WALLER COUNTY FACTIONS.
General Disarming of Officers Concurred ?? — Reportorial Vindication.
HEMPSTEAD, Tes., June 19. — TO THE NEWS: Mr. H. M. Browne, one of the leading attorneys engaged in the case of Springfield and McDade, publishes a communication in to-day's issue of THE NEWS showing plainly his dislike to my following President Cleveland's advice — tell the truth — concerning the unhappy state of affairs which has so long disgraced Waller county. The writer has often, in the interest of peace and to cool off the hot heads of both factions to the controversy, suppressed much news belonging to the public rather than cause trouble by its publication. Nineteen out of twenty of the citizens of Waller county have given the writer credit for his impartial reports ever since the trouble started. Your correspondent is perhaps as much if not more interested than Captain Browne in having the peace preserved in the county, and would be the last man to advise a conflict between the two factions.
If both factions would honestly make an agreement to disarm their forces and let the rangers take charge of the police business of the city and county until all trouble is over, it would indeed be a wise measure, and the writer would favor such a movement.
Twenty-seven years wearing the uniform of a GALVESTON NEWS correspondent, four years of that time with the army in the field, has given the writer enough experience to know the duties and rights of a newspaper correspondent, and when he wishes to publish facts of interest to the readers of THE NEWS, will be sure to do so at any and all times, and will not be bulldozed.
W.P. DOMAN,
Brenham and Hempstead Regular Correspondent.
"WALLER COUNTY FACTIONS" Galveston Daily News, Tuesday, November 20, 1888, p. 7, col. 6.