The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-28
GOV. HUBBARD-THE SUPPREs-
SION OF CRIME IN TEXAS.


GOV. HUBBARD-THE SUPPREs-
SION OF CRIME IN TEXAS.
1t hrs been alleged that the report OF
Col. Culberson's speech at Marshall,
TO which we referred as unjust to
Governor Hubbard, was incorrect.
Col. Loughery's paper gives US this
approved extract from the Congress
mans harangue:
1.-THE Governor had stopped from
his high position as executive, clothed
with the power to overlook all other
departments and check excesses, 10
become an inter-meddler with the
course OF justice in the courts"
We had thought that they who dis
charged simple duties commonly stood
erect before the country, but
Governor Hubbard " stoOps from
his high position when he
would assure the punishment Of
crime. When Governor Hubbard, see
ing how a supposed criminal, having
money, ,subordiaates to his purpos, the
genius of Cuiberson and of many like
him, and the frlendless dead aud the
commonwealth outraged must rely for
justice and for vengeance upon the
efforts OF one single youthful barris-
ter-when Governor Hubbard, seeing
these facts aad anxious, above all
things, to stop the eiIusion of blood in
Texas, seHds assistance To the States
Attorney, then u Congressman, u man
representing Texas At the seat OF CEN
tral empire, absolutely condemns the
Governor Us an "inter-mrddler." tits
q shame, Mr.. Cul3eIsnn. The words
should be rctracted. Governor Hub
bard has exeIted himself moro siren
uously to suppress disorder, to hold in
subjection those terrible knaves who
ply the knife and pistol, than any of
h.s predecessors. He has encouraged
the courts and stimulated juries. He
would have bloody knaves like the
murderer OF the poor woman ut Jeifer-
son surely hanged. He has seen too
many remorseless scoundrels escape
through the cunning of defendants
counsel" He has seen the Iutabaga
element of society selecting the weak
est and most illlterate men for all
possible positions. The bench,
like the constitutional convention,
was almost wrecked by an
organization, which, pretending to be
non-political, was, to great extent, a
combination of secret conspirators
against the intelligence of the State in
legislation and in Office. 1t was not
designed to operate thus dIsastrously,
but such WAS the result of a secret as
sociation's existence which pervaded
the State and has almost succeeded in
destroying the very government and
social system which 1t ignorantIy un-
dertOok to remodel and perfect. These
are facts. They may be offensive, but
nevertheless are PLAIN, unquestioned
facts. Officeseekers and timid news
papers and ambitious men do not care to
make these painful assertions, and the
necessity is to be deplored, but the ma
chinery of courts and salaries, were it
not for Judge Terrell's jury law, would
wholly fail to accomplish any ends of
justice. The lower tier of local courts
is so created and sustained that they
are gradually wrecked, and so misera-
BILE are the stipends of all the granger
born judicatories that intelligence is
starved out and beggary of brain
and purse must supplsnt it.
Governor Hubbard does not fight the
Rutabagas, those political Grargers
who, booted and spurred, bestrode the
prejudices of the order and were borne
triumphantly into Office. He has never
opened his lips in condemnation or de-
rision of their follies. He has only
sought to redeem the fair fame of the
State he loves from consequences of
stupidity crystalized, most unhappily
for Texas, into its very organic law.
II he have stretched his prerogatives
to the utmost in repressing disorder
and furnishing violence, God knows
there was never people who approved
more heartily or needed more sadly
such magisteral interposltion. Jails
have been broken open and their in-
mates sacrificed by bloody, ignorant
wretches at Groesbeck and Bolton and
other towns; stage coaches have been
robbed and people shot for fancied
or real grievances, and towns hardly
dare to exist, and do tremble when the
"boss murderer" of the place Is men
toned. The names of bloody handed
devils are whispered IN our villages by
shuddering mothers to frighten sob
bing infancy to repose. The frontier
is the natural resort of exiled crime.
Es~aped conyicts and fugitivcs from
lustics naturally flock to the confines
OF civilization. With these the chief
magistrate OF the commonwealth must
cope. II he may hang murderer now
and then in the older counties of the
East, the moral effect will be confessed
in the West; and IL ever q governor of
any State owed it to the people 20 have
murder remorsely prosecuted and pr>
to death and made forever infamous,
whatever the pretext for bloodshed,
Governor Hubbard is that chief magis.
trate, snd he knows it, and acts upon
this knowledge.
FREETHlNKRRs AND THE PEO.
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