Waco Daily News (Waco, Texas) Vol. 2 No. 238, Wednesday, April 23, 1890

              VOL- 2- WACO TEXAS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 23, 1890. NO. 238.
SANGER 4 BROS
CLOTHING DEPARTMENT.
We are daily receiving new things in mens and boys
suits. Our large sales makes it necessary for us to be get-ting
in new goods all the time and stocks are always com-plete.
We have had a large run this season on our three
special numbers of custom made sack and frock suits at
$io.oo, $12.50 and $15.00 a suit, and anew arrival has just
been opened. No other house can or will duplicate these
goods at our prices. We have them in fancy Cassimeres,
fancy Worsted and Scotch Cheviots.
A new line of patterns in custom made dress suits in
sacks and frocks at $16.50, $18.50, $20.00, $22.50 and $25.00,
have just been opened, and we invite inspection. Ask to
see our special lines of fine finished unlined Serge and
Cheviots suits, in black and blue, all warranted fast colors
and wash like a piece of flannel.
BLACK SUITS.
Our stock of black Corkscrew suits is always complete.
We carry a large line of sack, frock, Prince Arthur and
Prince Albert suits. Large line of suits in extra sizes, long
slims and short stouts.
ZEPHYR CLOTHING.
Our Summer weight clothing is now open and ready for
inspection.
BOYS GLOTHING.
We have the only exclusive Boys Clothing Depart-ment
in the state; very large stock to select from and prices
always correct.
SANGER BROS.
WACO BOARD OF TRADE.
Every Good Citizen, is Invited to
Join the Board of Trade Next
Wednesday Night, City Hall, 8
O’Clock, April 23, 1890.
Every Member Will Please At-tend.
C. C. McCULLOCH,
Secretary.
NEW LUMBER YARD.
FIFTH STREET, JUST BELOW ROYAL HOTEL.
O. wr. GATES, Proprietor.
SHINGLES, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDING.
Mills at Wilmar and Thornton, Ark.
A FARMER SPEAKS OUT.
The Railrod Question.
To the News.
The railroad question bids fair to be
the only live issue in the oomiDg state
election, and it would seem that dis-cussion
of the question is in order.
Railroad attorneys are always in the
field, and their specious and insinuat-ing
pleadings may be seen in publish-ed
interviews, and double headed
newspaper articles, and heard in pub-lie
speeches on every hand. The peo-pie
who have opened these great high-ways
of traffic and travel, and who
have generously paid of their sub-stance,
in bonuses, land grants and
rights-of-way to their agents, the rail-road
companies, double, and even
quadruple in some insti nces, the cost
of constructing and placing in run-ning
order of these state highways,
seem to have very few friends in their
efforts to control their agents, that the
people’s transportation business shall
be carried on fairly, justly and equi-tably
to all parties concerned.
The people are the owners of these
highways and are justly proud of them,
proud or their achievements in the
way of opening up such vast sections
of this magnificent state to commerce,
travel, argriculture and manufactures.
They are also proud of their agents,
the railroad companies—proud of their
energy and skill in conducting the
people’s business, and more than will-ing
to pay them fair compensation in
the shape of tolls for all their services.
But when these agents transcend
the authority given them by the peo-pie,
and undertake to establish pools
and combines for the purpose of push-ing
up rates and preventing fair com-petition,
when they build up monopo-lies
and tear down the equality of in-dividual
interest, or when they under-take
to destroy the commercial inter-ests
of one town to build up another,
when by discrimination in rates, by
rebates and other fraudulent devices
competition is destroyed, and one citi-zen’s,
corporation’s or company’s husi-ness
prospered, while another’s is
bankruped, then the people know that
their agents are false to the trust re-posed
in them; that they, the people,
are being willfully, grossly and out-rageously
wronged, and they Bimply
require such legal enactments as shall
effectually right such wrongs. This
was the bread which they demanded of
the last legislature, and in lieu
of which they received the poo::,
paltry, worthless stone of a constitu-tional
amendment, which, when adopt-ed
by the people, will simply say to
wonderfully brainy man who conceived
and brought forth he mosirous abor-tion,
that a railroad is a railroad, and
wrongs and frauds committed by rail-road
companies may bo provided
against by legislative enactment.
The enormity of brain power to con- j
ceive and bring forth such an over-whelmning
proposition to be made a
part of the organic law of the great
state of Texas is something wonder-ful
to contemplate. ,
The imbecility of the thing would
doubtless be the means of its defeat,
were it not that the railroad oompa-nies
and their attorneys in and out of
the legislature would forthwith as-sume
that the people were opposed to
railroad legislation of any sort; and
one of our announced candidates for
the legislature with his little bill for
the imprisonment of railroad officials
and stopping all proceedings With the
judgment of one court—of which there
might be grave constitutional ques-tions—
woilld find himself fearfully
handicapped by the cry of “no legisla-tion
wanted.”
The people should remember that
many weary years have witnessed the
fruitless endeavor to deal, by the or-dinary
course of legislative action, with
the wrongs enumerated above. The
failure of scoi action is precisely what
makes the issue; and yet at least two
announced candidates for the legisla-ture
propose to carry on the failure,
and upon that line will no doubt be
supported by the railroad companies,
for it is a significant fact that railroad
companies, attorneys, whistlers, blow-ers,
strikers, free-passers and adver-tisers,
are all in deadly hostility to a
commission. They are hostile to in-terstate
commerce laws, hostile to
trust and pool and combine laws, and
in fact, hostile to any law which would
effectually bar the companies Irom
the commission of the wrongs refer-red
to.
“The commission is given too much
power,” cries out the railroad compa-nies,
and every attorney, blower and
striker takes up the song and howls in
chorus “too much power.’’
Yes, gentlemen, the shoe pinches
right where it was intended to pinch.
The bill was well and carefully drawn,
and would undoubtedly heve stood the
test of the supreme court; and if hon-estly
administered, as the writer be-l'eves
it would have been, the power
delegated would have been
too much for monopoly, too much for
pools, too much for unjust charges, dis-criminations,
rebates and otheT frauds,
but none too much for the interests of
the people in the suppression of the
evils complained of.
Notwithstanding the intimations to
the contrary the writer believes there
are many hundreds of good and true
men in Texas, who not only have the
ability to fill the place of commission-er
under the bill, but whose hose hon-or
is unpurchasable and who can be
neither cajoled nor bulldozed into do-ing
an act which is contrary to good
conscience. For instance, the writer
believes that Judge Gerald would
have made a most excellent presiding
officer of the commission and none
would fear during his occupancy but
that the law Would have been faithful-ly
carried out.
The statement that the commission
would have been filled with broken
down politicians, party hacks or other
political riff-raffs is unworthy of notice
except to say that it is a slur upon the
democratic party of the state and a
gratuitous insult to the honor and in-tegrity
of the appointing power under
the bill.
We charge that legislative, judicial
and executive powers are dangerously
united in a commission, is a frightful
looking hobgoblin that has already
done duty in a dozen different states
where commissions have been estab-lished,
and when Texas began to wres-tie
with the question President Brown
dug the poor old skeleton out of the
debris around the Georgia State Cap-ital,
dressed up the odorous thing and
carried it to Austin to assist him in
overawing the Texas law makers. He
succeeded, but the writer is proud to
note that a solid phalanx of tha more
direct representatives of the people
sturdily refused, to be either scared by
rotten skeletons or overawed by great
railroad presidents. Ghosts that have
been laid by a dozen different states
and buried by as many supreme court
decisions are poor, scrawny, contemp-tible
things for men to be scared at,
but the Texas senate seemed to be-come
suddenly groggy and weak-kneed
when President Brown appeared
to them with his formidable looking
spectre. Let the people bury this
thing by the adoption of the proposed
amendment. Farmer.
Constable Lee Jenkins.
Voters of precinct No. 1, McLennan
county, will notice in announcement
column the name of Mr. Lee Jenkins
as a candidate for re-election to the
office of constable of precinct No. 1,
subject to the action of the democratic
jarty. Mr. Jenkins is well known as
an efficient officer. His reputation is
state wide and he is a perfect terror
to criminals. Being peculiarly adapt-ed
by disposition and training for de-tective
work, he has made quite a rep-utation
in that line. The race promis-es
to be a lively one, for it is under-stood
Mr. Jenkins will have several
opponents.
Changed Announcements.
Mr. K. H. Kingsbury’s announce-ment
first read subject to the demo-cratic
party. It now reads subject to
the primary election. The change
was made at his request.
Mr. Dee Cook had his changed from
its original form. It at first made
him a candidate at the ensuing elec-tion,
but Mr. Cook wanted it distinctly
understood that his candidacy was
subject to the democratic party by
whatever method they chose to adopt
in nominating.
Board of Trade meeting Wednes-day
night at 8:30 o’clock. City hall.
Spring hats at Mrs. B. J. Doss 400£
Austin street.
State Medical Association.
Special to the News.
Fort Wofth, April 23.—The doc-tors
enjoyed a reception at the Com-mercial
club last night. To-day has
been taken up reading and discussing
papers on diseases. E. L. Lambert,
chief examiner for the Equitable life
insurance company, gave the exam-iners
of that company a banquet. Pres-dent
Swearingen will read his annual
address at the opera house to-night.
Houston Happenings.
Special to the News.
Houston, April 23.—Prominent
capitalists and business men of this
city have a movement on foot for the
establishment of a cotton mill to cost
$500,000. Considerable interest is
being taken in the affair and it is
highly probable the enterprise will be
started.
One of the spans of the Sabine
street bridge over Buffalo bayou wash-ed
away last eyening. The Beauchamp
bridge across White Oak bayou has
also succumbed to the power of the
waters. The water in all of the streams
in the county is unusually high and
the prairies are also covered.
The city council met yesterday after-noon-
and approved the bonds of the
new officers.
Cyclone at Kyle.
Special to the News.
Austin, April 23.—A terrific cy-clone
visited Kyle, a village of some
600 inhabitants, twenty miles south of
here, last night. Many houses were
overturned and a few stables were de-molished
and swept away. The stable
of Mr. Storts was blown over and a
fine cow killed. Mr. Meyers’ barn was
swept away and two fine horses killed.
Two rooms of Mr. W. B. Webb’s resi-deuce
were blown down, but the in-mates
of the house were not injured.
The Kyle seminary was moved from
its foundation and carried twenty feet
without seriously injuring the struc-ture.
It is feared great damage has
been done growing corn and other
crops in the track of the storm. So
far as known here no persons were
killed.
San Antonio Siftings.
Special to tho News,
San Antonio, April 23.—The heav-iest
rain in years fell last night and
this morning.
Crops of the surrounding section are
now assure to be big.
Perparations are now being made
here for the establishment of an ex-tensive
sanitarium, and the buildings
and appliances will cost many thou-sand
dollars. Dr. B. F. Kingsley is
at the head of the enterprise.
A party of St. Louis capitalists will
arrive in San Antonio to-morrow morn-ing
in a special car. They will visit
the principal towns of Texas.
James Neville, the noted horse thief
arrested in Denver, according to a
special to the Times, will be returned
here for trial.
Base Ball.
The Waco team tackled the Sand
Crabs at Galveston yesterday and un-til
the sixth inning kept the home
team shut out. Waco had scored 3 in
the fourth and in the sixth Galveston
secred 1. "Whittaker had been in the
box for Waco up to the close of the
sixth, when he was replaced by Der-rick.
In the seventh an,d eighth Gal-veston
scored 3 and 4, and at the
close of the eighth the game was call-ed
on account of darkness, the score
standing 8 to 3 in favor of Galveston.
THE SCORE BT INNINGS.
Galveston___0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4—S
Waco........ ,..0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0—3
Base hits, Galveston 7; Waco 5.
Earned runs, Galveston 3. Two base
hits, McGuirk, Works. Sacrifice hits,
Ward, Peeples. Bases on called balls,
off Whittaker 6; off Derrick 2; off
Huston 2. Batters hit, Polhemus,
Ward, Derrick. Struck out, by Hus-ton
3. Passed halls, Land 2. Wild
pitehes, Whitta er 1; Derrick 1. Time
of game, 2:03. Umpires Hennessy,
Derrick and Kittle.
Austin played Houston at home
yesterday and won the game by a
•core of 5 to 4. Dallas and Fort
Worth did not play on account of
rain.
The finest of corned beef cooked or
raw at J. C. Crippen’s.