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won the respect and admiration of hon.

won the respect and admiration of hon
est and capable ofticeholders and the
undying hate Of the incompetent and
unworthy. He has infused fresh
spirit into the whole public service,
and gone too far to retrace his steps.
He aud Blaine must fight, and we must
stand by the one or the other.
he deserves and should be made 10
feel that he has the contidenos and re
spect of the South. We owe him
everything. The North, already free,
confesses no special debt Of gratitude,
and Northern Democratic leaders are
properly enough frightened lest the
South be wise enoTgh TO consult Its
own rather than the interests OF party
and become the solid supporter of
Hayes. Hayes is surely the best friend
the South has known, and for the sim
pie reason that he not only desires bat
has the power and exerts il TO serve
the South. Andrew johnson sought,
as Tiiden would have done. to remove
from our necks the CALLING yoke of
despotism aud carpet -bagism. john
son failed and Tilden, for the same
reasons, would have failed even more
disastrously ami our condition would
have been Thousand fold worse for
the failure. The South confessedly
owes Hayes everything and is only too
chary of asserting the force Of the obli-
CATION. The President should be made
20 feel that he possesses the confidence
of the people. He should not be suf
fered to stand still or look behind him,
and those timid editors or otiiceseekers
who hesitate and are silent or dis
pleased that Hayes wins the
country's confidence ale traitors TO
the South and to the Union. If the
President seems to hesitate now and
then, it is properly urged in his de-
tense that he has struggle of extra
ordinary difficulty before him. He is,
in fact, breaking down a vast and
thoroughly organized conspiracy
against the people. Look wherever
one pleases, and he cannot help seeing
how completely bound together are
the politicians in Office. In Wiscon-
sin the State convention could not even
be called, except by postmastcrs; in
Pennsylvania, many county commit.
tees Of the ruling party are made up,
as correspondents have shown, en-
Iirely of postmasters and other Fed
eral oficeholders. In Maryland, in
Tennessee, in many other States, it is
just as bad. The people no longer
control their conventions; the office
holders make the nominations, put
forth platforms which pretend to speak
the opinion of the party and control
the whole machinery, SO that the vot-
ers are allowed no privilege except to
obediently ratify at the polls the will
of their masters, the officeholders.
Under this system, perfected during
eight or twelve years, the Republican
party has continually lost ground, and
from mere party standpoint the Pres
ident's policy is wise and necessary.
But IL ia still more necessary TO SAVE
Us from repetition of the shameful
and dangerous txcitements of the local
canvass, to make our politics decent,
honorable and safe for the country.
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HOUSTON BANK RUPT--. y HO
WEEPS!

The Houston Age does not rest quiet
ly under the charge of dishonesty
thrust upon the old capital through
Wall street circular. Houston went
through the mill in which most South
ern towns and cities were ground to
powder. Blest with unrestricted suf-
frage by carpet-bsg power, there came
unrestricted robbery of the people and
public debts became simply enormous
and intolerable. Payment is impossi-
BILE, and Houston tells the plain truth
when it advises its creditors that no
effort will be made to pay. Whether
Houston is to be damned, or the sys-
TEN of government which made repu-
diation unavoidable, is a question for
moralists. The banker is not qualified
for the Office of judge. He can see
but one side of the question. His
"cent per cent" failing to come, he
knows there is knavery somewhere.
Perhaps it would De we'll 70: bankers,
who discuss Texas securities, to imsg-
inc themselves modest, hard-worklng
citizens of Houston for the last twenty
years; to fancy themselves victimized
by the despersdoes in politics who
built the market house and theater,
that cost the taxpayers more than $500,
600, and the builders less than $lOo, 900.
Towns and counties should pay their
honest debts, but when our Northern
fellow-countrymen devise for us such
system of government as that OF
Houston and then give it over to ig-
norance and vice aud stupidity. Wall
street should suffer as well as vic
timlzed taxpayers. twas Wall street,
rather than Houston, that destroyed
the possibility of payment. 1t is Wall
street that should suffer, rather than
the innocent, helpless taxpayers. II
was Wall street and the exceeding
good philaLthropists down East who
were 80 electrified with delight vher
Houston was turned over to the tender
mercies of universal suffrage, and thai
suffrage by q large majority black
May 1t net be just as we'll that Wal
street foots the billl Should we whit
resisted the scheme Of wisdom and
benefcence from the beginning even Il
this good hour pay the costG lie
those who dance pay the fiddler, anC
IL was Wall street that danced.
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BLAINE opposes the acquisition OF
Northern Mexico because it will give
the South, ultimately, additional pow
er in Congress. Blaine sees the scep-
ter depart from the Judah of New
England, and therefore would defeat
the scheme of Hayes involving parti
san alliances between the West and
South. Blaine deems the acquisition
of Mexico indispensable to Southern
freedom and equality. Annexation
could not accomplish this result for
many years. The sure and speedy
method is that which the President
dehnes when he would obliterate ''fhe
South" on the country's political map.
The South Will be wise enough to CO.
operate with the President in aad out
of Congress and thwart the selfish,
mischievous purposes of the ambitious
and malignant Senstor from Maine,
There IS no need for the introduction
of Mexican populations and States int
the Federal Union. There iss cheapel
and easier road to Southern freedom
The President points the way and tn
people viii follow, despite the outer.
Of Blaine aud Of the violent psrtlsAns
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HOW THE BILIOUS BLAINE
BLUNDERED BADLY.

Blaine never blundered more fatally
than when he assailed the South and
the administration because it was sup
posed the South desired and the Pres
ident contemplated the annexation Of
Northern Mexico. Blaine said it was
designed to augment indefinitely the
political power of the South and final
ly subordinate New England to the
sway of Southern morals and opinion.
Blaine held up his hands and stood
aghast when contemplating the posi-
bility of such calamity. 1t is bad
enough il New England must lose alb
solate supremacy in Federal legisla-
ton, but that the South should gain it
Is more than mortal patience could en-
dure. Blaine need not be alarmed.
Those accustomed to power through
all their lives are most generous mas
tiers. Those born slave-owners were
infinitely preferred by the negroes to
the speculator who suddenly became
rich. The Office of master would be
nothing new to very many of the South,
and yet we had not contemplated the
resumption of this position. We had
quite enough of its evils and RESPONSE
bilities and no New Highlander was
better pleased than Southern slave
holders that the institution ceased to
exist. There were many incidents Cf
the event that were intolerable and
that should have been spared the mas
ter and the negro; but Blaine's people
interposed ignorantly and tyrannically
and most cruelty, as the negro was af-
fected by it, and emancipation as
practiced and enforced was ruinous
and is still so hateful that Southern
people abhor annexation. We would
have the virtues and vices OF
no third race injected, as q
fresh force, into Southern social
and political systems. Blaine,
on the contrary, absolutely asserts
in his violent, declamatory harangue
on the fourth instant that the Presi-
dent was conspiring with the South to
annex Northern Mexico that the power
of the South at Washington might be-
come resistless. Blaine should become
acquainted with Southern facts and
Southern prejudices aud Southern opin,
ion. He has misreprcsented US s.
long and so persistently that he is ut
terly reckless in his statements. He
not only declares that which is untrue
of the South, but sscribes to the Presi
dent the intention Of cooperating with
the South in efecting q purpose which
the South never entertained. We have
vet to encounter Southern represen
tative Of opinion or newspaper tha
dreams of approving the scheme as
cribed by Blaine to the President ant
to the South. In this matter Mr.
Schleicher has properly represent
ed us, and this admirable gentle
man informs the New York World
Washington correspondent ''that an,
superstition that the President favor
any Mexican annexation scheme is rath
er wild" Mr.. Blaine's speech Is evel
/ wilder. she shoots wild, - asTexan
, would say Of 1t, and ''misses the mark
ss an orator never did before. W
had quite enough Of ''annexAtien'
: when Afnea was made political ad
, jurct Of the South, and We would hAy
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WE have often received letters ask
ing for copies of the geological survey
of Texas. Eastern people are greatly
astounded when we are forced to say
that no such survey has been made.
Educated farmers select their homes in
other States guided by geological sur
veys and reports. 1t costs only So to
learn as much of the soils and produc-
tions of each county of Arkansas as
any farmer of any of these counties can
tell after spending his life tickling the
bosom of Mother Earth. Very GER
tainly we need such q book as thai
which Prof. Owen made and as tina.
which Tuomsy, of Alabama, and Hitch
cock, of Massachusetts,. Governor
Hubbard was instructed in geology.
He used to pore over the pages Of
Hitchcock and of Algers- Phillips Min
eralogy. He learned the difference, al
the university beer garden, between rose
quartz and any other quarts and how
on all occasions ''to strike OIL" Very
certainly his Excellency appreciates the
necessity for the thorough exploration
of Texas, and we hope the Legislator,
will cooperate with him in giving the
world thorough scientific report upor
the soil and mines and climatology o.
| Texas.
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A committee from the Womeu's
Christian Temperance Union OF Boston,
headed by Mrs. Mary a. Livcrmore.
waited on Mayor Prince and protested
against any intoxicating drink being
provided when the city gives dinner
to Hayes. Mrs. LiverInoTc argued that
tipping by officials on public occasions
IS bad example for the masses. Tho
women talked 10 him for an hour, coax
ing and arguing; they assured hira that
they had Mrs. Hayes's word for it that
her husband never drank a drop Of in-
texicatIng liquor; and they especially
pressed the point that mayor ought
70 set an example Of total abstinence.
Ills final reply was: ''You have done
. great deal Of good and viii do more,
but you will never accomplish total
abstinence-never in the world. I
don't think you ought TO. l give you
my opinion. / have five children, and
I have wine on my table every day Of
my life. You cannot accomplish your
object, because it Is not right that It
should be accomplished. ! believe in
temperance in all things. i believe
wine was made to be enjoyed by man,
and the fact that he abuses this thing
is no argument agslust It's use"
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SESoR MATA contends that there IS
great deal Of Misrepresentation IS to
the status of the Diaz government and
its claim to be considered dc jare as
well as de .facto. he says that 1t has
been dc .faeto government since No
vember last upon the fight Of Presi-
dent Lerde and the assumption of the
functions Of chief of the provisional
government by General Diaz, and Dc
jurs government since the fifth Of May
last, when, in compliance with the
Constitution. an election was had in
accordance With I'll the prescribed ne
| quirsments and Dlaz declared elected
President.
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No uDprejudiced looker-on objects
to Eads's Jetties. If he can make the
rivers mouth an open highway to the
sea, the country will be we'll pleased
but what we must have is slack
water ship canal from New Orleans to
deep water In Barrataria bay, and then
Galveston will be one hundred and
fifty miles nearer New Orleans, and
European cities will trade dire city with
New Orleans, Vicksburg, Cairo and
st. Louis. 1t is direct trade, without
the Intervention of New York middle
men and railroads, that the South must
have. This great desideratum is unat-
tainable until Cowdon's ship canal,
from New Orleans to Barrataria bay, is
dug. Eads can't accomplish the pur-
nose
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DEWrrr, Gollad and Live Oak co

DEWITT, Goliad and Live Oak coun
ties each failed at the last term of the
court of each county to find an indict-
ment for murder. The frontier cavalry
have exterminated the villains or driv.
en- them across the border. Nine
tenths of the desperadoes have gone
into Northwestern Texas, so the sol
diers say. In Live Oak county an In
dictment was presented for murder
committed many years ago; but it il
true, as stated, that in neither of thest
counties, since the last preceding court,
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We do not know what the inttns,
Democrats will say about 1t, but even
while we were talking the other day
about the renovation of parties and the
relations of the South to Hayes and
what was due the President and how
VIC abhorfed Blaine and the reproduc
ton of the dead issue-even then Hen
dricks and Conkling and Grant were
hobnobbing with one another at Pierre
points table, and Hendricks was abso
lutely assisting at Grants grand re
ception. What will the intense De
mocracy say about it!
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On the twcnty.fourth ultimo the last
of what was so long known as Table
Rock, at Niagara, broke of and fell into
the river. The mass weighed nearly
sixty tons, and up to 1876 over four
thousand names of visitors had been
carved upon 1t. The part which fell
on the twenty-fourth composed only
half of the original rock, the rest
having fallen in. On Saturday, Janu-
airy /, 1929, surface Of the rock sup
posed TO be the size of half of an acre,
forming the bed OF Maiden Walk,
broke loose, and was precipitated into
the immense chasm below. The crash
was heard for distance OF five miles,
and the effects in the immediate neigh
borhood resembled the shock of an
earthquake. The water running under
the bank is supposed to have caused
the fall on the twenty-fourth. The
shock when the rock STUCK the water
was distinctly felt three miles from the
fall. Several Of the trees that stood
on the rock are now seen standing in
the river as erect as when in their origi-
nal places on the rock.
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DIAz has called the attention of his
countrynen to the extradition treaty
with the United States of 1862 nego-
tiated by Tom Corwin. Diaz states
UIIaU UuIs .ISaUy 10 Al IuII IVIUS ouu "aI'
be executed. Cortina therefore may
be demanded and delivered to the au.
thorities of Texas to be banged. This
highwayman of Tamaulipas is already
indicted for this crime in Cameron
county, and Diaz it seems, knows how
to curry favor with the Americans
Meanwhile he busters somewhat il
opposition to the pursuit of thieves and
robbers taking refuge in the land o
God and liberty; but this slgnifie'
nothing more than that he is afraid d
the influence Lerdo may win by his de
nunciation of the Americans and op
position to the exactions of Gen Ord
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TIE Baltimore Sun Is wholly mis-
taken when it says that the Texas del
egation is solid for Randall as 4 candi-
date for the spcakership Of the House.
Randall has never been for the South
in anything. He is bittsrly hostile to
the Texas Pacific Railway, and this de-
prives hum of the support of Throck'
morton and two or three others from
this State. We do not believe that
Randall will get q vote in the Texai
delegation.
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THERE is no ooubt that the acute
Mexican robber, calling himself gen.
eral or governor, knows the difference
between An EngllsAman and an Amer
lean. lie has learned to respect the
English and despise the Americans.
lie robs the latter and gives security
to the former. Americans, in Mexico,
are accustomed to transfer their mines
and other property to English and
German residents, because, under for.
mer American administrators, the lie
spised gringOs had no security giver
them by our government. This is al
changed. Those having mines or cat
tie will be robbed no more, and Mexi
can preStamos will be unheeded. Evart
is fixing it.
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JOHN W. Polk, Of Kansas City, II
first rate gentleman, of taste in letters,
of hereditary virtues and faultless per-
sonal fame, proposes to become door
keeper Of the House of Represents
tiSes at Washington. Tie makes no
pledges save that he will never write a
letter like Fitzhugh with two or three
cocktails in it before break fast, poking
fun at himself and the rest of man
kind. 1t is enough to commend Col.
Polk to the Texan delegation that he
and Major Dorm messed together in the
Mexican war, and then, too, they took
little stock in another considerable
fght-perhaps that of 1912. 1t is
needless to mention the side they were
on and how bravely they have got over
it, and are reconstructed, and all that.
But Polk is man of genius, and can
keep door, for he has read all the
standard works on bookkeeping.
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A San Francisco drm has contracted
to pay forty cents apiece for the unli-
csnsed dogs slaughtered in that city.
The skins are to be tanned for glove
making. the hair used in plaster, the
bones ground for clarifying sugAr, and
the fat manufactured INTO oil.
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LERDo's AxD EscoBEDo's stock n
trade consists in Mexican hatred Of
Los qringss. Their sure defeat in all
their schemes is accomplished when
ever their cooperation and concur
renee with Americans is even suspected.
Therefore Lerdo's recent letter repudis
silng the plan of peaceful invasion
suggested by Gen. Ord.
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Apropos OF the political complica-
tions in Europe, it may be Of interest
t6-llnow the cost Of the mainteDan0 of
soldiers in each Of the great com sies
on the other slde Of the ocean. i is
said that England spends for each Of
her aoIdlers $500 per anDun, Russia
800. France S234. 40, Belgium, $207- 40
Germany $f95, Turkey lsa 40s Jtaly
slss.4e, Denmark..gsi70, ispain sis5r
Austria Sl44.
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BAD BREATH.

Nothing Is so unpleasant, nothing 90 common
IA bad breath, and In nearly every cas-" II c NEE
from the stomach. and can be 50 easiE 'orTec,ed
" you will take SlmmOnss Liver Regulator. do
not neglect so sure "A remedy for this repulsive
disorder. IL will also improve your appetite,
compile xlon aud general health.
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Pill. e s.

How many sufTer torture day after day, max,
ing life burden and robbing existence OF all
piles Yet relief Ia ready To the hand Of almost
any one who W II use systematically the remedy
that has perm ancntY cured thousands. NJ
drastic. violent purge, hut gcntle assistant oil
nature.
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le of Mexico. Not yet, Mr.. Blaine !
The mangoes and pomegranates and
morals and intelligence of the country
are not vet ripe enough for absorption.
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The srArrsx,y e,nre..,v on,.r,

The STATESMAN expressly entered
its dissent when it has been proposed
to make Garfield or any Republican
Speaker of the new Congress. We do
not see the necessity and SO stated.
II, however, Blaine ON the one hand
and Bob Toombs on the other, and
Radicals and Bourbons cooperate to
destroy the President because he liber-
ates and serves the South, 1t would
surely become our province to strength
en- the administration in the House
against which there may be arrayed a
resistless force in the Senate. But
there will be time enough to discuss
this question before Congress meets
and before October the evolution of
forces in partisanship will be clearly
enough defined for us to know whether
''the foundations of the great deep
will be broken up or whether we are
only TO have q tidal wave OF decent,
honest patriotism sweeping over the
land. In the latter case parties of to-
day may survive the revolution, though
We are much inclined 20 believe that
homeopathic doses Of common hon
esty will be fatal to both of them.
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wrappers with Trade Marx, stamp and signature
utbrokun None other IL genuine.
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ailmcnt-in fact nature demands the
utmost regularity OF tbs bowels, and
any deviation nom this dcmand.pgyes
the way often "a serious danger. IL
l. quite as necessary To remove inn
pure accumulations from the bowels
~ Il IL to eat Or sleep, and no heal h
can be expected where costivc
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