The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-11-27

Our present weekly, issued on Thursday
the twenty-seventh instant, will be the last
which can DO sent to the country before the
election In view of this fact, we desire to
give our Democratic friends some advice for
their serious consideration. We think we
are old enough in politics, old enough in
the Democratic party, to venture some adj
vice without the charge Of presumption.
We have never baen anything but Demo
crat from boyhood and never voted any
other than the Democratic ticket from Jack
son down.
In the first place, then, we say
LET EVERY NAN REGISTER.
This is the preparatory step without
which nothing can be done. It is the inn
perative duty Of every man to register,
and he cannot be considered a good
citizen, good member of society, if
he neglects this first duty of citi-
zenship. This advice cannot reach
our distant readers, as the registration will
close on the twenty-scventh, the day of
our weekly issue, but it may be read by all
Of our weekly subscribers in this city, and
we trust. if they have not heretofore regis
tered, they win do so even on the last day.
LET EVERY MAN VOTE.
Let no feeling of Indifference keep any
man from the polls. How can any man be
indifferent to the result of the coming cleo
toni If he is, he is unworthy the name of
Democrat. Does he not remember what we
and the whole country have suffered from
Radical rulel Let no bad weather, cold or
rainy, prevent any man from going to the
polls and voting before he leaves, even if
he has to wait for the negroes to vote, or to
crowd his way among them after they have
voted and are hanging about the ballot
box, obstructing others, as we have
seen them do, doubtless under the
instigation of the white scalawag Radicals,
who would like to get up rows and riots, if
they could. Be quiet, pesceable, orderly
but maintain your rights as freemen, and be
sure to vote.
STICK TO THE REGULAR NOMINATIONS.
This is all important. Some of the nom-
inees you may not fancy, and think others
should have been nominated in their places,
and this may be true, for conventions are
not infallible, but your safety and the safety
of the Democratic party requires you to
vote for the men nominated, aud secure
their election. They may not be the very
best men that could have been put forward,
but they are almost certain to be very good
men, and they viii certainly 60 with the
party which nominated them, and you may
be certain that the party collectively viii
do what is right and proper
LET THERE BE NO SCRATCHING.
Don't scratch out single name on the
Democratic ticket and ease your con-
sciences by the reflection, that you voted for
most OF the ticket, and claim that you are
sssimon pure" on that account. BY this
course the Democratic candidates may be
seriously injured, for while you scratch out
one name, your neighbor may scratch out
another, aud SO on. until the whole ticket
may be endangered when the contest is a
close one. Let there be no scratching of
tickets. To use homely phrase, as old as
Gen. Jackson's time, ego the whole hog"
DoNr SWAP VOTES
Il is a pernicious practice. In this way
sOme.of the most worthy candidates, sup
posed TO be very strong, get defeated and
no account scrubs get elected. How can
you vote for Radical even to Sc
cure the election. as you may think,
Of some good Democratg Ifsyou do that,
Radical may be elected aud your own man
beaten after ali. Besides. your conscience
ought 10 forbid this thing. Should We vote
for a Radical in this particular crisis Of our
political affairs, the deed would haunt US
to our dying dag. Let every man stick to
his principles and his party. and dc what
is right. ana what his conscience viii ap-
prove, and leave results to Heaven. That
"a the honest way, that isthe wise way, and
Is sum 10 win, If not now, in the coming
time, Il persisted in and carried out to the
end.
vofE as soox AZ ToU CAS.
You might die during the day and your
vote would Be- lost II Jon should happen