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P. GARRETT. Editor.
Thursday March 27 1890.
The New York Star goes for Gen.
A- W. Greeley as the "misfit weather
prophet."
Tnc statement is made that the
gain in population at the South in
the last ten years is estimated at
about 3200000 whites and 1000000
blacks.
TnE Waco board of trade has con-
tracted with Frank Leslie's illustra-
ted weekly for two pages of advertis-
ing in a single edition for which the
Waco people agree to pay 2000.
The railroads have granted a rate
of one fare for the round trip to the
state teachers to attend their annual
convention. This is better than the
most of them have conceded to the
veterans.
It is said that in a library in Paris
ihe largest in the world there is a
Chinese chart of the heavens made
some 600 years before Christ. In
this chart 1460 stars are found to be
correctly inserted.
An exchange says that a sure test
of genuine paper currency is to hold
the bill up to the light so that you
can discern two lines running paral-
lel across its entire length. These
are formed by a red and blue silk
thread inside the paper and no
counterfeit bill has them.
Rumors come from Brazil that the
present chiefs of the government are
trying to arrange to set aside the
decree for .elections nest September
and to establish a dictatorship of
five years. Like the many other
rumors coming from that quarter it
is hardly uttered before it is denied.
As exchange says that the legisla-
ture should either pass a bill making
the payment of a pcll-tax a prere-
quisite to voting or abolish the poll-
tax. An eminently correct position.
"Without the voting qualification no-
body except tax-payers on real es-
tate will ever be made to pay the
poll-tax.
Attention is called by the Detroit
Free Press to a fraud being perpe
trated bv unauthorized editions of
the biography of Jefferson Davis.'
The Cleburne Chronicle says these
unauthorized editions were compiled
with the scissors and paste pot and
that all book-buyers should wait the
biography partly completed by Mr.
Davis and now being finished by his
widow.
Sam Jones the ranting evangelist
-claims to have made one thousand
converts during his meeting at Tyler.
Nothing is said of the thousands of
people who read his sermons in the'
daily papers and were disgusted with
the language used. Abilene Re-
porter. Just so. It is doubtful whether
the evangelist accomplishes much
good by his high-pressure methods.
But there is no doubt at all but that
the effect of his sermons is injurious
to those who coolly and calmly read
them in print free from excitement.
Hox. N. Web Finlet chairman of
the state democratic executive com-
mittee was one of Sam Jones' bright
converts at Tyler. In his sermon
on social iniquities the Rev. Sam
went for the '-Teneha" club of
which Mr. Finley was president and
after professing conversion Mr. Fin-
ley tendered his resignation by let-
ter which was published in the Ty-
ler Record giving as his reason that
it was his purpose to join the Meth
odist church and that the pastor
and leading members considered the
influence of the club inimical to true
christian piety.
Na.tion.il Democrat : We hope
Senator Chandler is duly attentive
to the fact that the white veterans
of the late war are protesting vigor-
ously against the admission of colored-veterans
to the Grand Army of
'the Republic. According to the
Washington Post ''the white posts
insist that if Colonel Gray's action
id hustained the lesult will be the
disorganization and destruction of
all the white posts in the South as
the negro posts will be in a large
majority and the whites cannot con-
seut to be controlled by them." A
bill bv Senator Chandler or Senatoi !
TICK CONFEDERATE HOME.
In all ages and in all countries
among every people not only has it
been a source of delight to honor
but it has been held as a sacred reli-
gious duty to provide and care for
the maimed dependent and decrepit
old soldiers ot tne nations wars
who have fought the people's battles
and who have given the best of their
physical strength often sacrificing
neaitu ana tueir uie s uiuuu iui me
benefit of unborn generations and
the common glory and .prosperity of
the nation. The old soldiers or tne
late unfortunate fratricidal struggle
between the North and South who
espoused the cause of the confeder-
acy are left in a peculiar position.
They are deprived of the nation's
bounty because in obedience to what
they regarded and still believe to
nave been a higher law and a holier
cause the- fought against the union.
And not only are they deprived of
pensions from the national govern-
ment while union soldiers are liber-
ally pensioned but most of them
are entirely without any govern
ment aid. Goorgia Mississippi and
some of the other Southern states
provide moderate pensions for those
actually in need while others of
them including Texas have failed
to make such provision. It is con-
tended that it would be unconstitu-
tional and thero is besides consid
erable doubt about the fairness and
justice of a proposition to tax people
who espoused the union cause and
came into this section since the war
to support those who were disabled
in fighting against the cause and
principles which they advocated and
upheld. Such considerations no
doubt influenced the Texas legisla-
ture to withhold state aid to the old
soldiers. Hence they are entirely
dependent on private charity. And
through private efforts a "confeder
ate home"' has been established at
the state capital the management
of which is conducted under
the auspices of the John
B. Hood camp of confederate
veterans. They have enlisted the
assistance and sympathy of the
noble ladies of Austin and mostly
through their efforts and contribu-
tions of provisions clothing &c
from local merchants they have
managed to keep the "Home" up
and to maintain and care for a limit-
ed number of the veterans. But
while aid is extended to none but
the most deserving and to those ac-
tually helpless and in want there is
vastly a larger number of these ap-
plying for admission into the "Home"
and for help than can be accommo
dated unless a concerted movement
is made to secure funds and unless
the good woman of the entire state
shall come to the rescue of their
noble sisters at the state capital.
The Banner learns that Mesdames
C. C. Garrett. Heber Stone. L. J.
Lockott W. W. Searcy B. F.
Robertson W. M. Aven and Miss
Susie Shepard of this city have en
listed themselves in the noble work
of collecting subscriptions for the
object named and a meeting has
been called for the purpose of or-
ganizing. They will no doubt give
everv- business man merchant and
private individual an opportunity to
subscribe and when called on should
treat the ladies well. Godspeed the
good work !
NEW KINI OF CIVIL SERVICE.
Congressman Norton of Missouri
is alter John Wanamaker proprie-
tor of the bargain counter in Phila-
delphia and incidentally a member
of Ben Harrison's cabinet with a
sharp stick. The other day in the
national house of representatives he
offered for reference a resolution re
citing that it was reported that the
postmaster-general was in the habit
of employing postoffice inspectors
and special agents to investigate the
claims of republican applicants for
appointment as postmasters and of
paying for such services out of the
public funds declaring that such
practices are contrary to the law of
the land and subversive of good gov-
ernment and calling on the postmaster-general
for a statement as to
what postoffice inspector aid special
agent have been so employed. This
is a new wrinkle in the administra-
tion of the civil service reform prin
ciple ii is an unnearu oi anu sim-
ply outrageous piece of acting which
ought to call lorth official rebuke
and condemnation. It was bad
enough that after Harrison declared
in his inaugural address he would
faithfully adhere to civil service rules
and regulations and not appoint
anybody to offico simply because he
was a republican or remove anybody
simply because he was a demociat
that he should deliberately piocced
to bieak every solemn pledge which
he made to the people. In this he
has. simply shown his own littleness
aud that he is not above his own
party nor possesses any of the ele-
ments of true patriotism or states
manship. But when it comes to em-
ploying partisan tools iu the guise
oi puunc oinciais to go roaming
man Norton took the proper step in
proposing to have it made the sub-
ject of a thorough investigation.
ror.EXKSiiT SENATOR COKE.
A great many people not only in
Waco and McLennan county but all
over the state will be possessed
with a consuming impatience and
curiosity from now until election
day. Ex-Postmaster Gerald has an-
nounced as a candidate for member
of the state legislatuio from McLen-
nan county and the result of his
candidacy will be impatiently awai-
ted not from a feeling of deep
anxiety or a fearfulness of results
however but from curiosity to see
how many fathoms deep the judge
will be snowed under. In a recent
speech at Waco in which he an-
nounced his candidacy for the legis
lature Mr. Gerald used the follow
ing language : "I will announce
myself as a candidate for the legis-
lature upon the simple platform that
Uichard tjote twice elected gov
ernor and three times United btates
senator by the democratic party
of Texas dishonors his seat
in the United States senate
and thereby dishonors the
decent democracy of McLennan
county. Upon this question I will
submit myself to the democratic vo-
ters of McLennan county for the
nomination against any bootlicking
Friday that he can find to bear his
banner. And I do not want a vote
on any other proposition-" The
cause of Mr. Gerald's hostility to
Senator Coke is that he has a private
grievance. He was postmaster at
Waco and in his opinion benator
Coke did not worry and fight hard
enough to have him retained under a
republican administration. He
ges that benator Coke was in
strumental in getting him fired and
tried to have a republican crony ap
I pointed in his place. The fact is
that there were several republican
applicants for the position and the
strongest efforts were being made to
have Gerald supplanted. Believing
that it was the intention of the ad-
ministration to supplant Gerald as
it was supplanting democrats with
republicans everywhere else as fast
as it could Senator Coke instead of
falling on his knees in useless sup-
plication to the administration in
behalf of Gerald and recognizing
the fact that a republican would be
appointed sought to have his old
friend of a lifetime Judge O. H.
Leland appointed. Judge Leland
in private life' stands as high in the
estimation of the people of Waco as
any man. And he had held the po-
sition of postmaster for years before
and was thoroughly acquainted with
tho service. It was because for-
sooth Senator Coke sought to have
him appointed in prefeience to E.
D. Conger or any of the other re-
publican applicants that he dishon-
ors his seat in tho United States
senate. It is said that "Warwick"
Clark the "king-maker" is backing
Gerald in his attack. But whether
he is or not the vituperation and.da-
nunciation of a man twice elected
governor and three times United
States senator by a sore-headed per-
son like Judge Gerald with only a
private grievance is the greatest ex-
hibition of sublimated double-distilled
gall on record.
and mothers and the old men and
old women of the tribe get too old
to be self supporting or to bo of
service and become a charge on tho
community to kill them off. The
same motives and the same spirit
actuate the corporations in their
treatment of the. vetrans. The vet-
erans made it possible for corpora-
tions to flourish here but they are
old now and no longer useful. The
past debt and obligation owing to
them has long ago been forgotton
although it remains still undis-
charged and can never be fully re-
paid as long as the pioneers live.
The railroads issue free passes to
members of the legislature because
they expect to use them as catspaws
or expect to ask some valuable fran
chise. The railroads also issue free
passes to judges of the courts in
which they may be sued in order
that His Honor may not be too hard
in rendering judgment against them
when they are sued. They also
issue free passes to county and city
assessors and collectors as a persua-
der not to assess their property too
near its correct value or to push
them in the payment of taxes whon
due. But when the few old feeble
veterans that are left who like the
old man in Rasselas have passed
the middle of the pathway and have
no bright future prospect ahead
would assemble in a social reunion
to live over the past and to recount
the glories of that past life as they
can no longer look forward to any
more such scenes on earth they
must pay full fare except occa
sionally by a stretch of magnanimity
they are let on as low as a half fare.
And this is because they aro no
longer useful to the corporations.
It wouldn't be a cent out of the
pockets of the railroads to haul
them free. It would require no ex
tra trains or accommodations but
all the same they must pay their
waj
THEY CAN'T AGREE.
One of tho most indelicate bold
public glaring and infamous attempts
at bribery ever made was conveyed
in tho letter of M. A. Dauphin pres-
ident of tho Louisiana lottery
company to Gov. Nicholls enclosing
a check for $100000 to be used in
reparing breaks in the levees and in
relieving distress along the Miss-
issippi. As the charter of the lottery
company soon expires tho gift was
unquestionably intended as a bribe
to the legislature to renew it and as
an advertisement of the lottery com-
pany. But even if there had not
been any such.selfish sordid motive
which is scarcely a supposable
I case the ncfinntanpA nf f.Ti rrift. hv
the governor would have been an
endorsement of the big swindle.
Gov. Nicholls promptly declined tho
gift on the part of the state.
In the municipal election at
Biddeford Maine last -week deputy
United States marshals attempted
to interfere and were promptly
mobbed by the voters. The unwar
ranted interference was further l
sented by tho election of the demo
cratic ticket. Bangor was saved
from going democratic by a close
shave. Speaking of the defiance of
of the deputy marshals
the Philadelphia Record says it will
now be in order for old Bill Chan-
dler to call upon Messrs. Frye and
Hale to explain why federal authori-
ty should thus be set at naught in
Maine.
The court of appeals decided
sometime back that because L. S.
Guinn was indicted for murder and
the proof showed it was S. L. Guinn
it was fatal error and the cause must
be reversed. The other day in the
habeas corpus proceedings in the
Priddie case on a requisition from
the governor of West Virginia (the
prisoner being charged with i
abortion) the court decided that the
wrong spelling of the initial letters
of one's name was not material.
The deadly parallel will yet have to
this august
FOIt SHAME ON THEM !
A dispatch from Austin to the
Galveston News announces that the
best concession that could be se
cured from the-railroads or the ma-
jority of them in the matter of
transportation of the members of
the Texas and Mexican war veterans
association to their annual reunion
which is to be held at Fort Worth
on the 20th and 21st of next month
was a rate of one and one-third fare
for the round trip. Some of the
roads make it one and a fourth and
a few put the rate at a single fare
for the round trip. It is but duo in
this connection to make the state
ment although it has been announ
ced before that the Houston and
Texas Central railway and its
branches will carry all Texas veter-
ans who served prior to 1837 to and
from the place of meeting free and
without any unnecessuiy red tape
process. All they will have to do
will be to send their namea to Capt.
Andy Falkner and to state what ser-
vice they rendered and from what
railway station they will start to the
reunion. So far as the Banner is in
formed tho Central is the only road
which offers free transportation to
the veterans and it is a burning
shame. Every year this question of
reduced rates or free transportation
to the old veterans comes up and
whole quires of paper are used up
in writing to and in begging and im-
portuning the railway companies for
favors. This is simply a disgrace
and base ingratitude to the veterans
whose influence secured the passage
of the law granting sixteen sections
of land to the mile to the railroads.
Corporations are frequently alluded
to as being soulless and tho Texas
raihoad corpoiations especially
never more forcibly showed them-
over the couutrv hunting up the
Iugalls to suppress the Grand Armv'recols of republican applicants for I selves to bo without souls and with
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uiuue is is jioi omy snowing con-1 out ieenng in a uouwo sense than in
a ven-
ni rnf (mm h if in tl.a m-iiit i nn nn.
. . . . ... . tempt foi and violating with
7'u "'" Rennco the civil service regulations
colored hoops who fought nobly is but it is gross and unwarranted
Miow in order
their treatment of the veterans. It
is tho custom among the Patagoni-
ans or some other South American
I official malfeasance aud Cougi ess-'tribe of savages when the fathers
The Times-Democrat expresses
astonishment at the patience and
forbearance with which the American
public puts up from year to year
with the eccentricities and vagaries
of the time-honored jury institution
whose verdicts in tho vast majority
of cases are the verdicts of one man
holding out against tho other eleven
stubborn fellows until they finally
come over to his side.
The day after the result of the
last presidential election was made
known the Banner hastened to re-
mark that the fate of tariff reform
was not settled and that the- tariff
issue would not down. We further
ventured to make the prediction
that the republicans in congress
would steal the thunder away from
the democrats by turning in and
themselves passing a measure mate-
rially reducing the existing tariff
schedule. Nobody could deny then be introduced against
and nobody can deny now that theiQ(-v
iai.111 13 u jitiug vumiLig issue aiiu
that by the prominent championship
of it by President Cleveland it is at
present the' main Issue on which the
two great parties are divided. It
would therefore bo the part of wis
dom for the republicans to yield to
the popular demand although cham-
pioned by tho democratic party and
enact a measure making at least a
moderate reduction in tho tariff
thereby relieving the democrats
largely of their strong plea before
the country and spiking their guns
as it were. And that the republican
party has considered such a policy
is abundantly evidenced by some of
the recent utterances of its organs.
One of them for instance affects
great sympathy for Grover Cleve-
land and asks commisseratingly as
to what he will do when the repub-
licans go to work and reduce the
tariff leaving him without his one
sole idea and pet hobby. The re-
publicans would like to reduce the
tariff PROviDEn they could. But if
they can't how can they ? The par
ty is metaphorically speaking be-
tween the devil and" the deep blue
sea. The Praetorian guard is de-
manding a full sweep at the treas
ury as tho price of its vote and the
fat-furnishers are demanding ob-
servance of the stipulated conditions
with them. McKinley has intro-
duced his little tariff bill but like
the demand for honesty among
thieves it has set up a howi
for a fair "divy" and an injunc-
tion to "tote fair" from the benefi-
ciaries of the robber tariff. The
"free trade" sugar section of the
bill would be all right and good
enough if it only affected Louisiana
sugar (a southern' product of a dem-
ocratic state) but the sorghum rais
ers of Kansas and tho West are op-
posed to it. Their interests are in-
volved. Tho boot and shoe manu-
facturing industry of Massachusetts
is '-forninst" it because it proposes
to tate hides oil the free list and im-
pose a duty of one and a half cents
per pound. And so it goes with
reference to other articles. Besides
like other pretended revenue reform
measures emanating from republi-
can sources it is a sham a delusion
a fraud and a cheat and while pre-
tending to lower taxation the reduc-
tion it is claimed by the Louisville
Courier-Journal is offset by the in
crease of other revenues levied not
for public but for private purposes.
Allison of Iowa and Aldrich of
Rhode Island have already declared
that they will fight the McKinley
bill to the bitter end. Aud so
while the republicans would like to
get rid of tho tariff issue the proba-
bilities aie that they can never bo
agreed. The only basis on which
the tariff can ever be adjusted is one
of a tariff-for-rcvenue onlv.
While Grover Cleveland was
president he purchased ''Red Top"
with money out of his own pocket
and occupied it as a summer resi-
dence. The republican idea is dif-
ferent. Says the Macon (Ga.) News:
"The republicans aro going to intro-
duce a bill in congress to buy a sum-
mer residence for President Har-
rison. This is in keeping with tBe
republican plan of looting the sur-
plus in the treasury but why do
they not go further and establish a
fund to provide the president with
winter hats shoes etc. and a New-
foundland dog for Baby McKee?"'
Geo. Crook major-general of the
United States army commanding
tho department of the Missouri with
headquarters at Chicago died sud-
denly of heart disease on Friday' of
last week at the Grand Pacific hotel
in that city. Gen. Crook was chiefly
noted as an Indian fighter and he
was instrumental in the capture of
Geronimo and the
the Chirricahuas.'
suppression of
Although all but three of the
adult citizens of Taylor signed -protest
against the carpetbag ap-
pointment of a postmaster at that
place the nomination has been con-
firmed and the protest ignored. The
next democratic postmaster-general
should give the Taylor postoffice his-
earliest attention.
The dispatches announce that in a
recent engagement with tho French
the King of Dahomey and his army
were badly whipped and that one of
the female generals of his Amazons
and about 1000 males wero killed.
It is said the king's body guard is
composed entirely of women and
that they constitute tho flower of
his army.
A new journalistic feature has
been introduced by some of the
great Texas dailies which we cannot
say we much admire. It is the pub-
lication of flattering remarks made
by country crossroads subscribers
accompany an order for renewal.
They sound too much like patent
medicine testimonials.
The "sooners" in the Cherokee
strip have played smash with the
cattlemen's interests. It is said that
about eighty thousand head of cattle
aro no longer good for anything but
hides glue and bono dust as a re-
sult of the burning of the range by
the boomers.
Attek an analysis of the vote on.
the Blair educational bill in the
senate and reading the explanations
of some of the senators for voting as
they did it becomes necessary for
the public to revise its preconceived
and exalted ideas of their statesmanship.
f
The sheriffs' association proposes
to "do" Hogg up for governor. The
secretary of the association has &
written a circular letter appealing to
the different sheriffs to use their in-
fluence to keep any Hogg delegates
from attending the state convention.
Cabot Lodge has reported his lit-
tle federal election bill. He sought?
to make it popular by mixing a little
of the Australian ballot system with
it. But the objectionable feature fed-
eral supervision still remains and
the same fate awaits it as settled the
Blair bill.
1...
The country around Corpus
Christi was lucky enough to escape
the recent freeze and now the Cor-
pus gardeners are shipping large "
quantities of vegetables to St-
Louis.
The municipal elections will take
place in several cities and towns of
the state on the 1st of April. And
no doubt thero will be many a can-
didate treated to a genuine "April
fool" disappointment.
The name in full of the new chan-
cellor of the German empire is-
George Leo von Caprivi de Chaprara-
de Montecuculi. But what is the
use of having such a name if it can
only be referred to in sections?
The contest for the democratic
gubernatorial nomination in Penn-
sylvania this year is between ex-Senator
Wallace and ex-Gov. Pattison.
It is a friendly rivalry.
The Brazos Pilot says a ticket
with Hon. Seth Shepard for governor
and Hon. Geo. C. Pendleton for
lieutenant-governor "would sweep
the hurricane deck."
The invasion of the Salvation
Army proves quite an advertisement
for Brenhain. All of the papers are
mentioning their arrival in their
state news items
Poe's '-Raven"
into Volapuk.
has been translated
Gen. Robert Schenck. who was
minister to England during the
Grant administration died at Wash-
ington tho other day. He will be
chiefly noted in history as the in-
dividual often quoted as authority in
the national game of draw poker.
The Houston republicans have
put out a municipal ticket. After
expressing such hostility to the
colored man and brother as they
have and after organizing a lilly-
whito league they ought not to ex-
pect the negroes to vjte tho ticket
very largely.
It was announced not long ago
that round dancing was going out of
stylo in Paris. And now it is stated
that Strauss tho famous composer
is about to reintroduce the stately
minuet to the partial exclusion
of his own waltz.
Like all other cranks Blair of
New Hampshire can't be suppress-
ed. Ho has introduced another
educational bill.
SCHOOL FEST
Sunday April 13' 1890
At Oak Hill School House Berlin.
Good music and refreshments.
Prizes for children's games. En-
trance to the Grounds free. .Ev-
erybody invited. Grand ball at
night. The Committee.
MASK BALL
AT MACHAAl'S PLATFORM
Six miles South of Bronham.
Saturday Night .April 12tli.
Music by Brenham Field Artil-
lery Band. Refreshments on tho
grounds. Everybody invited.
Geo. II ac i; am.
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