The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-22
Texas Politics.


as candidate for the Legislature.
John c. Mitchell, of Fort Berd
is the Greenback candidate
opposing Mills for Congress.
Hubbard ought to have been nomi-
mated just to have prevented Tom
Bowers from dividing Texas.
The congressional Republican com
mittee urge the support of Wash Jones
by the Republicans of this district.
1t only took half an hour tor the
Bryan Convention to nominate r. Q.
Mills for Congress. He will be electd .
without opposition.
The New York Times numbers |
Wash Jones among the sdjuvants of |
the Radical party to be returned to |
the next Congress.
Governor Throckmorton's speech ct |
Mckinney completely won back the
Greenbackers who had struggled away
from Democratic ranks.
Hon. Richard S. Walker is urged by
the Democrats of Palestine as candi-
date for the place on the Supreme
bench to be vacated by Judge Roberts.
Judge D. NJ. Pendergast, of Lime
stone county, has been endorsed by
the Bolton bar as their choice for Chief
Justice, Cice Judge Roberts, resigned.
The Senegamblan Greenbeckers in
convention in BRENNAN were involved
in an inextricable row when last heard
from. They had two organizations,
and were all speech-making.
That Buck Walton is politically dead
is one of the things the Nacogdoches
NeloS has found out. lie defeated
Hubbard before the Austin convention,
and that sends him to perdition in the
opinion of the Meas.
Hubbard, according to the Pamela
Waterman, is looking forward to seat
in the United States Senate, piece of
vaulting ambition which the Hubbard
press laid at the door of Throckmorton.
What will Maxey do about it2
Hon. L. c. DeMorse, of Bowie, is
unaffected by selfishness so common
among politicians. After receiving the
nomination for Senator from the Bowie
district he declined, and the Hon. w.
H. Tilson, of Texarkana, was nomi-
mated.
The Houston Telegram says: "The
entire Radical lay out of Austin have
gone, hook and line, bait and sinkers,
into the Greenback party. This in
cludes Ex-Governor E. J. Davis, Mayor
DeGress and other statesmen and
poets"
The wayward Democrats of Mont
gomery county have become so utter
~ disguised with the efforts of Texas
Radicals to take possession of the
Greenback party, that the Greenback
clubs of the county have resolved to
support the Democratic nominees.
The Bolton Journal says hundreds of
people will sign request asking a man
to become an independent candidate,
and then vote against him at the cleo
ton. There is nothing so hard to fight
against as party organization, and he
who puts himself in sntagonism to it,
nine times out of ten, will get the
worst of the bargain.
Sherman Register: cit is curious to
note how zeaIously Texas Radicals
espouse the Greenback cause, while
their national leaders are turning down
tighter and tighter the screws of con-
traction on the people. 1t is enough
to cause the honest Greenbacker to
stop and inquire if there is not some
thing rotten about"
At the district convention for the
Twenty-eighth District, held in Goliad,
E. r. Lane was nominated for the Sem
ate and E. D. Linn and Woodief
Thomas for the Legislature. The con-
test over the Senatorial nomination
was hot one, forty-nine ballots being
taken before the two-thiIds rule was
appeased.
Denison News:: ''Every Democrat
who has been induced to endorse the
Greenback party shouldreflect that that
arch-Radical, E. ]. Davis, declared in
J his Austin speech that the aim of the
Greenback party was to break doRr
, way to do it was for the Radicals to
: support the Waco ticket in body"
Falls county is said to have twenty
Greenback clubs, with six hundred
members, mainly negroes. At recent
! meeting it is reported there were pres
ent eighteen white men and two hun
! dred colored. The colored people o.
! Falls, as we'll as other counties, TAKE
.. great interest in financial questions
: Everybody, it seems, wants more
money.
Ne,0 Erd: "The shining lights o
! Rldicalism in Texas have suddenly be
3 come transformed into teachers anC
} expounders of the Greenback doctrine
E 1t was a leap for life, though, and
, they jumped from the hard none!
/ platform of the Republican party t.
? the soft money structure of .he Green
hackers. Verify, extremes do Away
meet
The Headlight says II. L. Bentley, o
, Austin, is the Greenback candidate fo
! the State Senate. Some little tim,
, back he was a Greenback candida,
! for county attorney, and, previous Il
that, Democratic candidate for tht
a same Office. He did not succeed as 9
. Democrat, and then the Greenbackert
crowded him out. Hence he is can
! didate for the Senate, at least unit
, further notice.
t Williamson County Sun. I'VE thi
s week run up the name of John Han
e cock as the Democratic nominee TO
q. Congress. 1t is known to our reader
that Judge Hancock was not our frs
4 choice, but as Democrats we bow Il
q the will Of the majority as expressed il
convention. Our candidate is able ant
: experienced, and can do us efficien
I service. Let US lay aside prejudices
D if we have any, and support him. w
e cannot very well afford to lose just nos
, even one Democratic member from tn
: House.
Flatonia argus: =" Since our las
! issue we have received the news Q
! the nomination of the Hon. John Han
! cock. We are, OF course, jubilan
: thereat, and predict his election by
handsome mSjority over all competi
tors. The convention acted wisely il
: selecting him as the standard beaTe
of the patty. We shall take pleasur
q in exerting our humble efforts in hi
behalf, believing that, If elected, h
I will more truly represent the interest
! Of the people Of the fifth district thai
= any other man that can be named 70
the posiuon-p
i The Headlight mentioned Fl. L
e Rentiev. an Democrat. - a. TN