The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-09-19

sound sense than is contained in all
the Greenbsck speeches which have
been delivered in Texas in the last six
months.
And now that Governor Davis sees
the Greenback party going to pieces he
does not define himself as being with
it. AT LaGrange he SAID nothing
about the Greenbsek party, though he
b nd joined hands with it. VIA; sad
plight has this faction gotten into.
Judge Ferris wrote letter to the
secretary of the Waxshachie bar meet
ing, declining to allow the use of his
name for chief justiceship. He is not
physically able to perform the labors
of the office, but says if the court
should be increased to five OF seven
members, he may possibly permit his
name to 60 before the people at the
next election.
Sulphur Springs Gazette. The
Greenbsck speakers say the Democratic
and Republican parties are corrupt,
and they propose organizing a pure
party. Well, where are you going to
get your material2 "a corrupt tree
cannot bring forth good fruit" We
suppose you mean purely scented; If
so, take in a few more niggers aad
sweet-scented RAIDS.
Headlight: "Wash Jones, accord
ing to his speech at Georgetown yes
terday, is an earnest advocate of the
theories of this National Greenback
labor party. Hancock stands squarely
upon the Democratic platform, as it
appears elsewhere in our columns; and,
having heard both gentlemen. we I'M
hesitatingly announce John Hancock
for Congress"
The Democrats down at Houston
wanted the Eighty paper money candi-
date for Governor to divide time with
the old war-horse Stewart, but Ham
man prefers solitude in an assembly
and he preached his usual Brick Pome-
roy sermon in his usual way, and there
comes the story that Brady has Joined
Tracy and refuses to affiliate any more
with the tissue money party.
The stampede of the Greenback can
didates, thinks the Commercial, from
their ticket in Harris county will not
materially assist In carrying the new
tidal wave up to the stars. In fact, it
begins to look as if by election time
the political surface will be as placid
and serene as the bosom of an unruf-
fled sea, with nothing resting upon it
but the glittering sunshine of Demo
cratic success.
Gen. Hamman spoke in Houston on
the eleventh To about 500 people, half
of whom were, saws the Telegram,
dyed-in-the-wool Democrats. The
paper pronounces hun a pleasing
speaker, but asserts that the Green
back cause was not strengthened by
the effort. In fact, it is weakening
every day in Harris 8 in Travis county.
Tracy had something to say, too,
against the Democracy, and wound up
by introducing his friend, Marshal
Tankersly, who went rough-shod after
all the speakers. The hubbuo and |
hurrah got 70 such a height that the |
meeting broke up at last in a row.
Hon. ]. D. Sayers in his Georgetown
speech covered a great deal of lmpor-
tant ground. As to section of the |
State GreeDback platform, he proved |
from U. s. Supreme Court decisions:
That the issuance of "absolute green
back paper" by Congress would be |
unconstitutional; that it would have a |
centralizing tendency; its Impractical |
bility; that it cannot have purchas-
ing power; that 1t would cause I'm
healthy speculation and extravaganza;
it would be entirely experimental, un
sustained by single successful expert |
ment; impossibility of this or any other |
government, however despotic, to |
maintain such money at. par; that it
would be reputation, and therefore
dishonest.
The Houston Telegram of the thir-
teenth, says: Considering their past
i'll luck and present dlsorganlzation,
the county Greenbackers exhibited a
wonderful degree of rashness to pro-
coed, as they did yesterday, to the ex
pertinent of holding another nominat-
ing convention and putting another
county ticket in the field. They did it
however, not even deferred by the
bolt of two thirds of the delegates,
which took place soon after the dis
sitting commenced, and the
small remnant left fabricating a ticket
which is as hot .rogeneous as the ore
which fell 10 pieces last week. AL
ready the cry of corruption Is raised
and the disorganIzation that exists is so
that it cannot be healed. The
Greenback party in Harris county is
simply laughing stock.
Judge Roberts made a speech at
Fort Worth in which che addressed
himself to discussion of national af-
fairs and Greenbackism, Analysing the
various arguments advanced in favor
Of a new party. He clearly demon
strated that the idea of absolute paper
money was absolute" folly, and that
It was directly in opposition to the
universal experience OF the world.
That the Greenback theory for pay
ing off the bonded debt was i'm
unconstitutional, and
,ainted with the odium of reputation.
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