The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1873-07-31
STATESMAN


instant contains q loboTod article, with tEf
above heading. about as long as the moral
llw but with no other resemblance. Il
may have been written by the cast of Rad
ical editor 81 FhEfs Bsllain, who has
been for the last two yeaTs employed on It's
columns, or b. the insulted schooImaster,
lately picked up to assail the new school
lew q b the author Of the communica-
ton. declaring there Is now ono political
difference between the Radical and Demo
cratic party, Or BY anybody else, specially
engaged for the occasion and paid by the
line, but, By whomsocyer written, It was
doubtless done under the inspiration and
dictation Of the ostcnsible conductors Of
the 1Sses, and It bears the unmistalkable
earmarixs Of that preteNtious journal, being
equally insiduous, decegtive, pharasaical
end spiteful. Without calling names. the
objects Of is venom are clearly enough in
dicated, to-wit, the DEMOCRATIC STATES
nay and the writer Of. this reply.
Why twas written is Of easy explanation.
For some time half tie Democratic papers
ot the State had been openly charging the
ASles with gross yenality, proved-but, out
o. respect FOR the age and high standing Of
tho enior proprietor Of the Mems, we for
bore to say one word to add to its hot and
uncomfortable position. But when, appar-
emily with dcliberation, it commenced to
advocate doctrines utterly at war with De
nocratic principles, with intent, as well as
We could judge, Of breaking down the old
Democratic party, and getting up a new
nongrel one, Of which it was to be the head
and organ, we felt bound, as an honest Demo
cratic editor, to expose and denounce it.
We did so with an expression of regret and
in language respectful, but plain and
pointed as the case required. We
condemned emphatically its advocacy
Of negro social equality, the Beauregard
movement in Louisiana, the Allen county
meeting and resolutions now discarded by
every true Democrat in Ohio and elsewhere,
as well as its insiduous attempts, by covert
communications and half and half editorials,
in the way Of feclers, to distract, divide and
overthrow the good old party, to which it
has always proiessed to belong, whenever
it suited its convenience and interest. We
struck hard, and our blows fell not a mo-
ment too soon. Detected and exposed in
its contemplated treachery to the Demo
cratic party, the Ners ANONYMOUSLY backed
out'and down from all its positions, thereby
admitting and proving the justice Of our
structures and its own outlines. If it were
honestly Democratic it should have felt
grateful to US for setting it right But
the Radical papers have tainted it for
its retractions and too easy submis-
sion, and sore, under the necessary discip-
line administered toit by a not unfriendly
hand, it has now resorted to this weak and
poor expedient to retrieve its damaged
character and influence. We shair say moth
ing Of its long rigamaroIe about central
organ and. its uselessness at the present day.
This is all for buncomb. We have not set
ourseh up as the special organ of the Dem
ocratio party--we are only its humble de-
fender. We have not attempted to dictate
We have only striven to keep the party
from division and defeat. This, Of course,
does not suit the Necs, and it resorts to
demagogism and the Radical cry of an
Austin ring, which it knows to be false,
but, in It's strait, resorts to, as drowning
man catches at a straw. There is no polit-
ical Austin ring, and they, who assert it,
arc either grossly ignorant, or in plain Eng
lish, willfully lie. Since we have been con-
nccted with the STATESMAN, no man in Aus
tin has been consulted or has attempted
to interfere with regard TO its editorial
conduct We have written from our own
Judgment, and if the4e is any ring in Aus
tin connected with the STATESMAN, we,
alone, arc the ring. And we are ready at
all times to meet the personal attacks of the
Ne,cs and compare characters with all con-
nected with it, openly or secretly. The
criticism Of the Nelcs on our qualifications
for filing the position we occupy, is low
and unjustifable, as we shall show before
we have done with it. It has felt the force
OF our pen, and it has covered and begged
under it. We have been Democrat from
the days Of jackson down to the present
time, without change or the shadow of
turning. No stain has ever rested upon our
political OF moral character OR honesty
and veracity have never been ques-
toned. Ne have received aid from
no railroad corporation and have never
aid our pen for gold or position.
card to the public has ever been nc
..essary to vindicate or explain our conduct
When the Ns,rs at the meeting of the last
Legislature, tried to get the public printing
and become the central organ it now so
much deprecates, as one Of the means to get
il, it announced that it had secured the ser
vices Of the humble writer Of this article,
showing its appreciation of his honesty, his
prudence and his ability; bat, such was the
fear, entertained by amajority Of the Demo
cracy in the Legislature, Of the political
soundncss Of the proprietors Of the Mars
that it failed TO reach the object Of its
ycarning ambition. Hence its hostility to
the last Democratic Legislature, which, on
two occasions, stamped It as q political
counterfeit, and its great hosror Of central
organs and central influence. t failed to
-carry out its intention to make rs the polit-
ical editor 81 the Noes under the prctence
Of economy, when it had been paying the
late Radical editor Of Fiaks's BsHstia ten
dollaa per week moro than we asked for
or services, but Tor the real reason, that
We made our connection with that paper de-
qendcnt on It's adherence to the Democratic
party and organization. The objection Of
the Ntrs 70 cur language and style is be-
meath contempt. We treat all papers res
pectfully that dcmcan themselves respect
ielly iovauasus We sometimes fight the
devil viii frs. Is the best means 81 stop
ping his operations. We have never ap-