The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-11-19
CRrmINArION AID REcRInINA-

If our Republican contemporaries now
engaged in the elimination and recrimina-
ton Of each ether and Of their political
associates In the recital of the causes Of
Republican defeats and Democratic
triumphs on last Tuesday will permit the
familiarity on our part, we will suggest
that they are making themselves uncom-
monty ridiculous. One set Of these phi
Iosophers assert that the President is re-
sponsible for this defeat, and another set
stoutly insist that the fault was not the
Presidents, but justly attaches to the Re
publican leaders In Congress; and still
others that it was neither the President nor
Congress, but the venal press which should
be blamed Washington Chronicle.
The above is so rich that we are led to
compare it TO the mooted question, "who
struck Billy Pattersonln All of the Radi-
cal papers are as mad as hornets after a
shower of stones and sticks upon their nest
by courageous boys, just for the fun Of the
thing. We entertain great hopes that they
will finally make clean breast Of the ras-
calities at which the people OF the United
States struck on the ever memorable third
day Of November, A. d. 1874, the political
Waterloo of America, and called by some
of the Radical "saints I" "black Tuesday, y
because, on that day, the sun Of that party
set in clouds and gloom. There have
been lamentation and weeping since
that day on account Of the fallen braves
who ale found all over the field, from the
classic shol . Of Cape Cod to the Rio
Grande, and the awful results which are
anticipated in the future.
But still the causes are hid away from the
Radical papers, if we may judge by thcil
inquiries; hence the elimination and re-
elimination. One set say the President did
it all by his insane aspirations for a third
term. Another, that Congress Is response
BILE, because the members attempted to pass
the civil rights bill, and thereby destroy OF
break down the wall which nature created
as a division between the white and black
races. Still another set assert that Attor
ney General Williams, the temporary com
mander of the army and navy, was the mair
source of all the misfortunes, because he
sent troops and monitors down upon the
Southern people and treated them like
criminals and outlaws.
And yet another set say that their de
feats can be traced to the character Of the
men who were appointed by the President
to fill the various Federal offices-to the
populations and defalcations; to the swind
ling and corruption; to the utter disregard
of public opinion, and the shameless pros
titution OF their offices to every kind Of
fraud and rascality.
Now if the different sets will combine al
of these together, they will then solve the
problem and arrive at the causes which SC
signally overthrow Radicalism. But this
they refuse to do. They do not or wlll
not concede that the party had become SC
corrupt that decent men looked ON with
shame and notification; that the whole
body polite was sick and fostering, and
that it was an offense to the masses. We
have no sympathy for the Chronicle in its
dire calamity; and can only say, physician,
heal thyself."