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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30

Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON has won
hosts of friends everywhere in Texas. She
is sensible, practical and learned woman,
having ne1er uttered an absurd or immoral
sentence on or off the stage. Sne would
have a refo' Iner supplant Grant and says
that the party leaders should not suffer the
tue issue III the Coming contest to be evad-
ed. IL Involves reform, the restoration OF
honesty and purity In the administration OF
public affairs and the reproduction of true
republicanism. Mrs. Stanton is apparently
about tifty-fve years of ase. Her hair is OF
snowy whiteness, her complexion clear, her
eyes of singular brightness, and face full OF
vivaclty, and words, of freshness and origi
nality. Her manners are simple and smile
and address most pleasing. She is thor
ough reformer and says that the South
most needs the publication of the ballot-
box. That this may be effectively wrought,
she would restrict suffrage to intelligence
and decency, and then, to purify the admin
istration of affairs, she would make women
voters. On this theme she WAS ever most
eloquent i'll Houston and never forgot to
sound the praises of the poet statesman of
Texas, Mr.. Weaver. During her stay in
Houston the parlors of the HutchIns House
were filled with those who came to see and
hear the philosophic lecturer, Mrs. Stanton.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30
THE Gagged birds an .ONGR IS.


The new members of Congress are much
inclined to assert themselves and win
share of popular attention, and there not
little jealousy between the old and the
new. The raw and inexperienced gentle
men, who have not yet discovered that how
ever great they were in the backwoods gro
Gerry or country court room, or when spout
ing on the village green, are now accurately
measured, and within five minutes after
their accession to seats are assigned proper
places in the intellectual arena as well as on
the floor of the House. They are shut out
and held down by force which none may
resist. Ii this were impossible, fools would
bray perpetualiy, and the revolution of the
wheels of government, choked by words,
would be absolutely imp ssibe. To get
all the new members fixed in their intellec-
tual places aud ranged around in proper
rows Is not, seemingly, a difficult task, and
is speedily accomplished. They soon find
themselves imprisoned and repeating men
tally the sad words of Sterne's Gagged star
ling, II can't get out" Now and then
new fellow of much pluck and little wis
dom kicks terribly against suppression; but
like the twc-year-old mustang he finds re-
sistance to the bride of the LEADER and
to the packsaddle of party, wholly unavail
ing, and the lop-eared little asses soon
learn to jog along very silently and very
comfortably, happy enough, especially if
they can draw their forage both fore and
afr
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30

A LETTER from Corinth, Mississippi, tells
US that the new machinery devised by
Clements for the conversion of cotton, as
it comes from the fields, into cloth, saves
three-fourths of the cost OF buildings, mo-
tive power, machinery and operatives il
producing equal results by old devices OF
mechanism used in the old cotton mills.
Cotton never compressed makes thread
twice as strong as that which has been COM
pressed till it is dead" and is then beaten
out with fails. Why not have one of the
Clements cotton mills ut Austin? Ten
thousand dollars will be enough and it will
pay certainly twenty-five per cent. per an.
mum or the Corinthians are grievously mis-
led. Write to Col. F, E. Whitfield, Cor
inth, Mississippi, for details, which we pre-
sumo he will gladly furnish.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30

GOVERNOR COKE says the new Constitu
ton ''has the substratum, the foundation,
the body of splendid code of organic law"
This may lie true of the ''body and
foundation" of the internal thing, but
it is its arms and legs and teeth aud wool
that we object to-. Its theory, which we
do not admit, may be fine, but its practi-
cally operative parts and provisions are SIM
ply intolerable. Its courts, its suffrage, It's
railway provisions, its schools, its corporate
governments, its scheme of taxation, are
simply hideous, while its provisions affect
ing Aobeas corpus and secessionism and all
that may be very fine. While Democracy
reigns and the true people of Texas may
choose Coke-like Governors, these philo-
sophical absurdiiies of Davis's Constitution
signify nothing; but the practical enormi-
ties which We specify are irremediable save
by means of another convention and by
means of constitution made in the pres
ence OF blunders embodied in this now
proposed to oe forced by office-seekers upon
an unwilling people.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30

THE Commercial does us injustice. The
dispatches that come to the STATESMAN
office come from Galveston and are taken
from the papers of Houston or Galveston,
and these papers containing this news come
to Austin on the night that we print the
dispatches they contain. They are thus
twelve hours ahead of US. The Commercial
may get its dispatches from the same source
with the Neaos, but the STATESMAN does
not and we only take the dispatches for
the market reports and not for the news
they give. The papers from the South, the
Telegraph and the NeacS, are ahead of the
telegraph and devilish slow at that.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30

THE Sherman Register says that the new
Constitution is, In large measure, the
work of Democrats, and they should be
willing to have it go to the country on its
own merits, 1t is already encumbered by
too many side issues, and sustained by too
many artificial props, and if made a party
measure there can be no hope of having a
fair vote on its merits. This should be the
great object. If the State Convention at
Galveston is to dictate to the Democracy
of the State how they shall vote, where is
the necessity of going through the empty
formqlity of submitting the Constitution to
a vote of the people,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30

THE telegraph tells that local societies will
be organized by Germans throughout the
State, aud delegases will be seut to State
at which time the location of
the German American College viii be agreed
upon. The Germans, as nation, are earn
est workers in the cause of education, and
this movement is fraught with so much
good i, wall not be allowed to flag. 1t is time
that our German fellow-eitizens of Austin
had taken actlon in regard TO this matter,
and may We not hope that when the site of
the college is fixed that the attractions Of
Austin will be properly presented by Mr..
Tips or Mr.. Won Rosenberg or other proper
representative OF the Germans Of the cap
;,al
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30

THE whole business of Congress consists
in strategic partisan movements. Radical
ism seeks to evade issues involving honesty,
reform and the empire, and divertlng pop
ular attention from the conduct of the ad-
ministration, to excite the discussion of the
money ques ion, the absorption of telegraph
lines, seizure of railways, and then, if these
fail, there is to be a revival of Know
Nothingism and war upon the Romish
church. Blaine has presented scheme of
amendments to the Constitution so unob-
jectionable, if the purpose be accurately and
clearly defined, that Democracy will hardly
be caught mapping and resisting their adop-
ton. Very true it is matter that does not
properly concern the Union and only the
States, but since Congress and the central
government have more to do now than they
can execute wisely there is no harm in in
vesting them with rights so sharply defined
and limited that no possible evil can result.
Blaine would have the Constitution declare
that public schools shall not be ''sectarian, "
and that there shall be no division of school
money. This is well enough, if Congress
and the people happen to know the precise
meaning of the word ''sectarian." Slme.
body must construe it, and if this duty be
assigned to that lovely lot of pious priests
whose saint is Haven and High Priest
Grant, we greatly fear that these special
''saints of the Lord" will pronounce every
body ''sectarian" except themselves, and
then Blaine would be exceedingly happy.
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sAERIDAS's GLIDE.

Up from the South. b tween two fair days
Night be seen lean mule tearing away
With the speed Of the wind TO POtomacs safe shore,
Rode by great he' o, now great bore
While the hOrr' bic rumble. grunable, and roar
Told General Jscksou coming once more
And the Potomac twent, miles away.
Faster and faster o'e- valley and hiil, 7
With his coat tails flying and hearttht grew chill
From anxiety to reach the nenfrl tide.
lie urged The mule forward until the b ute's hide
Was whitened with foam, and well out of breath,
A clear case Of the devil pursued by grim death
and ihe Potomac fifteen milss away.
The mules hoofs clattered loudy-ths dust It grew
thick,
Sheridan turned pale and felt very sick.
Dogs woke from their kenne and Joined In the shout
And to add new horror TO this terrible
The pigs gave a squesl, ass brayeo another,
Feel ng for our hero. the cause Of brother,
And the Potomac ten miles away.
Yet the rumble continued, and grew louder stil
Our "Quixots'' and bic mule reached B,,liVA Hill
Pel NELL heter skrlter, with screams DIVA the ad
Tore this poor frightened beast, with his cowardl,
lOtd,
Hold Of name. and OF tall he kept arm a-tride her.
IN fact, he out did our best circus rider.
And the Potomac five mies away.
But, alas for the fate OF this terrible wight,
While descending the brow OF Bolivar Height
His Ia ule gave stumble and OF Aew the rider.
lie turned hip-hap and no mere was as'ride her.
The mountains fairly shook with the terrible fhud,
As he gently lay dswa WI h HE head in the mud
I Ana totOmac one mile away.
Yet the clanking Of sabres the ccse gaining rumble
Shows how q great man may be lost by 3 stumble.
ROund the bend Of the road they came with shout,
/ hi he sfyhf "a ehu
Yelling loudly for Quarter, my fate it Is hard
He opened his eyes and saw HE own body guard,
And the Potomsc haven Of rest
Then the bliss II sweet thy ebr ced one another
And smeridan demanded the cause Of The bother.
| And soon was made happy pith this Information:
That sssmeridsn's Glide had saved greet nstion-
For had he remained At the bead ~ his troops
They would have been goobled ike peas in . scoop,
| And The Potomac beczme place Of bath.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30

MORTON thinks the scheme of consolida-
ton finally effected, that State lines are OBJ
liberated, and that there are no limitations
of Congressional power. We sometimes
wonder, when Morton speaks and votes,
whether the man be mad or utterly void of
moral sense. Did he not swear to support
the Constitution9 And 90 $ not the Con-
stitution tell when and low the Federal
government may interpose in the affairs OF
a StatC-in case of insurrection or invasion,
when the Governor asks intervention. Has
there been an lnsurrection or any invasion
of Mississippil What has the Senate of the
United States to do with elections in Mis-
sissippi or Texas? States do still exist, the
Constitution is still the supreme law of the
land. Morten swore to support it, and yet
Morton, even in the Senate of the United
States and confronting forty millions of peo-
Pile, proposes perjury by proposing to inter-
fere in the internal affairs and conduct of a
State. Will not somebody tell Morton that
States still exist and the people still read
and are capable of reasoning on a PROPOSE
Jion as simple and plain as this.
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Texas PoIiaes.

Hon. II. W. Wade leads the delegation
from Hunt into the coming convention at
Galveston. Mr.. Wade viii probably be
the next Senator from his district He is
one OF the ''ex-ConyentiopistsY who will
be n refOrmeT IN the Senate, and though a
Granger, was never identifed with the Ru-
tabagas.
The Hunt county convention says that
some available" man from the East should
be nominated for Governor Dick Hubbard's
place, whicil may be regarded As rAthsr
rough upon the Hon. Richard, and then
the Hunt county people swear by Governor
Coke and the new Constitution.
1t is said that Commissioner Groos has
been most iudicious in bis rnlings in tbs
Land Office. All appeals 70 the Attorney
General involving them have been SUE
tained m his behalf This fact shows that
he i a caceful and consi9srAfe ofneer.
'rbose we'll converssnt with tbe machinery
Of the Lard Office say thai tIitfe Is adnal.
rab.e meliOd A1Out IL.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30
\ SAD PICGUsR or A CITY In
RUINS.

We have often written very plainly and
very earnestly of convictions of right and
public duty that required in execution a
greater degree Of moral courage than ordi-
nary party-leaders know how to summon or
practice in legislation They commonly coz
tess in conversation that the STATESMAN is
right but declare the achievement OF its
purpose impossible. But the persistent dis
cussioh OF the intolerable tefrors Of modern
municipal governments beginning here in
Texas aud Of the only effective remedy,
has been renewed everywhere, until even
President Grant and European newspapers
inveigh against the desOl.tion of American
corporations by vicious, ignorant, predatory
mobs. Even to-day We read in the news
papers of Southern city con6scatrd by in
capable ignorance, and its taxpayers vic
timized py nnmixed knavery. scrip or
warrants were used till these became valae-
less and then warrants were funded two
for one in time bonds, and now the Supreme
Court Of the State comes down upon tax
payers with decree ordering special taxes
. J.
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German Art and IndustrY and PTOs-
perIty tn Texas. 1fGai
LuL1xo, December 25, 1878.

LULING, December %, 1875.
On the Cibolo half way between San
Antonio and Seguin, is an inn kept by Mr..
George Bergfeld, in large settlement al
most entirely of Germans. The Germans
now own nearly the whole country lying
bctween Scguin and New Braunfeis and
San Antonio, having bought out the
American families one by one. And what
a change they have wrought Where few
years ago you found nothing but poorly
cultivated fields, rickety houses, and dilap-
idated fences, you now see all the evidences
of industry and rnsperity--comfortabi
houses, fields without a weed, strong
fences, barns full OF corn end hay, schools,
churches and places OF amusemenC. While
your American granger stands and curses
mis- luck, German farmer will split a
hundred rails and plow an acre Of ground.
OUR CORRESPONDENT MISTAKES, HIMSELF
FOR A WOMAN AND WAS Mt, ,..,
At Seguin we lodged at the Magnolie
House. We had no sooner got comforta-
by tucked into bed than we were sur
prised with perfect gush of melody by
that string band. We stepped upon the
balcony" and told them how surprised we
were, that, like Othello, we were little
blessed with the set phrase OF speech, but
that -. Here we heard one fellow re-
mark, ''Them's not her." and concluded 10
retire and wait for the brass band, and lthat
we would furnish the brass.
JUDGE IRELAND, sEGUrN AND THE NEW
CONSTITUTION. '9Ha.os
Guadalupe county is against the new
Constitution. At meeting in Seguin q
resolution endorsing the Constitution was
voted down. We did not see Judge Ire
land, he being absent, but we're informed
by his intimate friends that be is decidedly
opposed 10 the adoption OF the new Con-
stiIution. The misfortunes Of the late Con-
vention has made Judge Ireland and the
STATESMAN bedfellows.
Judge White is a candidate for nomina-
iion as one Of the judges of the Court Of
Appeals, and if the entire Supreme bench
could be filed by meE like Judge White,
Texas justice" would become AN konora-
BILE proveTb. - taa fai hHa
some man VINO visited Guadalupe county
with the view Of moving there. has written
letter, IN which he says that the people of
that county ''look down" on a laBoring
man. He is simply mistaken, for there Is
less Goldfish" about the people Of Guilda-
lupe than you will find anywhere else.
There is no such feeling existing anywhere
in Texas, and the gentleman referred 10
probably felt piqned because somebody
Jailed 20 kiss him for his mother.
Everybody takes the STATEsafAN In all
these parts. fkTEH'
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eurrence of the holidays We knew
in the long ago. The thunderIng of CufTee's
boots on the ''puncheOn" floor, the shrek
ing of the gourd fiddle, the mellow notes
of the fiddler's voice, whose cadences rose
ana fell with cracked heels rattling a cho-
ing dim memories of the dead past. There
is - Gabriel to reproduce Them az facts.
They were entombed when tatehood died,
when the South Lost its distinctiveness,
when deceney was dethroned and vilainy
and vice and rings and Rutabagas became
the country masters, aud its proper masters
became serfs and slaves
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30

Mississippi is one, and vet Morton wants the
United States to go Rosing about into cleo
tion affairs and incidents IN Mississippi.
Mississippi, with infinitely greater propriety
and less odor of perjury, might send a
smelling committee TO Washington TO
see thai Ccngressmen do not sell Texas out
to Tom Seou. betray the South and transfer
the commercial wealth of Texas and of the
West TO Philadelphia, instead of to Hous-
ton, Galveston, New Orleans and Charles
ton. Let's have States assert their rights,
and send committees to look after villain
Gus Credit Mobilier, back salary grabbing
Congressman.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30

WE don't want our children educated by
Congress or Grant, or their sppointees.
We would not have sons of Texas made sons
of the empire, and while we can see why
the State should educate the poor and help
less, We can never. assent to the iBterposi-
ton of the Federal central power between
the family and the son, Education is in
valuable; but since we wos Of Andy John
sons and Ben Frsnkhns, who owed moth
ing to schools, we are inclined to prefer Oul
civil liberties and local freedom to FEEDERS
aduca4ion
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-12-30

1t WILL be much easier to get rid of s
bad constitution which we did not make,
than of bad one which is worse, which We
did make; and it is worse because partisan
shiprathe than wisdom lmpels us to approve
and adhere to it. Enough Radicals, coop
Grating with the trainers and makers of this
new Constitution, viii always be elected to
the Legislature to prevent any desirable
amendments, and everybody should adhere
to the bad which may be thrust aside, rather
than accept the worse which it may be for
years, practically impossible to reform.
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-.
n TRUE HISTORY Or sAE fkIDAN'S
GLIDE.
BY 10 az A. QsrIyENs.

Far he it from US who worship the muse
To IL tract from q ard his fame to abuse;
Yet lair playis a jewel, and TO give it we
Will utter the truth, for Wis wvco,ns in Heaven.
There once was poet who, during the war, ..t
Committed an ror in some well written lore ..f
"Read" hungry for fame, TO bend with the tide,
Wrete apoem Of fiction, called Sheridan's Rise"
Having heard OF great ch eftains like md Nero
In his dreams Of ID fusion" lie painted hero,
Leaving the in doubt this wanderingltead
Which was the true hero, the man or the seed.
But Truth crushed Garth will rise in its might
Hence this little iale Of that terrible flight,
Like GEORGE We lie tot, nor from dreams do we
snatch it; trf .'ft
AS proof wen produce miniature hatchet,
And thus show 10 the world. or leave it to decide,
Which production speaks true Of this % SmeIidan'G
Glide"
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L.tter from george PGsaGer.
NEr DRArxFELs, Dc. 25. 80,


Editors Democratic StGtesB.GH = never
looked upon Buck WaltOn's telegram as
ANYTHING of a private character. u was
addressed TO j. y. White, VIM. Burgess and
myseif. the latter asserting and dissenting
from the proposition, with ny reasons given.
/ fully agree with Buck WAiion's best
friends. s.that he would make splendid
Attorney General, 2 ana would add, IL gen.
iuE. attachment 10 principles and faithful
services rendered weigh aught in the scale
Of political prefsrment be should be nomi-
mated.
But differ with him in this move Of
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IL THE San Saba Ns.,. will make it

Ii THE San Saba Nelcs will make it az
pear that Tom Scott's scheme is designed
to benefit either Texas or the South, we
Will become ardent adherent. Of the afore-
said Tom; but when Tom is fraud and his
scheme a cheat, and when RutabAgaism
uses 1t to buy votes for the new Coastitu-
ton, We cannot be induced TO invest in 1t.
It Is very bad egg for any Texas politician
to handle II is lisbIe TO break and stink.
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Ann Eliza Webb was born OF poor bct or
thodox Mlrmon patents. She was educated,
or rather brought up, in that faith. In 1868,
when nineteen yeAEs of age, she was married
at Salt Lake City, TO one James L. Dee, q
steady, honest. hard working brick mason,
who was also siman- pure Mormon They
were married in the Endownent 'for time
and eternity,p according 70 tbs rites and
ceremonies of the Mormon belief Two
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THE lettei of Major Walton is open and
frank. He should be nominated, and no
effort, it is presumed, win be made 10 de-
feat him. II is conceded that he is the man
for Attorney General, and Austin will feel
compiimented in bis selection.
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IT IS not the State of Mississippi that de-
rives rs powers and rights and immunities
from the United States, but the United
States derives its powers and rights and
very existence from the States Of which
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- PEEDwELL MATHEMATICAL AM
~ EHGINEEnIEG COLLEGE,

Upper Flores Stree. Sen Antonio, Texas,
Will open the fret OF February 1915 for the recep'
tion u young Rentlt men
The course OF instruction VIII be thorough-theor-
ctical and practical-and embrsce all branches I
mathematic1 pure and xed, with lectures upon gen
erAl hcence, aud upon such ubJects may tend 10
prepare The student for entering upon the profess
Of surveying aud engineering, civil mechanical, TOpO
graphical. hydraulic military.
udents will be required VIII the weather may
permit, 20 enter tha field with compass, trHnsi level
etc for practical exercise IN urveying and engineer
ing.
They need bring with them for reference such math-
emaica books as they Ray nave In possession.
Tuition Tee la advance, per m0nth $40 coin. A
small additional expenditure for saIlonery drawing
instrument =, etc, Will b. Indispensable
limited number of siud nts can he accommodated
at the college with bo ird aud Odp ing moderate
TERMS and board und logging bo had in the city aI
expense per month n"i exceeding $l5 TO $50
JAS. + HEcI OR,
Civil Engineer; Professor Of Applied Mathematics and
Engineering
d. +. WAL KEP,
Graduate Oneida College, New York; Professor of
Pure aud Alalyticul Mathematics.
THOS. A. DWYER
FED iy Stanoner; Treasurer.