The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-11-04

turner as proprietor OF the famous Hutch
ems House, a. Houston. The major is the
most urbane OF gentlemen, and skillful of
landlords. Old Charlestonians who remem
Der the luxurious tables of the Charleston
Hotel, when Hoibach was lessee, will surely
be attracted TO Houston, even as all the
travelling world that invades. Texas viii
find its choicest abiding place at the Hutch
ems House. The City Hotel of Ausrin is
also managed by Major Horbach.y
The benevolent society of Denison has
built house for q beggared widow. We
don't like this joint stock provision for
widows. Some earnest, active business
man should have provided for her, and the
Constitutional Convention should proffer
premiums for marriage. In il consists the
sure foundation of government and of So
ciety, and the laws should foster, protect
and promote the divinest of all human in
situations. Benevolent societies for the
maintenance of good-looking widows should
be knocked on the head.
The Collin County Fair began yesterday
at Mckinney. The people are all writing
letters to Austin to have the big Rutabaga
sent home for exhibition. They can't get
along without him. Tue RAIDS here need
| him as a leader, il is true, but the Reddish
itself is wanted, sadly wanted, at home.
Anyhow, all the Intelligent members of the
| Constitutional Convection are persuaded
that this, is the case, and they will pay Il e
mileage If the Roo, y-toot, alliance may be
smashed.
An old veteran who fought at San Jacinto
and has lived a long hfe Of honest industry
and steady toll, has been induced by the
former liberal policy of the State and by
the Republic of Texas TO buy laud in many
different counties. He was at the Capitol
Tuesday, when the Rutabagas went for
landowners He said to one of them that
the scheme proposed to be enacted COM
pelling landowners to hire agents in each
county was disgraceful trick to rob hon
est men for the advantage of thieves, and
some of the Ratabagas we're very mad about
it. s7 .tiFatl,i - f. ~
| We hope the Grangers--tllose of tn EN-
that went into the Holy Alliance, and who
thus departed from their faith and order
and misrepresent the farmers of Texas In
and out of the Granges4we hope all these
will read the Examiners editorial Of the
twenty-seventh. Il is too catholic to be
astringent enough for the taste ofthe white
wing of the Alliance, but all that is said of
public schools is equally applicable to rail.
ways as adJuncts OF progress, intelligence
and civilization. ~ - 'lsi.t = 'is9
| !. The Ennis Ne'cs says that a polItax of
two or two and a half dotIars, to be deEo,
ted to school purposes, and the requirement.
OF receipt for the payment of that tax as
prerequisite to voting, vas. a measure
that would have been of insalculabe bene-
tit to Texas, and the Constitutional Conyen-
ton must make for itself a most enyiable
reputation, by judicious, and statesman-like
action on all other measures if it escapes
everlasting odium. for failure to enRraft
this very necessary provision in our organic
| law. @
The Burnett Bulletin furnishes the only
argument we have seen in favor of the adop.
ton of the new Constitution, and it is hard
to answer. But is it not painful to reflect
that the new Constitution, if approved by
the people, must be, because they abhor
the old, and not because they would volun-
tarily accept the new2 The Bulletin saws:
"If the white men in the negro governed
counties do not like the concern, on &C.
count of its suffrage provisions, they GER
tainly would not be lanywise benefited by
voting to retain the present Constitution. y
The free lance of the Sherman Register,
referring to the school land legislation as
done up by the Constitutional Convention,
says 1t absolutely vests the title to these
they belong, and at the same time provides
that the lands and funds are to he held in
trust for the benefit OF public schools I'm
der this provision can the county absolute
~ sell the land and make b good title or is
the title still virtually in the StateY
'DeMorse has gone. back on his former
pledges to his constituents, and voted for
the subsidy bill. We were never an admi-
rer of his political record, and his taking
the course he has did not surprise US, as
he reminded US of the fable of Esop about
certain animal that dotted the lions skin
and got along finely until he undertook to
roar, when his voice betrayed him and he
received the contempt of all the animals.
Mr.. DeMorse's Granger skin did first rate
to get to Austin, but he will receive the con-
tempt of his constituency when they see
the course he has taken in the Convention"
The Waxahachie Enterprise is not far
from truth when it says: 1.-THE members
of the Convention, after much unnecessary
wrangling over unimportant matters, seem
at last to have gone to work in good ear
nest to accomplish that for which the peo-
pie sent them to Austin, and the probable
tiles now are that their labor will be conclu-
ded at an early day, and that Constitution
will be submitted SO far superior to the de-
testable instrument under which are now
living that it will be adopted by an over
whelming majority. Ht'ii as'Fo sarissi +
Will the South support Western candi-
date for the Presidency II so, q Western
man will be nominated. The South will
surely control the nomination. II we have
Western President we cannot havea West
ern speaker of Congress. Kerr of Indiana
is solid, slow good man, but beyond his
hnnaQfU IL ar1l a Ill
the position. Sunset Cox is the quickest.
readiest most foreihle debater and expe.
rieHced member of Congress, and therefore
we have favored his pretensions. He is
sound and true, and may be trusted. The
Denton ReUieso should reverse its opinions
on this subject. - ea a.ad ,as,,fs,
she excellent secretary ofthe Texas Press
Association has been in Austin. He is an
exceedingly quiet, modest gentleman to oc-
cupy such noisy position. His report as
secretary Is admirable and full OF valuable
historical and other matter. Those wood
cuts are rather rough, and must have been
produced by the same mandatory that
furnished the pictures for Col Morphis's
History of Texas. These are said TO have
been engraved by q Comanche. and the
blocks are preserved in the Texan peoiopi.
cal cabinet. But Mr.. Vogel is the best sec
rotary of a Press Association that exists in
the South, and il his plans of reform and
scheme of supplying the press with ap.
proved telegraphic dispatches and with
cheaper paper be adopted, be will be
deemed the greatest benefactor the press Of
Texas has ever known.
The power OF Gov. Davis and venality Of
the rabble is shown in the. election Of
Wheeler, a so-called Democrat, and Of Gov.
Davis's partner, a Radical of the blackest
dye, by means of trade made on Sunday.
che day before the election. The negroes
and Mexicans were not told bow to vote
TIL Sunday night and Monday morning.
the day OF the election, and some Of the
darkles would not believe that the trade was
made and that they had been sold ~
WheeIer mini .ha-y.1-r - 49, ~ ~. 80 ~