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

levied to pay for street paving and other
jobs executed under contracts procured by
bribery. A mayor was chosen who specu-
lated right and left in city securities. He
was the alleged partner of banker who
knew what and when to buy of the city's
paper. The mayor grew rich and built
houses, and, having money, buys voters,
white and black, and consolidating them,
rules and de- ies the people who devoted
their lives to building a once prosperous
but now dying metropolis. The poor are
the great sufferers. They have no employ
ment and must beg for bread. There are no
houses built, except by officeholdeTs, and
they who iEvest these men with power ure
first to be crushed beneath misfOrtunes in
hicted by depaved deinagogues. These,
cover from taxpayers sums used in Luying
whisky and votes. The negro and white
rabble of the thief-accursed place is in II
pitiable condition, and yet deludcd by dem
ngogues in u great Democratic convention,
so-called, they have voted sOlidly, not
many months ago, for a leader of the pirati
cal crews. He defied decency with the
unblushing audacity of Cataline, who, af
ter practlcing his nameless, unquestioned
crimes, appeared in the very midst of the
Roman Senate. Every decent white man
aud every taxpayer voted for distinguished
citizen whose fame was stainless, and
whose name and fortune are identified with
the place. But the dirty mob DISCUS ted
decency by steadfast adhesion to the un-
worthy plum lerer, and if the true people
submit to his mastery, they would submit
when highwaymen and tramps demand
money or life. Patience, under existing
systems of corporate government, the sys-
tenn fastened On towns and counties OF
Texas by Rutabaga timidity or demagog.
ism, is no longer u virtue, and if
Houston and the southern and eastern coun-
ties of Texas revolt against it, and in revolt
ing destroy many little plans of Democratic
demagogues and party managers none need
be greatly amszed. The stork-like party
leaders should not forget, though unre-
strlcted suffrage is office and power for
them, it is death to the frogs-the wronged,
robbed, taxpaying and toilipg people.
And is it not very absurd to ask the peo-
pie of cities, piundered by the ignorant
rabble, and Of counties subjected to the
domination of savages to approve consti-
tuition perpetuating calamlties and making
them absolutely irremediable. The very men
who made this Constitution are everywhere
candidates for the Senate or House. They
will be elected simply because they are,
excellent, honest. well-meaning gentlemen.
They cannot, in the Legislature, stultify
themselves as constitution-makers. They
will not have the courage to pronounce
themselves fools, and then at the same
time, defy the rabhle and restrict suffrage
or tax it. This is asking too much at the
hands of the RuUabagas, and nobody ex-
poets the Radical minority in the Legisla-
ture to vote for the reforms demanded by
the true people of Texas. 1t Is, therefore,
too plain for DENIAL that two-thirds of the
Legislature, for years to come, cannot be
induced to amend the new Constitution IN
behalf of towns and negro-governed coun-
tics. There is no present possibility of this
consummation, and, therefore, each citizen
of Texas who abhors unrestricted suffrage
and is ruined by it, and they who despise
the miserable Judiciary system and condemn
the maintenance of courts by '''perquisites"
that widows and orphans may be robbed
and Rutabagaism have the fame of reducing
'salar.es"-all these with the enemies of
depraved or incapable courts, will vote
against the new Constitution. st
When the Galveston Convention has fin
ished it's work, and local conventions have
selected candidates, and when the people
are no longer Influenced by those bribed by
countless offices to admire the new code,
then we will begin to contemplate the utter
inacceptability of the proposed new scheme
of government, and every thoughtful, un-
purchased citizen must necessarily vote
| AGAINST it. i-' -' '