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SITUATIONS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..


"A WEST sfTH STA COMPETENT YOUNG wo-
/ 4 man chambermaid; good city references Call
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Tx WEST 46rH STA RESPECTABLE woMAk
lic togo out by the day washing, ironing or house
cleaning
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e)9O WEST s5rH ST., TOP FLooR.-A REsPECFA-
<-OO bic woman as first ass cook in private lam
lily; understands her business Mi Its branches:
class relerence
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If = WEST 2lST ST.-IN A PRIVATE FAMILY AS
l1O cook and assist In the washing AMI ironing ;
very best references from last employer Apply between
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QI5 EAST Spin ST.. SECOND FLOOR, FRONT
DlO room.-As gooc plain cook, washer and ironer
Gail Tor days.
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an 18TH ST. WEST. REAR FRoST-A RESPECT
~ able young Girl as chambernaid and waitress city
~. ool
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90 EAST s5Tu ST., IN THE sToRE.-A YOUNG
I'LL girl 10 COOK wash and iron In the country tour
yrar rcfereucc.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-15

praise too much the energy displayed by
you in giving the expenses of govern
ment As q workingman and taxpayer /
have derived much food for contemplation
by their perusal. | am in favor of a school
fund if it is well managed. / belong to a
class never represented in the halls of legis-
lation, and if the workingmen of this coun-
try are not educated it will be the worse for
the ''almighty dollar" aristocracy. Look
back at the various revolutions (and no one
knows their causes better than youl recorded
in the pages of history, and it does not re-
quire any large amount of foresight to tell
what will be the effects of class legislotion.
But are our finances to be thus managed
fOrever2 Are not the taxes at presentlevied
sufficient to defIay the expenses of govern
ment2 The people will bear any amount of
taxes if they think they are wisely expended
that they are all consumed indefraying
necessary expenses. That is the reason why
your efforts TO expose the city administra-
ton of Austin have met with such. sue
cess-and | am sure there are few taxpayers
here that do not uphold you in your course,
and who will not condemn these corrup-
tionists. We cannot see that all the expen-
ditures are necessary. A wise mayor might
have persuaded the people that it may all be
right, but the upstart mayor of Austin
boasts of it through his organ.
But in connection with this subject, /
wish to say few words in regard 60 the
condition of the working class. l don't
think you are prejudiced against US as
class, but your sympathIes are naturally
with the privileged class.
DON'T you think the strikes in Pennsyl-
vania show which way the wind blows,
and isn't 1t becoming necessary to pay some
attention to the needs of manual laborers
Respectfully, s.
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as the Ledger and Mr.. Simpkins. They say:
'ResOloed, That we recognize in his Gov.
Coke's) financial policy an earnest that our
State will soon stand side by side, fnan-
clally, with its most favored sisters of the
Union"
In another place we show thai, g finan-
claliy," Texas, even now, stands side by
side with other unfortunate States of the
South, and the luck of those "most ia
vored Is hardly to be courted," i" and why
this little adjunct was made to the other re-
solves we don't exactly see. But there is
no harm in it. and there was none in the
convention. Its nominees are excellent gen.
tlemen, and deserved the honors awarded
them. Messrs. John r. Henry, of Lime
stone; G. A. Sessions, of Freestone, and F.
NJ. Martin, of Navarro, were nominated,
and properly. Now let the Ledger see that
they are elected, and, when triumphant, it
will be no more thoroughly well pleased
than the STATESMAN. The convention
asked US to print its proceedings. In the
above We have obeyed sufficiently we'll for
all practical purposes.
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NO. 81

enough, and that the old salary in good
money is enough; aud that ninety members
in the Legislature is enough, and five dol
lars per day sufficient pay. The State debt
should be limited.
am afraid that lawyers, who charge such
fees as they do for a little work, won't
favor retrenchment, and will want to pay
large salaries. Where the carcass is, there
will the eagles be gathered. / do know,
from near sixty years of experience, that an
increase of salaries has made a large in
crease of thieves in Office, for the love OF
money Is the root Of all evil Now, with
out pledge of a mans course in the con
vention, our side of the river will not sup
port candidates. We want honest, thought
full men, that will lay down and carry out
4 good, plain foundation of government
We don't want demagogues or buncombe
speakers, but deep thinking men and smart
enough to tell their thoughts in plain
words. think good constitution can be
made in twenty or thirty days at most, and
that the Legislature should only meet once
in two years; and that a three months ses-
sion is long enough. Changes in laws, so
much, keep farmers and mechanics in the
dark. 1 could say much more but think il
unnecessary; but if the substance of what
l have written is not attended to, we shall
vote no convention; and if constitution
is formed not on these principles, when
submitted we will reject it.
Yours, A JEFFERSON DEMoCRAT.
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THE TRUE FOUNDATION OF GOOD
GOVERNMENT In TEXAS.

The Rusk Observer is wise and just
and expounds popular opinion, as de-
fined by the press of Texas, when it says it
would gladly have the sphere of operation
of the exemption laws enlarged rather than
restricted. This will be done. The time
may come when children will be reared with
the distinct conviction that while they are
honest and truthful their credit Is iIlimita-
BILE. Then the country's laws will proffer a
premium to honesty, and civil courts will
constitute no refuge for rogues. Men will
pay, everywhere, as in cities, as matter of
honor, and none viii have credit unless
known to deserve it. The moral tone Of
society will be elevated by the credit sys-
TEN as it will then exist, and mans word
will at last be as good as his bond. There
fore, until Rsdicalism shaped the policy of
the law, it was directed to the repression
and prevention of litigation; now, that
courts and sherifFs and constables and judges
and witnesses and idlers may be multiplied
and the people compelled to MAINTAIN them,
these costly courts are multiplied and the
gateway for fools to enter is widened and
people spend time and money in suits cost
| ing the industry OF the country infinitely
/ more each year than all SUMS collected b.
sheriffs and paid over in ten years 70 plain
I ttiffs. In practice and in morals the whoh
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course and results of litigation, like he ex-
istence of civil courts for tle col
lection of debt, are wholly unfortunate,
alike to society and individuals There
fore, in Civilized countries, litigaion is
heavily taxed ana lawyer detected n pro-
noting it is stricken from the rolls. Here,
in the South, to the amazement of malkind,
the people are governed by those wh' pro-
mote litigation even by legislation. These
would repeal all exemption acts and abso-
lutely have the whole community CONSIST of
two classes known in the books as Dlaln-
tlffs and defendants. 1t is in reference to
this question that we are disposed 70 dis
trust class of lawyers. Their interests
may lead, as they vainly imagine, in one,
and those of the masses of people in the
opposite direction. 1t is to this class that
the South, while ruled by adventures,
owes that change in public policy which
has proffered premiums for litigation.
These have multiplied courts until, in
Mississippi, their number has been doubled
and cost quadrupled and whole districts
and communities are together by the
ears" literally woolling" one another.
The lawyers, apd those happy fellows who
pocket fees and costs, gain all that the
Ignorant devils lose, and a delightful state
of society is generated commonly described
by letter writers aud real estate brokers as
a terrestrial hell.
The selfishness of creditors constantly over
leaps itself and defeats its own purposes.
When debtor becomes insolvent it is only
needful, in order to render ultimate pay
ment forever impossible, to turn him over
to the tender mercies of constables, bailiffs
and shysters. He first hates, then contemns
his race, and finally loses respect for himself
In ninety-nine cases out of each hundred
the citizen once utterly crushed by raven
GUS creditors never rises again. Society and
law lose friend, and gain an enemy, and
family of miscreants supplants one which,
left with means of subsistence, would toll
to regain all of money and fame that had
been lost. If the law be changed let it be
directed in prevention of litigation, in re-
preston of the gambling spirit begotten
of courts and in rendering the beegary of
the poor of Texas utterly impossible.
God has given this people peculiar bless
ings. Statesmen alone are wanting to
make Texans the truest patriots. The first
measure to assure this result is to create and
protect the family. The household in its
unity and strength and purity is the State,
and each household in Texas should be an
lndestruetible independent republic, and
thus make Texas the greatest and freest and
most blessed of commonwealths. Pro-
tected in property, and premium thus
proffered to marriages, families will be null
tiplied and the number multiplied who are
deeply interested in maintaining law and
order and good government. Protected in
property, each family can educate its own
children, and thus the State is not substi-
tuted, as in Prussia, for the family, and we
need not accept Bismarck's philosophy and
make the State despotism because it is
everything supplanting both the family and
the church.
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Would it not be we'll to authorize the
Governor, in the new Constitution, to veto
any clause in general appropriation bill,
as well as the whole billG The President
of the United States has not this power, and
the consequence is he is forced to approve
confessed frauds in order to keep the wheels
of government moving. The spirit OF re-
form is most exacting, and since it is de-
manded that sessions of the Legislature shall
be few and brief, nothing will be more dan
gerous or rujnous to the people than the
hurried legislation of the last days Of each
session. Kentucky's Constitution compels
short, very short, legislative sessions, and
it therefore happened, at the last Of these,
that fifteen hundred bills were left undis-
posed of, and those passed went through in
unutterable confusion. The Governor, in
view of these facts, should have the un-
restricted veto power.
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THE Lampasas DisPateh is done for. 1t
viii catch it now. it has dared to suggest
the possibility OF. wrong in the king, and
the king can do no wrong-neither the
Governor nor Ireland. We hold our breath
to hear the ''OrgGn." The Dispatch says:
''The Democracy must retrench, or ac-
knowledge the corn and quit"
The Dipatch becomes at once in the four
eyes of the two organs Radical organ.
No man can differ from. Ireland or Gov
ernor Coke even about local matters and be
other than Radical, and then again this
same Dispateh dares to lay its unhoIy hands
upon Offices that Governor Coke has filed
with good and true men. BY necessary
inference his ExceIlency is condemned
when an Office he has nourished Is pro-
posed to be abolished. The Dispatch says:
ssThe abolishment of the Offices OF Adju-
taDt General, Assistant Attorney, Superin-
tendent Of Public Instruction and Superin-
tsndent Of immigration will, very likely,
be effected By the approaching convention.
They are supposed 70 be Offices Of doubtful
prOpriety and the people are tired Of such
curses"
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THE STATESMAN IS RIGHT SIDE UP.

Though the communication published be-
low was not written with that object, still
it comes from source representing class
which we desire shall be heard. The es-
TEEN in which the STATESMAN is held by
the writer, and many others of his class, is
fattering, and twill give US much pleasure
to hear from such correspondents oftener.
The writer misapprehends our position. 1t
is in no wise antagonistic to the honest la
boring classes, and, if well considered, it
will be acknowledged that it is in most per-
feet harmony with the interests of honest
working men. They are among our best
citizens. They are sure to rise. If not to
wealth, st least to competence and respecta-
bility In society, and hence they are, at
all stages in their lives, interested in
good government and in its honest
and economical administration. The fol-
lowing letter is evidence of what we say
Opposition to miserable rabble, exercising
the powers of government to the detriment,
and even destruction, of oar local interests,
is in no wise antagonism to honest labor.
We respect the honest labOrer. The best
and most worthy men in the land have
sprung from among them; and all we de-
sire is for these good people to help our
friends on in the good cause We have been
bold enough to advocate. And If the con-
summation is gained, no doubt remains but
the laboring men Of Austin and the State
at large will thank the day that these vital
questions were so thoroughly Agitated in
these columns:
AUSTEN, Texas, July 10. 1875.
Editors Dsnoorat5c Ssatsnan--I cannot
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ness with which his womanly traits were
in strong contrast. Ger. Sherman is a man
of force and genius, and skIllful warrior;
his selfshness, and thus his vanity, is his
most significant foible, often degenerating
into an objectionable vice. Occupying his
position, be had no right to ascribe de-
gree of eriminality to Mr.. Davis which could
only be supposed just to the extent that
partisans, North and South, traduced Mr..
Davis in order to make the cause he es-
poused OdiOus. Gen. Sherman, if morally
a great man, which he is not, because his
vices of intellect are great, should have
the facts before pronouncing an
opinion, as dIsgraceful to Sherman as de-
signed to be ruinous to Mr. Davis's personal
fame
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-15
SOUND DOCTRINES IN THE BELTON
DISTRICT CONVENTION.

There is sound sense in the platform
adopted by. the late Senatorial district con-
vention at Bolton. 1t attains the end, and
very nearly by the same means, proposed to
be secured by the restriction Of suffrage an
corporations to .Jreeholders. The Bolton dis
trict convention, when nominating candi-
dates for the constitutional convention, re-
solved:
"That no municipal government in this
State shall incur debt for internal improve
ment, or otherwise, except by a vote Of q
majority of those owning real estate in such
municipalities.
Those who must pay can alone create the
debt. This effected, Governor Coke's prop
osition to restnct the powers of counties
and cities, vesting these powers in the Leg
islature, may well be withdrawn. People
know better what they want, and how TO
accomplish it, than their representatives at
the State capital, and therefore the need
for the broadest local freedom, and there
fore the absolute need for the restriction Of
suffrage in corporate elections. Everybody
in Texas, free, white and twenty-one, will
approve this proposed scheme of reform
when it is comprehended, and we are pleased
to see the district convention at Bolton NOV
ing in the right direction. Il was not un-
wise when it declared that no man should
vote, in any election, who has not paid his
poll tax. But this law might operate 10
lessen our representative strength in Con-
gress by lessening the number voting for
members of the Legislature. No such evil
befalls us when we declare that none save
freeholders shall vote in municipal elec.
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THE Telegraph man suffers his temper to
get the better of his discretion, The pub
lie is apt to crown him victor who main
tains his good humor. But when fellow
gets to be an ''organ" his feelings have
double force and it can hardly be expected
that he would maintain perfect equanimity
when his honest pocket and honest opin-
ions are both assailed. The extravagant
zeal and nervous sensiIiveness of the Hous-
ton Organ overleap themselves. 1t resorts
to epithets, and none are more intolerable
to Democrat than to have that of ''Radi-
cal' applied to him, and thus the Houston
Organ, when sorely puzzled and maddened,
calls the STATESMAN Radical and in
doing this confesses its consciousness of our
devotion to Democracy. If the man were
not crazed with passion, ana because of
thwarted purposes, he would have thought
of this. But Ireland's luck and this finan-
cial fog raised about the State Treasury
have crazed the Telegraph.
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HOW THE PRESS rs WRECKED.

1t was he of the Navasota Tablet, we be-
lieve, who made the famous race for the
mayoralty of the town. Properly, despite
his many virtues of intellect and morals,
he was sadly defeated. No man conduct
ing newspaper, worthy the name, with
honors and power incident to the position
when well and worthily filed, would aban-
don it for the chief magistracy of the town
or city. The moral power and actual oper-
ative influence welded by half dozen
newspapers Of Texas-and the press is yet
in its infancy and unorganlzed and uncon-
scious of its vast consolidated force-the
active influence for good or evil of half
dozen newspapers is infinitely greater than
that wrought by any politician or office
holder. There is honor for journalist in
cultivating good taste in letters and in
morals, in shaping wisely the course of
public opinion, in elevating popular aspira-
tions, in making the country conscious that
there are ioftier aims and higher purposes
than those of party leaders who, when
about to create a new government for a
mighty and growing people, cannot rise
above the unworthy selfshness and narrow
prejudices begotten of struggles for offices
and spoils of office. Even as the office
sought by candidate for place in the
constitutional convention is higher and
more honorable to him who fills it well than
that of the statute lawmakers, so the office
of an editor is hie her and more response
BILE trust than that discharged by any local
placeholder whose administration is dis
tinguished only by the promptness with
which he draws his wretched stipend.
Occasional messages or vetoes are impotent
| for good or evil; while editorials constitute
themes for daily thought and conversation
of the town and country. They shape pub
lie opinion, and, intangible and trifing as
they may seem, are transmitted from one to
another conversationalist and from one to
| another generation, and break at last, like
the oceans pillows, on the remotest shores
of futurity. But we were only going to say,
when the first sentence of these was writ
ten, that the Press Association of Texas
will never command the respect or 'Jne Peo-
pie till It's members respect themselves and
each other. They toll, many of them, with
tireless assiduity to destroy their own po
tency and their own respectability. The
profession, in popular apprehension, is ar
unit, and whenever an editor destroys an
other in public esteem he wounds himself
and degrades his trade; and whenever an
editor would abandon his profession and
newspaper to become a mayor he should be
lectured by the fair editor of the Fort
Worth Standard, or whacked on the head
by the moral poker and power of the in
| imitable Leader.
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Miscellaneous.
DIR. c. M'LANES
Celebrated American
WoRM SPECIFIC,
We r M l F UGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.

THE courtenance is, pale and
leaden-colored, with occasional
Aushes, or a circumscribed spot on
one or both cheeks; the eyes become
dull; the pupils dilate; an azure
semicircle runs along the lower eye
lid the nose is irritatsd, swells, and
sometimes blesds; aswelling Of the
upper lip; occasional headache, with,
humming or throbbing of the ears
an unusual secretion Of saliva (; Shiny
or furred tongue; breath vcry-foul,
particularly in the morning; appetite
variable, sometimes voracious, with
gnawing sensation of the stomach, at
others, entirely gone; Aeeting pains
in the stomach; occasional nausea
and vomiting; violent pains through
out the abdomen; bowels irregular,
at times costive; stools Shiny, not
- unfrequently tinged with blood belly
swollen and hard urine turbid; re-
spiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; un-
easy and disturbed sleep, with grind
ing of the teeth temper variable,
but generally irritable, etc.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist, ~.
DR. c. M'LANE'S VERMIFUGE
Will certainly effect a cure.
The universal success which has
attended the administration of this
preparation has been such as to war
rant US in Pledging ourselves to the
public to
RETURN THE MONEY
in every instance where it should
prove Intellectual: providing the
symptoms attending the sickness of
the child or adult should warrant the
supposition of worms being the
cause" In all cases the Medicine
10 be given IN STRICT ACCORDANCE
WITH THE DIRECTIONS.
We pledge ourselves to the public.
that
DIR. c. M'Lane's Vermifuge
DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; and that j, is an inno-
cent preparation, not capable Of doing
Me slightest inju,T to tie mOsf fendfr
infant. Address all orders to
FLEMING BROS, PITTSBURGH, PA.
p. S. Dealers and Physicians ordering from
others than Fleming Bros. will do well to write
their orders distinctly, and take s0sSJ6afi Dr., c.
MkdHe'T, Syepdv.d6y F2rniHe Bros, ,I'ittS5E,gh
"a. To those wishing 10 give them a trial, we viii
forward per mail, post paid, 20 any part Of the
United States. one box OF Pills for twelve three.
cent postage stamps, or one vial OF Vermiflge for
fourteen three-eent stamps. All orders from Canada
must be accompanied by twenty cents extra.
as- For sale by Druggists and Country Store
Keepers generally.
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The Marshall Herald says Of our pur-
poses when we have sought to make people
comprehend the infinite importance of max.
ing the wisest men in Texas members Of the
constitutional convention;
''Hon. John ireland is merely used "a a
means TO an end the disintegration OF the
Democratic party. The STATESMAN and its
allies aim at a higher object than the de-
feat merely of Mr.. Ireland's political aspi-
rations.- Their object cannot be accom-
plished without the disorganization Of the
Democracy, and they attack Judge Ireland
because he advised the preservation of the
party organization.p
We condemned Ireland because the peo-
pie contemplated the creation of new
government for Texas and Ireland sought
to make the process an ordinary, vulgar,
little party conflict, even when Radicalism
only lifts up its hideous head in Texas to
swallow occasional crumbs from the White
House table. There is no need for parti-
sanship, and only for craftsmanship. But
Ireland is head and front of the Democracy
of Texas, and he liked to show himself in
this capacity and be conspicuous and noisy
and active, and thus patriotic to an eminent
degree. But it is all WELL 1t has made
the people think and evoked good men,
and proper nominations have been generally
made