Brenham Weekly Banner. (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 19, 1900 Page: 4 of 8
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EDITORIAL PARAGRAF
ANNUAL ADDRESS.
Democratic Ticket
JOHN G. RANKIN..
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Brenham, Thursday, April I®, 1900.
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Texas, as second-class mail matter.
Office </ Publication—The Banner’s new
Iron building, West Sandy street, Brenham,
'Texas.
Try Amsler’s 5 and 10 cent
drinks; best on earth.
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Try our fine Teas and Coffees.
We carry the well known brands
of Chase & Sanborn.
Wehmeyer Bros.
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The old fiddlers of Brenham
and vicinity left Tuesday morn-
ing for Galveston, where, in the
evening, they took part in an
“old fiddlers” contest given for
the benefit of Island City charity.
Among the departures were Jas.
Marable of this place, Kit At-
kinson of Ledbetter, Thos.
Alexander, John Johnson ^nd
Will Sanders of Dime Box.
of extermination against prohibitionists having carried the
election last week by a vote of 84
to 59.
—Last week hundreds of cattle
in the pastures of Concho, Mc-
Culloch and Coleman counties
were caught in the rise and car-
ried away.
—The twenty-sixth annual con-
vention of the International Sun-
day-school association of Texas
will be held at Temple on April
24, 25 and 26.
—Nearly all the creek and river
bottom farms in Texas have been
overflowed, which will require
replanting in cotton, as the seas-
on is rather too far advanced to
insure good corn crops.
OUR AGENTS,
Fellowing are'authorized agents of The
Banner, whose receipts for subscription
will be recognized at this office—
Joe Mikeska, Wesley.
Wm. Wendt, Greenviue.
I,. W. Swearingen, Kenney.
Thos. Watson, Burton.
J oseph W. Nnoner, Hempstead.
Theo. W. Falkenberg, Rehburg.
Put up by Swift & Co., America’s mos£
progressive packers.
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keen
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the Mexican government to wage county, has gone dry again—the
a war < - ■ _ ' '
Yaqui-Indians in that country,
who have become so troublesome
of late.
It is claimed that 28 new cot-
ton seed oil mills are now in
course of construction in the
South, all of which will be com-
pleted in time for this year’s
business.
The Country Demands Justice.
At this time, when Gen. Miles’
pledge, the provisions of the
peace treaty, the President’s
“plain duty” message, Secretary
Root’s unqualified recommenda-
tion, and the temper of the Puerto
Ricans are all taken into con-
sideration, the country refuses to
beiieve that there can be any
right or justice in the latter-day
effort to treat the island as an
alien. — Baltimore American
(Rep.)
A report is now current to the
effect that the ArbuckleS and
Standard oil people have formed
a combination to fight the sugar
trust. If this be true the people
—the consumers—will likely come
in for a much needed benefit.
ing his
Africa.
The British four-mastecl
bark Iranian, Capt. 'Wall
route, from New York to j
hama, was wrecked on the J
nese coast last week.
Skirmish fighting is of d
daily occurrence between ll
States troops and natives !■ the
Philippines, resulting in thrloss
of precious lives on both sides.
The extradition laws in cita-
tion between the United SraAis
and Mexico are said to be work-
TEXAS PRESS COMMENT.
of supporting laws favoring their interests, they
pursue the end in view ‘ through
an organized lobby, which too
frequently succeeds in tempting
public servants, originally hon-
est, to betray the trust of their
constituents.
If such corporations happen to
be defeated in both these forums,
1 to invade the tem-
ple of justice with their money-
changing devices and employ
their corrupting machinations
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ey have both indicated their will-
ingness to accept the nominatiqn
for president at hands of tl
democratic party, but their wish-
es will hardly be gratified durirlfr
this campaign. They must first
demonstrate their fealty ana
allegiance to the party before
asking for preferment or promol
tion. / i
There is no questioning the
fact but that W. J. Bryan vz-ilj
receive the democratic nominal
tion for the presidency, and thai
he will defeat McKinley, candi-l
date of the Mark Hanna ale?
society, at the November elec-
tion. _ J ‘ ‘ J _________
are not yet willing to surrender Soldiers in the service of their
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for that of. an imperialistic
monarchical dictatorship.
Potato Bug Remedy.
The Irish potato bugs or Colo-
ado beetles are rapidly destroy-
With 5000 acres of rice being
put in cultivation in the county,
two new saw mills being erected
and another looming up on the
horizon, with all the mills run-
ning full time, more logs in the
river than ever known before and
building operations in the city
there is an air of substantial
business prosperity about Orange
that has not been seen before for
years.—Orange Leader.
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The raw material of the nation-
al wealth is right here in Texas.
Her wheat and cotton and her
vegetables and her meat are all
here. Why then buy bacon and
hams and canned meats and
PASSENGERS CAN DAIRY
LeaveJBrenham....................at 12:05a. mi
Arrive Dallas... ................at 8:35a. m
A rrjve Fort Worth.................. at 7:40 a. m
Arrive St. Louis....................at:?:30 a. m
Arrive Kansas Cite.................at 6:30 a. m
Solid Vestab ule Train,
The Best and Quickest
Chicago Express leaves Brenham 11:47 a
m., and arrives at Brenham 4:25 p. ra
Santa Fe Limited arrives at Brenham 5.33
a. m.
Double Daily Trains over Santa Fe route;
Call on Agents for particulars.
>7. S. KEENAN,
Gon. Pass. Agent
Money cannot buy better goods, ° because
none better are produced.
For Sale by Leading Fancy Grocers
OF BRENHAM.
CANKER OF CORPORATE GREED.
According to the Greenville
Banner the most, serious danger
that threatens the perpetuity of
in this republic is the pernicious
and constantly growing activity
of powerful corporations'in poli-
tics. They go into elections,
federal, state, county municipal,
with their money and their
agents, having some selfish end to
attain and often succeed in defeat
ing the purpose for which man-
hood suffrage was instituted.
The enormous number of em-
ployes which many of them have
in their service tempts them to
add coercion to their other meth-
ods for securing votes for the
candidate favored by them. Fail-
ing to secure a sufficient number
of city couneilmen, legislators or
congressmen pledged to pass
The Delagoa bay arbitrators,
in session at Berne, decided that
Portugal must pay England and
the United States 15,314,000
francs, which is considered wholly
inadequate.
North Carolina held her State
convention on the 12th inst.,
nominated a full state ticket and
instructed her delegates to the
Nlational convention to support
Hon. W. J. Bryan.
It is reported that H. C. Frick
has offered to dispose of his in-
terest in ihe Carnegie company
for 815,000,000, and it is believed
that he will encounter little diffi-
culty in finding a buyer.
An expert estimates the num-
ber of bales. of cotton still in the
hands of Texas producers at
400,000, which we consider ex-
cessive. Aery few producers
have any cotton on hand at this
iime.
Gotham is said to be the great-
est “gold brick” market in Amer-
ica. A New York exchange as-
serts that while a philanthropist
would find it impossible to sell to
our people gold dollars at a liberal
discount, that anybody can dis-
pose of any quantity of gold
bricks at a heavy advance on the
market price.
The question of transportation
to old Washington for the un-
veiling exercises next Saturday
is a difficult one to solve. The
first step in the, solution of it has
been taken by Henry Meyer, who
announces that he will take a
four-horse team and float carry-
ing ten people at a rate of 75
cents for the round trip.
ing the Irish potato crop, there-
fore I think it timely to give a
remedy that will destroy these
pests: Take 4 pounds of lime
slacked in 6 gallons of water, 6
pounds of bluestone dissolved in
16 gallons of water, and mix by
by pouring the lime water into
the bluestone water; add water
to make 50 gallons then put 1-4
pounds of London purple or Paris
green into this. Apply with a
spray pump or sprinkling pot and
if a bug eats the leaf of the pota-
to from one to 20 days after ap-
plication it will kill them.
Compliments of the spray man,
J. T, Guffin.
—Sherman is to have a cracker
factory. •
—Mexican War Veterans will
meet in Waco on May 22d.
—Potato bugs are depredating
on the crop in Jefferson county.
—The agricultural reports
places Texas winter wheat at
101.
—Corpus Christi primaries show
that city in favor of Chilton for
senate.
—There were fifty contestants ingn harmoniously and satiijifac-
in the old-time fiddler’s carnival
at Dallas last week.
—The University of Texas will
conduct a summer normal this
year instead of a school of
methods.
—The father of Judge John N.
Henderson, of the Court of Ap-
peals, died at his home in Mar-
shall last ’^eek.
—A white man named Smith,
80 years old was given the death
penalty for the murder of a wo-
man at Nacogdoches.
—In the primaries last Satur-
day "
Ud^Hup, Van Zandi
Brand Ham
Brand Breakfast Bacon
Brand Lard (ABS?^IEL¥>
J. G. SLOAN,
Pass. Agent, Brenham.
Following are the nominees of the Demo-
cratic party of Washington County as de-
cided by the primary election held March
31, 1900, and to be voted for at the gener-
al election to be held Tuesday, Nov. 6.1900
For Representative—4“ th^District,
SAM H. GOODLETT
For District Clerk.■<
A. M. KRUG. ‘
For County Judge
E. P. CURRY.
FOR SHERIFF.
D, E. TEAGUE.
For County Attorney.
W. R. EWING.
For County Clerk.
O. A. SEWARD.
For State and County TaxJCollector
SAM SCHLENKER.
For County Treasurer.
C. F. HERBST.
For Justice of the Peace, Precinct No, S-
JOHN CHAPPELL
For Constable PrecinctJNo. 3,
R. H, BURCH.
For Commissioner, Precinct No 3
JOHN R. PENNINGTON
f Editor and
t Proprietor.
The Weekly Banner.
Reichardt
Becker & Co.
North? These should be made
right here. We are only paying
freight out and to no good end,
save to the keeping of our pro-
ducers poor.—Beeville Picayune.
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The political situation in Tyler
and in Smith county is a disgrace
to the people. Perjury is openly
and publicly committed and the
execution of the law is in the
hands of those who were made
officers through perjury and
bribery. Without a change in
the very near future Tyler and
Smith county are ruined. Will
the good people unite to save
their homes?—Tyler Courier.
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Prohibition may be a dead issue
in Texas. Bailey’s idea of that
campaign, however, illustrates
another of the many twists in the
young man’s mentality. He can-
vassed for prohibition, but now
says that he accepted in good
faith the declaration of the Dem-
ocratic Convention of 1888 that
the election of 1887 was a finality
as to prohibition. No one has a
right to accept a convention dec-
laration as a “finality,” because
no convention can bind future
conventions. Bailey ought not
to thus cut the prohibitionists off
from all hope., But to illustrate
that “twist:” Why did he no
in the same manner accept the
decision of the Democratic Con-
vention at Chicago? Why did he
enter the field denouncing Bryan
at the most critical moment?
Why has he played the role of
party obstructionist since the
Galveston Convention? Why is
he now running for the United
States Senate, not against Chil-
ton, but against the Democratic
party of Texas? Why and where-
f ore.—Texas Farmer.
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^^Wre is much talk among the
few Bailey followers of Nacog-
doches county of Bailey’s slump-
ing the county against Chilton
for United Statesse nator. They
have the utmost confidence
that their man can wipe Chilton
off the face of the earth, and in
their pomposity insinuate that
Chilton will never face him on
the stump. That’s what Bailey
thought, too, before his Fort
Worth speech. We’ll bet he
knows better now.—Nacogdoches
Sentinel.
of President Will H. Mayes, Read Before
the Texas Press Association
The annual address of President Will H.
Mayes was read before the Texas Press Asso-
ciation on Thursday afternoon.
In deference to an established custom,
rather than because I' have anything of im-
portance to say to you at this meeting, I
present this address. It is well enough at
- the close of the old year and before entering
Steadily growing more numerous, the new that we should allow our minds to
retrospect—looking at the things that have
been done as well the things that have been
left undone, and that have helped or retarded
our mutual interests.
Our association was organized twenty-one
years ago and these years have marked many
and important changes in the printing and
allied interests in our State, While there has
been a marked improvement in this time in
the industries of the world and wonder-
ful progress has been made in all trade and
business, the printing industry has easily
kept in the lead. The past quarter of a
century has been one of marked revelation
in every branch of our business.
All over the land the old hand press has
given way to the modern DOwer press, and
even in the small offices typesetting
machinery is encroaching upon the rights of
the old time printer. Modern methods have
taken the place of the old. The newspaper
man who has kept up with the times has
prospered; the one who-has allowed himself
to fall into grooves, and who has refused to
see the advancement of the day‘ is the one
who complains that times have changed for
the worse. Progress is the order of the day.
He who stands still is soon left alone in the
race for success. Our business leads all
others. In it leaders alone can hope to win;
laggards must fall. ‘
The Texas Press association has been a
great factor in stimulating the press of the
State to that untiring energy which insures
success. Its encouraging influence in this
respect alone is enough reason for its
existence, but it has done more than this: it
has united the newspaper men of the State
in the laudable effort to improve the tone of
the press, to. elevate the morals of the peo-
ple, to sustain the laws of the land, to en-
courage commerce, promote industry, to
build up and beautify our loved State and
add to the welfare and happiness of the
masses.
It has been but a few years since the news-
paper business was sustained more as a
necessary evil in a community than for its
helpful influence with the people from whom
it received its patronage and among
whom it circulated. The editor himself was
usually noted for his failures in all branches
of business and was one whose counsel and
advice were only used in disposing of ques-
tions regarded as too trivial for the thought-
ful consideration of the busy man. He was
a literary misfit, half smart and half foolish,
whose whims were borne more because
they had to be endured than because they
were appreciated.
The times have changed, and with the new
order of things the man of mind, thought
and energy has pushed aside the old-fashion-
ed editor and has taken his place in the edi-
torial chair. The editor is now a man re-
spected among men, his counsel sought and
appreciated by his neighbors, his intellectual
ability recognized and his social and busi-
ness standing as good as that of most men
in the community in which he lives.
While our association has accomplished
nothing remarkable, we have cause for con-
gratulation upon the steady growth which it
has made and upon its influnce in every
factor of the State’s progress. Our meetings
have come to be recognized as important
events in the history of the State; not so
much for the methods which we adopt or
the work which we accomplish, as for the
fact that representative men of every section
are gathered together, not so particularly for
the good resulting to their own personal
enterprises as for the_benefits_resulting-to-tJie
State’af large. The public is fast learning
that selfishness and the newspaper business
can not prosper together, and that the news-
paper man is most successful who is broad-
est-guaged in his views and in his services for
ths upbuilding of his community and the
country at large. Our association has a
broadening influence; through it we learn
more of each other and of the different pur-
poses ofits members
The past has, in many respects, been pe-
culiar. Most of us have enjoyed increasing
prosperity’, business has been good and the
prospects are bright. The Slate is being
rapidly developed, and the press has turned
its attention largely from politics to the in-
dustrial development of the country, recog-
nizing the fact that the continued prosprity of
the people rests on this. Our labors have
not been entirely unrewarded. In a number
of towns, where but a short time ago all the
attention and capital was devoted to com-
merce, the whistle of the factory can now be
heard, and throughout the State there is
dawning an era of manufacturing enterprise
that bids.fair to startle even the most expect-
ant. This should be yery gratifying to the
newspapers, which have, as in most things,
led in this campaign for the betterment of
the State.
The general tone of the press has im-
proved quite perceptibly, and while, perhaps
most of us are not conducting our papers
entirely as Sheldon would have us do, yet
there is very little in the press of Texas of
which we need be ashamed, and its influence
is decidedly more elevating than harmful.
But-all has not been sunshine; we have bad
trouble enough. It has been difficult te>
convince the law makers of our State that
Texas needs a libel law. Our committee has
been at work, and is etill at work to secure
some legisla ion upon this subject. All that
we have asked of our law makers is that
there may be some definition of libel. We
do not ask a law for our protection, but for
our guidance. We hope yet to see our re-
quests receive favorable consideration.
The trusts, too have grappled us by the
throat and are robbing us of our hard earned
money by almost doubling the prices of all
the products which we handle. In every
State in the Union the associations are de-
manding that their representives in congress
give them some relief.
The government itself still lays its hand
heavily upon our business by engaging in
it, and by its unlimited wealth has made of
itself a competitor in the printing business,
whose prices we can not hope to meet, its
goods being sold on the market; today for less
money than they can be secured by the
printer. While our influence may not Coun-
teract the evils complained of, we can at least
enter a protest against the manifest injustice
imposed upon our trade. While these
things hurt us, we should not be discouraged;
persistency is the price of success, effort and
time can remove these evils.
An interesting programme has been pre-
pared for this meeting. You will no doubt
enjoy it. It is hoped that the discussions
may be free and that the results may redound
to the good of every member present. The
pleasures of this meeting as we have been
assured, will hardly be surpassed by any
former gathering of this body. It is the
earnest desire of your president that our
meeting may be both profitable and enjoy-
able, that we may come to know each other
better; that we may leave here with aspira-
tions and a stronger love for the business to
which we are devoting our lives, and that
in recalling the history of the association our
minds may revert with great pleasure to this
occasion.
It is claimed that the Ke^page
_______________ ____ __ _____ is now the finest warship in the
untrammeled popular sovereignty American navy.
’ ” ’ ‘ British forces in South Africa
are encountering rather a “rocky
road” en route to Pretoria.
Mark Hanna thinks Dewey’s
announcement ought to have
been made April 1st—all fool’s
day.
Webster Davis opened his
lecture course with an immense
audience in. Washington last
week.
Dewey now claims to have al-
ways been a democrat, but he has
submitted no gilt-edged pVqof to
that effect.
. The $250,000 gold statue of
Maud Adams for the Paris Expo-
Georgia has a law on her
statute books which forbids the
mortgaging of a crop that has
not been planted and is not up
and growing. Good law.
The ladies of New Orleans are
said be taking an unusually ac-
. tive interest in the approaching
Louisiana State fair, which is
having a beneficial effect.
It is reported that both Nica-
ragua and Costa Rico have an-
nounced their willingness to co-
operate with the United States in
the cqnstructien ofthepronosejj.
^It is said to be the intention of
Waco, Texas^ April 15.—Gen-
Gen. Miles and Admiral.©^ eral Joiin B. Gordon, command-
er-in-chief of the United' Con-
federate Veterans, who is on a
lecture tour in Texas, attended
the revival meeting in Gatesville,
Coryell county, conducted by
' Rev. Abe Mulkey and at the con-
clusion of the sermon the evan-
1 gelist called on him for remarks.
General Gordon responded
i from his place on the platform
I near the preacher in one of the
| most powerful exhortations, it is
p said, that has ever been heard in
r.this State. His remarks were ad-
I dressed principally to the Confed-
erate Veterans present. Inmost
|eloquent periods he depicted their
Ihe^people of this country! grand and glorious achievements
republican form of government country, moving his hearers to
the highest pitch of patriotism ;
then in. tenderest tones he made
an appeal to them to take up the
armor of Christ that was sub-
lime and absolutely resistless.
At the close of this appeal about
forty Confederate Veterans came
forward. No such scene was
ever enacted before. The old
gyay-haired Veterans crowded
around their chieftain, one after
another, embracing him, and
then they would fall upon one
another’s necks shouting, the
tears streaming down their faces,
It was some time before this
ebullition of religious fervor be-
came sufficiently controlled for
others to reach the platform, but
about one hundred others finally
came forward for prayers.
Dr. Ed. Carleton returned yes-
terday from a trip to Austin.
sition has been rejected by the woolen and cotton goods from the
commissioners.
There was a heavy fall ofsnow
throughout central and western
Kansas last week, seriously llam-
aging the fruit crop.
Consul Hay reports tW he
has found nothing in the reiords
or elswhere at Pretoria to con-
firm Macrum’s charge.
Berlin appears to be somewhat
displeased with the plan J|H;he
convocation pf the SeconcTin-
American congress. Sad, wn’t
it?
Gen. Buller is again becom-
ing the target 'of the English
press, who are severely c^iiicis-
luth
torily, which is just as it should
be.
The Brownwood Banner-Bul-
letin suggests the following pres-
idential ticket to some party in
search of timber: “Dewey and
McLean, with the platform, ‘ jkeep
it in the family.” ,
The chances now seem I
about equally divided beb
Hon. Richard Olney and Adi
Dewey for the goldbug nM
tion for the presidency.
bow chasers they are abcW
par.
A duel with pisiplsktoM
several days; ago in the^B
.Mexico betwieen_j£K5^M
prominent families, resW
one of the combatanO
seriously wounded. VenrH
“world do move.” '
Kansas City has gone
rebuilding her great auM
and promises to have itinjB
readiness for the accommoU
of the National Democratic
vention, which convenes in
city on the 4th day of next J?
The San Antonio Light (isj
vocating the organization o?
“lily white” republican^ par$ in
the South, claiming th^t the si c-
cess and salvation of the party in
the Southern States depends
largely upon the inauguration pf
such a movement. I
Oregon populists
iheir intention
Bryan.
The Russian force on the
Turkish frontier has been largely
overestimated by foreign cor-
respondents.
The National Senate positively
refused to confirm W. D. Bynum
as general appraiser of the port they proceed
of New York.
The army appropriation bill
passed by the national house upon the courts and officials in-
trusted with the execution of the
law.
lilton carried
rjoriti.es;
^-Wallis precinct, in Austin
opens soldiers’ homes to disabled
Spanish war veterans.
The war in South Africa has
had a tendency to materially
strenghen the government party
in the British pariament.
The daughter of ex-Speaker
Reed and 47 other young women
graduated as lawyers at the
University of New York.
The British army in South
Africa appears to be greatly in
need of competent or efficient
officers especially field officers.
The total coinage at the mints
of the United States during March
was $17,075,688. Gold, $12,596,-
.240, silver, $4,341,375; minor
coins, $138,072-.
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