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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
HILTON AND TINE HEBREWS.

The conduct of Mr.. Hilton, Stew
arts executor, in expelling Hebrews
as such from his great hotel at Sara
toga, excites much discussion. 1t is
stated by some newspaper that Mr..
Hilton feared conhsgration or is the
victim of inveterate prejudices of race,
such as atflict southern people in their
relations to the colored people, red
and black. 1t is also said that the
trouble grew out of personal business
relations between Hilton and Selig-
man, the Hebrew banker, who was
shut out OF the great tavern by Hill
toms order. But it signifies nothing
more than that very rich people are
often very great asses and love to rem
der themselves conspicuous and to be
talked about. The tavern keeper,
Hilton, therefore rejects the rich Jew
who is awfully mad about it, and in
stead OF going to place, as q nice,
decent, young, well-bred person would
have done, where his money and pres
ence would be agreeable, he demands
public sympathy and public indigna-
ton meetings and great fuss general
ly. Hebrews, who act and dress as
gentlemen, never find difficulty in sc.
curing the best quarters in the best
hotels in America, and they viii hard
ly lend themselves on this occasion to
the purposes of these two money-bags.
Let them fight it out. II concerns no.
body and is only On advertising dodge
for hotel on the one hand, and for
a cent per cent. fellow on the other
both good nen Of their sort no
doubt. The papers that do much ad-
vertising for the Hebrew children are
excessively indignant because Hilton
rejected Seligman. The Jews are too
sharp to confess that Hilton represents
anybody-as he does not-besides him
self. They propose to leave the quar-
rel where it began and should end, be-
tween the banker and ''lunch fixer." 1t
is impossible to suppose that Hilton is
a representative American, and there
fore the Jews can't recognize him as
such by holding Indignation meetings
rs Seligman would have them. II
Seligman were = poor, helpless but
decent, honest fellow who had been
kicked out OF Hilton's palace for his
poverty or rsce-featarss then the He
brews Of America would rise up a. one
to protect the follower Of the prophets,
but they are not going crazy to help
an lsrAelite who needs no help and
only seeks.notoriety. and thus q swell
ing list of Hebrew and other deposit
tors. In fact, the row between this
publican aud this money-changer is .
huge sham in which We dont take
stock. Both should be kicked out of
the temple. f.---.-t 49,. -.....
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

FREE trade and sailors rights used
to be an old Democratic war cry. 1t
came of old Hickory's cool defiance of
foreign powers and of the tierceness
with which he resented any wrong
done an American citizen in a foreign
country. 1t was this peculiarly Of
Democratic policy that first won to the
support of the party the foreign born
voters OF the United States, and this
accession of strength made Dsmoc-
racy fight Know-Nothingism. But now
Mr.. Hayes, through the bold CON-
FOUNDER of interminable sentences,
Mr.. Evarts, goes bowshot beyond
Jackson, and compels foreign powers,
for the first time since Seward went
into the foreign Office, to do obeisance
to the flag of the United States.
Whatever may be said of the commits
sion and law that made Hayes Presi-
dent, it is certainly true that the whole
country approves the spirit and energy
which is asserted in dealing with Mex
leo and Chill and Spain, with each of
which countries difficult questions in
yolNing national vanity and personal
rights of American citizens have re-
Gently been adjusted.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

A LAWYER writing from Paris says
81 like the STATESMAN above all pa
pers because it says just what it thinks
and runs in no grooves followed out
by the timid, fettered press for twenty
years past. The success of such a
paper is indicative of the progress OF
free thought, and of the growing in
telligence of the people. We are from
all the old States, and very certainly
should be liberal and cosmopolitan,
and the STATESMAN is the paper repre-
sentative of independence of thought
without which there can be no true
freedom in Texas"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

In support Of the conclusion that
Hilton-A. T. Stewart & Co.-and
selgnan deemed their quarrel mat
ter of business, each publishes an in
terminable batch of letters approving
the conduct of each. Seligmsn is 3
fat, thick-lipped, hesvy-featured, dark
skinned, coarse-hAired Hebrew, by no
means, in his appearance or bearing,
an honor TO the intelligence or culture
of his race, and Hilton, suddenly lifted
up to great fortune, is beyond his pro-
per sphere and unworthy perhaps OF
the power he yields. The public has
no interest in the quarrel which each
seems to regard as q moneyed speculs-
ton. Hilton wants bosrders and the
other fellow deposits. Texas people
will take stock neither in Sehgman's
bank nor Hilton's tavern.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

when preachers and schoolmasters, the
chiefest Of whom are locomotives. have
accomplished their mission, they will
also have effected annexation. II we
must hold chihuahua or Tampico in
order TO protect ourselves, the sooner
we abandon possession till Mexicans be-
come fit subjects of free government,
the better for the United States. And
when it is proposed, as once happened.
that the Federal treasury must pay the
absurd cIaims set up by robbers of the
West against Mexico, the common
sense and honesty Of the country re-
volts against the scheme. Claims to
the amount of Q million and q half
dollars were once set up against Mex
leo, to be paid BY that government
through Washington, when the village
itself, making the demand, and its
owners and all 1t contained and ell the
assessed wealth of all its inhabitants
had never reached $50, 900. In those
days, when that and other like bills
of costs were presented by borderers
and allowed by commission against
the United States. Texas was hardly
part OF the American republic.
and those good men Of the West
may have deemed it eminently proper,
in those days, to swindle Uncle Sam.
But Mr. Hayes has changed all that.
Texas and the people OF Texas are in
terested in the Union as in the State,
aud neither one nor the other can be
plundered with the assent of the press
and people of Texas. Now, when
there is no Northern consolidation
against q consolidated South, when
the South has at last become an inte-
grail part of the Union, consummation
which Blaine and Morton would still
postpone for an indefinite period that
they may triumph indefinitely over the
South, and thus over Democracy-whsn
final peace has been effected between
the sections and Radicalism is almost
defunct, we confess q share of interest
in the well-being of the Union, and
would protest against the devices of
thieves who seek to gather enormous
riches by means of an absurd treaty be-
tween the United States and Mexico.
We want no more purchases of worse
than Alaskan seals and polar bears,
and can afford tc expend no more mon
ey for deserts populated by savages,
when at the proper season these must
become ours without the expenditure
of money or the firing of q gun. West
ern herdsmeH have been robbed, and
much property has been stolen and
transferred to Mexico; but the enor-
nous losses which cunning counted up
and ignorance and vice attested under
oath cannot be adjusted by getting
land instead of money from Mexico in
order that the trainers of these amaz-
ing accounts against Mexico may Sc
cure gold. The Secretary of State is
conversant with the chalac of these
claims against Mexico, and, while sums
honestly due should be paid, the an
nexationists, with their stupendous
claims, should be repulsed.
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THE PRESIDENT AND THE
PEOPLE


DR.. J. @. Holland writes in Scribner
for July that on behalf of the people
OF the Union who do the voting and
have no political ambitions we weuld
like TO speak single word Of warning
to the marplots and the irreconcilables
who oppose President Hayes. We are
simply anxious that justice shall be
done in this country, and that peace
and prosperity may follow as conse-
quences. Gen. Grant and his friends
have had eight years in which to &C.
complish the work Of pacifying the
South, and haze failed. President
Hayes has announced and inaugurstsd
another policy which promises success !;
and ace propose 10 stand By him until he
has had a fair chance. He is only TO
have half the time that was given to
Gen. Grant, and he needs the popular
support which we propose to give him.
Meantime we propose to fight and po-
liticslly kill every man of you who
tries to throw difficulties in his way.
We have no faith in your motives, we
have lost all confidence in your wis,
dom, We do not believe in your candor
and dIsinterestedness; we regard you
as void of patriotism. The people are
tired of discord. They inteEd that
the policy Of the new administration
shall have fair chance. They want
peace. They want q reform in the
civil service, for they feel that me.ce-
nary politics have been q curse and q
disgrace to them. They are, at least,
not ready to join in any crusade against
the policy of the President until it has
had fair chance to work out Its re-
suits. Any politician, therefore, in
any position, who undertakes opposi-
ton to this policy in its initiatory
stage, they will regard as public en-
envy, on whom they will not hesitate
to wreak their revenge. 1t will be q
good plan for all the demagogues to
take low seat for the present, and
keep their mouths shut, if they have
any hope of q political life In the years
to come.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE Galveston Netcs has pat its foot
in it. We are now out and the Neus
is in for it. Some time ago we wrote
rather sasagely of certain savages down
about Cuero. In fact, we simply trans.
ferred a paragraph to the STATESMAN,
clipped from another paper. Then
came the violent letters of denuncia.
ton. We supposed that the Cuero
country had been grievOusly wronged.
But it SO happened that when we did
justice to one blessed lot of good pee
pie, another mob reared up on its hind
legs most v:ciously to claw at US. We
finally quit the business of printing ex-
plantations from one and then another
of the parties to local quarrels and
vendettas, and were perfectly blest.
But now the Neaos comes to the front
and tells of terrible deeds done
IN Wilson county. A family OF
immigrants were set upon and murder
ed by another old Bender named Thorn
as, and his two sons. The mowers"
were murdered, except a boy, who
found Halls men, and by these the
murderers were caught with their
booty.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

Six fine brick stores are in course Of
construction in Rockdale. ...
A teachers institute is to convene in
Dallas on the Fourth of July.
A frost in Ersth county on the tenth
inst. damaged the cotton slightly.
Some of the Western papers want
Hon. Gustave Schleicher made Cover
nor.
DIR. Hslliwell, of Denison, charged
with malpractice, is in Jail unable to
give bond.
Mrs. Agnes Burgess, wife of Will am
H. Burgess, of Seguin, died on the
twentieth OF June. .,
The Inquirer does not despair of an
early extension of the Morgan road
froR Cuero to Gonzales.
The cotton worm has made its ap-
pesrance in Fort Bend and Austin
counties, on the Brazos.
Seventy-fve bushels of oats to the
acre Is what's the matter with the
BtohSCiS " oCA COuuby.
The county records of Van Zsndt
have been moved from Canton to Willis
Point, all without fight. D ::
Wheat produces well in Goliad coun-
ty. In Victoria county there will. be
at least 800 acres sovn this fall.
j. 8. Mansur, of the Ranehero, has
been removed from the position of
collector of customs at Brownsville.
The Corpus Christi postmaster very
properly refused to pass snakes
through his postofice as mail matter.
The people of Victoria talk of hav-
ing the narrow gauge road from CO.
lumbis extended to the Guadalupe
river.
It is reported to the Dispatch that n
bad state Of feeling exists between tn, {.
people of Coleman city and Camp Cob
orado.
Major Jones says he has occupied
Lsmpasss to give its people peace, and
be intends to secure this boon for them
ct any cost. s.
Times are not very bard in Texas,
when people spend money 10 listenato
the rawlings Of . man such a. Brick
Pomeroy. .+.
The recent heavy rains about Cuero
washed the railway away in several
places, stopping trains and delaying
passengers.
Mr.. Topperton, of Boerne, has in
vented . new style of double-barrel
gun with but one lock TO do the work
for both barrels.
The grand jury Of Harms county, at
its last term, found one hundred in
dietments, and yet Houston claims TO
be the hub of Texas.
Seventy-seyen car loads Of cattle
were shipped from Denison over the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas on the
twenty second Of June.
The tax rolls Of Lampssss county
were not destroyed BY the late ere.
They are intact and the sale Of land
for taxes will take place. gsls
Both Erickson and Woodlief, the
champion pistol fighters Of Texas. are
grttisg we'll Each one was wounded
similarly in three places. Ha sas
Commodore Aergan's. through, train
frog San Antonio. ga the Central and
Transcoutinental, is beng run in oppo-
sition 10 the International
1linneols il 70 have . grand Fourth
OF July celebration, and Cols. Calber
son and Herpdo1 are to be there 20 let
OF steam for tbs oeeasion- -.,7-
They are 20 have grand exsnuion
over the New >-'eans road from Hons.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28


GES. LEsLIE CoARa, Of Kentucky is
the last OF his raee---a veritable old
time Whig. He knew msny Of them
who have voted the Democratic ticket,
so-called, ever since the war. They
have torn Of the word .'Democrat"
because they abhorred 1t; but pre-
fefring IL, = thousand fold, to Radical
ism, they have rejected the name and
accepted the fact. Bat Hayes Is pre-
pairing for,the hbsrati0a 81 all political
freethinkers. = BE slowly and surely
puta RAdicalism 70 death and its anti
pode must needs die with Il. In vn-
GINA this end 10 already sttaiued and
parties, Is they exist in Texas, are IN
known. Democracy has been
merged, into .'ConssrvAtismn and
adopts thls designation and the Yirgi-
mia press claims Hayes a. chiefsst Of
Couservstislsg uz ESD z eros sai y
= - III. -ae. srsisls
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

MAeAULAY Is authority for the asser-
ton that the Psritsns of his time OPP
posed bear-baiting. not much on &C.
count Of the pain that rude sport &C.
casioned the bear as of the pleasure it
afforded the spectators. The New
England descendants of those pious
people have, later, been suspected OF
seeking TO confer certain inestimable
rights upon the negro, not so much for
the pleasure and profit thereby be-
slowed upon him as for the accompany
ing pain and displeasure supposed to
be inflicted upon the negro's late
owner
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
Personal.

Between eccentric laws and playful
policemen the respectable citizen of
New York often has hard time of it.
The other evening, while man and
his wife were enjoying the evening air
on their own steps, some rufiians came
along, and, sei2mg the woman by the
foot, such u disturbance was raised as
brought Az officer. The Young scoun-
drels then fled, and the gallant officer
SO well understood his business that he
not only did not pursue them, but fell
TO clubbing the citizen on the steps and
knocked him into the street and kicked
him around until it was deemed per
fectly safe to drag him of to the police
station, with the assistance of another
officer. The wife followed and they
were both locked up. Repeatedly the
man said he was fatally injured, but a
wide-awake police justice the next
morning fined him, for what is not
clearly shown, and In default of pay
ment they were locked up. The victim
Of the clubbing died. The officer was
arrested and the coroner investigated
the affair, after the manner of investl 4.
eating such things in New York. The
result is q perfectly natural one. The
murderer was released ON fifteen hun
dred dollars bail, while the widow of
the murdered man was locked up as "a
witness. ...... .... ..0.
The closing exercises of the West
Point Military Academy took place on
Thursday last. The New York Herdlds
report says: Diplomas were given to
each of the seventy-six members of the
class, not one being found as the
cadets say. The class was in many re-
spects one of the most remarkable eyer
graduated. 1t was larger in numbers
than any ever before known in the
history of the institution. 1t contained
in its ranks the first colored cadet ever
graduated, and in general ability it was
far above the average. Mr.. William
d. Black, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
who graduated first, had won his way
to the head of the fourth class after
entering the institution, and thereafter
maintained that position in each sue
cessive class through which he passed
never having been displaced. Ben
jamin l. Butler, son of Benjamin f.
Butler, graduated No. "a John Bige-
low, Jr., son of the Secretary of State
of New York, came out No. 46, and
Henry d. Flipper, the colored cadet,
graduated No. 80. AS the colored
youth stepped forward and received his
diploma with a dignified bow, Gen.
Sherman clapped his hands APPROVING
ly, and his example was at once fol-
lowed by nearly all the visitors and
Officers present, until there was an al,
most universal round of applause.
per, it is needless to say, was not
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

FRANCE is Catholic and Germany
Protestant or constituted of free
thinkers. The government of France
10 supposed to be controlled by the
Romish Church, and since the Assembly
and Senate are Protestant and Repub-
lican the President has undertaken to
dissolve these two bodies and have q
new election. The Senate and As
sembly resist and how the struggle may
end is not certainly known. France is
exc,tabls and revolutionary ct all times /;
but now Germany looks on bristling
with bayonets. II the church triumph
it Is probable that the Emperor and
Bismarck will interpose. Germany
will never consent to the use Of French
troops to uphold the temporal power Of
the Pope and this attitude of Germany
will give great strength to the Repub-
licans il elections occur in France.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
A LETTER from McLemoresville. TIE

A LETTER from McLemoresville, Ten
nessee, states that DIR. T. G. Hammer,
large, tall and fat, weighing more than
800 pounds, has q poor old wife and
three children almost starving in Nc
Lemoresville. Hammer was in Austin,
December 81. He had then left the
woman with whom he lived in CALVES.
ton and had bran new pretty little
wife, devoted to him. She was not
more than IS. Hammer went from
Austin to Waco, thence to Dallas and
then We heard of him in st. Louis. 1t
is time he was checked in his mad
career and sent back to Tennessee.
Texas can stand the robbers and fugi-
tives from jus.iee that become high.
wAymen on the border, but the State
isn't broad enough to hold such q
majestic monster ss this man Hammer
Who pretended to cure inebriates.
Hammer IS an Odd Fellow.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

PRESIDENT HAYEs's policy is that of
peace. An energetic, positive foreign
policy does not mean q warlike one.
On the contrary. If we have wise
government, it islthe best safeguard Of
peace. The President of the United
States is not blusterer, and, while
order must be restored along the Rio
Grande, he has no purpose to dismsm-
Der Mexico, and would have no
conflict with that country.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

AND NOW the papers are publishing
Blaine's letter to Brosdhesd, the fore
most Democrat of Missouri, in which
the writer uses almost the exact Ian
guage of the STATESMAN. which little,
unthinking newspapers have so relent-
lessly criticised. He tells US that Mr..
Hayes "nss done more to carry out
the Democratic policy than Tilden
might have been able to do had he
been declared President"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

For the first time in forty-one years
Fred Douglass, the colored United
States marshal of the District of Co.
lumbis, revisited, last week, his old
home in Talbot county, Maryland.
Some time ago he expressed wish to
see his former master. Capt. Thomas
Aud, resident of St Michsels. Capt
Aud had expressed his willingnes
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

IT is proper to observe, when a girl
having two beaux at a picnic sends
one for cup of water, that she
would rather drink in the protestations
of the fellow she retains beside her.
The other should never go back.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

ouR Northern exchanges are de-
voted mainly to descriptions Of Incl
dents Of the general execution Of the
people Of Central Pennsylvanis by
hanging. Itis Gods eountry mp there,
ysu know, and is is only in Texas that
dsvilish deeds are dons and . stage
coach nov and then robbed. and here
]. Is tia. President hayes fails to do
his duty. Pennsylvsnia is paradise.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28

THE North Caroline Rspabl,can poll
,iciAns are more than ever disgusted
with he Presidents Southern policy,
sincs they have found out that il neAns
asopping the stsalings Of such rings -
usitsd States Marshal Douglass bas
been at ths heal Of.
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People who attain extreme old ace
have usually certain toughness of con-
stitution which triumphs over injuries
that weaker natures cannot survive.
The autopsy of the late Capt. Lahrbush,
whose age has been stated ct Ill years
and twenty-five days, furnishes new
and remarkable evidence on this point.
For sixiy-one years he had been an
opium eater; at the age of ninety his
daily dose of gum, or crude opium,
was estimated al ninety grains (troy);
but she physician who attended HIM
shortly before has death represents the
old mans daily allowances as only half
that quantity. Capt. Lahrbush had
full allowance of the ills that flesh is
heir 10, but seems to have been strange
" unconscious OF them. He had M
symphonic Of renal disease, and yet b
right, Kidney, was gone entirely,
place being occupied tsai considers
more than oceupieal BY tsimorl
size OF child's head, with smaller
iumor of similar kind attached. This
fact does not seem to have been sus-
pected before the diagnosis made
during his last illness. The left kidney
was contracted. There was q cyst in
his liver. The heart was fatty. The
walls OF the aorta were neariy pene-
trated by several ulceratons. ifisr,bs
were as soft as cartilage, 50 that they
could be easily cut with scissors. Bat
TITLES like these did not atall affect his
general health. He was-atlast brought
down with q congestion of the lungs,
contracted, by exposure in a storm.
From that complaint be was slowly re-
covering, when an abscess formed ir
his thigh. Three operations were per-
formed for the relief of the abseess,
and thiry-two ounces of fluid were
Withdrawn; this proved too much of a
drain upon his system. and he died Of
asthenia, 4. g., general debility. As
he was a soldier Of the first Napoleon,
he might have quoted that generals
famous remark about the -PenInsular
War: "That nicer in my extremities
ate out my lfe." ----.
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WAYNE MCVEIGH is still weighing
Butler and finding him wanting. Nc
Weigh inveighs against him. Instead
of kicking the beam, he then kicks
Ben,