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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-09-14

tons and civil rights, would remain
unchanged. I would inculcate the
maxim, that undying vigilance is the
price Of liberty.
What have we now before US
what a heart sickening spectacle is
now presented to the view, and con-
sideration of the people of this State.
The ballot box that was once as free
as the pure breezes of heaven, is now
to be guarded by mercenary SOL
diery and bristling bsyonets, Gnder
the command of Edmund the l.,
and his Infamous subaltern. A poor
little deminutive watery nosed petty
Jogging tyrant. What is the object
of all this military array around the
ballot box? Who, in all this broad
land has made any demonstrations to
interrupt the regular operation of
the election laws Of the State ? No
one has anticipated result of that
nature; it only floats in the distem-
pered, morbid, imbecile and weak
brain of old Granny Davis, who
holds the reins of our State govern
ment in his feeble, polluted and I'M
halloWed hands. o Temporal! o
mores I cannot resist the tempta-
ton, to apply to his little majesty
the Classic proVerb, parUuns PaTUa
decent!
I am anxious to understand and to
inquire what our little pettyfogging
tyrant can promise himself in the
course of policy that he is now pur-
suing. Does he fatter himself, that
the people are going to submit much
longer to his usurpation of power,
and the violation of their rights and
liberties -? I tell you they will not;
the day ofretribution is near at hand
when the little petty tyrant will be
hurled from his seat of power to rise
no more.
Your Imperial Majesty seems to
to be running the car of State, with
as much force and momentum as
Jehu of old drove his chariot. Roll
on your tyrannical car, your race will
soon be run the hand writing has
appeared upon the wall, you have
been weighed in the balance and
found wanting.
hope that Heaven will in some
way relieve us of Second Nero, 4
am not particular how it is done. }
Our country calls and bleeds to be
relieved from a monster in human
form. il
Your Majesty issued your election
order for a special purpose, not that
you anticipated any disorderly con-
duct upon the part of the DemocPtr
ic voters; you had an Interior object
in view; the object that you had in
view in parading your mercenary
troops around the ballot box, was,
to bring on difficulty between your
hired minions and rufians and the
voters, that you might have plau-
sible pretext to exclude the demo-
cratic votes polled; the people fully
understand your motives. The whole
scheme is worthy of just such little
bObtaiIed tyrant as your Majesty is.
Dunn Vitant stWlti vitiG an coetrariO
curTant. PHILo LEX.
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DOn,fEorgef II.

Registration commences to-day, and
it is the business of all Registrars to
keep their Offices open daily, Sundays
excepted, for ten days, during the
prescribed hours. Five days previous
to the election the board of appeals
meet to revise the lists and hear ap-
peals No person is permitted to vote
unless his name appears on the regis
tration list, which is shown by the
presentation of his certificate. Should
any voter loose bis certificate, he is all
lowed to vote upon making affidavit
that the same has been lost or destroyed.
All persons holding certificates of reg.
istration from one county, who desire
to be transferred as voters to another
county, should present their certif-
Gates during registration, as they are
subject to revision by the board of ap-
peals.
Citizens of Texas, it is solemn and
imperative duty you owe to yourselves,
your children, your State and your
country, that you exercise due dill.
gence in registering.
Your honor as Americans is at stake.
Register and votel
Your liberties as freemen are at
stake. Register and vote!
All you possess, your life, liberty
and property are at stake. Register
| and votel
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A Card,

In the Daily State Journal of this
date, the following language is used {:
"His Speaking of Judge John Hancock
ambition has led him to seek Congress
sional honors at different times, always being
defeated. His record, as set forth in the
published journals of our State Senate, 1870,
from pages $40 to $50, in which he is con-
victed on the testimony of Gov. Throck-
morton, W. N. Walton and Detective Hun
nicut, of being a perjurer and a legislative
corruptionist," etc.
So far as the above assertion is
based on any evidence given by me,
before any Legislative committee or
elsewhere, it is wilfully and deliber-
ately false, and the man who statos,
in writing or otherwise, that my testi-
mony can or does convict John Han.
cock of perjury or as a Legislative
corruptionist, is an infamous liar.
W. NJ. WALTON.
Aucfin Cont q
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An unknown correspondent, writing
to the STATESMAN, puts some very point
ed questions, to which we respond with
pleasure, as in each case we are able,
without a moments hesitation, to give
answers which, We trust, viii prove
entirely satisfactory;
Who perpetuates the spirit of strife
and rekindIes the hatred engendered
by the war +? The Radical party.
Who has, in part, established a ne
gro government over eight millions of
whites? The Radical party.
Who are encouraging negro mobs to
hunt down black men for opposing
despotism E. J. Davis and his good
man Friday, the Adjutant General.
Who are arming the blacks and
putting shackles on the whites? E. j.
Davis and his underlings.
Who have armed whites and blacks,
and organized them for violence and
plumber? E. ]. Davis and his hire
lings.
Who have appointed thieves and
convicts to Office, to rule the Demo-
Gratis with bayonets? E. ]. Davis and
his good man Friday, the Adjutant
General.
Who has trampled upon the law, in
violation of the Constitution? The
Radical party. g
Who tramples upon the courts, and
orders judicial officers to do his bidding?
E. j. Davis.
Who continually hatch up false
cases of murder, to send North to
make political capital The entire
Radical press, the State Journal
taking the lead.
Who rob the people of their sub
stance? All the Radical ofice-holders.
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Burnet County Taxpayers
Mass Meeting.

A mass meeting was called of the citi-
zens of Burnet county on the regular day of
militia muster. The business of the meeting
was opened by Captain Thomas D. Vaughn,
who proposed General A. R. johnson as
Chairman.
Upon taking the chair, General johnson
briefly stated the objects for which the meet
ing had been called.
Committee on Resolutions-C. G. Baker,
D. L. Lee, George Whitaker, Ms A. Field,
Thomas D. Vaughn and Thomas Roach.
The report of the above committee was
that they fully endorse the resolutions of the
citizens of Galveston, had and adopted by the
committee appointed at a meeting held at the
Turner's Hall, and the following delegates
were appointed to attend the Convention to
be held in Austin on the 22d of September:
Hopkins Wolfe, Norton Moses, NJ. A. Field,
G. O. Baker, Thomas D. Vaughn, Alex Bar
ton, Judge J. Barton, s. G. Holland, Josiah
Fowler, George Lacey, A. R. Johnson, W. E..
Wooton, Isaac Hoover, Thomas Roach, R. a..
Flippin, D. L. Luce, E. Sampson, Thomas
Woodland and Albert Grosseckie.
The DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN and Weekly
Dispatch are requested to publish the pro-
ceedings of the above meeting.
JOHN COLBERT, Secretary.
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The Election Bill.

One Of the first acts demanding the
attention of the Legislature is an act
ordering an election in accordance
with the terms of the State Constitu-
tion. We cannot believe that the direct
representatives of the people will so
far forget or neglect their duties as to
delay attention to this importantmatter.
We believe there are honest Republi-
cans, in both branches of the Legisla-
ture, who will not quietly submit to
caucus dictation, and who favor a new
election simply from plain sense of
right and common justice. They are
not such narrow minded partisans, SO
blind to their own interest and the
welfare of the people, so filed with
prejudice and party spleen, as to out
rage public sentiment by continued
and palpable violation of the fundamen-
tai law. These moderate Republicans,
men who honestly desire to act for the
public good, will, we trust, see proper
to unite with other good men, although
holding different political views, in
securing the early passage CT an act
which the great mass of the people
demand and to which they are clearly
entitled.
1t may not be improper to'Sayin this
connection that, for a true man, brave,
honorable, upright and independent,
with fearless rOul, capable of defend
ing the right at all times and under all
circumstances, at every hazard and to
the last extremity, the people of Texas
entertain none other than feelings of the
highest respect, let him belong to what
ever party he may. But for the politi-
cal adventurer, the miserable charlatan,
the venal, corrupt, needy place-hunter,
who seeks Office only to get money,
ignorant alike of law, morals and de-
cency, the true Texan does now and
ever will entertain the most unutter-
able contempt. For such characters,
this paper and the Democratic press
generally, will always stand provided
with a whip of scorpions to lash the
scoundrels naked through the world.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-09-14

The tremendous and long continued
outbursts of applause which greeted
Newcomb as he assembled the stand
erected by the Democrats of San An
tonic for the use of Hancock and Deg
ener, deprived HancOck's friends from
listening to the speech prepared by
NewcOmb, in which, no doubt, he would
have informed his German friends that
he never abandoned principle, and was
ready to re.afirm that he was as good
a Know Nothing now as he was in
1855 when he edited the Alamo Star,
and labored for the success of that
party. In pursuing "ways that are
dark" and performing "tricks that are
vaine" Jimmie is peculiar"
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Meeting of the Citizens OF San
JacintO County.

Editor of Democratic Statesman.
At a recent meeting of the citi>
zens of San Jacinto county, held in
the town of Cold Springs, on the I'd
day of September, A. D. 1871, for
the purpose of electing delegates to
the Austin Convention, after the
house was called to order, it was
moved and seconded that Judge
John S. Cleveland explain the object
of the meeting, after which Col. Otis
NJ. Wheeler was chosen Chairman,
and U. johnson Secretary.
1t was moved and seconded that a
committee be appointed to draft resoA
lutiOns and to elect delegates to said
Convention, when the following per-
sons were appointed as a committee:
Jonn S. Cleveland, Greene B. Byrd,
John E. Hill, John A. Dupree and
W. B. Darby.
The committee then drafted the
following resolutions:
WHEREAS, A convention, regardless Of
party, is called to meet in the city of Aus
tin, on the 22d day of September, 1871, to
take into consideration, and, if possible, to
devise remedies against the burdensome tax
alton imposed by the last Legislature and the
recent election order or circular of Governor
E. ]. Davis, therefore,
ResOlUsd, That we, the citizens of San ia
hin fail IN he Hufrz IN he
resented in said Convention.
RESOLVED, That we do hereby elect and au-
thorize our fellow-citizen, W. T. Hill, and in
case he does not attend said convention We
appoint and request E. N. Pease and W. NJ
Walton to represent us therein.
JOHN S. CLEVELAND.
Fl JouNsou Sacrafarv
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A correspondent from Waco, I'M
der date of September 9th, writes:
The party here is we'll organized.
The account that you will see in the
Register (RadicaD of the Davis
meeting last Saturday night is a
false account of it. There were a
great many negroes, men, women
and children present, and a number of
whites, attracted by curiOsity-not
one-third of the white men of the
town we're present. The scene was
absolutely disgusting-negroes made
furious by the wretches who hold
power by means of these ignorant
creatures.
The Giddings demonstration on the
previous day was one of the most res
spectacle l ever attended. There
were but few negroes present.
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STATE NEWS.

At the last election in Fayette
county the list of registered voters
stood as follows: Whites, 1888;
blacks, 1921 white majority, 467.
The colored free school has 200
scholars in San Antonio and three
teachers.
About forty or fifty Freedmen in
Coryelle county, and the last one of
them will vote the Democratic ticket.
-Frontiersman.
Groesbeck is paying at the rate of
$33,725 year for water, which is
hauled on wagons.
Work on the Waco Tap Railroad
is progressing rapidly.
There are over 8O,OOO,00O acres
of unoccupied land in Texas.
Cattle stealing still continues on
the Rio Grande.
Nineteen car loads of freight came
up on the railroad last Monday eVe-
ming Victoria Advocate.
The citizens of Brennan are tax
ing steps to accommodate all Demo
Gratis from the country attending
registration and election.
The Democrats of Montgomery
county are making the fight in earn
est. Ali Democrates who 90 to the
county seat for the purpose of reg
istering will find free fare for man
and horse.
From the Inder, we learn that
Gonzales county has five Democratic
Clubs fully organized and before the
election will probably have as many
more. Keep the ball rolling.
1t costs 100000 per annum to
examine school teachers. This does
not include the pay of school super
Visors, directors or teachers.
The next Representatives in Con-
gress from Texas, will be Giddlngs,
Herndon, Conner and Hancock.
Radicals know this as we'll as the
Democrats.
Adjt. Gen. Davidson wants the
militia of Georgetown to be drilled a
month, because that county only gave
Edmund IA votes at the last election.
Davis is electioneering for Clark,
Davidson is organizing loyal leagues,
NewcOmb is working for Degener,
and the different Judges, whose blank
designations the Governor holds, are
speaking their pieces wherever and
whenever ordered.
The Houston Age says in the pro-
cession which marched out to meet
Davis when he visited Houston, there
were 327 men and 8 of them were
white. In the procession which met
Gen. Hamilton there were 500 men,
all white.
Gen. Davidson, in a speech at
Georgetown, said he wouldn't care if
the taxes were doubled. The Sen
tinel don't suppose he would when
he can handle it and steal his pOr-
ton.
San Antonio is considering the
sinking of artesian wells, the culture
of tea, and a subsidy to the Indianola
railroad.
A heavy rain fell at Lampasas on
the 9th, washing away picket fences
and doing much damage.
The majority of visitors at the
upper Springs have now left, and our
town begins to wear a dull look
Lampasas Dispatch.
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Meeting of the Citizens OfPan-
ola County.
CARTHAGE, TEXAS, Sept. 4,

OARTHAGEj IEAAsj OePt' = 1911.
To the Editor of the Democratic Statesman.
At a meeting of the citizens of
Pamela county, held at the Court
house in the town of Carthage, for
the purpose of selecting delegates to
the Convention to be held at
Austin on the 22d inst, R. H. Bel
lamy was called to the chair, and h.
D. Moorer was requested to act as
Secretary. The object of the meet
ing having been explained by the
chairman, the names of B. B. Lacy,
A. J. Booty and Frank Bell were
nominated as delegates, and elected
by reclamation.
Upon motion the meeting ad-
journed sine die.
r. II. BELLAMY,
I'D. MooRER, Sec. Chairman.
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DIass HTeetIng az san Saba.

At a convention of the citizens
and Taxpayers of San Saba county,
convened at the Courthouse, Judge
John Beasly was called to chair, w.
R. Alexander, Esq, was requested
to act as Secretary. The object Of
the Convention being explained, and
a committee consisting of Judge ].
B. Harrell, ]. II. Snellings, W. r.
Alexander, Joseph Fuller and I. W.
Ward were appointed to draft reso-
lutions.
On motion of 7. W. Ward, ESQ.,,
the Convention adjourned to assem-
BILE on the 31st., at the usual hour.
JOHN BEAsLY, Chairman.
w. r. ALEXANDER, Sec.
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The San Antonio Herald, of Sth
instant, contains the following inter-
esting items:
The last Eagle Pass stage came in
from the plains complete wreck. 1t
was run down by Mexican "schoOn-
err near Uvalde.
NJ. II. Campbell has been appointed
Deputy U S. Marshal for the Western
District of Texas, vice A. W. Kemp
ton, declined.
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Private AdVIces from Hancock
Rt L0Grange.

On the 18th inst. the people turned
out en- mass-Germans and Ameri-
cans Join in one acclaim for Hancock
Great enthusiasm and grand torchlight
procession at night.
The people enthused and deter
mined
His election no longer admits of a
doubt
Let our friends stand firm
Hurrah for Hancock !
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The corn crop in Henderson county
is reported to be fair, cotton not very
good. The same remark holds good
for Gonzales county.
Corn crop in Burleson county good,
cotton only middling.
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A Mystery.

Some unsophisticated chap up North,
doubtless living in one of the rural dis
tricts, says it is very remarkable fact
that speaker Blaine, who ten years
ago was a member of the Maine Legis-
lature, on a salary of $3.50 per an
mum, and whose salary as speaker is
only $4,000, is now a millionaire.
Why, there's nothing remarkable
about it at all; its the simplest thing
in the world. If the poor, benighted
individual who made the remark re-.
ferred TO, will only come to Texas,
visit Austin and consult with the Gov
ernor, the Attorney General, the Adju-
tant General, the Secretary of State,
and the editors and proprietors of the
State Journal, the whole mystery will
be explained quicker than mule can
kick. The mystery consists simply in
the scientific application of a beautiful
and newly discovered principle of gov
eminent, namely, to tax and steal,
and then to tax and steal again, and
then to tax and steal again, and so on
ts the end of the chapter-and then tc
tax and steal the whole thing all over
again, because it was not well done
at first.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-09-14

Henry E. RanCk, Radical, attended
and elOquentIy addressed the Mason
county taxpayers meeting, which
favored, in its resolutions, the resist
ance, by all the legal means within
the gift of the people, of the present
unjust, oppressive and unwarranted
taxation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-09-14

Who is Degener? He is French
Communist, a Prussian Red RePubli.
can, an American Slangwhanger, a
Mexican Blockader : a Sisterdale Monk,
Mormon Saint, Cayote Statesman,
and Congressional Failure. He was
once worth the powder and lead it
would take to kill him, but he's not
worth it now.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-09-14

Mr.. John 7. Porter, of Dewitt coun-
ty, sends the San Antonio Herald the
following prescription for the cure of
Loin Distemper in horses: "Mix tur>
pentine, salt and egg rub the loin
we'll twice a day for one week, and
your horse will get we'll have tried
it and seen it tried, and it seldom or
never fails"
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Austin, Sept. 8.

The schedule time of the Hudson
River Railroad will be at the rate of
one mile and half per miIute-a
rate of speed never heretofore
attained by any road in this country.
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Those who desire to hear the odlous
and unprincipled conduct of the party
in power held up to public scorn and
detestation should go to hear General
Shelley.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-09-14

We have made arrangements to
furnish our readers with full reports OF
the proceedings of the Legislature.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-09-14

The Paris Press puts the name of
Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks at it's mast
head, as choice for President.
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General N. G.. Shelley, who has been
making powerful Democratic speeches
during the canvass, will address his
fellow.citizens as follows:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-09-14

How to make the time 60 fast-use
the spur of the moment.
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In noticing our remarks of the Ger
mans organizing into anti Radical
clubs at Galveston, the LAGRANGE New
Era says:
If that's all the Germans in Galveston have
done, then they are slow team beside their
countrymen in Fayette county. There are
several times eighty Of them in this county
who have organized themselves into Ham
cock Clubs, and think they beat all Iudepen>
dent Peoples clubs in getting back to an
honest and efficient administration of the
government.
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AUSTIN,
HON. JOHN HANCOCK

rHURsDAY...........sEPTEMBER IA, 1871
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-01
Railway Courtesy.

A Boston paper wishes to know if
there is any way Of silencing the
railway liars. We are told that it
is common thing for travellers of
both sexes to enter a car, take a seat
next the window, place a shawl or
et-bag or newspaper on the
other seat, and then tell the next
applicant that it is reserved or en-
gagged, and repeat the lie as often as
application for it is made, with ap-
parently as little compunctiOns OF
conscience as they would eat line
peach or an ice-cream. In view Of
this prevalent system Of railway "
ling. is it not strange if occasionally
there should be one who, having
had his faith in such statements
wholly destroyed, should take pos
session of an unOccupied seat
wherever he finds it. At any rate,
we are certain of one thing, and that
is that there ought to be reform in
this matter of railway lying about
"engaged'' or reserved" seats. An
old traveller, it seems, entered a Bos-
ton train, and deposited himself in
a seat which contained a dog. He
quietly lifted the canine down, and
was informed that that seat was
"taken." Il know it is, was the
response, as he buried himself in
his paper. 1t seems the seat was
really claimed, but he declined to
give it up. Thus we have the lee
ture on railway etiquette. There
are certain little matters occurring
in public conveyances which the
company cannot regulate, and this
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-01
word Of Truth and Varnine.

John B. Cough, in a recent ap-
peal against the sale of Intoxicating
liquors said:
81 cannot drink moderately. It
is physically and morally impOssi-
bic. If any man should give me
whisky by means unknown to NY
self it would be at the risk of my
sinking back to what I was twenty
five years ago. You may call it
weakness, or what you viii, but it is
the truth"
There was once in Boston a man
of the highest literary character and
fame, who occasionally took to ex-
treme drinking, who once said,
when demonstrated with concerning
his infrmities-
Il love my wife and children,
dearly and devotedly love them;
but when 1 have tasted liquor, were
they standing on the brink Of the
bottomless pit, and the condition
offered me that 1 should see them
go to eternal destruction if 1 should
drink another glass Of brandy, I
would take the liquor. I could not
help the act,