The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-08

]. A. Carroll withdrsws from the contest
or the constitutional conyention in Dei,-
on,
Capt. Martin is the choice OF Navarro
or the seat in the consti,utinnal conven-
ion, and is thus commended TO the MeXis
district convention.
l.. W. Moore, Joel W. Robinson, C. Err
aard and W. S. Chum are candidates forthe
convention in the Fayette and
bastrop Senatorial District
Comal county resolves against consti-
iutionsl convention, and at their meeting
refused to send delegates TO the Democratic
nonhnating convention at Fredericksburg.
Major ]. A. Carroll has withdrawn, and
w. +. Bates becomes candidate for seat
IN the constitutional convention IN the Der
ton district. The Monitor approves, and
MIR. Bates Will have no serious opposition.
The Gn0sge Reporter keeps on steadily
and earnestly and persistentIy thanking the
Telegraph for its gratuitous advice 10 the
Oranges about keeping out of politics. We
never saw anybody so grateful It's pain
fdl q
The Corpus Christi VALLEY Times huists an
independent ticket of the Thirtieth Dis
trict, in opposition TO the Russell Ware
Howard combination. The ticket is Col.
John, s. Ford, ]. h. Murphy and Hon.
Louis Cards. rli.
Did it never occur to the Bolton Journal
that the constitutional convention may
postpone for two or three months the meet
ing of the Legislature and provide for an
election of its meIhbersI The convention
is omnipotent and its DEGREES fpal. Either
that or nothing, y =, -t-
Two judges, Bennett Blake and Thomas
G. Allison are nominated in the Pamela dis
trict, and one Captain, VIM. Neal Ramey,
for seats in the constitutional convention
The WatcAmSR couldn't be happier If il had
been hypodermicAlly electrified with bin
oxide OF nitrogen.
The Radicals at Galveston propose to
"dlvide fairly" and il suffered to place
only one man OF the three candidates in
the field on the ticket, to vote for the con-
vention and for the ticket The Spectator
suggests that on these terms either Gen.
Shields, Col. Neil or Judge Evans enter
the contest. .- $50 lr ~ Hts
Sixty-two excellent Germans stand up in
the Bastrop Adrertiss,, nice little balloon,
and bawl at c. Wertzner to come down and
out and be a candidate for scat in the con-
mans will be needful in TRANSMITTING dd3endd
to organic law into the tongue of New
Braunfels, and in maintaining the pure re-
pubicanism Of our State government. Men
of despotic tendencies will sit in the CON
vention, s,,H .saiairD 9.ti
A Sherman correspondent of the Denison
Noes says: ''DE Blassepgame, one OF the
Grange candidates for the convention, is
out in circular, pledging himself to all
kinds of reforms, denouncing railroads, the
registration law, the Bureau of Immigra-
tion,. the new penitentiaries, and advocat-
ing the whipping post and a general return
to the Constitution OF 1916. His compau-
ion, DIR. Holmes, has promised his views in
circular form in few days. They will
both then stump the county. Hurts friends
are not idier;but are hptfo. sspgqiae as they
were month ago. - r,---,-
The San Antonio district has nominated
for the constitutional -corventibn Waelder
Of San Antonio; King of Kendall county,
and Coolet, off FfedeTickslnrg NThdse are
excellent JnominationsGT Mr.. Waelder is one
crat sf ISslsiE W. ! saSS EafS s6rEsE IN
I whatever he undertakes, Ar. King is also
q liberal Dsnoofat. DE lasyrr,- and one
of ne most poiis he'd e flemen IN the
country Judge Cooley Is a D. vtsr Of enc
native and acqeired ability, and very liberal
in his p6ffticalvieWs Thes Twerty-ninth
District deserves congratulated Dor It's ex-
cellent nominations. =
The Pamela >Eatcsmq,,i is a jocular, emf
nently joculsr, paper We haye, too, keen
appreciation of the ludicrous, and therefore
print this joke Of the Hsutdlnai
Hon. John Ireland has been Unanimous
ly endorsed by the Democracy of his dis
trietsfor a seat in the convention, but fatty
declines to accept the compliment, orsare-
election to the State Senate. Don't the
Austin STATESMAN Eel bal about Killing
ireland was aoninatedtp Ire lluling Con
vention, one of histfriefids asserting, how
evss that the Judge didmofAwant the office
and that De should not he-npmidN Cd bat
his nanie was dsiept kfes before the
seventh or eleventh ballot betwteil, these
two, was nominated by two-thirds majority.
We have always liked and admired Judge
ireland and can say to the JgGtehmGh we do
''feel badn about il. 81 ss..2,.i = 49,,
Theeditor Of the Free Press was part and
parcel Of the convention at Luling. Writing
of the fortunes Of Judge Ireland, in this
convention, the Free Is,eSs says "The
principal resolution, was the same as that
prepared by Judge Irelsnd for the Guada-
lupe convention It's passage was Ireland's
only triumph at Luiing.rl At all other points
he met Waterloo. defeat! Z As to the ques-
ton whether he desired the nomination,
there could have been but one opinion
among siate lligsnt -Ipen ~ he attended the
convention. With-nnore- slirewdhesA than
some of his friends. he evidently considered
his success doubtful, and had therefore
carefully prepared adoor of escape, b7 pro-
tossing TO ldeciibe. ufhe acting on tie part
of his friends was good, but badly over
done-so much SO as to clearly reveal their
real purpose, and their terrible chagrin
over the result. Does any man of common
sense suppose that Judge Ireland could not
long, since have Withdrawn, himself from
the field At he he'd so hearSd, lot talnt bis
friends in the convention cotild not have
done SO in FIVE minutes II they had really
naeant businessP The disguise is all too
thin, and the effort that is still being made
TO show that he absolutely refused a nomi-
nation IS ridiculous and derogatory to his
character as an honest man.
The County Court Of Brazoria county Is
memorializing the Governor upon the sub
ject Of that miserable swIndle perpetnted
upon the State, providing for cleaning out
Oyster creek, the San Bernard river and
Caney creek. Responsible parties have
proposed TO clean out the San bernard. and
to donate one-third Of the land bonus 10
the cauDtyyof Brezoria. And yet these re-
sponsibie parties could not get the contract.
The bill providing for the cleaning out OF
these streams was q base injury TO the State.
/ The nroD0eitioa of certain Reliable venffa.
sidy TO the county Of Brazoria Is sufficient
evidence of this, and il the statements OF
the STATESMAN had been regarded the law
would notThave been executed. Thewhole
thing is q swindling ARRANGEMENT from be-
ginning to end, gotten up to relieve the dc
hcit OF certain parties % q leading commIs-
zion house OF Galveston, and ali the mem
| beEs Of the LeoiaIatnre fron that distrlct