The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-09-02
Texan Politics.


Three hundred white voters were disfran-
chised at the recent election in washIngton
county by the Radical county officers.
The Fayette Aeo Era locks arms with
the Moriag Bal AID bowls in lively man.
ner for Lang, and Lang making nc sigr,
they don't sing the '.Auid Lang Sine"
The Calvert Term says ~ the Democracy
of Robertson county is fully on its legs"
The question is, are they good legs, and is
{ le Term one Of them, and which, II is
not often left, ahd nearly always right
The question Is asked, il the EIaniaSr
must be the Grange organ how can il b.
partisanG In our eyes 1t is all the better
for its Democracy, but a Republican Gran
ger don't see things through our spectaeles.
But how is it
Parts of Fayette, Lavaca, Caldwell and
Gonzales counties are to constitute Oak
county. There viii he more offices ana
more taxes and more suits and more work
ing men taken from profitable pursuits and
turned into placeholders and luafers, and
we suppose it is good thing.
The Jasper NetcsJoy has hard head
when it says, Give our women the ballot,
and let the trifling, improvident stay at
home men be covered with shame. Ii they
will persist in staying at home on election
days, give them the cooking and the nurs-
inc to do while the ladies do the voting and
save the country"
Oscar Parish, for thirty years clerk OF the
county court of Galveston county-the man
of the largest experience of all men in Texas
in probate matters-is ardently In favor OF
restoring our old probate system, with a
county Judge. Mr.. Farsh's experience Is
worth more than all the theories that have
been suggested.
The TYLER Democrat says that in no single
instance has Governor Coke displayed more
sound Judgment, or given more satisfaction
to the people concerned, than in appointing
Hon. John L. Camp judge of the Criminal
court here. A lawyer of marked ability
and ripe experience, man of great natural
powers of mind, and Christian gentleman.
The GAINESVILLE Times says that Capt.
Dohoney is legislator of considerable ex-
perience, and while he was member OF the
State Senate was frequently called TO pre-
side over that body, evincing a thorough
knowledge of parliamentary tactics. Mr..
Dohoney would make good presiding Off
Ger, and it would be compliment to North
convention accorded to one of her citizens.
| The Victoria Adc0cate thinks the next
Senator, Hamilton's successor, must come
from Western Texas, and this may be, un
der the circumstances, very proper, and the
| AdgOcdte sensibly adds: ''We are not prone,
like our able, but, we believe, too hasty
| contemporary of the San Antonio Herald, tt
seek a redress of our wrongs in division o
the State, however great we not unfrequent
| ly find the injuries done US. We prefer ap
pealing to the sense and to the justice of thu
East to accord us only our just rights.
The Palestine AdoOcate says, ''the same
report is current here as at Dallas, that the
grangers have agreed upon short terms fol
State officers, and an immediate election
| after the adjournment of the Convention
with Gov Coke for Governor and Mr.. Lans
for Lieutenant Governor; the former to va
cate, after the election for Hamilton's place
in the United States Senate, and the latte
to become Governor" No provision wa
made and nothing said about Hon. Richard
Hubbard or Hon. John Ireland.
The New York Tribune tells of eX Gov
ernor E. NJ. Pease, of this, city, now.dowl
East, that he acted with the Republican
since the war, shut he was too much inter
ested in the welfare of his State to supper
the carpet -baggers, and in 1872 he went VI
to Cincinnati as q Liberal. Yet when Coy
ernor of the State by military appointment
he urged the Radical Constitutional Con
vention to disfranchise enough white citi
Zens of the State by constitutional enact
ment to secure the State to the RadIca
party. -..
The Texas Catholic congratulates Hon
John Henry Brown on his election as del
egate to the Constitutional Convention
Maj. B. is an old Texan, was once the Mayo
of Galveston; is an experienced lawmaker
and will carry with him as much integrit
and brains as any man who will figure il
that important body. He has been highl
spoken of in connection with the presldenc
of the Convention, a compliment which W
would be pleased to see conferred upon thi
distinguished citizen.
The HILL County ErpOsitOr is sound, an,
accepts the basic principle of Radicalisr
when it says 'tthere is nothing more redic
ulous and senseless than this twaddle abou
free and independent states. To claim tina
we have right to be free and independan
states may or may not be true--iJ is a ques
tion-but to claim that we are free and il
dependant states is false, as every sensibl
man knows" Are changes impossible
May not Democracy reform evils? or doe
the ErpOsitOr deem that central government
best which governs s'most?n
The Lampasas Dispatch says: For tn
first time in good many years the peopl
of this district have for their representative
set of men in whom they have great conf
dence. We allude to our delegation in til
convention. In that great body men fror
other parts of the State will not stick u
their noses and speak of this as the 'ol
phan district. Charlie West will be ther
to measure swords with the best of til
state. Col. SAMSON will tell what he know
about public schools and other necessitie!
which have been forced upon US, and Jude
Cooke will be wide awake to the int crest
of our people,
The Freestone Herald should know thu
if the STATESMAN had drifted along dow
the plGeid unrutf1ed surface of the stream
Texan politics the late election would bay
excited not the least public interest, and
was the STATESMAN that made use of Ir
land as a great public benefactor. TIL
Judge, we are sometimes inclined to thinl
didn't like 1T, but it was his duty to subm
and he did bear it at least like good lit
man. The vote for the Convention is muc
, greater than we hoped for, and certainl
twice as great as it would have been if POI
ular interest had not been aroused by a,
ventitious and unwilling aid given by Hol
John Ireland.
In his latest proclamation Judge Irelan
) says:
81 hope and trust that the efforts of IL
Radical party in the late canvas, aided |
the traitors in our own ranks, have suf
, GENTLY aroused our friends to the necessii
of thorough and complete organization
and to realize the fact that we have wol
to perform in the next eighteen months.
vast moment to this country
E It was quite impossible, since there we
r no partisan issues involved. TO evoke Il
whole Democratic strength. We sought
D effect this purpose in every possible way an
E to give Fictitious interest 20 the curious l
making it somewhat personal, aud to Il