The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-20
Loekhart aud Judge white and a Jolly
Orator.
LockHARr. Jannarr Q. 1s1G

Editors Democratic Accommodation Won
visit San Marcos IN rainy weather the mud
Is the worst you have seen, unless you have
Oetn To Lockhart in u wet spell. Com.
pared with the soil of this place, San Mar
cos dirt Is sandy. Bridges of the Echo.
lives near town, but when it rains all the
writing and type setting falls upon the
shoulders of Steele, for Bridges can't get 10
town. Ii there should happen to he any
matter of great importance on hand, such
AS receiving the money for announcing
some fresh candidate, Bridges will manage
to come IN by the new road, which, in most
places, Is about three feet below the old one
Judge ). r. White Is holding court here,
ana we were glad of an opportunity to
congratnlate .hIm, in air Galveston for the
! court of appeals. II approval of the new
! Constitution had been made a sine qua non
at Galveston, such men as Judge White
could not have received a nomination.
A MODEL SPEECH.
On Saturday there Was small political
meeting, attended by the usual number of
| gentlemen not expecting an enthusiastic
call to make speech. There was a lawyer
! who bad Just bought one acre and a half of
ground, sowed it with Rutabagas, and
joined the Patrons. In consequence of
thus indulging his taste for agricultural
pursuits, he had received a nomination for
office. On Saturday he corrupted two small
boys In the crowd, and they called him out.
A. the first sound of his name he arose
with much pOmp and said, - Fellow-citi-
zens-I came here fellow-citizens. as hum
ble and private individual, to-to-as a hum
BILE and private individual, and am awfully
surprised; l may say, awfully surprised, at
being thus called upon for a speech. You
| have nominated me- fnr Offioa rnuch auainst
my wishes. 1 told my friends all the time
l didn't want the office, and | don't want
| it now any more than | die at first. But
| you have called me to serve you and the
country, and my sense of duty will not
allow me to refuse my fellow citizens.
must sacrifice all personal considerations to
the public good. l must abandon all my
| immense private interests, must give mp my
extensive practice. which yields me thou
sands and thousands every year, and for the
love of my country must manage to live
| upon what can pick up in the way of fees
and perquisites-to exist, as it were, like
| toad upon the vapors of dungeon. un-
derstand the wants of the farming class. 1
was born between two corn rows. was
raised on cracklin bread and fatty ash cake
would prefer to be left to the undisturOed
enjoyment of my turnip patch, but duty
compels me TO accept your imperative call,
and lives there man with soul so dead
who unto himself has ever said,7 'ril fly
the nomination. Happiness, my friends
is like the crow-she percheth herself upon
the topmost top of the most distant noun
tain top, and vain are the utmost endeavors
of the huntsman. Wbati vote against the
new constitutional Gosh 'lmlghty durn!l"
The applause with which the two small
boys greeted this outburst was only equaled
by the howls they set up on finding no two
bits deposited at the corner grocery, as had
been stipulated. .--,
PETER PUMPETH THUNDER INTO HIS GRUB.
1t would not be right to write of Lock-
hart and neglect to mention that excellent
hotel kept by that excellent host, Judge
Alexander Cowan With one exception
this is the only hotel in Texas that enjoys
the happiness of being publicly commended
@+FSe -ir'crrefA Auferfiietr To Dro+es.
against such an usurpation of the nrerotsn
tives OF newsRa1RQGGE f1FestalArs Il ...4asa4
than tIh-n,-cre most remunerative part of
our occupation. But Cowan's hotel is
praised by everybody, aud deserves to be:
All the ''big bugs" such as lawyers and
newspaper men, stop with Cowan. The
way an average attorney can crowd away
Cowan's grub is caution to caterers; an
ordinary ''gut sausage" is not circum-
stance to one of thnm PETER.