The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-04-06


The North Team says the pop guns are
after Hancock but tapers down Mt last TO
the. solemn conclusion that We shall be
satisfied with Coke If be is elected, but
we need Coke in his present position, and
object to his transfer to the Senate"
Marshall is SAID to be infested with hun
dreds of negroes with no apparent means
of support who are crowded into mlsera-
Bile huts, and living lives Of drunkenness
| and the most ioathsome debauchery. But
thew are lively voters and do the country
infinite service on election days not only
by frequent voting themselves, but by de-
terring all decent people from'voting places
and these are they whom Rntabagalsnl said
should not pay poll tax before they voted
The San Antonio Express thinks that ''the
gun fred by the factional Republican con-
ventiou at Houston for the destruction ut
certain Federal officeholders in Texas, con-
tinues to do damage at the breech and none
at the muzZle. Our old friend Chase, of
Waco, lost his pOstmastership, and our.
other old friend, Major Boyle, was removed
from the United States Attorneyship Mt
Galveston, and Judge ID. j. Baldwin put
hack in his old place. That convention, as
we have said, does not represent the Re-.
publican party of Texas" 1 g0E
The Palestine Times says that "the IMAM
unity of the press throughout Texas for
Governor Coke for United States Senator
speaks his popularity with the people and
assures his call to the Federal Senate. 1t
is true that many friends went off hastily
on the idea of a desire that he should re-
main in the gubernatorial' chair until the
expiration of his term, but a little rvflec-
ton called to mind that he would, inithe
event of promotion, remain Governor. until
March, 1877, induced tbem,e With conn
mendAbie candor, to wheel lnto line and
support him with cordiality and effect"
1t is said by the Neps of George Mason,
just elected city attorney at Galveston, that
''he belongs to one of the historical fami-
lies of Virginia, being the son of Hon.
James M. Mason. George Mason has been
in Texas for twenty years. lie was United
States District Attorney under the admiris-
traIions of Presidents Pierce and Buchanan;
is recognized by'alla who know him as one
of the ablest lawyers and purest men in
the State. lie was also Confederate States
District Attorney. Since reconstruction he
has steadily declined political prefenaent,
though often solicited 10 permit his name to
be used. A graduate of the University of
Virginia, thoroughly conversant with the
law in all its branches, and would give dig
nifty and honor to any position"
correspondent signing himself "a
Fellow Soldier" and writing from San
Marcos, speaks of ''old Rip" after the toll
lowing fashion: every one agrees that
our next United States Senator should
come from the Southwest, and amongst
the many names mentioned, have seen
none named who meets with entire approval.
Will you grant an old subscriber the liberty
of proposing through your columns the
| name of one, to whom Texas owes large
debt of gratitude, hitherto uprewarded,
soldier, statesman, a scholar, and one
who knows and sytnpathizes more with
the wants of the western people than any
other living man perhaps, and whose cleo.
ton would be hailed with delight by the
whole StateG mean Col. John S. Ford OF
Cameron county"