The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-10-19
what the EIec,,on Proves.

We have gained great and decisive
victory. Texas has declared to the
world, that she is democratic by a vote
of from twenty five TO thirty thousand
majority, and yet even she has not
shown Ler great strength. We declare
that Texas is to day Democratic by
forty thousand majority, and when the
people are called upon at The next rlCc-
ton TO cast their vote, We confidently
expect such result. And yet the
Legislature is composed two birds Of
Republicans How this element got
its position is we'll En VII. Il was the
same work which declared L J. Davis
the elected Governor of the Stale,
when Gen. Hamilton really received
the majority. 1t was the same fraud
ulent principle, which is now lending
its help to the great d.scrcdit Of the
administration and the Republican
party, to suppress again the freedom
of the ballot, that ground work Of
American, republican Institutions.
The conflict has been conducted
purely upon State issues; national
questions have net been added to the
exciting questions of the contest. Had
they been, and we were TO calculate
results by the plain luie Of addition,
our majority should have been greater.
Yet this is not the point.
We wish to call attention 10 the
fact, that the fight las been made alone
upon questions bearing upon the Davis
administration. 1t has been nothing
more than an expro ssion of the gov
erned, the very people who are now
being lorded over by Radical Cover
nor and Legislature, and whose voice
is now clearly proved as not being cx-
pressed through them.
1t has been asserted by the Radical
party, that tho Davis administration
met with the hearty approval Of a
large majority of the citizens CT this
State, and upon this issue, and none
other, was the contest decided. The
Radical candidates, especially Mr..
Degener, attempted to make dodge
from these issues, knowing themselves
that they were not tcDablc with safety;
and their fears have realized.
Yet after all, the measures tf the
Davis administration are only a pro-
totype of President Grants. His dis
position, from the first, has been to
concentrate a power within himself
greater than any other; to clOthe him.
self with a magnitude, which would be
in itself the government, and TO effect
this end governors have been called in
to aid him. TIE passage Of the militia
and police laws, the enabling act,
the suspension Of the writ of habeas
corpus, and the many other tyrannical
laws and acts which have been forced
through the Legislature under the SUI
pervision of {. J. Davis, and eminating
from him in person, are all nothing
more than adjuncts to that power for
its more secure establishment.
But in the canvas national questions
were not admitted. State issues alone
were attacked and defended by the con.
testants, and the result shows the con-
demnaticn in which the Davis admins
tration is held. And yet it was con
tended, that the people supported him;
and let us add, that, had the Judgment
passed upon the Radical party of Texas
been postponed until even to day, it
would have been more decided still.
The Radical party is far, far weaker,
BOW then then, and It's fate, as it just
| ly deserves, is humiliation.