a single patient within its walls. The thing doesn't look right. Nay, that is too mild.

It looks wrong. It looks rascally. It is both, and the democratic party of the state by re-nominating and reelecting Ireland endorses the steal, adopts the policy and assumes the duty of defense. Can a defense be made? Can anybody conceive what excuse can be made for this wholesale raid on the state treasury, simply that Wallace and his friends may be placated and converted from active partizans against Ireland into passive friends. In the whole history of Texas there is not furnished another instance of such unblushing and inexcusible favoritism.

How reckless the man who undertakes to defend before an intelligent and an honest people a raid of this kind. And yet are there men and thick and thin newspaper organs, which not only tolerate and excuse such policy, but actually defend it, and hold it --up as meritorious, and ask the people to re-nominate and re-elect Mr. Ireland for having done it. It is a it just such enterprises as this, such wanton disregard for the interests of the people as will eventually procure the utter and crushing defeat of the democracy of Texas, and we do not hesitate to declare that it ought to flo it. The Eule at Houston.

If the two-thirds rule is tampered wifh, suspended or abrogated at Houston, it is clear that it will only be done by Ireland's friends, and in Ireland's favor solely and alone. Now, the question is if, in addition to en dorsing the Terrell asylum matter, and numerous other and similar raids on the democratic good name in Texas we are just ready to part with one. of the fundamentals of democratic organization, because the sage of Seguin, while he is certain of bare majority, yet doubts his ability to reach two thirds. In the name of all that is. sacred haven't we given up enough as demo crats and as citizens of Texas to glorify the man John Ireland.

Bold amd reckless, strong and confident as Ireland's friends undoubtedly are. yet we do not believe they are ad vanced to that degree of reckless dis regard of the party will which would seem to be necessary ere they could in earnest lay violent hands upon the rule, which, like, Magna Charta has stood a bulwark about the liberties of the people and which has done noble duty in the cause of party harmony so many years, so many dark and anxious years of de feat. Should they make, such an ef fort in earnest there will go up from the body of the convention a dissent which by its weight and force will astonish them and teach the reckless men who are pushing Ireland at the expense of every other interest of state and party, that finally they have arrived at an impassable barrier and the wisely conceived and wisely retained rule will stop them In their moonstruck folly. "Thu3 far. and no farther wm ring oui a cxear-surprise, a new revelation in deed to the henchmen the thick and thins who can see nothing for it but.

a continuance of the Ireland regime indefinitely in Texas The old greyheads, the cool heads, the wise heads of the rarty, have listened to the discussion of the rule, which was indulged in a few months' since, with never a word ot dissent or approval, but when these men assemble at Houston In conven- threshold of such suicidal action, not even to place another laurel leaf in the chaplet of the king. John Ireland, will they disturb the rule, and neither will they fail to administer a withering rebuke to the wild fanatical partizans who recklessly place this and all other interests of the people and the party to the hazard, that one man should be hon ored above all others, and far above his own just deserts. Indeed have we fallen upon strange times, when it is necessary to write such things of the democracy cf Texas, and yet we innsl i do it, to prevent such abuses as are fast becoming unbearable. These sacrifices are proposed in the interests of a man whose party record is indeed none of the best a man who has been know-nothing greenbacker, independent and the dear only knows what else besides, In his time. Is this a course which is likely to attach the young democrats who are coming up, to the party, and to hold them to the work through another quarter of a century of defeat if that is necessary in the future as it has been in the past.

We tell the democracy plainly that it is placing the supremacy of the party to a plain hazard by this course and a charge of treachery, or at least unfaithfulness to a sacred charge, will be made and fastened, if the rule is suspended or abrogated, and Ireland is nominated thereby. The tragedy at Fredonia, in this state, narrated in the dispatches this morning.is bloody and terrible enough, so much so as almost to warrant the suspicion cast upon the entire affair by the story of the employment of bowie knives. The use of these weapons in thi3 state is chiefly in the imagination of sensational correspondents. There Is one consolation that none of the parties, neither the two Woodall3, Foulkner or Allen, but come originally from Arkansas.Jwhere originated the ued that has just culminated in one of the most bloody and useless butcheries that ever disgraced our state. If one were curious to know the standing of ohn Ireland in the dem ocratic party of Texas, compared with others, let either Mills, Throckmor ton, Culbeison, Ros3, Roberts Adams, Peter Smith, or even Bill Sterrett, be nut in nomination against him at Houston.

Such a thing would pump the conceit out of him jn leas time than it would take Gov. Bill Burgess to recapitulate all of Ireland' wonderful services to the democratic party. And Gov. Burgess is usually quite nimble in this way. Scientific readers will be inter ested in the statement from Mar seilles, this morning, that the water in common use there was found to be full of microbes presumably the cholera microbe.

This gives strength to the old idea, prevalent even before the time of Dr. Koch, that water was the chief vehicle of the cholera poison. Almost every day the microscope throws some fresh light upon this and other pestilences. When Uncle Dan'l writes an ad vertisement for money, which he sometimes does, we believe, does he regard it as a prostitution of his "tal ents" for money Uncle Dan'l, Un cle Dan'l, verily thou art a great and a red-faced enigma in journalism, and -were there the least hope of suppress ing vou. we should feel Inclined to do that at any cost and at all hazards.

The Chinese viceroy at Canton, evi dently believes in dynamite, twelve tons of which he has ordered, for use against the French in case of hostili ties. Indeed, there is no doubt, dynamite will play a prominent part in the next war, be it in China, or in the more civilized parts of the world. Hal Gosling's enemies can do nothing with him. He has the ear of the powers that be, and he makes good and wise use of it. The fact is Hal is not only a clever fellow, but he is an attentive, capable and fearless officer.

Cholera has not finished its deadly work. There has been a slight in crease at Toulon, but from returned refugees. The same experience was had in the great yellow fever epidemic in Galveston, in 1867. The Tyler Courier is good enough to defend The Statesman from a vile slander. No need, dear Courier.

Slander from sucn sources is bearable, -commendations would be hard to stand indeed. Doctor Burgess never enjoys good health for a day, if he doesn't find his accustomed caress in TnE Statesman in the morning. We may neglect the Doctor upon occasion, but when we do it is purely unintentional, Blaine was ovated at Old Orchard Maine, yesterday. That's a part of his regular business, from now on, till he is retired to the shades of ob livion in November. What does our venerable and be loved Uncle Dan'l think of the policy of retainin? or abrogating the two- thirds rule, at this very interesting stage of the game The Corsicana Courier Is one among the papers which do not think fealty to Ireland a sign of fealty to democracy, nor a test either, worth a cent The cattle on a thousand hills In Texas belong to a thousand men, and they amount to a good deal about con vention times.

Here's a pointer. Next week. New Braunfels. The week following. Houston.

There is plenty in the two conventions to In terest all active democrats. The Free Tongue argues agains the doing away with the two-thirds rule at the Houston convention. The confederate reunion at Dallas is a good opportunity for candidates, and they are not neglecting It Well, it is hot The little norther has departed, and Old Sol is having it all his own way. How virtuous our venerable Uncle Dan'l has become, here of late. It amazing.

Free grass and free lunch. It takes Sterrett to group them with grace. The News is a fearful sweat box for the state administration. I What a-costly price some men pay for political position. Every smoker should try "Little Joker." State Pritie.

There is probably no other state in the union where state pride is carried to the extent which it is in Texas. There are none among the old Texans not one, and few among those of ten years standing, who would not resent bitterly, and indeed fight if necessary, over an insult to the state. There is something in the vast extent of terri- torV. in t.hA VlPailMfnl lAnnffranhfl ami I i -ur in the healthful climate which attaches men to Texas in a peculiar way, and to a wonderful extent Texas is one of the youngest of the family of the states, and yet she has produced many illustrious statesmen, glorious soldiers, and orators who could have stood up in the Roman Forum in the palmy days of the republic, without having to blush over a contrast to their discredit Indeed, when we reflect that Texas is also distinguished for the enormous mass of her productions, her wonderful railway system which sprang up in a day, as it were, we are not at all surprised that Texans, old and young, should glory in her, be proud of her and be ready at all times to stand between her and danger, between her and insult or other injury of whatever chaiacter The strange thing in all this, how ever, is, that she does not weed out her democratic majority and place at the head of affairs men worthy in all respects to represent her better intel ligence, her higher patriotism and her plain and unmistakable future. Time was once when it was an honor, in deed, to be elected governor of this fair commonwealth.

It is so no longer, because the ringsters and adventurers have captured the councils of the dominant party, and a race of adventurous charlatans has come to the surface with their noisey clamorings, and thus is the voice of the true conservative, wise and honest people stifled and lost in the unseemly squabblings over office, and the spoils which come to them by its patronage. We must reconstruct our modes in these things if we would retain much longer this state pride which is so large a factor in the sum Jotal of the state's excellencies. We are retrograd ing and a halt must be called soon or it will be too late to save even a fragrant memory of a former political purity. XT is indeed dreadfully hot Blaine is said to have his southern tour. given over The Sulphur Springs Gazette is a good one, to be sure.

What has become of the white publican organization re- The next great political surprise is to come to us, via Houston. See if it don't. Lord Granville administers some nice taffy to Italy in the Egyptian business. A confederate re-union is a godsend for the politicians sometimes. They're all there now.

J.F rne rench ana Chinese are go ing to fight, let them get at it and stop "negotiating." The New Braunfels convention is not the least interesting political event of the near future. A full republican state ticket would maKe things lively. We uke to see politics in that condition. What has soured the milk of human kindness in the bosom of our dear dad and gossip, uncle Dan'l? The governor of Montana is play ing smart by quarantining Texas cat tle. He can take it out in quarantining, "Eternal vigilance Is the price of liberty," ana it 13 the price of a nom ination also, In these days of political juggling.

To the breach, dear friends, is the cry of the thick and thins. The breach is, or rather will be, located at Hous ton by the 19th. many are "called," but few are chosen. The aspirants before the con vention will find that this is a true saying, and worthy of all accepta tion. Chicago settled many a delusion.

and that of John Kelly's that he owned the democracy of the United States, was not the least among them. i The Gainesville Register treats the land question in unabridged articles of two and three columns length. Of course the world reads 'em with bated breath. The rains, the cooling, grateful ever welcome rain. Let it come, in deep, long-continued, limpid showers.

The parched earth rejoices with ex ceeding great joy. The Examiner Is coming up through many tribulations, to great journalistic excellence. It deserves success, and The Statesman ardent ly hopes it will achieve it New York comes to the front with another fire horror. Such calam ities will happen, but it does seem it is about time for fire-escapes to be made a feature of the architecture of great cities. Our report from Georgetown, yes that the rain extended to that town, and, presumably over a large "portion of the country.

This is good news, whether Glasscock or Nat, Q. are going in or not The Vedette, an ex-confederate magazine published at Washington is calling for help. Let all old soldiers send the editor a little relief. It is a worthy enterprise and should be sus tained by the old grey coats. Things have come to a pretty pass when an Englishman is bagged by Kansas bandits and held for ransom that state.

Yet the statement Is made in a London dispatch to-day. Are American thugs about to adopt the Italian method. til. Vanderhurst is editor of the Free Tongue. He is an able and very forcible writer.

His paper just glitters with bright, good things Tom Bowers and old Van make a team from the.knobs, and one which cant be turned down or stalled. The least reference to the old-time old-fashioned cash-balance la connection with the Ireland administration, throws the thick and thins into fits In a moment. A certain obscure ana weak T. T. near the banks of the classic Buffalo bayou, is a case in point.

We are aware that some of the charges made by The Statesman a apflm TOffllJItrmiil 0aiif JVim- but they are true for au mat. xne Journal ought to investigate them if It does not believe them, especially that charge about mileage. It will be found correct. However, we admit that it is shocking. But that is why we published it Ross is the coy maiden of Texas politics.

It will take two or three ardent sweethearts to rub the blush of modesty from his damask cheek. The Sulphur Springs Enterprise is ithe latest candidate for Iournalistlc honors and shekels. May it win both in large packages. It is Droiected upon a waiting and anxious world by W.G.Blythe, Esq. May he blithely go the very forefront of the pro fession.

At a Swedish camp-meeting at Fiskville, near Austin, the other day, an especial prayer was offered in behalf of Dallas and Fort Worth, "The Sodom and Gomorrah of That's pretty good, andithere are Lots of vacant Lots in each of them where salt pillars might be erected to advantage. Hon. John Hancock is not now and never was, an office-seeker. The people have often honored him with their trusts, but he has never asked them for favors. He is perhaps the most thoroughly independent man that ever figured in politics prominently in Texas.

It is refreshing to meet such a man sometimes. Some of the purest and best dempr crats in this state are silent upon the tariff plank in national platform They are patriotic enough to hold back their private and personal views and preferences, in order to win the government once more from the re publicans. Senator Coke, and others, equally illustrious belong to their order of democracy. The publication of domestic trou bles between actors and actresses, in the associated press, has got to be a regular advertising business. The fact is, the public care little about the matrimonial afflictions of any ot the profession.

A case in point is the Tyars divorse suit mentioned this morning, from London. Now, few know who the Tyars family are, and care less for the romance in which the madame seems to have been involved with anoth.er actor. A TJBIBUTE TO THE DUDES. Three Part-Thelr-Hair-in-the-Mlddle He. role Arctic Explorers to the Front.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. One accomplishment of this recent Arctic exploration will be to force recast of the more robust sentiment of the day, which partakes, in a measure, or contempt concerning men oi fash ionable cut and tastes. No stout store is ordinarily put by a man who parts his hair in the middle, and adorns the lapel of his coat with a bou quet and leads the german. The knowledge of this much about many men has caused them to be called dudes. But perhaps Commander Schley and Lieutenants Greely and Emery, although offending in this way, will be expected from this stricture.

Lieutenant Greely, as is shown by his recently printed picture, parts his hair in the middle and looks not unlike James Russell Lowell, who stands in rough-and-tumble circles as the boss dude of the age. He has been so denounced, indeed, on the floors of Congress. Greely is a good dresser, too, and is nice about most things. Commander Schley is very fond of society, and subscribes to all of its fashionable re quirements, and Lieutenant Emery is decidedly a devotee of fashion. He is cast in a large masculine mould, but that does not prevent his giving par ticular directions to his tailor, and his having his favorite perfume.

He is a favorite in society, and last winter, while waiting orders here to proceed to the land of ice and snow, was reading the German and distributing the favors with great relish and success. It might be said, indeed, that he stepped right out of the ball room on to the deck of his ship; and yet these three men, all of fashionable cut and fancy, which ordinarily excite derision, nave Fhown, in the face of the greatest hardship and danger, courage and endurance that have challenged the admiration of the world. Greely, of delicate frame as well as of taste, outlived men of powerfully physical organizations, and Commander Schley Lieutenant Emery fought their way to his rescue through mountains of ice and perils almost unexampled. All three now are down for ease and promotion and can indulge in all the society they nave stomacn ior. Campaign Humor.

Ben Butler accepts more nominations and gets less offices than any man in tne business. JNew Orleans Picayune. srmuel j. xuden right arm is a little-feeble, but he seems Jto have a faculty of taking his pen at about the right moment. Uhicago Herald.

Blaine has gone to work on the book agair. The new chapter is pro- Danry not labelled -What About Railroading." Utica Observer, Lieut-Gov. Ames is said to be very pronounced for Blaine. There are hints that his honor intends to double his contribution and send in $10 more, Boston Globe. Gen.

Butler is said to be a capital poRer-piayer. nut a laboring man working for day wages can hardly af ford to indulge much in that noble game. Chicago Times. The organs are pitching into Mr. Hendricks, but we observe that none of the fellows on the other side are writing the old man any more letters.

Louisville Times. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, having tried the republi can party for about a quarter of a century without getting woman suffrage, propose to continue trying the same party. Philadelphia Times. It is said now that nutier will not run -for president, but will try to go back to congress, it is a time of ex treme frigidity when Benjamin is unable to distinguish which side of his plate holds the soup.

Philadelphia Inquirer. BhUne Bolters in Boston. Boston Letter to Hartford Courant Rep. The political campaign In this city on the part of the republicans is thus far almost entirely directed towards affecting the independent voters, There are material efforts towards in fluencing Butler democrats, but, as the arguments the one fac tion necessarily tend to repel the other. the democrats receive comparatively little consideration at the hands of the republican managers.

It is well understood that the bolting movement, at least in this section, is very formidable. I refer to its manifesta tion in Boston itself and in the towns about Boston. The party leaders report that it has nothing like the same strength in the places further in the interior, or in the north and south sections of the state, and there is no evidence to show that they are mistaken. That it has made a great im pression on the young men of Boston and its vicinity there can be no doubt. 1 should say it had been gaining since the nomination of Cleveland, and that up to the present week it has stood very firm.

Shakespeare Hit Below the Belt. From the Navosta Tablet. Sleep may knit the raveled sleeve of care, but it absolutely refuses todarn holes in socks. Zealots, and therefore Intemperate. From the Boston Globe.

or persons who drink only water the prohibitionists can get into a pretty lively row. The Wretch Who Wrote the Bread Winners. From the Buffalo Express. Grover Cleveland invented the saying, "Well, is this hot enough for you?" A BOLD, MAN. From the Pueblo Wet'kly Opinion.

The many devices men use to mislead their wives, such as "meetina the lodge," or having a message sent to bis house with a note from Mr. Brown of New York, desiring his presence at the hotel on important business, or making a trip to neighboring cities, ostensibly on matters of importance, against any man; it is made in the in-just for -a general round-up," are all terest of democratic harmonv and wed known. But it remained lor a lecherous man of this valley to out the cap sheaf on the climax of dec ep-tion in order to gratify his deprav nature at the expense of his wife knowledge. The matter has been sept very quiet, we presume on account of the "respectability of the parties concerned," but an Opinion reporter has just learned the following particulars: borne months ago a personal men tion in the Opinion announced the ar rival from the east ot the sister oi a business man here, and the said b. m.

was apparently very devoted to his sis ter, taking her riding, to the opera, on iishing excursions, and otherwise exhibiting the fact that he was a most devoted brother, while the wife re mained at home looking after the interests and cares of the household. It appears that the wife had never seen any of her husband's people, having been married out west and with that wifely devotion and confidence, wa3 pleased to see her husband take such pleasure in his only sister "whom he bad not seen for ten years." This thing went on tor several months, and might have continued but for a little incident. Mr. Blank had occasion to be absent from home a few days, and during his absence a friend from his old home arrived in the city on his way west, and finding him out called at his residence and made inquiry about his health, and regretted his inability to remain over long enough tor his return. The wife suggested that if he would remain a short time she would send for his sister who was visiting them but at that moment had gone out shoping.

Why, Mr. Blank has no sister," said the visitor in a manner that at once opened the eyes of the deceived wife. The gentleman did not wait for the return of the sis ter, on whose return there was alscene and the indignant wife gave her orders to skip, which she did. There was a "scene" on Mr. Blank's return not in the programme ot his calculations, and he 'fessed up and promised to be a good boy in the future and like a good wife she forgave him.

The "sister" departed for new fields and pastures green and the neighbors have bf en wondering why the affable Miss Blank did not call and bid tnem good-bye, and they will not know the real reason until their eyes drop on this article; The Two-Thirds Bnle From the Houston Journal. The two-thirds rule is lying very low. A few weeks ago, the whole state was blatant with shouts over its apparent extinction. The Journal itself hung out a piece of crape. But the two-thirds rule is a lively corpse.

So soon as it gets away from the streets and fields and pot-houses, and gets into the atmosphere of the lobby and the convention itself, it revives, puts on strength and takes anew lease of life. In the coming conven tion, there may be a special motive for an attempt to vote it down. But there is a sturdy spirit of democracy yet extant, which is opposed to changes and experiments for personal considerations. This conservative spirit is kept in existence by the sober reason of the older and more trusted representatives of the party, who are inclined to resist the vague calls for change that come up from the people and who. being generally justified by the results, manage to maintain their popular Poppies.

When life to its evening declines Bright spring Alls the heart with gloom, And in mocking, it seems, she twines Her garland iragrant bloom. OI all frr flowery wealth, That love has opened by stealth, Fresh blossoms that dazzle the sight. Alas! no need to pluck more Than a few leaves to scatter o'er A coffin's pillowed night. Pluck me the popple that grows" WUd in toe corntield's shade! 'Tis said that iti juice will close Eyes by life's sorrow o'erweighed. I've waked too long my soul doth tire Of dreams that ever In dreams expire.

Far from me, spring, with thy radiant dower ui nines ana roses gay i Close-shut eyes what need have they Of aught but sleep's sentinel flower? One of the Largest of Black Perch. From the Greensboro (N. C) Workman. John Julian and Aleck Jarrell caught a fish in Polecat creek, near Curtis' mill, in Randolph county, last Saturday, which is supposed to be a black perch. The weight and dimen sions of the fish, as reported to this office, are as follows: Weight.

14i pounds; length, 32 inches; size of head around the gills, 16 inches. The size of the mouth, alter some driving out, which must have reduced it somewhat, is by 4 inches. rom all appear ances it is a black perch, but it is of wonderful size and we cannot ac count for it. The open mouth of the fish is a marvel. Such teeth we never saw to any fish in our waters.

A Spark of the Old Fanatical Fire. From the Norwich Bulletin. The close of a hallelujah banauet at Norwich Monday night was marked along toward breakfast time Tuesday morning by a declaration from Mrs. Captain Shirley, of Lawrence, that plumes and finery were a barrier to the enjoyment of full sanc-tification. This so affected many of the well-dressed women present that they took their expensively trimmed bonnets from their heads and tore from them the cstrich plumes, the attractive flowers and the ruches, and threw them to Major Moore, who crumpled the costly finery in his hand and threw it upon the floor until there was a pile sufficient to till a half-bushel basket, representing many dollars in value.

Don't Do It. From the Paris Free Torgue. Gov. Ireland was nominated for the office he now holds under the two- thirds rule. It is not believed that he can be nominated again under the two-thirds rule, and if the "ringsters," who are manipulating things for him, abrogate the two-thirds rule and again force him upon the people, a large majority of whom do not want him, under the operations or the majority rule, the question is, will a democrat who refuses to stand by the nomina tion, compromise his democracy by refusing to vote tne ticKet This is a question that is being se riously discussed by thousands of democrats throughout Texas, who never in their lives cast other than democratic votes, and the Houston convention ought to prayerfully consider this matter before it abrogates the two-thirds rule and nominates Gov.

Ireland under the majority rule. The Free-Tongue has been in the front rank in the fight for democracy for more than thirty years. It has never cast other than an "unscratch-ed" democratic vote, and it pleads with the Houston convention, for the sake of democratic precedents, democratic unity, democratic harmony and democratic success at the polls in November next not to abrogate the two-thirds rule, because if the majority rule is adopted to take effect at this election, and Gov. Ireland is nominated under it the Free Tongue con scientiously believes that the party will be disrupted and defeated at the polls in November. Therefore, don't doit There are many good and valid rea sons why the two-thirds rule should not be tampered with at this time.

jnrst. there is much unrest in the party and personal opposition to Gov. Ireland among the masses, many boldly asserting that they will not vote for him, it makes no difference what kind of a rule he is nominated under, Second, the governor has antagon ized the cattle and heep men and the fence-CUttera and their Sympathizers, who are legion in Texas, and who have always been democrats, but who are now seeking a pretext to kick out of the traces, because they are op-' posed to the governor's and who will go cut if he is nomi- nated. i Third, this is presidential election year, and toe republican, tie green-j back and the independent vote may be brought out "to a man." all of whom will vote solid against the democratic candidate, let him be whom he may and for this reason the party should not adopt any policy or nominate any man whose nomination will derive from the party a single vote. This prayer to the Houston convention is not made in thA intnroot guccess.

Then, don't nhtrta th two-thirds rule, especially if it is to eneci ui inis nominating con- vention. Don't do it If you do, the Free-Tongue now washes its hands of the disastrous results that may follow Gen. I'olk in a Very Greyjacket, An English officer, Colonel Free-mantle, who served for some time in the Confederate army, and lived long enough in the south to make the ac quaintance or a number oi tne prom-nent men there, afterward published a book relating his experience. In this he tells the following story, as was told him bv Lieutenant-General Polk: Well, sir, it was at the battle of Perry ville, late in the evening, in fact it was almost dark, when Lindell'a batterv came mto action. Shortly af ter the arrival.

1 observed a body of men whom I thought to be Confede rates, standing at an angle to this brigade, and firing obliquely at the newly arrived troops. I said "Dear me, this is very bad and must be stopped;" so I turned round but could find none of my young men, so I determined to ride myself and settle the matter. Having cantered to the colonel of the regiment that was tiring, I asked him in angry tones, what he meant by shooting his own friends. lie answered with surprise: "I don't think there can be any mis take about it: I am sure they are the enemy." "Enemy I Why I have only lust lett them myself. Cease firing, sir.

What is your name My name is oi ine Indiana; pray, sir, who are you?" Then saw, to my astonishment, that I was in rear of a regiment of Yankees. Well, I saw there was no hope but to brazen it out; my dark blouse and the increasing obscurity befriended me; so I approached quite close to him, and shook my fist in his face, saying: "I'll show you who I am, sir! Cease firing, sir, at once!" I then turned my horse and cantered slowly down the line shouting authoritatively to the Yankees to cease firing; at the same time I experienced a disagreeable sensation, like screwing up my back, and calculating how many bullets would be between my shoulders every minute. I was afraid to increase my space till I got to a small copse, when I put the spurs in and galloped back to my men. I went up to the nearest colonel and said "Colonel, I have reconnoitered those el- lows pretty closely, and there is no mistake who they are; you may 'get up and go at them." And I assure you, sir, that the slaughter of that In- dian regiment was the greatest that I have seen in war. The Wayside Rose.

Bweet wayside roses: Inns of Journeying bees, hat grow aweary in tneir journeyuigs. or Dutternies Willi gom-ausi on tneir wings, That rest from voyaging on the idle breeze. rom wnerenis nest is niuaen in me trees. Thy praise all day the laureate robin sings, More sweet than ever in the ears of king Piped royal minstrels, emulous to please. And whether Gypsy June ten in her fields.

Or with abashed mien comes down the streets, Still as 1 see how fair In sun or raid Your bloom in well-known spots Its treasure. yields, Day after day a voice In me entreats That through green fields I come to yon again! 1 A Cyclone to Order for Five Cents. From the Adrain Times. Prof. Douglas, of the State university, produces amateur cyclones at will.

He does it by suspending a large copper plate by silken cords. The plate, charged heavily with electricity, hangs down like a bag underneath, and is rendered visible by tha use of arsenious acid gas, which gives it a green color. The formation is a miniature cyclone, as perfect as any started in the clouds. It is funnel-shaped, and whirls around rapidly. Passing this plate over a table, the five-cent cyclone snatches up copper cents, pens, pith balls, and other objects, and scatters them on all sides.

Reflection on New York. From the Chicago News. Theodore Roosevelt has been out west and gone back home with a new idea of the cowboys. Ho says, if a man is neither a coward nor a bully, and minds his own business, he is as safe among cowboys as in New York. With footpads standing on every corner, and confidence men squeezing elbow to elbow along the blocks, and policemen owning stock in the thieves' pawnshops, New York can really giv the cowboy points on matters of danger, and then get away with the confectionery.

Keene's Newport Property. From a Long Branch Letter. I hear, too, that Mr. Keene "flas recently found a purchaser tor his splendid Newport property. It was mortgaged some time ago for 875,000, and the price to be received for it all the lot on Bellevue avenue, the elegant conservatorh s.

the very fine stables, etc. is only $80,000, which barely cov- ers the amount of mortgage and accrued interest. The house, it may be remembered, was destroyed by fire about two years ago. The property was formerly owned by Mr. Nathan Mathews.

A Calf That Skips With a Wooden Leg-- From the Katouton (Ga.) Messenger. During the cyclone in February last a calf belonging to George W. ounson naa one oi its legs broken. Mr. Stihson tried his surgical skill upon the broken limb and succeeded in cuttiDg off the broken leg and curing it.

He then attached a wooden leg to the stub and reports that the calt has as good use of itself now as it had before the injury. A Little Head on Big Bump, Prom the Pioche Record. Tnere is a gnat here this summer that crawls up under a person's hair and bites him on the scalp, causing am immense lump to swell on his It is hard for a person who has beern -bitten by one of these gnats to distinguish whether it is a big bump va his head or his little head on a bis bump. Advantages of Acqnalatanea, irrom the Atlanta Constitution, The King of Sweden ia ravpHno- incognito in England. When a kin or a scrub emperor travels Incog, it ia understood that he pays his own bills.

But if the royal Swede will strike up with Dr. Ham Griffin and mention the name of the Constitution he can get all the matinee tickets he wants. Inclined to be Stingy. From the Courii r-Journal. uen.

Jbogan refuses to talk to rn- porters. The general is not c-oino- to give away his grammar in this critical moment of the campaign. Democrat Said to be Frightened. From the Indianapolis Journal, Hep. That the democrats are frightened' out of their boots over the defection of the Irish is palpable from the fran- tic efforts they are making to prove, that Mr.

Blaine was a Ivnow-Noth-ing. A Blaine View of the Inclependeat. From the Shelby (Ind.) K-puU can, Eep-. Concerning the noisy opposition to Blaine bv the independent mugwumps of the East, it may be truth- fully quoted: "i.he Bhallows murmur while the deeps The Art or Keeping; Before the Public. From the New Vorlt Star.

When the modern actress isn't losing diamonds for an "ad." she is get- ting married to attract attention. Joke About Oeneral Butler. from the Detroit journal. Iiei1 Sutler winks by force of habit. iie ia a terror to soda water clerks, as to Which th.

cat win jump From the Bton Herald, The probabilities are that General Butler will consider the Lowell con- gressional district as his fitting field for political activity, 8 Jl '4.