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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

SINCE veiy many white men of the
Greenbackers' party can't affiliate with
Ben Butler or accept him as a candi-
date for the presidency, they have be-
gun to consolidate in favor of that
prince of renegades and Radicals, John
A. Logan, of Illinois. He was a Sc
cession Democrat in 1901; or
ganized company of Conteder-
ates to fight for the South; be-
trayed these, his followers and dupes,
many of whom enlisted IN the South
ern army at Psducsh and Columbus,
Kentucky; he was bribed with proffers
of money and rank; accepted Fed
eral generalship and suddenly became,
like Ben Butler, as blatant and violent
an abolitionist and unionist as he had
been secessionist. In 1860 he sat in
Congress, and on the floor Of the House
was the intimate personal and political
friend and associate OF Southern se.
cession congressman. He could hard
ly tolerate the presence of Southern
Wing or Union man. Since the war
he has reviled the South more virulent-
ly than Ben Butler, and both were the
political and partisan tools of old Thsd
Stevens, and both advocated every obi
Gus measure of tyranny and ''reconstruc-
ton" imposed upon the South by
Stevens and his desperate crew. We
don't exactly see how an honest South
-ern Greenbacker can accept or approve
either Butler or Logan. In fact our
Texas and other Greenbsck absolute
money" friends seem to be as griev-
ously annoyed in selecting Federal as
State leader of their heterogeneous,
piebald, white and black coagulation OF
political wrecks, and If We can serve
them by further profitable sug-
geshons with reference to their great
headlights, We viii gladly do so.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08
NO QUARANTINE HERE, But
A HOSPITAL.

1t is not intended, We suppose, how
ever great the tetrors of yellow fever
in ''cities of the plain" to establish
any quarantine regulations affecting
Austin. The disease brought hither
ends with him who has it. We need
only have proper hospital, if the dis
ease prevail in other places, ON some
suburban height. Yellow Jack was
never known to climb great hill, or
if he did he lost his breath and life
the very moment he reached the
summit. Raleigh is little fau-
bourg Of Memphis, nine miles from
the city. Memphis is 400 Gin round
numbers) and Raleigh $50 feet above
the sea level, and yet, while the city
was desolated and its population al
most decemated by the hideous scourge,
its subjects taken to Raleigh died or re-
covered, but failed to transfer the fatal
poison to nurses, physicians or others.
The sporule supposed to constitute the
germ of the disease, cannot even rise
to the altitude of Cairo or of st. Louis.
In both places people have died again
and again of yellow fever, but
none were originally infected
with its deadly poison in either of
these two cities. Doctors differ about
these matters but the leading facts are
as now gwen, and while the plague
has never harmed this capital no local
danger is possible, and if the sick and
suffering would escape from infected
districts it would be as unwise as un-
generous and heartless to turn them
away from a place of refuge. There
fore it has been proposed, if the dis
ease prevail in Southern Texas and In
towns heretofore desolated, that hos
pital be established in the vicinity of
the capital for the reception and prop
er treatment OF the diseased. If we
are to have yellow fever, the most
rigid quarantine will hardly keep it
away, and If we are not, it will be be-
cause natures laws render it impossible
and therefore it becomes us to mani
fest no mean, selfish cowardice, but to
serve as best we may, if the evil day
come, our friends and fellow-citizens
Of the coast and Southern cities.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08
IT IS NOT TREASON,

THE San Antonio Herald rang all
the changes some years ago and pre-
sented the proposition to sever the
western and northern counties from
the rest of the State in all its aspects.
The readers of the Herald grew weary
and sick and most of them died, and
the paper was forced to change its
tack and its editors and forgot its va
garies. The Dallas Herald is re.en-
acting the role of the Herald of San
Antonio. Let it alone. 1t will soon
discover the necessity for silence. The
time will surely come, if the Union be
perpetual, when, with the vast growing
power of the central government,
will be as powerful as France or Ger
many. Would Germans have Fader-
land disrupted? Would Frenchmen
have France subdivided and trans
formed into miserable little rival, help
less and jealous States? If the Amer
ican Union be perpetual, the last and
least desirable of results to Texas must
be the subdivision of the State. If
the Union be not perpetual no one could
possibly assent, on any terms, to the
severance of the Eastern or Northern or
Western districts. If each State must
finally care for itself, as against Mexico
or the North or the South, Texas
should never consent to any contrac-
ton to its confines. Local party-leaders
and selfish, ambitious men would
sacrifice the best interests of the COM
monwealth because of their petty
grievances or strifes or disappoint-
ments. Twenty years hence the pas
sions and riYalries of men and sections
of to-day will be utterly forgotten, and
people looking back will be amazed
that such little purposes and jealousies
and ambitions of the hour absolutely
caused f1atulent newspaper to propose
the subdivision of the commonwealth.
1t would be treason to the freedom and
glory and greatness and power of Texas
If insanity could compass treason.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

GALVESTON wishes to be the city
and county of Galveston. The county
may object. The management of the
city's debt and other matters Is too big
job for an average county court.
When the illustnous board of alder
men, selected by universal suffrage,
fails to administer wisely the affairs of
a city, suffering 1t to be bamboozled in
every contract it makes, there is little
probability that county court could
do better or serve taxpayers more
wisely. Isn't it sad that everywhere
municipal distinctiveness, freedom and
independence, once so highly priced as
the chief boon of American civilization
and of republicanism in government,
are becoming intolerable. The polluted
ballot begets the polluted product of
the ballot. Local freedom now signi-
fies the freedom of the incapable and
hlIterate and untaxed to plunder the
taxed. Memphis, Galveston, Vicks-
burg, Houston, and towns and cities
and villages everywhere in the South
seek to divest themselves of corporate
yestments and individuality. They
would be merged into the broader
county corporation and thus live under
a government in which city sans cul-
tOttism is not omnipotent. Would it
not be wiser and better for all these
towns to go back to first principles,
and, purging the ballot-box, cleanse
the Augean stables that offend so nau-
seatingly the olfactories of the good
people of Galveston.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

THE election in Memphis was sim
gular in results and unique in the
causes of these results. The Irish
vote of Memphis is about two thou
sand or twenty five hundred. The
Democrats in nominating candidates
In the convention gave not an Office to
a son of Erin. Irish delegates in the
convention stripped their badges from
their persons when the body adjourned
and stamped them under foot. The
results show that two thousand
Democrats -Irishmen-voted the Ma
tional ticket, giving the new party
four thousand majority. Rich spoils
were lost by the old rulers and mana
gers of elections. Each man elected
save one, was Whig, or is Demo
crat. This one Republican, gentle
man of admirable learning and ability,
was restored to place he filed long
ago with distinguished ability. His
name is Pierce and his position that
of circuit judge. 1t is neither Re-
publican nor Radical nor &reenback
victory, but an Irish triumph.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08


Is 1T the policy and purpose of Aus
tin and of every town and village to
establish quarantine against Houston
and Galveston? Must Texas towns
wall In those two cities that their peo-
pie may be excluded from the higher
and purer air of heaven, and must we
compel them thus to die helplessly and
rot of foul contagioni The proposition
is shocking. Humanity revolts against
it, and yet if Austin quarantines against
Houston and Galveston so must each
town and village of Texas. On the
contrary, knowing with almost Abso-
lutte certainty, that yellow fever's wings
are clipped by forces of nature in Aus
tin, let US make these hills city of
refuge and serve and bless rather than
inprison and destroy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

SOME Weeping friend of Governor
Hubbard in q letter to the Galveston
Neics, from Austin, tries to give the
public an excuse for Hubbard's failure
to defend himself before the State con-
vention against charges of corruption
so long brought against him. This apol-
ogist Of the Governor says the charges
would have been answered in his
speech had not their republication been
confidently expected, during the sit
ting of the convention, through the
columns of the STATESMAN. We ara
simply to understand, then, that he
wanted to reply to the STATESMAN and
hold it up in awful colors and thus
wipe it out of existence. The tale is
a sad one and thin one, but it puts
the paper, and not the Governor, on
winning ground.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

PEOPLE are always complaining
about the cost of travel and trauspor-
tation on railways when the sum of
siv millions of dollars is annually ex-
pended for car wheels alone. The
railroads of the United States have in
use $500, 900 car wheels. Those on
fast passenger trains are renewed every
ten months; but freight cars use the
same wheels sometimes ten years. The
average life of a wheel is so, 600 miles,
and at that rate it takes 200, 900
year, costing the round sum above
given
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

enabled them, at the same time, Il
steal, as builders of the road, countless
millions as shareholders in the Credi
Mobllier. The same ''scoundrels, +" thus
aggrandized, become owners of road:
the government built, and ever
refuse to pay interest on bonds
loaned by the government. They
sold millions and millions of acres o!
the best land given the corporation by
the government, and would now have
the government take back worthless
lava beds and arid, sandy plains
that nobody would have, the gov
ernment to pay two prices for
the worthless domain. These are the
transactions that Kearney anathemati-
zes and from these 'robbers" Kearney
proposes to retake what they have
stolen. His ideas of technical justice
may be rather crude, but the morality
of kearuey's philosophy, on this score,
will hardly be questioned. Kearney
said further:
| have never had fair show through
the public press, but / thank God
am not man the newspapers made; |
am one of Gods own men. ! am not
a man who cares for cheap newspaper
nOtoriety. l despise the monopoly
infested press of the United States.
[ Applause. Workingmen used to
looked up TO the starry banner as float
ing over their liberties; they now look
upon it as fit token of the nations
protection to legions of numbering
We propose to amelior-
ate the condition of the laboring men
we propose to do in these States what
the laboring men have done in Cali
fornia-that is, meet capital in square
fight and labor on until labor Is
crowned king.
Here he was enthusiastically applaud
ed by the mighty concourse of listen
ers.
1t is said of this remarkable man
hat he is strictly temperate as regards
and does not touch tobac-
%. His manner indicates dogged per
nStence rather than passions liable to
De suddenly aroused or vehemently
and he evidently believes in
Dennis Kearney and his chosen work. |
His opinions are held so positively,
md their relations to practice are so
accurately drawn, that it becomes evil
lent that his ideas of government in
Iolve proceedings as arbitrary and as
iespotlc as any that distinguish the
prominent characters in the French
Revolution.
Mr.. Kearney's purpose in visiting the
North and South, as he states, is to
forge the connecting linkn which
hall bind together the worklngmen
throughout the country "that they
III may be harmonious. "We'll see
low whether the majority or the mi
lority will rule in the future. The
minority has ruled in the past. At all
events, We'll try" The bitterness with
which he at times throws into his Ian
guage words chosen to express his con-
empt and hatred of the capitalists
he ''slimy corruptionists," thieves"
md the hke-cannot be represented In
and this quality must go
'ery far in making up any power he
nay possess before an audience, espe-
iaHV one in sxmnath7 with his notions.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

SENATOR COKE is we'll pleased with
the selection of Chief Justice Roberts
as the Democratic candidate for the
Governors office. The Senator further
approves the financial plank of the
Texas Democratic platform, and thinks
that no better candidate could have
been selected and no better platform
enunciated.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08
HAYES A TERRIBLE REVOLT
TIONIST.

The st. Louis GLObe-Democrat Radi-
caD is very wroth, and declares that
the sweet influence of the Presidents
policy has put an end to Republican
ism in the South. These truthful as
sertiUns of papers like the Globe Demo
crat and Inter Ocean induce the
Southern press and people to ad-
here to the President. We would
not quarrel with him about trI-
fles. The Presidents financial. opin-
ions seem crooked enough. He
approves Sherman's theories and poll
cy without grimace. This is bad
enough, butlt may be overlooked as an
objection to president who defesConk-
ling and Butler, and lberstes Southern
States and has evidently sought, when
placing men like Col. Russell and Col.
Ludlow IN Southern Federal offices,
to give the South, as officeholders, the
best and most credltable representa-
tives. Now and then, when there is
no Republican worthy of an Office,
the President has chosen to honor DEM
ocrats, and his conduct in this behalf,
as we'll as in reference to the liberation
of Louisiana and South Carolina,
has justly popularized him in the
South more than vetoes of finan-
cial measures have harmed him.
Therefore it was that the press and
people and congressman of the South,
while asserting to the purposes of Pot
ter, as these affected knsveries done
in Louisiana, were utterly opposed to
any measure designed to lessen the
perfect security of the Presidents ten
ure of Office. But it is n singular fact,
that while the South, very slowly and
unwillingly, approves the conduct and
speeches of the President, as we are af-
fected by them, the Presidents original
adherents, who expected to control his
administration and distribute its pat
ronsge, are his most violent enemies.
Conkling, even though his reelection
to the Senate comes before the New
York Legislature to be chosen this fall,
does not hesitate to make war upon the
President, and his Excellency, even
uow,-is engaged in removing from Of
fice everywhere in New York the
appointees and adherents of Conk-
ling. The steady hostility of the
President to Conklng, who was
President while Grant smoked
and dreamed IN the White House,
has added not little to Mr..
Hayes's popularity in the Southern
States. Then. too, old issues, which
separated the South from the Presi-
dent, have been pretermitted. They
are not practically before the country,
and questions of finance have not ex-
cited that degree Of feeling and pas
sion which, not very long ago. made
one Republican or Democrat.
Therefore it happens that this once
there is much truth in the
assertion of the GtHbe- Dem0crat and Of
the later Oooan, the first Of which de-
clarss, the second approving, that the
"ina1ence Of the President has put an
end to Republicanism in the South. y
He has thus removed the outside pres
sure which consolidated the Democracy
of the South, and hence We have all
sorts Of free thinkers in politics and
new. parties and new party leaders.
In fact. the President, the best na-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

THERE has not been In the South a
more laborious or capable student of
the science of government than Chief
Justice Roberts. His lectures on gov
eminent were admirable illustrations
of his wisdom and scholarship. OF
the bench and off the rostrum Judge
Roberts is very boy in his tastes and
love of recreation and of every sort of
intellectual amusement.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

THE Brenham people, in view of q
possible protrscted struggle in the
coming congressional convention in
that place, advertise drinks at ten
cents and billiard. tables free. These
last, of course, are beds for the dele
gates. nine-tenths of whom never saw
billiard table OF took cue unless the
other fellow meant whisky all round.
We are persuaded. If BRENNAN will Of
fer few more generous inducements
Of this sort, that the congressional
convention VIII sit all summer,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

one OF the carriages belonging to (
MOTEL az Netnor. Our carriage b.
down. Disraeli, who was stayipl
Sandour, few miles distant "a
psned to pass in his carriage, and 4
ing our dilemma, Immediately void
teered to convey the lady to the hof
at Black Gang, which was thankful
accepted, as, although not much bur
she was very nervous.
Mr.. Disraeli, who has never -bez
considered Sympathetic man bv 81
outside world, showed his syrnpafhel
nature by driving every day during {
ensuing week, from Sandour to BlaE
Gang, to INQUIRE after her welfsss
In lS4S was living in Londoe.
IS matter OF course took great nt
est In the revolutions Of the Contine.
was familiar with all the rendez yd
OF the revolutlonists-Leiceste Sous
Windmill street, the Haymarket-ai
Jermyn street, and had some knov.
edge of their intentions. The revolt
ton of the tenth of February, 1s4s.-
Paris, took England by surprise. TN,
gentleman, who was afterwards En-,
peror of France, was in England.
had met him moro than once VIII
champagne was drank rather swilaY
On the tenth of April, 1913, VIII
the Chsrtist procession took place
London, under the leadership OF Fe
gus O'Connor, the Prince Napoled
the future Emperor OF France. "
sworn in as a special constable, as.Nu
as myself, and walking up Bond str,
l met an old friend, Mr.. Charles For.
tescue, who had recently returned from,
Buenos Aryes, and was staying at tn
Clarendon, in Bond street.
After smoking a fragrant Havana
We thought it advisable TO see what in
formation We could obtain at the Ciarl
endon. 1t was nearly s o'clock in the
evening when Fortescue and l ordered
our dinner at the hotel. We had nof
been drinking our claret half an hour
when Disraeli walked in with the ful
ture Emperor of France. They order
ed dinner. ] knew Disraeli. He evi-|
IDENTIFY did not remember me. thought
the meeting between Disraeli and the
Prince was strange. Fortesoue and d
drank claret. Disraeli and Napoleon|
slipped Tokay.
1t was strange to listen to the weird
conversation of the future statesman OF
Europe. Mr.. Disraeli said: "The dis
tant future of the world is what,
Prince, neither / nor you can compre-
hend. You have q destiny; l feel I
have, and a spirit that communicates
with me nightly convinces me that
am not living under an illusion"
Napoleon said, on the tenth ofApriI,
in my presence: 'If / had money I
would go to Paris" and Disraei re-
Piled: "You will have it"-and he
had it, and was Emperor OF France.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08
The elections throughout the Germs,

HE elections throughout the German
empire occurred last Tuesday. On,
Gernsn fellow-citizens will have the
results in detail in ten or twelve days
Members of the new Reichstag were
chosen, 3O7 in number. The contest
was between Bismarck and his CEN
tralizing purposes and the genuine
republicans of the empire. Each
100, 600 of the people have represent
ative in this German congress, and
the smallest State, whatever the num-
bers OF its population, has represent
ative. The Bundesrath, or Federal
Council, has so members, appointed by
the several governments of the State.
The COurier-Journal says:
The National Liberals. with whom
the Chancellor has hitherto acted. want
to perfect the constitution and make
it more liberal and elastic. The oues-
tlon OF taxation enters largely into the
current German politics. Bismarck
wants to Increase the duty on tobacco
and other articles, but the Liberals in
sist that new taxes shall not be levied
beyond the amount appropriated and
required for each year. They desire
the Reichstag to hold the purse-strings
and prevent deficits. The Socialist
question is of course an important one,
the assault upon Kaiser Wilhelm being
the pretext upon which a call for new
elections was made. Several thousand
Socialist leaders have been arrested,
md there may be falling off IN the |
Socialist vote on that account. The |
party can poll 100000 votes out of
}, 900. 600 in. the empire. The Liberals
ire confident of retaining their old
trength. They had 1875 votes in the
asst Relchstag and the balance of
)OWer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

AND now the outsiders and "spot''
or ''iat" money people propose to set
up Judge A. B. Norton's ''fat" beard
and hair and walking stick and vote
at them. Since most of the white ad-
juncts of the Fiat" party have read
the money plank in the Democratic
platform, they do not see the use of
annoying the hair or the walking stick
or the unshorn memory OF Henry Clay.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

THE Charleston Journal Of Commerce,
founded three or four years ago by ].
Barnwell Rhett to break down the
Neaos and Courier, has succumbed to
hard times and is no more. 1t lost
$4,000 besides its original capital.
Frank Dawson's Nesos and Courier still
flourishes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

BRYAN no longer quarantines Hous-
ton. Austin will indulge in none of
this nonsense. The city fathers will
devise some plan of having the gut
ters washed out every day and then
freed from ghastly odors and fetid
water there can be no fever here. Let
Austin be refuge for the sick and
for those fearing the fever of the coast.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

THE letter from Washington is writ
ten by one who knows what he is talk
ing about, and weighs well the mean
ing of all his words. He is truthful
and learned and thoughtful.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

- TnE Cowier-,J0urnaL says the
Greeks propose to apply to Bismarck
ton troubles" We infer that the
whisky business gives as much trouble
in Greece as in the United States.
Why does not the King of Greece ap
point inspectors and gobble the moon
shinerA2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-08

THE Shreveport Times says that city
is cleaner and less liable than usual to
an incursion of yellow fever and death,
partners IN trade now doing business in
New Orleans.