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The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-04-30
NaO&ESDAHAE
Wooden factory.
Wool Carding
AND SPINNING

TENIiE Subscribers would respectfully announce
/ Ia thu public that ihry are Hu" ready to re-
GIVE wool 10 earl into rolls, OF card ana pin.
AIR. E3~ry, one al The firm, viii pay h. per
Sonai a~ttrntiou to the wooden department. and
thinks from his long cXv,ricIce al The business,
h" can safely guarantee all wOIk done in Il prop
CT W"rkmHniikc manner. Persons bringing
wool to work Up should have It well ci"ansr't,
and 10 every seven pounds of wool, one pound
ofllrI "r oil Will be required, OR WE WILL
FURNISH oil.
y. i. Persons from Il distance bringing wool
10 card, by remaining over night can have their
wool CartrJ To take home with them.
The Nic->rs. FO>fON AUSTIN, in c0nne:-
tiur with the Noolcn Factory are running =
Merchant and Custom FIGURING Mill,
and ~>oliciiS = hare # ,lutronagc II that line.
Also wanted -. 600 pounds OF wool, for which
the highest price VIII hc paid. Wool rolls and
Yarn krp, on h"Hd Tor sale.
-aH-Ara .-csasnY & s-srN%rr
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17
THE sTATEsmAN,s VANITY.

The Hampstead Messenger ''keeps the
STATESMAN on file for its COOL imperturba-
bic vanity.n More than half of modern
newspapers have not yet learned to place
proper estimate upon their own WORTH
They suffer. themselves to be used at will
by every party leader and political hummer
who ascends to Office over the ladder of the
press. A few of these fellows get together,
organize convention, " so-called, and par
eel out the soft places among themselves,
and then call upon the newspapers to
"boost" them. The wise, unselish, pa
triotic editor exhausts money and toll in
supporting '.:the party" as it is called. IT
only means, however, that the sweet, soft
places are to be won by those exceedingly
good fellows, the candidates, at the print
er's cost. When the victory is won and the
excellent men are invested with honors and
Office and money. the poor devil of an edi-
tor is kicked out of the way, like the nice
little platform devised to catch gudgsons,
and neither one nor the other is ever heard
of again. We have been winning victories
on platforms for years, but we must always
have the same platform. The same asser-
tions Of public policy must always be kept
fresh and green and pretty and attractive to
catch the votes of the many that the few may
riot in Office. And yet the Messenger does
not like the STATESMAN because, forsooth,
of the STATEsMAN's vanity. We ought to
be cain. We have surely done work enough
IN cain. Henceforth we paddle our own
canoe, and advise the Messenger to assume
that degree of vanity which insures proper
estimate of the worth and dignity of the
profession. 1t is the newspaper that should
patronize the placemen and placeseekers,
and not bow in abiect humility before the
msjesty of men in or outside the party, or
in or out of office. The courts of the
country everywhere are at war with the
press; Congressman are legislating against
it politicians, as class, seek to make it bend
before their splendid majesty; the courts
drag editors before the bar of Justice; libel
suits on the aimsiest pretexts are sought to
be sustained and legislation enacted ruin
Gus to the power and dignity and indie
pepdence Of the press. Therefore the
SrzErrsra-. = ---.Aab ,neIined tn salf-assor-
ton, and We would to God that enough
vanity were vOuchsafed to the press of
Texas to make each newspaper do its own
thinking, paddle its own canoe and assail
every man who is wrong, whatever his po-
sition as partisan, or power as an Office
holder Docs not the Messenger think the
better now Of the sTArEsMAS's indestructi-
BILE xanitvl
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17


straight nominations At all times, support
such manq And yet be is to be retained;
and when We criticise ireland for straight
iacedness, in matter in which partisanship
cannot enter, we are At once unchurched.
Oh modesty. where Is thy blush Then
the organ Of the "a stlaightOuts . would
have the gentle African representative Of
the outlying ward Of WheatviiIe retain bis
oleaginous seat in the city council Isn't
the proposition, from such source, anaz-
ing The pure Democracy about Jefferson,
where the heunwaveFing JImPlecuts is supreme,
will not suffer Sambo to vote in Democratic
primary elections. Jeffersonian {" Democ-
racy will not recognize him on any terms as
Democrat. They fight it out, as the ne
groes ordered it everywhere IN the South,
on the color line, and yet, here in Austin,
even in the State capital, the simon-pure,
Ireland organ grinder and the organ an ad-
vertising medium OF the city ring, absolute
ly proposes to retain Jake Blossom, the col
ored lawgiver from Wheatvilie, in the city
council Here is Democratic consistency
for you. Here we have an illustration Of
those vices of Inconsistency begotten of the
fact of hired organship. But Jake Is to re-
main in the city council, and all straight
Democrats must vote for this ''man and
brother" The organ orders it and none
dare diso5ey. II would be as reasonable TO
dlsobey John Ireland. The deputy marshal
must also retain his office. He is late
Federal placeholder and, We suppose,
straight Republican. In the city eoun-
Gil there is Mr.. Brueggerh0ff, who,
if Democrat, only shed his Radical skin
when Radicalism was buried out of sight
with Davis and other measureless public
enormities. Mr.. Bremond is also faithful
good Republican, we believe, and yet an
organ, though an Ireland organ, and ac=
cepting nothing but unqualified Democracy,
swallows the whole mass-this mighty mass
of Radicalism and rum and Democracy
run mad, and Of bankers rings, and Fors--
ter, the Radical banker, and the whole
batch that have speculated and squandered
till even the city's Credits almost wrecked.
The people of Austin accept the gage of
battle thus prohered by the placemen Of
the city, through their authorized and paid
organ. Economy, rigid economy, from this
time forth is to characterize the administra-
ton of local affairs. Ne more bonds
will be turned over to forster
the city's fame, no present further
efforts will be made to rob the people and
their posterity forever In order to bring
water from Marble Falls over mountain
SUBMITS to wash the city's face and deluge
its property-holders beneath unexampled
debt This little scheme will slumber,
with many like it, till the rayenous ring be
again robed with Office. Such is the plot,
such are the candidates, such the calamity
impending over Austin. Read it again in
the paragraph that constitutes the text for
this article.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17
AN E5i 1FF1fa i5F7 OF 74i HoN0R.


Some days ago our dispatches recited, in
most solemn accents, the story Of the death
of a young man in Arkansas. s'His honor
had been woundedi by an editor the usual
satisfaction" was demarded, andrth solemn
farce is pFedaeed-bY-the Memphis
ArGI3nche. l "a soa q osa Ntd a1f
1t was alIabouta kitten. TheD DardaneIle
(Ark. ,IIldepeldeHt cpntaiped paragraph
denouncing some ..tsdirty, low,born brute" =
name unkhown-who had so mnltilated
kitten as to aljust leave ilife In its little
bOdy.n It seems that Capt. r. w. Wish
ard, who had probably Kicked the conceit
out of a cat, regarded the item gross per-
sonal reflection on his ahonah.h lie called
on the editor, Mr. CIoyd,- who acknowl-
edged the paternity Of the paragraph. '1We
win settle this thing-4no use being in a
hurryn-solemnly observed Capt Wishard
as he moved off majestically. Mr. Cloyd
happened to know what settling 'tthis
thing;' meant. Three hours later Capt.
Wishsfd returned The words were few,
but some moments after it would have been
difficult for an expert TO note the distin-
gushing features between Capt. Wishard's
body and lead mine. This thing" was
settled. -.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17


The decision Of Judge Bradley, Associate
Justice Of The supreme Court OF the United
States, in the case OF ChisoIm, It al Y.
ihe eitS Council of Montgomery. defines
very clearly and specifically the limits Of
the power Of municipal corporations TO
contract debts by the issue Of bonds. The
case is very simple. twenty-five years ago
the city council of Montgomery issued
bonds to aid in the construction Of certain
plank roads leading out of Montgomery,
and designed to aid the business and in
crease the prosperity of the city. There is
no evidence that, at that time, any point
was raised as to the illegality Of these bonds,
or any warming given their purchasers.
There was no point made that the holders
of the bonds were not bona Jide holders
for value, without notice of any fraud OF
irregularity in their issue. The charter,
however, of the city of Montgomery only
made the usual grant of power in rela-
ton to policing the town, ETC., and gave
no authority whatever TO the municipal
government to issue these or any other
bonds. Nor was this want of authority
cured by an act of the Legislature permit
ting or confning the issue. The Montgom-
cry bonds having fallen due, payment was
demanded by the holders, and refused by
the city on the grounds above stated. Judge
Bradley sustains the defense offered by the
city, and declares that the Bondholders
have no legal remedy for the collection of
their money. The court lays down a very
broad rule in this case, and declares all mu-
nicipal bonds void no matter for what
purpose they may have been issued = which
were not put forth under authority granted
either in the city charter or by an act of
the State Legislature. Judge Bradley even
goes so far as to declare that tEindebted-
ness incurred in carrying out any of the
prescribed objects of the charter is un-
doubtedly binding >on the city; but such
Indebtedness and the ordinary certificates
or vouchers given as evidence therefor stand
on very different ground from that Of
commercial securities issued by the city Off
cials, the consideration of which cannot be
inquired into in the hands of bona tide
holder, and which might be issued to an ex-
tent involving the commercial ruin of the
city," M
The decision of Judge Bradley has pc
culiar interest in Austin and in other Texan
towns now terribly plundered- The bonds
were negotiated before the war, and com
manded a premium. To repudiate the
bonds, at this day, and strip innocent pur-
chasers, or inheritors of the bonds, of their
property, may be law, but is not justice
An appeal has been taken by the bond
holders to the Supreme Court of the United
States, and, if 1t were certain that the Su-
preme Court would confirm the decision of
the Circuit Court, the city of Montgomery
would still, in our opinion, have done a
foolish act in refusing to pay the bonds.
The debt is an honest debt, and for that
reason the course of the city cannot be JUS
titled. But for all that buyers of city bonds
should beware. 1t is the Circuit Court of
the United States that admonishes them.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

.THE Eighth Cavalry is said to be coming
hithero frem New Mexico. In fact, every
act Of the government and its represents.
tives about san Antonio suggests 1she possi-
bility of an incursion into Mexico. The
people only dread Mexican annexation.
This would be approved, but with the
country come its people, and then the
blessed constitutional amendments make
allthe hybrids inducted by annexation vo-
ters, and our towns win be plundered by
nomadic. voters even more terrible than.
those that deluge Houston and Galveston.
when railway rings would rule or ruin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17
WHTTE 5KRD TlLl0K.

The Leader doesn't approve the restric-
ton Of suffrage in Democratic primary
elections to white voters. The negroes
everywhere have uniformly voted as race,
and not as partisans. They are. solidly
compacted by some incomprehensible force
against the white race, and in politics con
fde in none besides the Adventures who
have ravaged Southern towns and counties
even in States whose governors and legisIa-
lures are Representatives Of the white peo-
pie. If the Leader can give any assurances
that in elections to follow these primary
ballotings these blacks win still vote with
the Democratic party, there would be a
share of reason in its condemnation of the
Democratic modeof organization in Jsffer-
son, aud, until the5eDPGEd cmAS change ITS
spots ash the Ethiopian its skin, we have
little faith in negro operation in socialOr
political eyents.Nith the white races There
is still a MediteFmRean between Rhrope and
Africa. which God never hridged, and Rad
icalism in America essays theItask inyvain.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17
NO. AZ



Gen. Brsge. at the conclusion Of his. ex-
cellent speech, pronounced before the peo
pie a. Dallas, said Of jefferson Davis:
"This whole affair is most unexpected. /
come simply TO acknowledge your courtesy
ana hospitality would have been glad
% have heeR-lere 8 few weeks since fn eom-
pany with a-man. whose shoes latchet / am
not worthy 20 unloose. Applause. The
ho6iest, pprest aud best man / eyer knew,
and speak from a long aud personal asso-
clakiOn with him. Il should have enjoyed
fhe- ovation, which has not only made q
profound impression throughout this coun.
Try. but even across the great waters, that q
people conquered and beaten should be able
Ia come forward and take him to their
hearts, and tender him an ovation prince
might envy. ! thank you, ladies and gen.
tlemen, for your kindness, your courtesy,
and your Hospitality" !"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

II en- average Texan editor wants his
head broken, just let him say something
kind Of newspaper in town where there
are two printed. They may belong to the
press association, but that excellent insti-
tuition has not gained force enough in Texas
to compel the observance of rules Of deco
rum among all the members Of the press
gang It is great pity that good taste
and proper intelligence are not always con-
current in the conduct Of newspapers. The
power Of the press and respectability and
influence Of journalists would be greatly
promoted ifyulgar abuse and coarse person
alities we're unknown.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

IT is proposed in several counties to hold
county conventions in order to determine
ways and means, as taxpaying people and
not as partisans, Of lessening local public
burdens, The AdgaRce Guard would have
such convention IN Decatur, If politics
assume this practical shape, and parties be
organized with reference to the practical
interests Of the people, we viii soon find
the people thoroughly aroused and earnest
and active on election days. We propose
to have new deal in this city and every
taxpayer must come to the front in Travis
couaty.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17
SCHOOL LANDS AND CITIES FOR
SALE.

: j.. . i. =
Hill county is suffering It's school lands
to slide away from beneath the public.
schools. Folly like this is criminal and
courts approving it should be, calaboOsed or
bored for the simples. Is there no way of
protecting posterity against the ihsatiate
greed of those now ixing9 We.issue bonds
and properly, to build jails and court
houses and railways, because these serve
alike future and living generations of men.
Why should not postority repudiate these
dobts Of cnrnoratfnr,s sIs5 t5tutos, II we who
create these debts rob posterity of the re
sources designed to be used in their pay
mentg Is it right to rob the school system,
to exist forever, of the only
species of property that cannot be stolen,
and that always grows in value as people
grow in years and numbers2 States and
counties live through centuries, while we
who now sell these lands live only thirty
years. We sell to serve ourselves and rob
the State and county and posterity. We
fasten debt here In Austin on posterity,
and without a grfmace, and if we had a
dollars worth of convertible realty, it
would go off to the highest bidder, inside
the ring, in twenty-four hours. Bonds and
realty are both swept away and posterity is
taxed merclIessly and nothing is reserved of
public resources which may protect poster
ity. We thus proffer premium in iustif-
cation of repudiation, andoat the same IN
slant stab our own credit aItis danger
GUS measure contemplated by HilI county.
Land is the best possible lproperty-better
than bonds or greenbacks- if hill
county be wise the circumstances are sin
Oular -aA--l- p - as -t+
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

THE Dallas Herald concurs with the
STATESMAN, and why make all that clatter9
We said that the back salary grab was an
awful mares nest, but that while there was
really little in it, there had been such an
almighty howl about it that it might
slaughter Randall, OF Pennsylvania, for the
speakership, and, if that did not, his Penn
sylvania high tariff notions would be fatal
Such man, with such convictions, would
hardly be preferred by the West to organize
committees who do the Legislation Of Con-
gress.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

GRAKBURY is sOrely afflicted with feas.
Does the mayor Of the town love to have
his back scratched, and has he an organ
grinder, too, to do the work, and, there
fore, does he refuse to have night-errant
ours put to deathg That's what's the mat
ter with Austin. We have more idle po-
licemen and more Orners, peg-tailed dogs
than ever dwelt together in amity in any
town this side Of Constantinople. Why
not slaughter the dogs and swine, and have
fewer vermin9
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

The people don't want members Of the
constitutional convention made Of those
Who propose to go higher II depagogue
get into theconvention he would be always
trimming his sails for 3 seat in Congress.
He would fear to offend the Tabble even By
voting to have judges appointed By the
Governor and Legislature. Such place
holders are not to be trusted to make q
State Constitution. Men above fser and
above reprOach are to be chosen, or the
government Of. Texas viii be an nnmixed
curse % ourselves and children.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

WE stated jocularly yesterday that there
was conspiracy possible between the Ne'rs
and the Federal court at Galveston, the
purpose, to advertise the Ne,es. Now the
court has backed down and out, and the
aspect Of the affair is still solemn and wears
much the appearance of conspiracy to
pump thunder into the Ners. We are sat
isAed, however, the judge was in dead
earnest; but that the Neaos was ever scared
or hurt, or even offended, to any alarming
extent, we can never be persuaded to be-
lieve.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

A METEOR Of astonishing brilliancy flashed
over Denison, arousing the people by its
splendor, and then there was an explosion
in the mid-heavens as if great rocket,
manufactured in the celestial armory ofthe
universe, had burst beneath the stars. The
earth trembled, and brilliant fragments of
the visitor from unknown realms swept over
the face of the earth. People of Denison,
suddenly reused from their dreams-it
was "Wednesday night-thought the lottery
had busted and the NeDs gone up.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

AHorHER case Of rape is reported at Den
ison. Il comes 70 this. that no woman dare
20 abroad in community il which there
are those addicted TO this crime. The NC
tim IN this case at Denison was an old lady.
The negro fellow seduced her from her
homs at night with the story shpt she vas
se-t Tor her By sick neighbor.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

The political editors Of tho STATESMAN
were born shareholders, and were slave
owners through all their lives till the bayO-
net liberated blacks. It signifies nothing,
however, whether we were shareholders or
not, Our contemporary who makes the In
quiry by doubling the fact only proposes
to show that We do not properly represent
ex-slayeholders. They themselves deter
mine the issue by approving and reading
the STATESMAN.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

TnK Port Worth Dsnozat, referring 70
the fact that the San saba Nsss is.oppossd
70 convention Of ationsniakers. ssgf
it has no doubt the eyas Of the San eAbe
man are N the back Of his head. But We
have to say that Is nof what's tie matter
The San saba "missing link e eminently
conservative. In fact, BE legl ere stuck
down in the rery middle Of his feet and be
ws,,,vernl vears old before his mamma knew
vlhieh waT hs would yak he Is eoipe
baclwsrds n0u.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

WILL not the Fredericksburg Sentinel
ana UriIvs r-p-ru tbat have unwittingly
misrepresented the STATESMAN Say that the
has never criticised or approved
the Governors and printing committees
conduct in Tsfo1snoe % this last job. We
have never said anything on the subject.
There was no use. We knew nothing
about the matter, were not advised q what
vas going On, and have nothing % say.
Have Jon never read Of tie poor boy Il
the frOlic who kept his mouth sautl
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

CoIe RAKER AND THE PREAcHERs.-It
is proper to say that If Col. Baker and
others. managers Of the Central Railway
Company, had been fully advised or had
properly understood the representative
force and value Of the body Of preachers
recently convened at Jefferson In this State,
they would have visited Austin without
cost. We state this in reply to letter
from one Of the most eloquent Of these able
divines, who regrets, above al things, that
his poverty prevented his visiting Austin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17


Shrewd people suspect a conspiracy be-
tween the learned Judge at Galveston and
our unsuspecting, venerable friend, Rich
ardson Of the Neps. Richardson is a shreWd
old fox; simple, very simple and uusus-
pecting be seems. to be; bnt devillsh sly.
He and that good, Jolly judge have posi-
lively been running together o. nights along
the seashore, and when they come bowling
back behind spanking bays what is more
natural than thata a plot should be concoctsd
between the court and the press Of the coun-
try by which the power and force and cir
culation of the newspaper may be indefi-
nitely widened and strengthened. It is
plain enough. Even the teIegraphic cor
respondents Of the press are roped in and
sha-e is srzaad abroad everyzh here. sthrnnoh
half column, to the great cost Of the
poor newspaper men, this story Of the ab-
surdIties done by thscOurt in promotion Of
the not0rieiy and greatness of the Neirs.
But we like the Eeles It certainly has the
virtue Of doing its own thinking, and if it
resort to this somewhat original mode Of
advertising, We can only say It seems legit-
innate, or q court would not have hand in
it, and we congratulate our cOtempOrary
on the success Of its marvelOusly proper
dodge. II the court fine the 1sbs f5oO0 e
can well afford 10 pay this sum for the ad-
vsrtfsinz the Judge has given II.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

Thar is terrible story autographed Us
from Havana Of a duel between two life
long friends; the one accusing the other Of
intimacy With bis wife. They fought with
out witnesses, and terribly, firing Eve times
each, one, Dr.. Curtis fell, wounded in the
hip, and the other, the husband, shot him
self through the head.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-06-17

THE Decatur Guards-man stops in the
middle Of gushing paragraph, throws up
is hat and proclaims the uneqaaled excel
lence Of tho crops. Corn, for the starv-
ing multitudes Of two worlds, grows green
on bOundless Texan plains and bends be-
fore tho soft winds burdened with per
fumes Of ripening harvests, and well may
the Guard deem itself perfectly blest.