davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

A LETTER WRITER says that Judah p.
Benjamin, formerly Secretary of State of
the. Southern Confederacy, who is now
pleading law" in the courts of Guildhall
and Westminster, in London, is making
money SO fast that in order to find time to
count it he has to get up every morning five
or ten hours before day. No, they. don't
say exactly that, either; bur they do say
that he makes e10, 600 year by his prac-
tice, which is an extraordinary sum for a
blarsted American to make at the English
bar, and in SO short time after his first ap-
.pearance there. Judah has a tongue as
long and as Timber as well-rope, and his
powers as an orator are wonderful.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26


A NEW railroad question has arisen involv-
ing the right of a company to abandon a
station. A Connecticut railroad company
which has seldom paid any dividends, like
some in Texas, in order to reduce expenses,
decided to abolish certain staten, and
did SO, refusing to stop any trains at that
point. The citizens petitioped the railroad
commissioners, and, finding their appeal
unavailiDg, applied to the Legislature, and
that body passed a law ordering the com
pany to stop their trains at the old station.
The stockholders of the road, however,
have unanimously rejected this order of
the Legislature, and the courts will be
called upon to decide the matter. This
very question of right and power. will
surely arise in Texas. @
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

THE Age says tits simply impossible Tor
an editor to write three long columns of
first rate matter every day, He would
hardly do justice to himself in two. The
finest talent of the land, supported by the
best physique, cannot long endure the tasks
imposed upon them by many publishers. It
is the hardest labor on earth to think. Es-
pecially when the vital forces are depressed
by long continued mental exertion. The
work of the hod carrier or steyedore is
recreation compared with it. The prema-
ture deaths of editors attest the prevalence
of the abuse of which we speak,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

MANY who have been iounging idly about
Texan towns and villages this year will go
to farming next. Good crops show how 1t
pays. Health and good clothes, freedom
from debt and pretty wife and little
farm constitute the dream of beatitude of
many of those seedy hopeless looking fell
lows one meets IN Southern cities and at
railway stations. For the first time since
the war they are resolving en- naasss to quit
whisky and tobacco, and, leaving. off the
ugly six-shooter and suffering their breeches
to cover tier boot legs, they are going to
work. The whole country will rejoice, and
when this reform is effected Texas will
prosper as never before. The s'chivalry, y
so called, thus become useful as well as
ornamental, and it follows that the moral
as well as pecuniary results of fruitful
year will prove most fortunate for this
mighty commonwealth.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26


IMMENSE quantities of small silver coin
are being accumulated at the sub-treasury
at Boston, with view to its substitution
at an early day for the fractional currency
now in use. The express companies are
delivering the precious metal by the ton,
and some apprehension is expressed as to
the effect of placing so much weight in the
vaults of the sub-treasury, which are stu
ated directly above the main postoffice room
in the new Boston postofice. With view
to secure the safety of the vaults beyond the
peradventure of q doubt Supervising Archi-
tect Potter has directed that additional and
heavier iron beams be placed underthe Sec
ton upon which. they rest. There is at
present contained within their walls no less
than one hundred and twenty tons OF silver.
representing value of $1O, 200, ,O00.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26


W. ]. RAINEs is not 9 good man. II
wifes seeming or real devotion TO the hypo.
critical adyenturer mislead many. In fact,
Le was condemned, perhaps unjustly in
ne special case tried by our eonrt I but from
all quarters come stories indicative of the
knavery OF Raines. II he had not been
voluntarily, and habitually addicted to bad
company, accepting his own version of the
facts, be would never have been incarcera-
ted as the scape-goat of plunderers of The
Postofice Department, That tins is his
fate very many lawyers anu Others believe.
But we have before US, even now. copy OF
the Athens Tenn, } Post Bridges psper-
which tells that Raines went through East
Tennessee and was a model thief when a
lieutenant in the Federal service. Five
years later he returned to East Tennessee a
preacher of the gospel and huge capitalist.
He was buying mineral lands and farms
and factories. The bubble burst and
Raipes's dupes subjected him to flagella-
tion, of which he still bears the marks.
His wife then abandoned him and was sent
to Kentucky, then, as now, exciting the
sympathies of the people in her behalf.
Other facts connected with this matter, of
recent development, may make it necessary
to refer TO it again.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

The Brownsville Demoerdt favors the i'm
position of decent poll tax and its pay
ment as a. condition precedent to the exer-
else of the right of suffrage. That is well
enough in general state elections; but it
will not protect corporations. The thieves
and their leaders win make up purse and
pay the per caPita, tax, and only rob the
more ravenouslyAhat the sum may be re-
funded. The absolute exclusion from the
ballot box of those having no interest, di-
rect or indirect, in the local government is
the only safe policy and the only policy
that will enable the trainers Of the State
Constitution to make US free people, and
assure the unity and integrity of Texas.
Otherwise we must arm the Governor with
kingly power and make the power of the
Legislature all pervading-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

IT is curious to observe that while Sena-
tor Morton and many like him of Grants
faction of the extreme Radical party, en-
deavor to re-excite the prejudices and hates
of Northern people because of murders and
alledged kukluxism in the South, at this
very moment, President iGowan, of the
Reading Railway, in an official paper read
before the Pennsylvania Legislature, gives
a list of one hundred and twenty kuklux
outrages perpetrated in that State between
the thirteenth of December, 1874, and the
eighth of June, 1875. Mr.. Gowan pro-
duced, also, numerous entertaining pictures
of coffins and accompanying kuklux noti-
ces. 1t is somewhat noticeable that the
speeches of Senator Logan and Morton
about the ''kuklux ridden South," do not
begin to unfold such vast amount of law
lessness as existed in Pennsylvania during
the six months specified. 1t is also no
ticeabIe fact that the miners who engaged
in this Pennsylvania kuklux business are
Republican voters.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26
TEXAS is vast in proportions and outlines.

TEXAS is vast in proportions and outlines.
When densely populated the dwellers in
remote counties will have few interests in
common. The pursuits, habits of industry.
modes of living and of thinking will be
most diverse. To adapt the action of one
central government to all these clashlng in
terests and for this one central power to
make codes operative with equal benefi-
cence in Bonham, Austin and Laredo, will
be difficult task Therefore we have
urged steadily and persistently the neces-
sity for the investiture of counties and
towns with the broadest powers to shape
at will their own local fortunes. But If
universal suffrage prevail and the county
government have indefinite local authority
this state of facts would be by no means de-
sirable. Harrison county, in five years, would
be pIundered to absolute beggary by its
rabhle. There is nothing to prevent
the constitutional protection of that
county, in which Sambo is supreme,
save the eowardice of party leaders. The
Federal Constitution presents no obstruc-
-.
ton. In fact: Greeley and all Northern
statesmen who accepted Greeley's maxim,
universal amnesty and impartial suffrage" +"
asserted the fact that suffrage was not ex-
pected, like amnesty, to oe universal. We
are gravely told, however, that when right
has been once conceded to the people it
cannot be restricted. In this case no right
has been conceded. Men having no inter-
est in a corporation can have no right to
shape its fortunes. If they whom we would
deprive of suffrage in Austin had the slight
est interest in Austin, they would rebel
against the wrong done; but the so-called
" right y of suffrage, as diffused, is not a
night, but an absolute wrong to those who
are taxed. OF the restitution of right
to the taxed, the taxed will never complain.
The industrious, honest non-taxpayer,
whotoils that he may become a tax payer,
will be first to approve his own present de-
privation of the right of suffrage in the
corporation. He sees. how it gives value to
his own industry and to the home he would
secure, even making the attainment of a
competency easy. But we only proposed
to say that the very magnitude of Texas
renders the concession of the broadest
freedom to counties and towns indispensa-
bile to the lasting unity of the empire, and
if municipalities are thus to be free in order
that the State may endure, it follows of
necessity that those who pay musG alone
impose local taxes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

LAMAR is making speeches everywhere in
Mississippi. He is the, most marvellous,
popular orator of modern times. In fact he
is great thinker and learned lawyer and
rhetorician. He is in the prime of life,
strong and vigorous and temperate. Like
Prentice, he sometimes swoons aftera great
intellectual efort;s but his life may be
spared through many long coming years,
and if he accomplishes the task of redeem
ing Mississippi, where there is negro ma
jority of perhaps $4,000, he will live longer
in history than Prentice, whose fame is
mainly traditional, and be awarded the
gratitude of modern civilization.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26
RATE OF CoRrINA.

CoFtinasa a tyTsps when prosperous Is
eowaEd.s a eouyse. when smitten by mis-
fortune a lletter-writer saws that when
the bandit feaehed the Me IN capital he
was sadly de jeesed and wore a woe -bsgone
look, He wasstaIlen with Mortero and Por-
tugal to fort Plattelolco, and, without bed
ding, slept on the prison floor. Before
Cortina's arrival the fort had been specially
prepared for bis reception and safe keeping,
and strong guard watches the State pris-
oner. While the Minister of War loved
Cortina very tenderly and addressed him
very kindly when the robber was free, now
that the highwayman is IN his power the
grand official becomes utterly obIvious of
those social and friendly relations which he
proffered, not long ago, to the chieftain of
Tamlaulipas. While the war minister is
thus guilty Of alleged dupicity, President
Lerdo is consistent with himself and obedi-
ent to rules of honor. He says the govern
ment must be government, and respected
as such, and thlt Cortina must be punished
1t is curious phase of this affair that
Cortina is now asserted to be a citizen of
the United States and, therefore, that Mex
leo Is not responsible for his misdeeds or
for the thirty millions of dollars lost by
Texans along the border. With this ap-
prehension of the facts it is said the United
States authorities have demanded the body
of Cortina under the extradi1on treaty or
the payment of the, thirty millions lost by
Texans. twill cost infinitely less to sur
render the robber, and if the demand, as
here asserted, have. been made, Gen.. Ord
may yet have the satisfaction of seeing
Cortina at the ropes end. If no demand
for the body of Cortina be made by the Uni
ted States, we are told that he will be
tried at once and sho5 as soon as proper
proof of any of his villainies can be made
in proper form. Referring to these facts,
the Brownsville Democrat says that "Corti-
mas cold-blooded murder at Trevino, eigh-
teen miles above Matamoros, and in the
presence of his family, should be sufficient
cause to end his career, and that not less
than one thousand more bloody acts can
be traced to his villainy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

THE doctors, aIlopathic, homeopathic and
eclectic, have had their conventions tins
year; the brewers and the temperance peo-
pie have had theirs; the lumber men, the
book men, the silk men, the millers, the
bill posters, the pork packers, the dentists,
the school teachers and the colored jour
nalists have all met and respectively and
respectfully communed and dlned together;
the bankers have regulated the finances Of
the country sitting IN the grand hotels at
Saratoga the cotton spectators have met
to enthrone King Cotton once more at
White Sulphur; and Eow the journeymen
tailors are at it in st. Louis. We presume
they viii adjourn over Sunday and have a
general boo-hoo over Andy Johnson's grave.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

ELECTION RETURNS, UFRIlNs, up to yesterday the
election returns. from ninety counties had
been received at'the Office of the Secretary
of State The votes are being counted as
fast as the returns, come in, and the ninety
counties. foot Up. in round anumhers, s62. goo
votes, with a majority of 10, 000' for the
convention. The entire vote win be about
ninety thousand, with about twenty thou
sand majority foEa the coqyention. Else
where we giXe-an-inteEesting list of the
members elected to the conyention.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26
THr Eraminer, wheh the srArrsNA

THE Eramine,; when the SrATEsMAS con-
ours with it, like the Telegraph, asserts the
wisdom and justice of the STATESMAN; !;
when, however, the STATESMAN diyerges
from narrow grooves in which an organ is
forced to run, the STATESMAN becomes a
''public calamity" and the Telegraph, as
serting the ignorance of its readers, ascribes
to the STATESMAN a tendency to Radical
ism. The STATESMAN is almost the only pe-
perrin Texas which illustrates every day the
original theories and purposes of Jcffer-
sopian Democracy
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26
NO.


One cannot help regretting, while perus-
ing The bright sparkling, genial pages Of
tue Austin STATESMAN, thsf I. has been Sc
dueed into ways that a. dark and paths
that are devious in its political policy. We
regret that 1t has placed itself in antagouism
to the great Democratic party its men and
its measures. We always read the STATES
MAN with infinite pleasure, and only find
this single fault with il. ,s sisa
Evidently the EnaRiner thinks that John
Egoand doneortwe other individuals in Texas
constitute thel great Democratic party of
the country, and il is in reference to this
issue Of mOdesty alone that we differ from
our excellent contemporary. Prom the
',great men, of the party we differ in moth
ing. Who are the great men and expo
nents and platform makers of Democracy,
is the question. II Judge Ireland be the
Law maker, We confess to infidelity; but
not otherwise.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

LERDo De TEJADA, nephew Of the Mex
ican President, says that cortina's conine-
ment win assure, sooner or later, perfect
peace along the Rio Grande. He said,
moreover, while in Chicago few days ago,
that his uncle, the President, would soon
send 70 The Rio Grande every soldier he
could share 10 cooperate with Gen. Ord IN
putting down lawlessness. Texans viii be
happy to have these assurances. thus gwen,
confirmed By the cendnct Of the Mexican
Presidents We want no war with that
country, and only close commercial alii-
snee that VIII enrieh and ciyilize Mexico
and aggrandize Texas and the cities Of
Texas beyond an human calculation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

The greatest throng ever gathered in III
Inois viii greet Mr.. Jefferson Davis when
be delivers an agricultural orstion on the
fifteenth proximo at Rockford. Illinois. Mr..
DAvis's speech VIII be q magnificent pro-
duction- His studied orations even as are
his unstudied popular hafungues fzuItIess
in Rhetorical taste and beauty. Those M
inois people have done well, and Mr.. Davis
viii say nothing 70 make them regret his
seIectlen for the position designated. On
the contrary, he win use the occasion and
his own fame to reproduce origiaal and per-
feet interstate relations. s
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

The mortality among the blacks in some
parts Of south Carolina is rather startling.
The following paragraph appears in a col
umnaof ''South Carolina News:v
"a gentleman from Fairfield says that in
eight years there have been eleven buriais
of whites in Winnsboro and one hundred
and forty-seven Of negroes In small sec
tion southwest OF Winnsboro, where there
were seven hundred ard fifty negroes, there
are now but two hundred and fifty. The
negroes are dying Of consumption, Adisease
formerly almost unknown among them.
Idleness and bad living seem to be the chief
causes of the mortality.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

DEsnTR the strength of the ring sustain
ing the knaves in charge of the Indian Bu-
reau, enough testimony has been educed to
sustain Professor Marsh in bis charges. In
the one item of beef cattle alone, delivered
at the Red Cloud agency, the cattle are
made to average in nearly every delivery
over 1000 pounds each, when good judges
say that Texas cattle 6he kind delivered)
will average only $50 pounds when in good
condition. @ ~ s&
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

DIR. M. X. oTGYLoR who has served as
surgeon at this post for some years, leaves
the city at once in obedience to orders.
His departure is the more regretted, not
only because of his absolute usefulness
as citizen, but because of strong at
tachments that distinguish the personal re-
lations between the Doctor and many of our
people. He is everywhere asked to resign
his place in the army, but the habits of a
lifetime and honors won forbid. '''' ~
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

EyERyBoDr in San Saba has gold or
silver mine. Rich gulches lie aronnd loose
everywhere in Mason and San Saba counties.
Many people in Austin have taken stock,
and each thinks that nobody else suspects
n
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

In FL Paso county Louis Cards received
$40 and G. III. Howarh 104 votes. On the
thirtieth of June last Mr.. Cards published
card in the STATESMAN, saying that Judge
Howard would not receive one-fourth of
the vote of El Paso county, and the pre-
diction is literally verified. Col. Ford and
Mr.. Louis Cards will be admirable repre-
sentatives of the West in the constitutional
convention.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

THE New York Graphic says that mnnici-
pal charters should. be 50 amended that
towns may not fall into the hands of plum
derers and adventures, who find 1t more
agreeable to loaf" than work, and wan
der about to get paid for voting thieves
into Office. All honest people concur with
the Graphic, and We woald see what our
constitutional convention haste say aboutit.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

THE San Saba Ners very properly insists
that land certificates made void on the
eighteenth of January, 1875, should be re-
viEed. In fact, these certificates cannot he
avoided under the Constitution Of the
United States, which declares that no State
can impair the obligations Of contracts. =.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26
In what is tee following sentence dsfeci

IL what is tie following sentences defect
i've in gramAtiaAi constructioni SIN prac-
tice and in morals, the whole course and
results Of litigation. Ike the existence Of
civil courts for the colIection OF debts are
wholly unfortunate, alike d, society and
Individually We repFOdues II because Il
Is condemned By gf4mmzfii.h. s 2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

THE San Saba Netcs says of the fAustin
city government and Of our street railroad
company that the two formed the circum-
ference of circle or ''ring. = and that the
city authorities after they had just complet-
ed the grading of Congress Avenue, allowed
the city railroad olay its crossties and iron
atop Of the city grade, and then made the
tax PAYERS regrade TO suit the convenience
of the CITY railrnan ~ ~ lt-l
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

THE Lenders cornespondent writes an adj
mirable and just elogium asserting the
moral and Intellectual worth Of ex Gov.
stockdsIe, and his fitness for the presiding
officers place in the conssitutionaI cover
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

ssPittsburgh has TWO mayors who are
navning each ether in 9 terrible manner; at
least Mayor Magee thinlzs be has Is much
fieht as Mayor Mcoalshy % the sat eI
honor. Both claim 20 be elected, and both
az them have been sworn IN. Mayor Nc
carthv ran. in February, l674 and WAS
elected. Mayor Magee nn in February,
1878. and was $50 elected- Each claims
that under the new Pennsyivania eonsli1n-
ton he was elected e the proper time.
McCaFthy sticks hike Delano, and Mage has
gone into the courts. No city but Pitts
burg could present such a asinine sitnA-
ton. s -. Z. 8. -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26
VIEW YoRK sTATE ANiS THR cry
80 . OF AUSTIN. ~ 81

Governer .Tiiden's campaign against the
canal corruphonistA is not holiday or dress
parade afTair. He has pressed the investi-
CATION with fearless energy, and is now
stumping the State, appealing to the people
TO rally totbe support of public integrity
regardless Of party. Having exposed the
frauds OF the canal officials, including his
political friends as well as fo,,s, he properly
goes to che people and calls isn them TO see
that no man ID. chosen. TO political position
BY either party who win not stand firmly N
support OF the overthrow OF tho banded
rings Of both parties which now plundsr :
and disgrace New York. As, Il e, the
Governor has the best Of the battle, and
with his tireless and skillful efforts, he can
not fail TO give a crowning victory 70 the i
right. Did it never occur 70 the people of
Austin TO think that they were In the
clutches Of just such a ring. See who they
are, how they are enriched, who have com I
bined 20 consolidate AL purcliasable votes
J in behalf Of mixed Radical and Demo Z
cratic ticket which calls itselt the Demo
cratic ticket. Il openly psoclaims itseIf an :,
organized ticket and II awaiiil no nomins-
ton. Ii's convention is alresdy organized
and It's nominations are made In adyanee,
and all their names are already paraded be- !.
fore the public. It is put up job, and )
none outside Of the ring viii get into o.
seek access 70 This convention. Tiiden Is
not alone in having s'canalv ring 70 fight.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26

Ir would be ealamityto news editors Of
newspapers Of Texas if the people Of sher-
man fail to sustain the Daily Rsgister. They
should make up separate Subscription and
pay for its daily dispatches. taken soIely 20
promote the interests Of local tradespeople.