The La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 4, 1884 Page: 2 of 4

                                
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P. E EDMUNDSOM. Editor ul Prwrittor.
LaG RANGE, SEPTEMBKK 4. 1884.
For President.
GBOVEECLEVELASD
OP NKW YOKK.
For Vice-President.
Thomas A. Hendricks,
OP INDIANA.
Republican money will be used
this year to elect Blaine, there
will be uone to waste in trying to
elect Republican candidates for
Congress in Democratic States.
The Journal omitted to men
tion in its last weeks issue the se
lection, by the State convention,of
OantftUi R. H. Phelps, of this
place, as elector for this, the Right
congressional district. The Cap-
tain is well posted in politics and
is a fluent and eloquent speaker.
Major Thomas Porterhouse Och-
iltree, respectfully declines to
run for Congress. Thomas has
no funds to pay the expenses of a
campaign, and there is no Jay
Ilubbell this year to assess gov
eminent employees to raise mon-
ey for that purpose, hence his de-
clination.
The selection of Col. W. F. Up-
ton as permanent chairman of the
late State convention, was not
only an honor to him, but to the
citizens of Fayette county, whom
he in part represented. All ac-
counts agree ip saying that he
discharged the duties of the posi-
ton iu a manner highly satisfacto-
ry to all.
The result of the great prize
drill, which came off at Louisville,
Kentucky, last week, was as fol-
lows : Treadway Rifles, of St.
Louis, first prize $3,090; Mont-
gomery (Ala.) Greys, second
prize, $1,000; Indianapolis (Ind.)
Light Infantry, third, #500 ; Por-
ter Rifles of Nashville, Tenn.,
fourth place.
The Emil Francois farce has
played out for good. J. G. Tracy,
united States marshal, played the
closing scene when he went to
Austin to arrest Governor Ire-
land and returned to Gafveston
without doing it. Tracy had bet-
ter read and post himself up in
the United States laws, before at-
tempting to arrest the chief Mag-
istrate of a great sovereign State.
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The libel suit of Blaine against
the Indianapolis Sentinel, will not
be tried, if at all, until after the
election, hence the public may
never be able to ascertain wheth-
er the charge be true or not (ex-
cept by ex-parte evidence which
the Sentinel claims to have) as
Blaine may — his denial having
subserved the purpose for which
it was made — dismiss the pro-
ceedings after the election is over.
The Democratic Congressional
Convention called for the Eighth
district,met at Flatonia, Tuesday,
and nominated Hon. James F.
Miller, present incumbent by ac-
clamation for re-election. Mr.
Miller has represented this dis-
trict ably and efficiently, and his
renomination for the position is a
merited compliment. His elec-
tion is a foregone conclusion, as
the opposition have no man in
thoir ranks capable of filling the
position, and if they had he could
not be elected.
MONOPOLY.
The mainspring of monopoly,
and its chief support, is the high
protective tariff of the Republi-
can party. It has enabled mo-
nopoly to get upon a throne and
overlook the people. The only
opposition it ever encountered
was from the Democratic tariff ot
1846, which all fair-minded men
concede to have been just and
right. But it was installed in
power again by the Morrill tariff
of 1862. It has made more mil-
lionaires and paupers, tilled more
jails and lunatic asylnms, and
more prodigiously widened the
gulf between those who enjoy
and those who toil, than ever was
done iu the same length of time
in any other country in the world.
It has raised the cry for “bread”
in a country which, by every law
of compensation, should be the
home of comfort, if not opulence.
It has tired angry passions, drawn
together riotous assemblies, and
has kindled fires which might
have grown into the lurid con-
flagration of a commune. It has
bred a race of tramps and a race
of dudes. It has made a laugh-
ing-stock of honest toil and frugal
husbandry. It has placed the
people of this country at the
mercy of a corrupt lobby. It has
brought to the face of labor the
haggard and pinched look of pov-
erty. This has been the work of
the Republican tariff'and the mo-
nopoly which it encourages. Is
it an institution which working-
men can afford to support!
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Fast Living.
Pertinent to the social extrava-
gance which is now almost every-
where prevailing, and which is
bringing financial ruin upon so
many people, especially those
who are just starting in life, is
the graphic portrayal which
Thackeray gives in one of his
sketches. It is the portrait of a
young couple whose means are
not equal to the style of living
they desire. And they do not
wish it for themselves, but be-
cause others have it. They were
not strong and steady enough to
be content with that which their
humble resources rendered legit-
imately attainable. But have it
they must, and they ran in debt.
The young people must give a
dinner, and instead of a joint of
lamb and the glass of beer, which
was the only repast to which they
had a moral right to invite their
friends, they must needs prepare
a feast which they could not hon-
orably afford, and for the sole
reason that other people, who
could afford it, gave such feasts.
It is this doing a little more, or a
great deal more, than the doer
has the liouest means of doing,
that strands so many lives and
wrecks so much of human happi-
ness. “Of all the horrors which
beset the path of man,” Thacke-
ry adds, is the hideous vulture
debt. It gnaws the palpitating
heart—strikes its beak into the
brain—and effects every moral
sensibility with unspeakable an-
guish.”
A terrible riot among the
SUte New*.
City Attorney Swayne, of Fort
Worth, has dismissed all easy*
instituted against the gamblers of
that city because the juries re-
fused to convict plain and posi-
tive proof.
Polly Hopkius, colored,was con-
victed and sentenced to the pen-
itentiary at Corsicana, last week,
for attempting to poison a white
family.
Michael Donohue, a brakeman
on a freight train, fell between
the cars at Dallas, and broke hiB
neck, on the 28th inst.
The colored Baptist church at
Dallas, was destroyed by fire on
the 28th ult.
Chas. Whitcher was shot and
severely wounded on the 28th alt.
by 8. 8. Pitts.
Eight young ladies left Mar-
shall, on the 28th ult., to attend
schools In Tennessee.
Frank Pilkiutou who was crush-
ed between the cars at Rosenberg
on the 26th inst., died and was
buried at Sealy, on the 27th ult.
John R. James, of Dallas,
charged with stealing from Blan-
kenship & Blake, his employers,
waived an examination and went
to jail on the 28th ult.
George Moore, a Hunt county
prisoner confined In the MoKiu-
ney jail under sentence of Twen-
ty-five years to the penitentiary
for murder, died on 26th ult.
Nina Walker, a Fort Worth
courtezan attempted suicide by
the laudanum-route on the 25tli
ult.
A dispatch dated Fort Davis,
August 26tb, says that six inches
of rain fell at that place the first
of last week.
E. II. Evans, living near Mar-
shall, was shot and killed one day
last week by Rab Gorman his
brother-in-law.
Mrs. Clayton, wife of a promin-
ent merchant of Decatur, was
accidently shot and killed on the
29th ult., while spendiug an after-
noon wtih a neighbor, whose
son was cleaning his gun near by
her, when from some cause it
was discharged, the contents tak-
iug effect in her head.
Sam Williams, deputy sheriff of
Uvalde, who shot himself one
day last week with suicidal in-
tent, died on the 29th ult. No
cause assigned for the rash act.
The Fort Worth Gazette has
passed into new hands. It will
be conducted iu the future simply
on business principles.
The San Antonio Times has
been changed to a five-column
quarto sheet, and very much im-
proved in every respect.
Late Foreign Newa.
The German Republicans are
manifesting great aversion for
Mr. Blaine’s prohibition views and
spirited foreign policy. They
think the latter was a little too
spirited when it came to a ques-
tion of guano heaps, and not
spirited enough when applied to
American citizens languishing in
British duugeons. But then the
American citizens confined in
Kuglish jails offered no opportu-
nity for Mr. Blaine to turn and
honest penny.
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The campaign iu Indiana was
formally opened by both parties
last Haturday. A monster torch-
light procession and meeting at
Indianapolis came off Saturday
night. Hon. Thomas A. Hen-
dricks, Democratic candidate for
vice-president, led off in a lengthy
and able speech in which he ar-
raigned the Republican party on
the question of revenue reform,
after which he contrasted the
foreign policy of the two parties
by citing the case of Mart hi Kozta,
who as Secretary of State Wm. L.
Marcy under President Pierce,
compelled Austria to give np, al-
though not an American citizen,
to that oPMoSweenuy, whom Sec-
retary of State Blaine, under
President Garfield, permitted to
lie in au English prison for ten
months after hia unlawful arrest
had been reported to the depart-
ment. MeSweeney was a natural-
ized eitizen and entitled to the
saute protection that any Ameri-
can citizen ia under similar cir-
oumstancea.
The Prussian Government in-
tends raising a corps of old sol-
diers for colonial service, for the
protection of German colonial
firms, the latter raise necessary
fuuds,aa the Prussian military sys-
tem will not allow regular troopa
to be sent abroad.
The Duke of Edinburgh, with
the channel fleet, visited Kiugstou
harbor on the 29th nit. The eiti
zens of Dublin got up a great
popular demonstration in honor
of the eveut.
The Catholic clergy of Spain
have started a monster demon-
stration in every church in the
country, in favor of the rpstora-
tion-of the temporal power of the
Pope.
Alphonso Taft, American Minis-
ter to Rnssia, arrived at St. Peters-
burg on the 29th ult.
Two heavy sugar firms of Vien-
na are reported to have failed
last week.
The Frauco-Chinese war opeu-
ed last week, in earnest. The
French navy, under command of
Admiral Courbet, successfully at-
tacked and destroyed all the ene-
mies works along the river Min,
besides killing an immense num-
ber of the euemy. The viceroy of
Canton ordered all Frenchmen to
leave his province at onee.
Dispatches dated the 29th nit.,
state that a large Chinese force was
preparing to invade Tonquin.
Frauds amounting to £80,000
have been discovered in the min-
istry of finance at Cairo, Egypt.
The British government lias
commenced mobilizing a large
foroe for the Soudan expedition
for the relief of General Gordon.
The inhabitants of Naples, a
dispatch of the 29th ult., states,
were much excited over the trans-
fer of cholera patients to the hos-
pital of that city. The disease is
reported to be increasing in Italy.
An associated press dispatch
from the City of Mexico, dated
August. 20th, states that in two
days, forty persons, were wound-
ed in street tights in that city;
that the principal cause of that
condition of things was, that tho
courts made no efforts to punish
murderers.
General News.
A car, one of a train of seven-
teen, containing the Anglo-Amer-
ican circus, caught on fire near
Greeley, Colorado, on the 29th
ult., and was destroyed. There
were sixty men sleej^ng in the
car, most of whom lost their lives
or were badly burned. The scene
is represented as heart-rending.
An accident oecured on the
Cleveland and Loraine and Wheel-
coal miners of Hoeking valley, jUj, railway, near Stillwater, Ohio,
Ohio, occurred a few days ago. -    ----- --    •
“ — —•> ~    on the 28th ult., which resulted
A number ot lives were sacrificed jn jHUiug John Eaton, engin-
in the struggle. Several com-    - -    — « --- •    -
panics of militia were ordered to
the scene of the troubles to pro
tect life aud property. Governor
Hoadly made a personal visit to
the miners with the hope of bring-
ing about a reconciliation and
restoring order. In, this, how-
ever, he was disappointed, and
was compelled to order out the
troops to assist the sheriff in
maintaining peace. All this trou-
ble is the result of the present
protective tariff. Having no for-
eign market to supply with our
products of coal and iron, the
home market becomes glutted,
prices decline and the coporations
cut down the wages of the laborers
aud if they refuse to submit, they
are locked out, aud their places
supplied with imported laborers.
Then the trouble begins.
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Some four years ago, Senator
EdmundB, whose Republicanism
cannot be denied, wrote a letter
from wbiclfwe take the follow-
ing :
"It in my deliberate opinion that Mr.
Blaine ect« an the attorney of .lay Gould.
Whenever Mr. Thurman and I have .ettlod
upon legislation to bring the Pacific railroad*
to term. of equity with the Government, up
has jumped Jamer G. Blaine, musket in
hand, front behind the breast-work* of
Gould’s lobby, to Are in our back.”
In view of this, it is not aston-
ishing that Mr. Gould has recent-
ly declared that Mr. Blaine’s nom-
ination suits him. Indeed all the
great monopolists, not only in
Texan, but all over the United
States are for Blaine.
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The so-called meeting of the
sugar-planters of Louisiana which
took place in New Orleans on the
30th ult.. wan a miserable failure.
There, were lens than ten white
men present, and all these were
not planters. About seventy-five
negroes were present all of whom
have bece active Republicans for
years. So the Blaine boom in that
direction baa been nwefft away.
eer, and James Bulger, brakeman.
There are three hundred Pro-
hibition speakers in the field in
Maine, setting forth arguments iu
favor of prohibition. They ex-
pect to carry the State by 50,000
majority. Wonder how Mr. J. G.
Blaiue will vote!
The following persons were
hanged last Friday: Berry John-
son, colored, at Shreveport; 8.
Holly, colored, at Tuscaloosa;
James Berrymann, colored, at
Naehitoches; aud William Wil-
liams alias French, at Franklin,
Louisiana.
Ilowgate, formerly an officer of
the United States signal service,
and a defaulter to the tune of
$400,000, is living quietly in south-
ern Maryland, no re yard ever
having been offered for his ar-
rest.
Governor Crosby, of Montana,
telegraphs the Interior Depart-
ment, that the Piegan Indians, of
whom there are about 2000 in that
territory, are starving to death.
Abraham Pemck, the most fam-
ous short-horn breeder in the
United States, died at Winches-
ter, Kentucky, on the 29th ult.,
aged eighty-three.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, the
poet, celebrated his seventy-fifth
birthday on the 29th ult.. at Bos-
ton.    '    _
W. D. Ward, who murdered
Robert Fry, at Hondo City, some-
time last year, has been refused
bail a second time by the District
Court of Medina county. Ward’s
case is a bad one and there is very
little prospect of his escaping the
punishment he so Justly deserves,
unless he dies or makes his es-
cape.
United States Marshal Hal Gos-
ling peremptorily refuses to be-
ooms s candidate for congress.
The New Yorker Staats-Zeitnng
has the following favorable re-
marks on Governor Cleveland’s
letter of acceptance:
If any man lmd not a right porcoption of
the honesty, fitness or conscientiousness of
the man wnoni the Democratic national con-
vention choso as its candidate for the presi-
dential office, this letter must fill him with
the highest respect for Cleveland’s qualities.
It is impossible for any one to obtain a bet-
ter idea of the contrast which this man pre-
th
gents to the demagogue opposed to him than
is found in a comparison of the prolix gush
of Blaine and Butler with the simple words
of Cleveland. His first argument shows the
necessity of restoring the presidential officii
to what it should be in accordance with the
spirit of the constitution, and to protect it
from shameless abuse. As a sure meAiis of
removing tho temptations to such abuse, he ;
REPUBLICAN 0PINIQN.
Troy Time* (Rep.): Mr. Blaine
made hiB letter long enough not
to be read.
WUkeebarre (Pa.) Leader: Chan-
dler didn’t know Hendricks was
ao hot or he wouldn’t have pick-
ed him np.
Springfield Republican (Rep.):
Hendricks enters at once into the
fray. His first battle is a naval
engagement.
New York Evening Post (Rep.):
Blaine’s letter of acceptance has
plenty of length and breadth bat
no depth.
Chioago News (Ind.): “Cyrus
Field proposes to rebuild the
monument to Andre, the British
spy”— when Blaine gets in.
Springfield (Mo.) Call (Ind. Rep.):
The Demoqrtvtie kickers are re-
turning to the fold and the.Re-
publieun kickers are multiplying:
That’s the difference.
Boston Budget (Ind.): There is
some satisfaction iu knowing that
General Logan is not an Anglo-
maniac. His acquaintance with
English is said to be very limited
The Philadelphia Times says
that a thorough canvass of that
city shows that the Democratic
ticket named at Chicago is uni-
versally acceptable to the mem-
bers of the party.
Chicago Herald (Ind.): People
who think Cleveland isn’t a big
euough man to fill the Presiden-
tial chair should reflect that it
doesn’t take very much of a man
to fill a hole made by a Hayes or
an Arthur.
Steubenville (O.) Leader (Ind.):
Bowdoin College has dublied Mr.
Blaine LL.D. This probably means
Learned Doctor of Letters. Ac-
cording to Mr. Mulligan, Mr.
Blaiue has long been a “doctor of
letters,” and Bowdoin is rather
late with its recognition.
Troy (N. Y.) Press (Rep.): Mr.
Blaine has had so much trouble
first and last with his letters We
should have advised him not to
write a letter of acceptance, lie
may be down on his knees trying
to get it back before the campaign
is over, as in the case of bis let-
ters to Mr. Mulligan.
Secretary Flagg of the Massa-
chusetts Republican State com-
mitte explained to au ardent
Blaine man his recent resigna-
tion as follows: “All you have to
do is to sit at the table and eat
crow which is served to you; but
if I stay in my place, I have got
to serve the crow and pass it
around to you, and that I will not
do.”
Blaine — What those who know
him best think of him :
“I can conceive,” says a writer
in an Independent Maine paper,
“of a had Democrat voting for
<ood
LETTER FROM MATT GA1NE8.
To th« Republican* of the Twelfth
Senatorial District.
Burton, Washington Connty,
;    —if v
ber I published a piece in the
August 16,1884.
von remem-
y wreen, or uenviue, auauu
nty. How did he get it! With
r, “ice water,” cigars and his
icy. What was this for! To
reccommend. a constitutional
tlie re-election of u president.
pro
The suspicion
that fault might be'found with regard to his
position toward tho laboring classes hinder-
ed him from making his letter of acceptance
still shorter. He explains his policy in his
pertinent remarks on tho worth of honest la-
bor and in his esteem for tho laborious strug-
gle ot honest labor, its earnings and its suc-
cess. Naturalized citizens will notice with
great satisfaction the decision with which he j
upholds their lawful manners aud customs |
against an interference incompatible with
our political system and an enlightened civ-
ilization. Cleveland’s enlightened spirit
could not better he shown than in his em-
phatic declaration against tho fanatical tem-
perance movement, and it must not be for-
gotten what courage was requisite in this
declaration. Acting in accordance with his
entire nature, Cleveland can not yield him-
self so a blind glorification of 'tho party
which lias chosen him. The fooling of hfs
responsibility to the whole people stirs him
very deeply, and he holds himself carefully
free from any overestimate of party govern-
ment. The noble disposition of the man
and his deep convictions about the necessi-
ties of the situation can not possibly be bet-
ter displayed or in a more trustworthy man-
ner than it appears in his beautiful words.
Grover Cleve
tance entirely
American people.
Blaine, but cannot see how a g<
Republican can vote for him.”
“If Blaiue is successful it will
be because the bad elements of
the Republican party will triumph
over the good.”
Plattville (Wis.) Journal (Ind.
Rep.): The nomination of Gover-
nor Cleveland was a graeful res-
pouse to the demand of the best
sentiment of the party, which
crystallzed around him immediate-
ly after Mr. Tilden’s letter of de-
clination was given to the coun-
try, as the man above all others
hibitiou of J who was best fitted to wear the
mantle of the Sago of Gramercy.
Brenham Banner some time ago,
In which I charged there where
oertain ujeu iu the Republican
ranks wlio were only there to beat
all the colored men out of all the
offices they could, and to secure
them for themselves. Some of
them said that this was not true;
that they were there to bnild np
the race. Let ub see if this is
true. Who wae in the last Bren-
ham convention as delegates on
the white side of the house, and
who were they, anyway ! Only ten
men, and they were offloe-seekers.
Were any Germans in that con-
vention ! No, there wae not one
there as a delegate; still it is said
that the Germans are with us.
Who run the convention! One
Billy Green, of Bellville, Austin
count;
beer,
money
secure the nomination of a color-
ed man for the Senate! No, but
to secure it for himself, as was
the result. If this be true, then
my words are true which charge
tliat they are only there to get all
the offices. Now, you may watch
them from now on, aud you will
see oftlce-Beekers in our conven-
tions doing all they can to keep
the black man out. What more
harm could Democrats do the
race than this — that is to say we
must do all the votiug and them
fellows bold all the offices!
Look out in our next county
convention and see who will get
tho nominations for the offices;
also see who will be the delegates
to that convention, and who will
have the beer, ice water and ci-
gars on board that day. So, as
we can all see, that there remains
nothing for ns to do but to vote
for white men. So I think that
we may not say any more about
Republican friends, but vote for
the best men in the field, for soon-
er or later we will have it to do, and
why not now, this year, begin!
Our white Republicans hold all
the offices they can get from us,
and the Democrats go on our
bonds when we get iu trouble.
Now look at this and see how it
stands. It is like this: Tiie Dem-
ocrats work all the negroes (i, e.,
give them employment) and the
white Republicans buy all the
beer, ice water aud cigars and
make them drunk in the time of
an election aud get all their votes;
that is understood with them.
So the negro has no show iu the
world for the offices; he lias got
no money and that lets him out.
Please do remember this in the
fail, at the ballot box, and keep
these men out.
Your friend,
Matthew Gaines,
Ex-Senator.
Butler’s candidacy is evident-
ly in the interest of Blaine. Should
the latter be elected, Butler will
be provided for, either with a
cabinet position or a foreign mis-
sion.
appears in his beautiful words,
eland has by his letter of accep-
ly conquered the heart of the
The Texas German Post of Au-
gust 26 is disposed to handle the j
Sparks hall Republicans without
gloves. It says:
The dark wing of tho Republican party of j
Galveston have met once more—i. e. that j
portion of our Republicans who represent |
themselves as the entire Republican party of j
Galvostioti but whom we consider ns u most
execrable addition to our party, and whom
we should much desire to “shake" as soon as
possible and turn over to the Democrats,
less on account of their predominant dark
complexion than on account of their still
darker sentiments. Naturally tho assem-
blage of these gentry again took place in
Sparks’s hall, so very sympathetic to them,
but not possessing tlie odor of lavender,
myrrh and thyme to the nostrils of decent
people. They evidently did not desire that
elements should tako part wlio were neither
homogeneous nor had more refined olfapto-
ries, and who entertained stricter notions on
the source of stealing chickens, and who
even oonsider prigging a political chicken
(pie) as a case oflarceny. And so it hap-
pened that this convention was called with-
out much ado, even without the necessary
public advertisement, and the few bakers
dozen of colored brethren and sprinkle of
white ravens delegated themselves to a con-
vention which win take place in Houston on
Heptemhcr 2. Tlie other wing of the Repub-
lican party ignored this proceeding entirely,
and did not disturb tho jollity of the Rpark-
ians, nor U it likely that they will take any
notice of what happened there or will hap-
pen there in the future. But there will be a
time when a better element will prevail,
when tho election takes place, and will show
the door to Messrs. Luncy and company.
The latest news from the Re-
publican State Convention np to
the time of onr going to press, in-
dicated ihat Wash Jones would
be either nominated or endorsed
in some way by that body.
Robert Lank, a dissipated and
desperate character, was shot and
killed by the sheriff and eity mar-
shal of Bonham, while resisting
arrest, on the 81st alt.
Wheeling (W. V.) Independent:
The New York Herald puts at the
head of its columns the Demo-
cratic ticket for President and
Vice-President. Tho New York
Times supports the same ticket.
The New York Sun, though not
now zealous for Cleveland, is op-
posed to Blaine. These papem
wield more influence than all the.
other metropolitan journals com-
bined.
La Crosse Chronicle (Ind. Deni.):
We have only time now to call at-
tention to the record of Mr. Cleve-
land, whose nomination, as a re-
buke to the time-serving aud cor-
rupt elements of Tammany Hall,
ought to commend him to tile
consideration and support of any
honest man in the nation as
against James G. Blaine, wlio is
tatooed with the ineffaceable re-
cord of corruption by his own
party organs.
Philadelphia Times (Ind.): This
is not going to he a hurrah cam-
paign on the Cleveland side. It
is rather a campaign for sobriety
and dignity and straightforward,
business-like integrity. The sup-
porters of Mr. Cleveland- will he
content to let Mr. Blaine have all
the “magnetism” and the hurrahs;
it is on the solid good sense of
the country that they rely,and that
is not going to be carried away
by shouting any more than the
Chicago Convention was.
Boston Herald (Ind. Rep.): Gen-
eral Hawley in his speech at the
New York Blaine meeting settled
the case of Mr. Blaine’s honesty
as follows; “I do affirm that as far
as James G. Blaine is concerned
he is above reproach.” We know
of no more generous and coura-
geous assumption of a big job
since Daniel Webster proposed,
after dinner, to pay the debt oat
of his own pocket. General Haw-
ley’s affirmation is not to be light-
ly brushed aside, and if it is tak-
en as satisfactory in this case it
will save a world of tronble.
Brooklyn (N. Y.) Union (Rep.): In
point of conciseness, directness
and vigor of expression, the let-
ter of acceptance contrasts very
unfavorably with the standard set
by the same author in the Mulli-
gan letters. In all the 6,000 words,
published under date of July 15,
1884, one cannot find two senten-
ces that begin to compare In dear-
ness aud frankness with these
two from the letter of June 23,
1869, referring to the Little Rock
and Fort Smith Railroad scheme:
“I do not feel that I shall prove a
deadhead in the enterprise if I
once embark in it. I see various
channels in which I know I can
be useful.”    •
Democratic State Platform.
1. We the Democrats of Texas, in conven-
tion assembled, cordially indorse the princi-
ples announced in the platform adopted by
the National convention of the Democratic
party, in the city of Chicago, in July last,
and wc hail with satisfaction the nomination
of tho Hop. Grover Cleveland, of Now York,
and Hon Thomas A. Hendricks, of lridiaua,
for President and vice-president of the Uni-
ted States, and wo pledge
enthusiastic support to said
tod States, and wo
We declare that the people $
•ce of all political power, and tho
our oarnest and
nominees.
are the
Dem-
ocrat party is u party of the people, and
that it has with unfaltering faiths al way ad-
hered to tho doctrine that government was
instituted among men by their consent for
mutual protection, and we point with pride
to the giant strides of our great common
! wealth under its fostering care and protec-
tion.
8. Wo declare that a fVec ballot and a fair
count is necessary to the existence of free
government among men, and the Democratic
party pledges itself that this right shall re-
main inviolate.
4. We believe that an efficient system of
common free schools, both for the white and
colored races, is essential to the preservation
of tho liberties of the people, ana that all our
public institutions of learning should be fos-
tered by judicious legislative enactments;
and to this end we favor the raising of reve-
nue for these purposes by such a disposition
of the lands set apart for those objocts under
such limitations as may best subserve these
ends, so that taxation for such purposes may
be redu<rod to the lowest possible limit.
6. We declare that the free schools and
asylum lands are segregated from the public
domain, and are, by law, a sacred trust in
the custody of the legislature, to he hold and
managed in the best interest of the respect-
deuieat-
we hold It to be tho highest
ipr
that that trust may not be sacrificed to the
ive funds to which they have been
ed, and we hold It to be tho highest duty of
the representatives of the people to see to it
greed of any class.
f>. We believe that the school and gener-
al interests of our State will be best subserv-
ed by the leasing of such lands until such
time as they may bo purchased bv actual
settlers, at a’reasonable price fixed by law,
without competiton in such a manner as
not to retard the development and prosper-
ity of the frontier.
7.    We are opposed to the enactment of a
herd law.
8.    We believe that the existing laws of
our State for the protection of mechanics
and laborers by liens should be more com-
prehensive and efficient, to the end that the
real laborer may he thoroughly protected.
9.    We declare that the legislature of this
State should limit the amount of real estate
owned or held by corporations in this State,
and that our incorporation laws should be
so amended as to prevent rather than en-
courage landed ana other monopolies.
10.    We declare that the proper and imme-
diate regulation of the transportation of
freight by common carrier*, is a matter of
the gravest concern to the public at large,
and that the delays and discriminations to
which persons ana places are often subjected
by saia carriers, should be remedied by
prompt and efficient legislation,
11.    Kccogniaing these great principles of
Democratic faith as essential to the prosper-
ity of the people and to the continuation of
our free institutions, we confidently appeal
to all lovers of good government in Texas to
assist in the maintenance of the same. *
Tea Css It.
“My dew. what would I (rive to have
yonr hair?" la often said by iniddie-
..... Madam,
Parker’*
II give it to you- It
hair from falling off,
reatore the original color and make it
long, thick, aoff and gloaay. Yon need
not aland helpleaaly envying the girla.
The Balaam ia not oily, not a die, bnl
1* an elegant drenting, and la eapedafiy
recommended for iu cleanliness and
purity.    15:1m
-jrgraa
your nairr ia ira*n uia uj
aged ladle* to yonng one*,
you may hare lost inch hair.
Hair Balaam will give It to
will stop your
the orlj
s. nonon.
Aronsohn & Sass,
LaGKA]
1’IUCK <
Oma°.*T.
-DKALKKHIN-
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS,
Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods and Clothing,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, TRUNKS AND VALISES.
LADIKN DHEHH GOODS A SPECIALTY. jjfl
with spot cash, fro**,
TN this line we expeetfio take the lead. Our goods were bought
1 flrut hands, at prides that will enable us to defy competition.
The citizens of LaGraugo aud the public generally, are respectfully invited to call and'
examine our goods, and get our prices.
We Have Come to Stay!!
A Full line of Carpet# and Mattinga always on Hand*
H. STUDEM ANN,
(HucuouBor to John H. Carter,)
--DEALER IN-
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
LaGrrange, -    - Texas.
-o- _;
T7" EEPS Constantly on hand a full line of Dry Goods, Groceries, Clothing, Boots, 8hoeo»
IV Hats, Caps, Hardware, Queenswaro. Also a general line of
Agricultural Implements
-of all kind.-
DSC The public are invited to call and examine stock and price*. -Rig
1884-
1884-
lifi ■■ a n ■■
-DEALERS IN-
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
0    1 ‘ r"""    '    #    , j
* WTC have the largest assortment of Goods this Spring we have ever offered the A?
trade. A large assortment of tne
ZEIGLER BROS., BOOTS AND SHOES.
Clothing, Hats, Queensware, Glassware.
Hardware and Cutlery.
Wo offer the largest Stock of Hardware and Cutlery to be found in the county, and invit#
Mechanics and Btplders to exainiuo our stock.
Wagons and Buggies.
-AUSTIN LIME. CEMENT._
We are the only Agent, for the following Machinery, Ac., at LaGronge:
Avery’s Plows, Cultivators and Planters,
Southern Clipper Plows, Cultivators, etc.,
Clark’s Huller aud Cotton Cleaner,
McCormick Reapers and Mowers,
Reynolds Cotton Presses, etc,
EKKS*. <“?*'“S’4**!*’«>»".“*•
BROWN’S    “    «    «    „
WINSHIP’S    “    “    «    «
GULLET'S    “    “    «    « „y,    .
COTTON BLOOM “    “    “    «
QUEEN OF THE SOOTH MILLS.
MAID OF THE SOUTH
PRIDE OF TEXAS POST “ •
STRAUB    « '    ’
GLIDDEN’S BARBED WIRE.
D»y    Portable and Stutlonnry Engine*.
-PERKINS WIND MILLS.-
Thi. 1, the cheapest and beet Wind Mill .old in America. We have .old a number of the**
Mills, and can guarantee them thi iiknt.
HOUSTON TANK COMPANY.
|^WerMtu«tpartie.d™lrii,gtopurcha«!Gin«and Preee., to given, their order*
karly. no there will be no delay at commencement of ginning season.
**“We propose to keep onnelyo. in a «h*pe, and keep up .uch arrangement, with th*
«>tton buyer., a* will in»ure the highest price for our patron, cotton.’^*
WHITE & BRADSHAW.
LaGrange, April 10, 1884.
To the Citizens of Fayette Connty:
Sdxuditd an</ ^eni/emen:
J dotuie fo mjfottn tdat my
Atocrt Oj/ 'Vfily    Sffooti,
/<l SM&CVU, &C.J M 41010 O04n~
fid'/e.    6too/' ojf 6/taft/e ant/
3/a4toy flooded alej/ea/ ana fuae.
W/ati/tny yoa j/x youi flatten*
oty^ on t/efiadt,    ad/ foi a conttnte*
a4ice oft/e damo.    'Zffiedfecfa/ty,
month*. vriUh**
per Inch to*
fos each sub
Merchant* I
■ landing
56 oent* • tin*
and 16 cant* f“
Yearly adv
quarterly <
Adverth
Societies 1
Marriag*
line*, or over,
tMMnenU-
Oall*
their air____
character, (If
umn*,) will be]
A crow m*
the time for i
-firi..
in advaoc*
Our tenn*
$15 fori .
office., SL
Precinct and]
Partite’
tleementa mu
el*e It will h* «
Bund
l“Soa.ro.
Thursday *
wrviroMl
all.
BervioM (
6 p. u.
Lenten I
Sunday I
Sunday. .
—Eight!
and four I
Bleach*
A fttll i
for price* I
Ci
10 cent*.4
-Mr. I
firm of JJ
bus, wifj
Just 1
tone*.
* All
and f
below |
cent*.
Am si.