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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

SAM BARD, the illustrious pyrotech-
nlcsl secessionist of 1861, the bowler
for the last ditch in 1864, the sweet
est singer in the sooty campmeetings
of Alabama black RsdicalIsm ID 1865,
Grants special Protege for a series Of
years, and Governor OF Ilaho, If be
could have found the way thither, in
1868, and during each ard all OF these
years editing papers in half the towns
and cities of the South, which exploded
like irecrackers at his touch, and were
odorouS Of birthstone and Radicatsm
everywhere-:Eis illustrious Standard
now conducts paper at Baton Rouge.
He has thus boxed the compass. lie
went from Louisiana to Tennessee in
1901, and has reached his old home
to die and be buried. May his vices
be buried out OF sight when the VIOLA
tile and fugscious Standard Is en-
tombed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14
Horse Racing In England.

Betting, especially on the race course,
is largely on the increase. Whilst
thirty or forty years ago there were not,
perhaps, more than two hundred pro-
fessional betting men, there are now
probably two thousand, each of them
doing roaring" business. No one
can tell, with any approach to Ger
rainty, the smopnt of money which
changes hands upon the turf; it is
known to be enormous. The owner of
the horse which won the Czarewitch
of last year was able to back il to win
him one hundred thousand pounds.
Another of the significant facts of the
turf was lately stated IN popular msga-
zine-the chief Jockey of the period
earns in fees as large an income as the
lord high chancellor of England And
his ices and presents are said to have
amounted last year to over thirteen
thousand pounds. To all probability
the three principal jockeys of England
will earn, or at all events receive, more
money in u yesr than the whole profess
sionsl staff of modern university.
The recent death of Admiral Rous and
the public accession of the Prince of
Wales 20 the turf conspire to direct re-
newed attention to the horse as an in
ssiument Of gambling. Horse racing
was once the ''sport of kings, and in
Eogla0d will apparently become so
sgaiu; but il has sadly degenerated If
it ever were the innocent pastime which
s1me assert il was. Now il is in sad
want of reform, seeing, to use . quaint
quotation, that ''the turf Is dsity'd DER
With scandals" The running Of horses,
a. we have tried to show. has become
surrounded by all kinds Of temptation; :
the horse is in the hands Of gamblers.
Gentlemen degrade themselves BY
dirtyipg their hands with betting
h"ok. Men bribe and stable boys be-
come corrupt in Consequence of the
turf having been selected IS one of the
places where people make haste to be
rich. The elements Of ch;canery which
now attend the pastime of horse racing
have given it bad odor, aud it would
be Thousand times better that horse
racing should altogether cease. than
that the race courses Of Great Britain
should continue to be seminAries Of
swihdlirg.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

IT Is sad to reflect that the central
government Of the United States has
absolutely suffered sheriff to arrest a
criminal in a custom house, where Fed
eral Jurisdiction is exclusive. How
painful the fact that States do at last
exist, that the country's organic law is
operative, and that these principles are
recognized even as applicable to South
ern States. Should not Hayes be i'm
peached Has he not overturned
Grants theories Of government Wells
escaped from the custom house in New
Orleans, but his two associates in kuav-
cry were captured there. No event of
recent years, save the rehabilitation of
South Carolina and L luisians, has been
more gratifying to the law-respecting
people of the United States than this
comparatively tritlipg incident in New
Orleans. 1t shows that The present ad
ministratioR ut least proposes to see
tba. the laws are faithfully executed,
and that the States as we'll as the Union
have a recognized existence. Addi-
tional Significance is given to the event
and to the fixed purpose of the admin
istration to obey the law for the reason
that in the trial of these desperate al
ventureis it is proposed to be shown
that Louisiana voted for Tilden and
not for Hayes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

of s., and the three dollars will have
disappeared and Comanche will con-
fess itself victImized by those VITO
have ''killed the goose that laid the
golden egg." We build court house
and tax pOstenty to pay for it by issu-
ing bonds, because posterity will reap
the advantages of the expenditure, but
Comanche county reyerses the process
and robs posterity forever that 1t may
selfshly derive advantages from prop
erty which God made to last always,
even as one generation must succeed
another through the ages. This school
and university land belongs no more
to one than aKether generation, and
we who convert it into perishable
money or bonds are robbers of pOsteri-
ty, selling that which we do not own.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

end in Texss. Men are drugged and
robbed, the youths of the city and
country corrupted, the very basis of
good order and good society made
rotten, aud all that one or two men in
each town or city may make money by
ministering to the lasest sppetites
and passions, first of those already
depraved and then of those drawn by
women's .wiles and the allurements of
dancing aud music aud whisky into
the deepest depths of pollution, wee
and infsmy. Does the law protect such
institutional Can an honest city gov
eminent tolerate theml
Rev. w. A. Allen, writing from Dali
las to the Waterloo Qows) Courier,
says: ''It would be utterly useless for
me to preach temperance in Dallas.
All, even the children drink IT Qiquorl
when they can get it.. A common GUS
tom is to take 3 pail of water and put
a portion of alcoholic quor in it. and
the whole family drink out of it when
they are tnirsty-because, they say,
the water 10 not good and wholesome,
and the whisky Is necessary" A
Dallas paper, commenting on the above
accurate picture, says: THE stranger
who might hsye been within the gates
of our celestial city during the holidays
would credit every word that the
preacher says, for all upon the streets
seemed to be on high horses, aud we
have never seen more drunken men
than on that day, when they were
specially licensed by the mayor and
council to fill themselves from the hat
to the boous-all the way down." The
natural commentary on all of which
would be that Dallas is a good place
for the Odd Fellows 10 build Q temple
In, but it didn't win.
The Greenville Independent thinks
the cry of persecution" raised by
Hubbard's friends should have been
thought of when they raised such q
hue and cry against Judge Ireland for
expressing his opinion, as q lawyer, as
to the duty of the Commissioner of the
General Land Office under a certain act
of the Legislature. He was then a
private citizen, pursuing a Legitimate
calling, and no motive for giving q
corrupt or erroneous opinion could be
imputed to him, for he never received
any compensation for it, either from
Groos, Gibson or Hobby. Now the
Governors friends cry OUT in virtuous
indignation against persecution, and
ask the people to overlook his individ-
ual shortcomings and judge HIM by the
results of his administration. They
admit that theKsaFe unable to- ,disptove
the charge of bribery, and ask the pto-
pie to vindIcate him by re-eleetion.
But the people do not want white
washed Governor, and especially one
who commenced throwing mud at q
prospective opponent, whose political
and personal character is pure and
spotless, almost as soon as he became
comfortably seated in the position he
now occupies. Chickens are only
coming home to rocst.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

sighted. 1t Is at the present time.
when Texas, the ultimate Empire State
OF the Union, is in q fair way to rapid
development and prosperity, that We
need good, tried and true men in our
State councils; men upon whose in
tegrity We can implicitly rely; men
who can foresee and repel for US all
hidden dangers; men who, knowing
how, dare do what is right, and il is
for that reason, and with knowledge
OF the msn. obtained by years of init
macy and intercourse, that we unhesi-
tstiGgly pronounce for J. d, Savers,
of Bastrop, as our candidate before the
next State convention. for Lieutenant
Governor Of Texas, and with this num-
Der elevate his name at our mast head,
pending the ISSUE
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

TKx President could DOT have APP
pointed two worthisr citizens or better
representative men of old AMI modern
Texas than Mr.. simpson and De. Ash
bel Smith. Both are of excellent
attainments aud capable OF making
known what they zee and learn as
'shonOrary" delegates 10 the Partisan
ExpositiOa. his stated that Governor
Mccormick. chief Of the commission.
viii appoint no ',acsise paids commits
sionsr west Of the Mississippi. His
reason for this restriction is not assign
ed. Il Is 10 DO presumed. however.
that nothing good ooa:d come ont OF
Nazareth, sud that the land Of stage
coach robbers could hardly produce .
representative Of American ciyilizatiou
and intelligencs a 20 appear beside
the smiling Mccormick in European
sslsas Of tssts apd fashiOn.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

MANY excellent citizens, disposed to
make one vigorous eff )rt to get our
beautiful city out of the old ruts of
retrogreasion, are consulting about q
proper organization of the company to
build the narrow gauge to Georgetown
and thence to Lampasss on the one
hand and Bolton OF the other. George
town will be terminated by the event.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

NINE hundred and sIxty-seven viola
lions of the dog tax law have occurred
in Crimes county, and it is the people
who will howl when the grand jury
sits. This poll tax on dogs does not,
however, protect the ballot-box in
towns against tramps and roughs, or
in Wharton county sgainst stupidity,
and we cannot see why farmer should
be compelled to pay not only a poll
tax for himself, but for his dog, while
the non-tax-paying tramp votes and
exercises all the functions of citizen
ship and enjoys all the rights and ben
efactions of government, never paying
a groat for the privilege. Are not
lawgiyers stupendously wise and just
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

The New York Herald has kept q
sketch of Pope Plus in soak, ready for
exposure to the sunlight, for five years.
In fact, Mrs. Muhlbach was hired to
write it when the Pope first became q
little shaky. The job was so we'll
done that the author herself died i'm
mediately after its execution. But
there was singular appropriateness in
the scheme and in its execution. Our
Savior, even as the Pope is glorifed,
entered Jerusalem on Muhlbach.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

THE old Southern soldiers OF 1912
and of 1857 will be restored to the
Federal pension rolls. The Senate and
House committees have both reported
in favor Of this measure Of justice,
which tends tn restore the Union in
the hearts of many brave old mer, and
widows and orphans of soldiers will
again utter the prayer. "ESto perpetua. {"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

EVEN the jackson (Miss.J Cldriea,
the EXTREMIST and most radical of
Southern Democratic papers, is con,
strained to say that "TildeA has had
bis opportunity, and il will nevsr come
- to him." The Clarion concurs
STATESMAN in believing that
Democratic nominee will be
- Either Hendricks or
VOORHEES, be the msu. But trans
mutations ~ lblic opinion aud of
party leaders buck are rapid, and some
new man may Come to the surface more
potent even th IN either of thesr. But
T.lden IL 30 H,ore. The silver dollar's
curse and u ,untain of bonds weigh
him down. The East may recapture
most of our politicians, but whether
they can again draw the people after
them Is very difficult question. The
issues OF 1850 will be wholly different
from those of 1876. Even a man like
Lamar may have failed to recover. in
the progress Of parties aud opinions,
the distance he has lost. As 10 Mr..
Tlden, his name viii nevermore be
IS that ola candidate for
the presidency. Sis, =
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14
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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

TIE New York Rerald's Washington
correspondent says that the United
States will probably recognize Diaz
without exacting any preliminary con
ditions, it being thought that he has
shown, not only thst he is firmly seat
ed in the presidential chair of Mexico,
but that his disposition toward this
country is in every way fair.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14
: osT OR MIsLAlD.

IL
The folloNing land scFip. issued 10 William
Bryan By the Executive at Columbia, ON flle
ten b day Of DeeembeF. 1895. Nos. es 20, 52 g.
l0e, 10. iI3 ia, 1le, 1f5, 100 1884, 1884, ISL, iGD
l6l, iCs io7. ITO. is4. 49,. iss and ~, for GO
acres each.
50 81 sal e. %. c. 81, Is, rs rs Is. 81. and y,
each FOR 80 aeFee.
ALSO, 1ssuei 70 David white. On the fourteenth
day Of Doos11ber, 1885, IN conformity 20 the law
Of Ccnress Of December 10, 1853 Noe. !. 3. ~,
Is g g. g. 6 q g q y 2. q g. g 8, g; =.
90. as. as. ssi, ~, "a. AS "a and 81. each
for go acres % land.
Also. Noa I, q ~. ia, q. 80 s. g, s., %, s6.
il6, 10, -, ls3 ~. is ~. is9 49, lsa 1Ds.
fe7 and lo9, for 30 ecEes q land ech.
Also. 3sens1 % A. Huston by Th mss Tcby,
on the aRhfh day Of October. 1886 Nos efG. al
and 7t8. each Tor 80 acre. Of land
II not found pithin ninety days application
win be made 70 the Commissioner OF the Ger
dssss in. ooTAgTT.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

Ben HILL makes it q point in his
speech in the Senate, and even gives
special significance TO rhe fact, to as
sert the kindliness Of bis and Blaine's
personal relations. This would not be
true if Ben Hill believed that Blaine
believes all that he has asserted of the
South and people of the South.
BlaiDe's speeches are for popular Rad
ical consumption away down East and
Hill can afford to pardon Blaine when
be himself must declare for silver.
whether he will or no, to meet the ex-
actions o: public opinion in Georgia.
These politicians are 3 queer lot of fel-
lows. Hill, in spesking about the sill
yer bill, fails to let us know, at last,
whether he is for or against 1t, and
only assures Us of one single fact, that
his and Blaine's row was simple bosh.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

The Sherman Rsyiasy says that cru
tabaga johnson announces himself a.
y candidate for The State Senate, and
in his card 20 the dear people pledges
himself against any amendment 20 the
Constitution. This kills the old tur-
nip. That smoke house tax business
must he wiped out. even II Mr.. John
son did have q hand in putting Il in
there"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

CHARLES SUMNER said in a senate
rial speech July II, 1868: THE prom
Use on our greenbacks carries with it
the ultimate obligation to pay silver
dollars, whose clink is 50 familiar in
the commerce of the world"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

Ne axe taking Mexlcan dollara I'D pan

We are taking Mexican dollars ct par
for subscriptions to the STATESMAN
Where clubs of FIVE remit from one
postoffice $40 will foot the bill for Eve
copies Of the weekly STATESMAN. A
single subscriber must pay $3.50.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

SECRETARY ScHURz, too, favors the
accession of members of the Cabinet to
seats and the right to speak on the
fl Dor of the House. Schurs doesn't
seem to fear that any Congressman can
wool him to any alarming extent.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-02-14

- aAtrssaoRRoN BENNETT having ex.
pended Vest sum very fooiishly and
needlessiy In, sending Stanley across
Africa to leatH nothing that avails
anything to cemrnsrc-s or Christianity,
how buys the steam yscht p dora,
in which some other Stanley TX
for Symmes's II lie Ii Bennet1 :
man could sail ints, erEass orifce, N
ggryits ctst0, AID ~
South Pole, desa
lowness OF all earthly -
would know no more than Juvv
and the preachers have asserted for
1000 years. We are somewhat curious
to know whence come green trees
and birds of an unknown summer
land that are said to drift down
the coast OF Greenland from the ''open
Polar Sea-" But If we learned that
Symmes's theory were well founded,
and that there Is a world within the
GLOBE, inhabited, ~ Bulwer dreamed
N his ssComing Race" by people who
ave attained the perfectibility and
RIVERS OF gods, the advantage gained
sSald consist in the acquisition Of
| very useless knowledge. and very like
<scquired by Stanley. How could
cure access through gateways Of
realms Of internal blissl Many
have commonly thought that
was in thkt direction. II
II mistaken many pious per-
sist it is the proper course
cruiser in its search for
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