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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13


On the seventh instant the Indians muir
dered white man and killed 100 sheep on
the Encinal.
The Texas veterans will meet in Austin
on the twenty-first of April, the anniversa-
ny of the battle of San Jacinto.
The cattle drive from Texas this wear is
estimated at 500, 900 head. At twelve
dollars per head Ia lew estimate) this ex-
port OF cattle amounts to So, 600, 900.
Many people from the northwestern
States will visit the next State fair at Aus
tin-so a letter-writer from Chicago tells us.
They feel more interest in Texas than in
the Centennial show.
Abner Warmack, jr., deputy sheriff of
Montgomery county, attempted to arrest a
horse thief named Barrow, and was in
stantly killed by the desperate. Warmack
was held in high esteem.
The Austin correspondent of the Chris
tan AdrOcdte who writes under date of
May q, 1876, is not only two months
ahead Y his mental alteration, but is I'M
doubtedly bully and BLACKBOARD.
Rastrop county scrip is worth only sixty
to sixty-tive cents, and it is playing Cain
with the country, and Cain don't like to be
played" Immigrants, juvenile Gains and
Others avoid indebted, and, of course,
heavlly-tsxed counties.
Bro. julie Northworthey, of Jefferson. a
commercial traveller for Galveston. fell
among thieves and worse in Waco and was
dangerously shot in the back. He was Ger
tainly first shot in the neck or he wouldn't
have been in such place.
The Navasota 7a51st inculcates a lesson
which devourers of omelets everywhere will
appreciate. 1t says this is the time to set
chicken hens, turkey hens, Guinea hens and
other hens. Put about thirteen eggs under
each hen and let her set in peace"
Cain, of the Adcertiser, advertises for the
scalps of cats. He pays twenty-five cents
per oIpitd. His purpose is to stop the noise
of Saturday nights on roofs of sheds and
back fences in Bastrop. We never knew
a newspaper man that wasn't a great pub
lie benefactor.
Mr.. Landon c. Haynes, a SON of the late
Col. l. c. Haynes, has married Miss Ger
trude, daughter of Gen. Gideon ]. Pillow.
The bridegroom is the younger brother Of
the excellent gentleman who recently rep
resented San Marcos In the Constitutional
Convention.
We never hear friend or read a news
paper deploring the woes Of widowhood
that we do uotrecur TO several good women
Of our acquaintance who would be in inf
nitely better condition il some philanthro-
pist would kill their loading, whisky-guz-
Hing husbands.
The Fourqaerean Is : new and popular
breed Of chickens at San Marcos. One Of
them laid an immense egg in the last num-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

A. T. STEWART, whose death was tee
graphed abroad yesterday, was great man
intellectually and would have made great
editor or soldier or lawgiver if he had not
devoted himself body and soul TO money
getting. His worth, in the eyes of posteri-
ty, in a great measure depends upon the
manner in which he has disposed of his
wealth. He has never been accused, we
believe, of any species of dishonesty and
must ever be regarded very prince, be-
cause of his nobility of conduct and charac-
ter, among merchants. He evinced an in
veterate hostility to the bankrupt law and
even to those who came out of the ruinous
war utterly involved and hopelessly penni-
less to accept advantage of its benefcent
provisions. Mr.. Stewart was always the
creditor and never stood in the debtor
shoes, and could see, like the Galveston and
Houston bankers whose petition to Con-
gress Senator Maxey read few days ago,
no apology even for the conduct of those
whose fortunes were swept away, leaving
their debts, by the violence of war. Stew
art, like the bankers, grew rich while the
many were impoverished, and therefore
Stewart published annually his "black list"
of those of his debtors who went into bank
ruptcy. Since these lived everywhere in
the South and the South was wholly bank
rupted by the actual presence of war and
then by thieves sent out to steal all the war
did not destroy, Stewart did not love the
South. For all that, we could admire his
genius for trade and generosity to the poor
often illustrated in deeds of unexampled
munifcence.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13
The Presidents.

The following table, prepared for refer
ence, shows the political sentiments and the
date of the Inauguration of each President,
the length of time he lived after that event,
and his age at the time of his death:
1. George Washington, Independent, in
augurated 1889; lived ten years; aged 6s.
2. John Adams, Independent, inaugu-
rated 1877; lived 90 years; aged 90.
3. Thomas Jefferson, Democrat, inaugd-
rated 1901; lived 25 years; aged SO.
4. James Madison, Democrat, inaugu-
rated 1909; lived 81 years; aged So.
5. James Monroe, Democrat, inaugu-
rated 1917; lived IA years; aged IS.
8. John Q. Adams, Wing, inaugurate6
1895; lived 30 years; aged II.
z. Andrew jackson, Democrat, lnaugu-
rated 1899; lived 10 years; aged rs.
8. Martin Van Buren,, Democrat, inaugu
rated 1887; lived 25 years; aged so.
o. W. H. Harrison, Wing, inaugurated
1841; lived 1 month: aged g.
10. John Tyler, V. p, Independent, in
augurated 1S41; lived II years; aged ~.
II. James K. Polk, Democrat, inaugu
rated 1915; lived years; aged "a.
70. Zachary Taylor, Wing, inaugurateG
1849; lived 10 months; aged GO.
ID. Willard Fillmore, Y. p, Indepen
dent, inaugurated 1850; lived "a years
aged IA.
IA. Franklin Pierce, Democrat, inaugu
rated 1852; lived 16 years; aged 60.
Is. James Buchanan, Democrat, inaugu
rated 1857; lived II years; aged n.
16. Abraham Lincoln, Republican, inau
gurated 1861; lived 4 years and 1 l.:
months; aged Sc.
II. Andrew johnson, V. P, Indepen
dent inaugurated 1865; lived 10 years
aged 81.
IS. General Grant, Republican, inaugu
rated 1863.
Tyler and Fillmore were elected Vic
Presidents as Wings, and johnson as Re
publican. They became independent afte
their Inauguration as Presidents.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

THE grand idea of those opposed to
that we must conciliate Blaine and Morton
and the bloody shirt fellows by still honor
ing Hancock. If we do not send ''rebels,"
such as Coke was, to the Senate, how with
the North ever learn that we are entirely re-
constructed. If Coke's speeches and con-
duct and patriotism, embracing as it does
the whole country, be illustrated, as it will,
in the Senate, he will contribute more to
the conviction that the South may be trust
ed than it is possible for Hancock. 1t is
for this very reason, among Others that we
prefer Coke. He Is a representative Texan,
nunUocK mIgnL become Senatorial Chaplain
and exhaust paternOsters in prayers for the
perpetuity of Union, and Radicallsm, con-
templating his piety with one eye and the
other cooked on the treasury and the spoils,
would exclaim, che represents the people
of Texas and of the South in nothing"
He was Union man and fought and bled
and died frequently for the solidarity of the
States. while Texas fought for the freedom
of the States, or thought she did"
No, no; as matter of policy as well as
of honesty-we would practice no frauds
upon our fellow countrymen of the North
it becomes US to send a representative man
to the Senate, and Coke is, and Hancock is
not, in his history and conduct, represent
alive of Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13
COKE AND THE STATE PRESS.

The Guadalupe Times says that
Gov Coke's friends do him great wrong
by persistent efforts TO force him upon
Texas as Senator, 80 much against the
will OF the people,"
The ingenuity OF this harmless perversion
OF the facts is even amusing. The cart was
never so artfully and unthoughtedly hitched
before the horse. Gov. Coke has never
said one word on the subject. He has not
said that he was candidate. So far as we
know no living man has spoken to his Excel
lency on the subject. He and his intimate
personal friends have been persistently
silent. Even the unhappy Examiner, sup
posed by some people to be the Governors
home organ, was wholly at sea, and when
we said Coke was the proper man for the
Federal Senate, the Examiner had never
thought of it and absolutely said that Coke
was to serve out his gubernatorial term and
then retire to his ''Sabine farm" But
when the press and people everywhere
made 1t apparent that Coke would be, er ne
cessitdto rel, Hamilton's successor, the Es-
dminer-the organ-softly swooning fell
gently into the arms Of victory. 1t was the
will OF the people that reversed the course of
the submissive Examiner. Its excellence
consists IN its timidity and in the acuteness
with which it watches the veerings-about
of the weather cock of popular opinion and
its head is where its heels were two months
ago.
The Telegraph, like the STATESMAN, has
differed from his Excellency. But neither
the STATESMAN nor Telegraph has ever ques-
toned his ability or personal worth. On
the contrary, the STATESMAN, as every in
telligent reader will remember, never failed,
even when most bitterly hostile to Governor
Coke's policy, to assert his fitness for the
place he fills and his superiority to the
great body Of party leaders. Ignorant peo-
pie, incapable of understanding how an
individual may admire the genius and char
acter and force OF another and yet differ
from him on questions of morals and facts,
OF religion and politics, and yet support
him for place for which God and nature
fitted him-such little, contracted intel
asscnrs 10 the conversion OF the Governor
into the Senator. The patent facts explain
themselves. The Constitution is adopted,
aud Governor Coke's objections to it are
our objections, as far as he goes, and we
have no quarrel with him. But we only
proposed to say that even if that long-eared
animal, our good friend at Waco, consents
to work in that cart as harnessed tail-fore-
most by. the Guadalupe Times, we do not.
We are for Coke, in conformity With and
not against the will of the people," aud
that's what's the matter with the Examiner.
1t caught at last the drift of resistless popu-
lar favor, and is braying itself to death.
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WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT IT.

The Denver Rocky Mountain Neacs has
been copying the STATESMAN, and proceeds
to say that the narrow gauge road not only
pays those who build it, but infinitely more
does IL pay the city and even more the
country through which it passes. Cannot
Austin, Lampasas and the rich intervening
farming district build narrow gauge
twenty-five miles1 What stupidity to talk
of its running the country or town. 1t les
sens by two.thirds present costs of trans
portation and travel as practiced by stage
coaches, wagons and mustangs. 1t quad
ruples, as along the narrow gauge from
Cairo to st. Louis, the value of land. 1t
attracts population, and the better expelling
the worse class. 1t will import into Austin
vast quantities in value of products not
otherwise sent to market, and add epor-
mously to the business of the broad gauge
roads, even while compelling them to re-
duce to narrow gauge rates charges on freight
and passengers coming to Austin. Every
citizen, however poor, and certainly the
nch, must each share in the Inauguration of
the experiment. But it is no experiment.
Read the newspapers and railway journals
and reports. All these demonstrate the fact
that cheap railways are the richest resource
OF sparsely populated farming country,
and that towns and villages are multiplied
and enriched, even as business activity is
stimulated and immigration promoted as
by no other agency of wealth and progress.
Every citizen OF Austin must become
shareholder in the pioneer narrow gauge Of
the capital. Before the century dies, and
the sun rises on the new year 1900, there
will be many of these roads, perhaps i'm
proved and still cheapened, converging at
Austin, and the share of resulting wealth
and magnifcenee which we may enjoy,
even in our time, depends upon the wis
dom, public spirit and cooperative force of
the people Of the towns and country.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13
Texa. Politics.

The Dallas Herald says that the opposi.
ton of the NeIcs to Coke insures his election
to the Senate. G
The North Teran would have Capt. ].
u. Martin, "a lawyer of great ability, y
made chairman of the Judiciary Commit
tee of the House.
The San Marcos Free Press says: eve
cannot but regard Mr. HAncock's vote in
favor of the back salary grab as an ineface-
able blot on an otherwise fair record
The Sherman Register says that the con-
test for Senstor narrows down to Coke and
Hancock, with fully half the press and two
thirds Of the people for Coke. A fact
worthy Of note is that all the opponents Of
Coke can say Of him is that his services
are needed - Governor. The R1gister
finds from careful caRyass that the dele
cation from GTayson and three or four ad-
joining counties Is solid for Coke. North
Texas viii give him an almost undivided
support sesEa
The PsnolA Eatehmaa ssys: ssThe
Washington Dsmocratic Executive Com
nittee sent John Hancock, be Of the back
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ONE OF our State exchanges would have
John Ireland go to the Senate because he
fought the International road, and Coke re-
main Governor because he throttled its sub
sidy. Is it not giving too much conse-
quepce to this question: Is this to be the
issue In making a Senator2 We would
have Coke in the Senate because he repre-
sents Central Texas, because he has brains
and vigor and will and force, and can serve
Texas more effectively, where Texas most
needs strength and power, than any of the
leaders of the people. Beyond this we
have no purpose in supporting Governor
Coke. Coke can serve Texas most
where Texas, just now, most needs a
proper intellectual and moral representa-.
tive, and Governor Coke is the very imper-
sonation of the genius, taste, modes of
thinking and character of the people of
Texas, and of all men he is the embodiment
OF popular will. 1t is not Coke the STATES
MAN would serve, bu. the people OF Texas,
and, therefore, our preference for the man.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

THE railroads have reduced rates to and
from Philadelphia twenty-five per cent.
They viii End that this will not meet pub
Inc expectations, and in October the exposi.
ton managers will compel further rcduc-
ton OF twenty-five per cent. Then, too.
since each person expects everybody else to
60, nobody cares TO go. The advertising
business for the show has thus overleaped
itself, and newspaper readers say ''my pa
per viii tell all that is worth knowing or
seeing, and prefer to visit the East when
there Is not such jam, when fewer thieves
and .swindlers will be ready to rob, when
hotel rates and dry goods and notions win
be cheaper, and the journey in all respects
more comfortable" The prospects are that
Texas and Texas merchants will not be
losers to any very great extent because of
the centennial We speak Of the exposi-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

The EramiAer gets awfuIly sick because
soft shell newspapers persistently declare
that Texas rejects Hancock because he did
or did not organize a negro brigade, and
did or did not fight the battles of the
Union. Coke is as devout Unionist now
as Hancock. 1t would be easier for the Fed
eral government to exasperate Hancock,
who claims every concession it caR make,
than Coke and therefore the Examiner says:
I'm all Governor Coke's public expressions,
through all his State papers and speeches,
Is breathed an exalted patriotism and de-
votion to the Union second to that of no
public man North or South. The implica-
ton that John Hancock is his superior in
this respect, in consequence of his war
record, is ground not well taken, in our
Judgment
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

GOVERNOR PORTER, of Tennessee, has
appointed ex Governor John G. Brown the
orator on the part of Tennessee at the Cen
tennial. The Ex-Governor is now in this
city, guest of the Raymond House, and
representative, we believe, of the Texas
end Pacific Railroad Company IN proceed
ings before the Supreme Court.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

And now comes the Bonham Nescs and
absolutely charges Governor Dick Hubbard
with stealing or perjury, or both, by repro
ducing an article from an East Texas paper
which alleges that Governor Hubbard used
MS oiflce As SenAtorto promote his purposes
as attorney for some client who was surety
on defaulting tax-gatherer's bond. The
publication of the story in the Bonham
Nssrs is prinsa faoie evidence of malice. and
it requires no denial. In fact, il would be
too small business for Dick Hubbard.
He couidn'f afford 20 sell his Office and per-
jure himself TO save q sheriff from loss. and
the Fers, in giving credence and PUBLISHING
such story about such . man, illustrates
It's peculiar weakness of which we have
spoken.
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salary proclivities, to New Hampshire to
canvass the State in favor of the Democratic
nominees, and he defeated the Democratic
party by an increased Radical majority.
Garry the news TO SSllie And vet you
will find people in Texas who want to send
back John TO the United States Senate.
IN the room of Ireland and Coke, and 9th
er tried and true Democrats. Oh, fiddle
sticksm
The Mckinney Journal says that "a large
majority of the newspapers of Texas have
expressed preference for Richard Coke for
Senator. Seven have declared for Han
cock, four for Ireland, two for Stockdale
one each for Devine and Schleicher, and
one or two for Dick Hubbard. OF all the
names prominently mentioned, Coke is un-
mistakably the peoples choice. His hon.
esty and craftsmanship is conceded by all
parties, and his election may be regarded
as certainty. We cannot conceal the
fact of our pride at the prospect of being
represented in the Senate by such man."
The North Teran, which is a staunch ad-
herent of Hancock, says: ''Coke may be MS
profound q lawyer, and has perhaps greater
executive abilities, but is by no means Han
cocks equal in legislative assemblies. Ire
land is deficient in every element of states
manship, and, besides, is ridiculously AFRO
giant. He might be harmless in the House,
with Culberson to watch him, but he would
soon wear out the patience of Gen. Maxey
in the Senate. Devine is good man-at
home or on the Supreme bench, but with
out influence abroad" Very certainly the
North IspdR has the virtue of telling what
it thinks with q degree of hqrshness thst
becomes pslpable injustice to those assaulted.
The Busy Bee says that Sat this critical juncs
ture We need such men in the United states
Senate as Hon. John Ireland, who will rise
above the petty call of party leaders and
serve his country, not for self-aggrandize-
ment, not TO rob and pilfcr, not to drag
under foot the Constitution of our fore
fathers, but to hold office for the good of
the country and the benefit of mankind. y
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

IT is queer but true that the Washing
ton ID. correspondent of Radical paper
says: "The President is sick-down with
nervousness and overwork at last, like an
OK brought down by blue flies and little
ants.n Those flies were of the "bluebottle''
sort, and those 'ants" gave origin to those
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

PEOPLE should not forget that while
Texas appears frequently in the appropria-
ton bill as it stands, that it may be a very
different scheme of legislation when it be-
comes an act. But it makes the people, in
the meantime, think that our Congressman
aGe-''bully," and this impression may in
fuence even the Senatorial election. But
the trick is very thin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

BECAUSE Sancho Panzo, generous, good
soul, as was my Uncle Toby" believed
there were some good people even in h-u,
the San Antonio Herald stretches its gen
erosity on the fifth inst. and admitted that
"thereA some few good people in Hous-
ton" This generous concession and
quaint apology fer many rude remarks will
settle the long-pendIng quarrel between
the Herald and Telegraph.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

THE late Gen. Frank Blair, Jr., did not
understand the art of craftsmanship, as
taught at the White House. He lived fifty
four years, was many years in public life,
filing stations of honor and trust, and died
leaving an estate valued at five hundred
dollars. There's Babcock, who in 1869
was unable to pay his board bills, but who
now owns business blocks, as a result Of
craftsmanship.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

Ex-Governor JOHN c. Brown, of Ten
nessee, Vice President of Tom Scott, is in
Northern Texas. He should visit the cap
ital and the beached city and flattened- out
Houston and San Antonio, built by pri-
meval race IN an unknown age. The ex-
Governor is fascinating in social life and
an adept in winning the affections of women
and the respect of men.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

If there be one hundred thousand voters
of Texas who have net been within the
State long enough to have the privilege of
suffrage, the vote cast indicates the fact
that Texas has a population of very nearly
two millions, and In 1880 it will be four
millions
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

+. ]. PATrLLo, local editor of the JEFF
ie's"a Ls'aaer, was involved in newspaper
controversy with Ward Taylor. of the jim
pseeufs, and, eOnceiving himself insu.ted,
attacked Taylor en- the street, on the
eighth inst, with = eowhide. TAYLOR sho,
PAtilio through the heart, killing him in
stantiy. Taylor gave himself up to the
authorities and gave bond for appearance.
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THE farmers, a correspondent tells US
everywhere along the route from Austin to
Lampasas will furnish all the crossties, an :
invest from one-fourth to oRc-tenth OF their
lands in the narrow gauge. The road will
make the land salable and valuable, and it
may be used in buying the light iron. Only
relatively small moneyed subscription
will be needed, and only enough to build
the first twenty-five miles. These will
build the rest.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-13

TIE BOnham Nescs says that Col. Bond,
vice-president Of Tom Scott, ''admi,s that
his company viii apply to the Fifteenth
Legislature for an extension Of time. He
adds that reasons therefor will be pre-
sented which will be entirely satisfactory
70 those most interested We have some
curiosity to know how he proposes to OBJ
viate the difficulty which arises from the
fact that the charter lapsed on the first
Of November, 1878"
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District Judges E.ected.

First District-H. C. Pedigo.
Second Distrlct-A. j. Booty.
Third District-R. s. Walker.
Fourth District-Wm. ID. Wood.
Fifth District-B. T. Estes.
Sixth District-R. r. Gaines.
Seventh District-M. H. BonHer.
Eighth District-G. J. Clark.
Ninth District-Spencer Ford.
Tenth District-J. A. Carroll.
Eleventh District-N. NJ Burford.
Twelfth District. r. Fleming.
Thirteenth District-D. NJ. Prendergast.
Fourteenth District-X. B. Saunders.
Fifteenth Distnct-L. W. Moore.
Sixteenth District-E. B. Turner.
Seventeenth District-W. A. Blackburn
Eighteenth District-W. II. Burkhart.
Nineteenth District-Egerett Lewis.
Twentieth District
Twenty-frst Distric.--James Masterson.
/ Twenty-second District--G. H.. Noonan.
Twenty third District-H. C.. Peasants.
Twenty-fourth District-T. NJ. Paschal.
Twenty-fifth District-Edw. Dougherty.
Twenty-sixth District-W. II. Stewart.