The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-06


Iron th- san Antonio HcszIdl
It IS with a great deal Of satisfaction that
we ind ourselves so frequently in accord
with that able paper, the Houston Mercury.
I In relation TO the State administration. q
rathcrthe mal-administration Of E. J. Davis,
We stand upon the same platform. and it /.
alike, with pride and pleasure, that NC wit.
ness the vigorous blows from its stalwar;
arm, as they crush to the Garth the ign0blC
serts and Tctainers Of such a corrupt admin.
istation.
In regard to the nominees for the various
Offices Of the State the Mercury and the Her
aid arc unit, and upon none are we more
Thoroughly in unison than in advocating the
peculiar fitness Of Mr.. j. j. GroOs Of New
Braunfels, Comal county, for the Office OF
Land Commissioner. He IS indeed gentle
man Of cultivation and experience, whose
patriotism is as pure as the unsullied snow,
and whose loyalty to the Democratic party
is as incorruptible as virtue itself. He IS
emphatically an American citizen-the
proudest title on earth TO which he or any
man can aspire. He is a gentleman who
holds German Known othingism in the pro-
fouHdest scorn and contempt. His oppo-
nent Is the present incumbent Of the Office
1Ir. Jacob Kuechler, who has been renomi-
mated by the Radical convention and is a
German Know Nothing.
This fact alone ought and would be suffi-
cient TO damn him In the opinion of a Iib-
eral people, who are anxious that we shall
band together as American citizens without
distinction of race, color or previous condi-
ton of servitude; but when added to the
insurmountable objection Of German Know
Nothingism, we learn also of his gross mis-
management of the Land Office. running
through the long term of more than four
years he has held it, as the AfercuyV most
truly says, the name of this man. Jacob
Kuechler, Will be handed down to posteritv
loaded with the anathemas of an OUTRAGED
people, and interviewer for generations to
come with the judicial history of the State.
Counted into Office by the military author
tiles as the head of the most important and
complicated department of the State Gov
eminent, his officials career has been char.
acterized by the most stupid Incompetence.
dictatorial caprice and wanton and fragrant
violations of the express requirements of
law and, as we firmly believe, uniformly in
iuenced thereto for and by the same
confederation that ever actuated old
Trapbois. The Mercury, from which we
quote, says:
During the session of the Thirteenth
Legislature his Infamous conduct became
the subject of an investigating committee,
but through base intrigue, party apostacy
and the prostitution of his official power for
the private interests of members, he came
forth unscathed-nay more, he made them
his willing tools-secured an appropriation
of $142, 600, and an additional force of fif-
teen clerks. This accomplished, the next
bo Iol.
cure his denomination by the Radical party
To this end he set in motion the so-called
German convention and thereby placed the
Germans in false position before the people
of Texas. This so-called convention de-
manded a concession to the German element
which was no more or less than its renom-
ination of Mr.. Kuechler as the candidate of
the Republican party for Commissioner of
the Land Office. With an ignoble record
hanging like mill stone to the neck of the
Radical party, and hopelessly in the minor.
ity, with defeat staring them in the face
Like drowning man grasping at straw,
the concession was made in the vain hope
of securing the entire German vote of the
State to the Radical nominees. This accom-
pished-with the Radical party pledged to
his support-he inaugurates base system of
intrigue to secure his election. His office
is filed with influential Democrats and the
immense influence and power of his official
position are used to divide and secure to
himself part of the Democratic vote, hop
ing that, amidst the overwhelming defeat
that awaits the Radical party in December,
he may, by double dealing and political
be reelected to mal-administer
for the next four years the affairs of the de-
partment he now disgraces."
The Democracy, now so largely in the as
cendant throughout the State of Texas, viii |
not permit so signal an instance of corrup-
ton and malfeasance in Office to go unpun-
ished. Their attention has hitherto been
upon the outrages of that I'M
scrupulous wretch, E. J. Davis himself, and
to the enormities of Davidson, his Adjutant
General, and his legalized bandits and rob
bers, and to those of the infamous De Gress
and his horde of plunderers of the school
fund, that in the excitement caused by the
numerous and malignant deeds of these
men, attention has been distracted from this
ignorant and unprincipled Kuechler, the
present Land Commissioner. His iagitious
Encouragement and corrupt administration
of the Land Office have inaugurated litiga-
ton that cannot be terminated for years
after he has passed from Office and his bones
shall have been mingled with the earth.