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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05
when the fight was tiercest.

THE Radical party in Texas, except
to the extent that 1t is fostered by
Federal power, derives its sustenance
in Texas from corporations, towns and
counties subjected to its supremacy by
the Rutabaga Constitution. Will not
the over-zealous Democratic sheets
which SO love Texas that they hate
Hayes and the old Wings and Demo
Gratis of his Cabinet, now give US test
of their devotion to Texas and to
Democracy by demanding that the
Constitution of Texas shall be so
amended that no tramp or rough or
deadbeat or wandering adventurer shall
vote In any to,cn or county election who
has not paid poll tax of two dollars.
With most people Democracy" means
Southern preiudices." We, on the
contrary, would make Democracy a
practical fact. If we can shake off the
sway of RadIcalism in towns and coun-
ties and cities of Texas, the party is
slain finally and forever. Will those
who object to our quasi approval of the
Presidents conduct and impugn our
Federal honesty, illustrate their own
devotion to the State and people and
to Democratic supremacy in Texasi
Let there be a SHOWING of hands all
around the board. The Changers de,
clare at last, when their pockets are
touched, by the taxing clauses of the
Constitution, that these shall be
amended; towns and counties and
cities of Texas give body and soul,
through unrestricted suffrage In corpo
rate elections, to the Radical party il
Texas. Let us see who are Democrats
and who are Radicals-who among
Democrats dares to destroy root anG
branch the horrible party in Texas
which President Hayes, if his in
ugural, or organization of his Cabine
mean anything, has abandoned t.
poverty and death. We hope Their
are none too cowardly too spesk-non,
who fear the votes of the swell mob o
towns and cities. Who are Democrat
and who adherents OF the Radica
party in the late Constitutional Con
yention2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

interested carpet-baggers. Packard,
Chamberlain and their satellites (the
Marshall Herald are the only persons
of any political consequence who will
read this speech of Phillips with ap-
probation and relish, and even they
will not dare to svow their approval.
They will merely roll it, as wicked
people are said to do sin, ''as q sweet
morsel under their tongues" Phillips
truly expresses what Packard thinks.
Packard would say the same things of
the President and Cabinet if he dared.
He may possibly dare when his hopes
are utterly Frustrated, but for the pres
ent he is muzzled by his sense Of in
terest. The President may see what
Packard and the Marshall Herald
think If be will read what Wendell
Phillips says.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

THE New York Herald tells of the
marvellous growth IN power of Prussia.
A century ago she was one of the
smallest kingdoms of Europe in extent,
yet one of the greatest in ambition.
Her career of conquest began when
friedrich the Great invaded Silesia and
laid the foundations of the present
German Empire. Since the days of
that great ruler no German sovereign
rivals in fame the venerable Emperor
whose birthday was recently honored.
William l. was born in 1897, and after
an eventful military and political career
was crowned King of Prussia ia 1851.
He used the opportunity to proclaim
the divine right of kings, a theory
which the liberal policy of Prince Bis
marck compelled him to modify. His
reign is full of important events and
has changed the map of Europe. In
the north he made successful war upon
Denmark, and turning to the south, in
1866, crushed Austria with the needle
gun at Sadowa. Looking to the west
he wrested Alsatia and Lorraine from
France, and destroyed, at Sedan and
Metz, the third Empire of the Napo-
Icons. He had before this formed the
North German Confederation, but this
was followed by the infinitely greater
work of uniting all Germany under a
single head. The King of what was
only petty State scarcely hundred
years ago was crowned Emperor of
Germany January IS, 1871, in the an
cestral halls of the French kings at
Versailles. His policy since that great
conquest has been one of civil construc-
ton rather than military aggression.
Religion has become a principal issue
in Europe, and the Pope of Rome seems
now to be the most dreaded foe of Ger
many. The Emperor William is now
eighty years of age and can look back
upon a life of almost uninterrupted
victory. His great achievement was
the unification of the German States
and the creation of central empire in
Europe. His recent birthday was cele-
brated wherever the German language
is spoken, and in no country with
more enthusiasm than in Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

charter, there was reserved at the time
the grant was made a power to ''alter.
amend or repeal" the charter, or to
make such ''rules and regulations
concerning it as the Legislature might,
from time to time, enact and provide.
then maximum rates for transportation
may be made by the State, notwith-
standing the provisions of the charter.
II must however, be remembered that
such maximum rates are limited to the
boundaries of the State making them
such laws can have no extra-terrl-
torial effect.
II. These facts enable us to esti-
mate how far these decisions are likely
to affect the Granger roads themselves
and other corporations similarly situa-
ted. AS an example, let the Chicago
and Northwestern Company be taken.
Its charters were granted by the four
States in which its principal lines are
situated. OF these, two - Wisconsin
and lowa-have, under these decisions,
the power to establish maximum rates.
Ihe others - Michis an aud Illinois
have, by the same decisions, no such
power. When that company was in
corporated no power to "alter, amend
or repeal" or TO make "rules and reg
ulatlons" concerning the charter, was
reserved to the Legislature of either
State by its constitution or laws; what
ever the charter contained was granted
without reservation of any kind. Upon
the subject of rates, the Illinois char
ter provides: "The said corporation
is authorized to pre-
scribe the rate OF toll FOR
transportation of persons and property
thereon" Such n grant would seem
to be a contract, If a clearly expressed
power given to a corporation could
ever become such.
A very large proportion of the bust
ness of that corporation is probably
done to and from Chicago, the princi-
pal terminal point of all Its lines. 1t
Is probable that the larger part OF oil
its earnings is derived from business
using lines IN more than one State,
one of which must be Illinois, OF from
business local to that State. There is
no State, therefore, that can regulate
its rates on all the business to and from
the city Of Chicago. The power to
regulate must be confined to that small
portion of its business arising and ter,
minating within the boundaries OF the
regulating State. All this is true also
Of the Milwaukee and st. Paul, the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and
the Chicago, Rock Island and Peoria
Railroad Companies. On tho whole,
it would seem that there is no real oc-
casion for any mistrust of corporate
property in general growing out OF
! these decisions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05
The Granger Cases--TTue Signin-
eance or the Supreme Court
Decision. yf...

There seems to be a widespread mis-
apprehension of the recent decisions in
the Granger cases. They are not only
thought to render all railroad invest
ments insecure, but to seriously impair
corporate property of all kinds. How
far these fears are from the truth few
simple statements will show.
l. The Supreme Court of the United
States in the Dartmouth College case,
many years ago, established the great
principle that charter granted by q
State and accepted by tho corpoTators
became 3 contract between them, not
to be changed by the State in any
material provision without the consent
of the other contracting party, the cor
poratIon. This decision was followed
by many others In nearly every court
of last resort in the country TO the same
effect. This doctrine was nowhere
seriously questioned until after some of
the Western States had attempted to
regulate" railroad charges by estab-
fishing maximum schedules below the
current rates charged by the corpora
tons. Ex-Judge Redfeld, an able
writer upon railway law, pub
lished an Ingenious argument to show
that the Dartmouth College decision
was unsound. This created some IN
easiness in business and legal, circles,
principally because it suggested meth
cd OF reasoning by which the Supreme
Court, If inundated by the Western
clamor, might reverse that decision
without an entire sacrifice of consist
epcy. The Granger cases" raised
the precise point. On the one side ii
was urged that the charters of the com
panies involved were contracts within
the established principles Of the College
case, and must be protected; on the
other side it was SAID that that case
was wrong in principle and should not
be followed but If the court were OF q
different opinion On that point, the
State laws regulating rates should new
ertheless be sustained, because express
power to alter, amend or repeal the
charters had been reserved TO the
State. The court took the latter view.
Bat upon the important point whether
! in the absence Of such reservation the
charter OF Q corporation was contract,
the court says: "This 10 in substance
its charter, and 10 that extent it is pro
tected - by contract, for IL il nov
too late 70 contend that charter oil
corporation II not Q contract within the
meaning of that clause in the Constitu-
hon Of the United StateS which pro-
hibits a.6tate from passing law an
pairing the obligatioa OF q contract
In this opinion the court were
unanimous. whatever doubts pre-
viousEy existed, they must be removed
by this decision. Charters 70 the ex-
tent Of the clearly defined powefs and
| privileges contained in them ere pro-
tecied from all hostile State legisls-
tion. This class Of property rests
upon - solid foundations, henceforth,
- the title 70 real estate or the nights
Of personal security. one Quahhea-
| ton TO this il established by those de-
cisions. II, in The Constitution or
general laws Vt any State granting q
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

The Christian Allocate, of New Or
leans, says that the Austin STATESMAN
tells the cnlored people the truth when
it tells them that their greatest enemy
is whisky. The Advocate further says,
sit regrets that the eolored people have
been misled and used by selfish men
who had money in the whisky bust
ness, and were interested in buying
and deceiving the colored voters Of
Texas The Adeooate says that whisky
and ku-kluxism are one and the same
thing, and no cOlored freeman loves
the ka-klux. When local option Is
voted on by precincts, it win be found
that the colored people have discov-
cred their error, and they viii never
more confound drsm-drinkiug with
liberty.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05
WENDELL PHILLIPS AND THE
SHERMAN REGISTER.

Readers of yesterdays dispatches
will observe that the President makes
haste slowly, but still progresses. We
must needs be patient. 1t is an ugly
job. Louisiana Is powder magazine,
and the commission now sitting on it
in New Orleans may be blown higher
than kite. 1t was organized, how
ever, to prevent premature explosion.
This temporizlng policy is the only
safe one, and yet if the Presidents &C
ton were measured by our Impotence
he would hang Packard to-day. But
the safety of Louisiana, as we'll as that
of each of the Southern States, de-
mands the exercise of patience and
care. A blunder made by the Presi-
dent would subject him to every ca
lamIty that befel Andrew johnson and
give Blaine and Morton mastery of the
Senate as Thad Stevens once welded
supreme power in the House. There
are, nevertheless, many unthinking
people who, consulting their passion:
and prejudices rather than practical
good sense, would have the President
destroy himself and all these State:
that the dirty thieves preying upor
Louisiana may be instantly destroyed
The Presidents purposes in behalf O
Louisiana may be inferred from hi!
conduct in South Carolina. If h
would relieve Charleston and Colum
bia, shot beds of secessionism and re
bellion," he would surely deal gener
ously with the sorely tried and robbed
and desolated Crescent City, and i
will be time enough to inveigh agains
the President when he has proven falls
to himself, to his pledges and to tn
country. In fact, we will begin to de
hounce Hayes whenever Wendell Phil
lips and Garrison and the Sherman
Register begin to praise him.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

THERE have been several heavy fail
ures among drygoods dealers in Dallas
and ether towns of Texas. The wave
of restriction and repression and COM
pulsory economy struck Texas last of
all the States. but the shock was felt
everywhere. We too must come down
to practices of rigid economy. The
first measure of relief should be the
remonetization of the silver dollar.
But the blow that staggered and over
threw so many tradespeople has done
its worst. The country, as whole,
is as rich as ever, and Texas gathers a
largely disproportionste share of the
wealth of the United States. and with
peace and order and conservative gov
eminent at Washington and peace in
Louisiana, the whole country will GO
to work on the sure, safe basis of silver
and gold, and prosperity will be as
solid as this metallic currency and this
general confidence of the country in
the justice and stability of our pohti-
cal institutions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

THE Radical party in Texas derives
its sustenance alone from the spoils Of
counties and towns which it is enabled
here and there to plumber under the
Rutsbaga constitution. The "Holy
Alliance" between the Radicals and
the Rutabagas was effected in order
that the restriction on suffrage in coun-
ties and towns, proposed by the STATES
MAN, might be defeated. 1t was de-
feated by the cowardice of so-called
Democrats" who sold out to the Rad
icals in order that they might use these
Radicals In defeating the intelligent
and just and wise men in the consti
tutional convention. johnson, of Col
lin, was the trader and roper-in OF the
Radicals, and the other Johnson was the
bowling dervish of the ruinOus comb
nation. The STATESMAN had the har-
dihood to make the fight to the bitter
end, and there was never newspaper
SO utterly and properly abhorred by
the extreme Radical party of Texas.
And in the face of these facts here
comes an obscure, ignorant little
newspaper of the "chivalry" persua-
sion, stump of q sinking cigar in
its filthy mouth and Colts repeater
under its coat-tail, and as it swills
whisky at the railroad station
and snooZes in the sunshine,
its elegant leisure, between drinks, is
devoted to the dcnunciation of the
STATESMAN "Radicalism" and Sam
bo's laziness and worthlessness. 1t is
a model newspaper and finds one copy
ist in Texas. 1t is we'll for the de-
cency OF the press that there are no
more of the same sort. But the vigor
of a mans prejudices is always accu-
rately measured by his ignorance and
stupidity, and these stupid fellows
cannot understand how the STATESMAN
dares to tell the truth of Hayes and at
the same time to defy and denounce
the Republican party in Texas and its
schemes of partisanship and legislation
with persistency and earnestness and
force of which tools of local party lead
ers are incapable. Let him who has
fought the Radicals of Texas through
all his history like the STATESMAN
be the man to condemn the STATESMAN.
Nobody will listen to an assailant
whose moral cowardice was such that
when the STATESMAN, on the only
present practical issue, fights the ruin
Gus Radical party of Texas, dares not
stand by the STATESMAN and dared not
when the fight was fiercest.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

THE communication occupying so
much of our space this morning was
written by a shrewd and habitual OBJ
server of the habits of grasshoppers and
ants. He is a naturalist, and might
win fame as such. How a grasshopper
gets his shirt off is shown with the acu-
men of one who must have studied the
process of disroblpg oneself. in in
stances IN which he confessed an acute,
even passionate, interest. His descrip-
ton of grasshopper's physical struc-
ture, more wonderful than that of
Mark Twain's mule, is admirable for
its clsarness and simplicity. The grass
hopper, we infer, has two legs with
which to take off hes nightcap, two to
shove off his breeches and things, and
two in the middle to keep his head
level. But it is an interesting story,
and we commend 1t to our readers and
to the congressional investigating grass.
hopper committee now bouncing about
over the country from sheer force Of
sympathy with the electrical, rayenou!
insect. .e SO.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

IF the fiercest and most "chivalrous"
representative of radical Democracy
would see precisely how far wrong he
may be in his violent deaunciation of
the President and of those who sp-
proved his inaugural and acts under
il, he need only read the remorseless
TRADE of the most Radical of Northern
men to see himself equalled in folly
and ferocity. Wendell Phillips's de-
nunciahons of President Hayes are
eloquent aud our Southern friends CO.
operating and coHcurring with Phillips
should certainly study his style. But
it Is only reproduction of an old
fact, that extremes do ever meet and
cooperate in effecting eountry's and
peoples ruin.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

Cart. JoHS W. GRANT, Of Dallas,
has been appointed inspector of the
construction of the East Texas peni-
Tertiary at Rusk. Capt Grant is .
professional builder anu architect BE
has erected houses in Memphis, st.
Louis and Dallas of the sum total Of
values greater than most towas are
worth. he was . soldier sixteen years
Of age at the battle Of San Jaeinto,
having left the college at Lebanon,
Tennessee, to share in the Texan strug-
gle for Independence. The appoint.
mont OF Capt. Grant to this Office is
the wisest and best possible, and il
the contract suffers it, the new peni-
sentiary building At Rask viii be the
best ever reared in the South.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

S. NJ. SwENsoN, a wealthy banker
and commission merchant, of New
York, steps into the superintendency
of the Central road. He is well known
to business men of Texas, and his
house has handled most of the cotton
from Southern and Middle Texas that
has been carried by Morgan's steamers
for wears.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

THERE is an ardent and irrepressi-
bly,, hot-headed party organizing in
Throckmorton's district to defeat him
at the next congressional election. 1t
is well that the war upon Mr.. Throck-
morton begins thus early. 1t will ex-
haust its force before the day comes for
his possible overthrow.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

THE great, and only sensible, argu-
ment against prohibition was that it
would reduce to nihility the income of
Austin and of Travis, both of which,
it seems, lice and die by whisky. But
the Supreme Court has declared the
whisky occupation tax unconstitution-
al, it is said by letterwriter from Gal
weston, and now, since the bar-rooms
pay no special tax and all they have
paid must be refunded, it does seem
that all objections to the extinction OF
whisky everywhere have disappeared.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05
THE STATE OF TEXAS

To all persons Interested in the guRrdianship q
MENTION q. JAMES and ANNIE LANE,
minors.
X. N. Lane, guardian Of the above named MI
fDors, has 1lef bic application In The County
Court of TIayis county for the sale Of certain
red property belonging 10 said minors for the
pnyuscnI Of debts which VIII be heard ~ The
next term OF said court. 10 be held AZ the court
house thereof, In AHstiB, on the THIRD NON
DAY IN NAY, 1877 When and where al per-
sons int rested msy appear aud show Cause why
snch sale should not be made.
witness my hsn1 ana seal OF said court.
March "a, 1871.
Isl PRANK BROWN,
ap5 4w Clerk q. q. Of 4. G.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05
THE STATE OF TEXAS

To all persons Interested in the administration
OF the estate Of JAMES GUM, deceased.
Thomas Anderson, administrator OF the estate
Of James Gnnn, deceased, has presented hls
hnal account In ths County Court OF Treyie
county which viii be acted on Al the next tern
Of said court. commencing on the THIRD MON
DAY IN MAY next, 81 the e0nEt boase ibereofs
In the city Of Austin, a. which time al pefsOns
interested in said estate may appear aud contest
said application, II ttsy see proper. by order OF
the said court.
0lven under my hand and tho seal Of aid
cpart at ofIiee. this twenty fourth DAY
Of March. A. ID. 1871
u.sI FRANK BROWN.
ap5 Sw Clerk G. q. Of 7. g.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05
IT is stated that the whisky dealers

IT is stated that the whisky dealers
occupation tax has been declared un-
constitutional by the Supreme Court.
Dallas alone has paid $500, OOe into
the State Treasury in fifteen months
under this law, and all this must be re-
funded. 1t knocks the Governors
plans of finance g. west and
crooked -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

coat tai keeps growing. We never
could otherwise account for the per.
sistent length of these .caudsl append
ages, and they are unjust who suspect
rents in the trowsers. He has no rents
to pay for. He sleeps on newspapers
in the Office.
Tim Cox, on Boudoir Avenue, has
the incest, sweetest, plumpsst little
wife in Texas. Tim keeps q COW and
has. been fatteuing the yearfing bull
calf in his back yard. Sunday after
noon Mrs. Cox was dressing to make
calls and wss In diSsdbilLS, having on
but one very light garment. She
looked out and saw the squarely built
yearling tearing the flowers in the
front yard into fragments. The cord
which had fastened him to the stable
had become loosened. No female
could withstand such outrages to roses
as made her bosom swell with grief and
indignation. She neither thought nor
hesitated 1.-THE rose bushes and oleanders,
acaclas and banana trees screened her
from observation and she tried to drive
and coax the bull calf. He stood firm.
She tugged at the cord about his neck.
He was unmoYed. She tied the cord
about her pretty waist aud threw all
her weight against it. This startled
the calf and it looked at the woman
in white" attentively for the first time
and terror seized the animal. He bel
lowed and bolted. Through the shrub
berry and open gate away went the calf
and the woman hardly able to keep her
body above her flying feet. As our hero
inc entered the Avenue the part of Lad ,
Godiva, as told by Tennyson, WAS re
enacted in another Coventry. Our
informant, who witnessed these
incidents, looked and has been stone
blind ever since. l don't know, he
told us, how she got away. 1t was
Sunday afternoon, bright, clear and
| beautiful. Her face was yelled by her
nut brown hair and she was rescued by
Tim, who sold the Bull calf yesterday.
The home is windows and doors
and Tim and his pretty wife have gone
to the mother's-ln-law in the country.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-05

On Angel Island, in the Bay of San
Francisco, gold in large quantities has
been discovered. The property be
longs to Gen. r. C. Drum, chief of
staff to Gen. Sheridan.