The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-15

sition Of things would make the present
| contradiction impossible.
THE "ORGANS'' AND THEIR GRIMES
AND POLLIES.
It is queer taste that approves and pow
erty of intellect that iDpels one of the ''Or-
gans," better paid just now for its services
than the other, to employ epithets. when
reason, IL available, would serre a better
purpose. When the S1AIEsAAN has said
that the people of the South, Texans with
the rest, lost half their wealth by war and
now, governed by themselves, ind them
selves taxed fvefold more than in 1850
making the quintupled tax tenfold heavier
than 10 former years-wben the STATES.
MAN has nodestly adTerted to these painful
facts the ''organs" stand with glaring eyes
aud maddened because the truth is thrust
IN their faces and there is no answer-the
miserable fellOws lift up their trembling
hands in utmost horror aud squeak out
'Radicalism.' ''RadIcalism." When we
have called the attention of the people to
the real facts and shown that in two OF
three Of these plundered and impoverished
Southern States, Southern people have been
restored TO supremacy and that these, freshly
crowned and starved for spoiIs, have less
ened in nothing the cost of State and local
governments, these hired ''orgsns," instead
of combating the assertion or disproving
it or reforming the evil, lift up their dirty
hands in ghastly dismay and Shrek it out
-"Radicalw Radical" 1t is a queer
way to reply TO statement of facts thus
confessed to be TOO palpable for denial
and too intolersble to be defensible. The
hired adjunct of government must resort
to cheap epithets, and assert the stupidity
Of his readers by this. appeal to prejudice
so baseless that Beotian stupidity would
hardly entertain it. We would not harm
Governor Coke or his administration, but
cannot be made to understand that in criti-
cising his acts, or the incidents of Demo-
cratic sway in Texas, we are ininical to his
Exccllency or to our own party. The very
best service We can render it is in the plain,
honest portrayal of its faults and vices, as
we'll as virtues. If the Governors taste be
as faultless as his logical acumen and rude
vigor Of intellect, he abhors and loathes
this ceascless, meaningless laudation,
heaped upon him by ignorant, blind parti-
sans, and alike by paid courtiers. If we
have condemned the public policy of State
governments in which there has been no
diminutlon of the number of officeholders,
and none of the number of juries, it would
be easy enough perhaps to show that his
Excellency has earnestly sought to attain
these ends but the Legislature has been an
insuperable obstacle in his path. Reason
and intelligence and fairness would have
discovered such replies to such assertions of
palpable facts; but, instead, the organ not
only dishonors itself, and the cause it
espouses, but falls into the horrible prac-
tees OF Hon. John Ireland when we
sought to reason with him, and shrieks,
Radical!' "Radicalr' We once read a
story which tells that young farmer, to
amuse himself and brighten his nelghbors,
often cried "Wolf" 'Wolf!" when there was
no volt. The wolf came at last and he
cried in vain for help, and was tom limb
less. These guardsmen of his Excellency,
who look on sheepishly enough, now and
then only bleatlng little through some re-
mote newspaper, wherein he, too, squeaks
out ''Radicalr Radical y in most plaintive
lamb-like accents-these hired shepherds
have cried ''Wolf l"A'WolfIn until listening
multitudes despise their folly.
Here are the facts-the fifty cents tax 'on
the hundred dollars; and when we talk of
tho oldNn time whom ten and fifteen cents
on each one hundred dollars served as well
and the ability of the people to pay was al
most twice as great as to-day-when we tell
these plain truths the organ cries "Wolf !"
"Wolf ~ Radical" RADICAL
Radicalism can Devermore reign in Texas,
The party here is dead. Its mere emblapce
is terrible in the eyes and dreams Of igno-
rance, but it exists only in the shadow of
Grants greatness. When lie steps down
and out, Davis and Baker, as political facts,
are no more forever. There may be very
stupid readers of Organs" and such peo-
pie alone are pleased with organs" but
there are few weak enough to mistake a
bowling dervIsh of party for philosopher,
or an ass who brays out Radical" when
ever he is spuncd, for Bucephalus on the
race course of journalism, and we cannot
help thinking that even Governor Coke
sometimes blunders grievously, and that it
is our privilege, as 1t is our duty, to talk
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