The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
CONGRESSMAN CULBERsON AND
GOVERNOR WHAT
DOES 1T MEAN1

Tense OF his conduct in the Stat,
Senate when he srdently supported th,
proposition TO subsidize the Interna
tional Railway was characterized By
distinguished ability and eloquence
But when Mr.. Ouiberson walks ou
from the place Of q lswgiVer and
statesman and becomes the hired sd-
vocate and special pleader and country
barrlster he loses many Of those ad
mirable qualities that in the Legislature
and in Congress have given him al
enviable reputation. He leaves the
garb OF greatness when be leaves the
conspicuous position and descends
with infinite ease and naturalness to the
arts OF the demagogue. What his pur.
pose may be we cannot ascertain, but
it little became the distinguished gen.
tleman, when there is no reason appar.
ent to the country for such conduct, to
pronounce q fierce criticism upon the
conduct Of Governor Hubbard. His
EIcellencY has tranScended in nothing
the plain requirements OF duty, and
why Col. CulJerson sh> uld say, as he
did when defending Rothschild, the
supposed murderer at Jefferson, tha,
"Goyernor Hubbard had descended
from his high station to sp'
point counsel to prosecute my
client, for which action his Excel
lency can find no precedent"-why
Mr.. Culberson makes this assertion il
is difficult to discover. May we in
quire for the motive2 Culberson may
be ambitious. He may not be content
with modest honors he has won. Per.
haps he contemplates loftier place
and brighter crown of laurel and bay,
aud by bare possibility Governor Hub
bard may be the lion in his path. The
suggestion embodied in these facts
may do Mr.. CulberSon grievous wrong
but his criticism upon the Governors
conduct is SO baseless and so irrational
and was so violent that he cannot com
plain il We inquire what motives
shaped his conduct and barbed his elo
qusnce. Mr.. Culberson, when he as
saulted his Excellency, was not ad
dressing jury, but the court. He
was not uttering ad captandum appeals
to the sympathies of twelve country
pumpkins, but was talking to an ex
cellent judge, Estes, who could not be
influenced by such rhodomontade anC
the purpose was, since there was M
jury and no judge would be affected
by such an address, simply to excit,
the prejudices Of the country and ARA!
popular ignorance against the Governor
Mr.. Culberson should have known, whel
he asserted the contrary, that Their
were precedents for Governor Hub
bard's action in this case. Governo
Coke, in several instances, in two tina
we recall at the moment-the prosecu
ton of those who burned a negro il
Milan county and the Dewitt count,
outrages-Sent lawyer of this city II
assist the local prosecutor. In civi
suits ia which the State is a party
special counsel for the State are almos
always employed by the Governor
The reason is much stronger for tn
Governors intervention when a horri
BILE crime, shocking the sensibilities o
mankind, has been perpetrated. Th
act creating the Office Of Assistant AT
torney General, and defining his pow
ers, authorizes the Governor to SEM
this officer wherever his services ma
be required. This terrible deed at JET
ferson was the gravest State case tina
has occurred for years. A helples
woman had been betrayed, ruined an
then brutality put to death. Did
not become the duty Of Governor Hut
bard to have the devilIsh crime surel
punished. The Governors publishe
letter shows that his purpose was t
"punish the murderer, whoever he ma
be-" These are the very words of hi
Excellency. Mr.. Culberson sdverts
the fact that Rothschild, charged wit
the effense, is a Hebrew, and the Hor
Mr.. 'Culberson would have it apes
that the Governor would have the Je'
hanged rather than the murderer {
the wrstched girl. Mr.. Culberso
shamefully enough appeals to the III
brews and cries out persecution
cruciHxionl Rothschild, the defendan
hires Culberson and all the leadiu
lawy ers OF Jefferson. Rothschild hS
money. His name is the synonym I
gold, and it is gold that makes NJ
Culberson deaf when the blood of II
outraged woman cries to heaven f
! vengeance.
) Oh, spirit Of Christian purity an
fairness, and blessed is this charity e,
pounded by this modern apostle.
gives Rothschild, the supposed muI
derer, a dozen lawyers, and deman'
that the murdered woman shall
, represented by youthful county bs
rister alone. He could hardly col
with all this mighty array of geni,
, which Mr.. Culberson leads first again
his Excellency to be projected at las
with overwhelming force, against Il
young county attorney.
This assault upon the Governor owe
leaps honest zeal for the client. The
was purpose in this froth and fusti'
and needless assault upon the Cover
or which future facts may develop.
was not Rothschild's gold that pr
voked the Congressman. There is
a meaning in it, because the assault W
wholly needless and wholly indefenI
, BILE. The lawyers sslscted to aid d
), prosecution serve without fee or !
9 ward, and not that Rothscbild, b
! that the murderer, whoever he 6e, m
4 te hanged.
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local scheme Of money-getting pr