The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-15
THE ILL-cONCEALED FRAUD.

Leading Republicans and Radicals
have taken charge of the Grcenback
party in Texas and the great body OF
Democrats who went into this organiza-
ton, finding its existence worse than
needless and only desigsed to transfer
power at Washington In 1880 to a Re-
publican, have retrace1 their steps.
To those Democrats who ttill follow
Brady and Tracy and their allies, we
commend the speech of Governor
Woodson, of Missouri He adverted
to these facts and said:
81 ana a greenback man from coRyic-
ton. / am in favor of issuing as mary
greenbacks as the country demands.
We are oppressed with debit is a
! greenback debt, and 1t should he paid
/ IN greenbacks as it was contracted to
| be paid. II, as Democrats, you are il
/ favor of this, what more cen Green
back men ask Then why wander
after strange gods Democrats have
demonstrated that they have a naiori.
~ In this country of more than ESQ.,
600. They will certainly gain control
of the government, and no ID nocrat
should, at this juncture, desert IS par
". Two years ago the Democrat unfor- |
tunatel y nominated hard-mon man
worth so, 900, 900. He was elec ed. II |
he had had the Eerve of Wade II mptun 1
or Andrew jackson he would have said |
You have honored me BY con-
ferring on me the highest gift IN your I
power. AS you have elected me presi- |
dent | will be president or You shall !
have military despotism of this cous-
try | will go no further. He would |
have been president. But the bonds |
OF the East would suffer by disturb.
ance. He owned millions of bonds.
aud owning them, he weighed them
against honor, and the bonds weighed
more than honor or anything else.
This may be treason. II so, make the
most of it. Tilden was undoubtedly
elected. Every Democrat, every one
of these candidates believes this. But
we thought it better to compromise
than to have war. We said: You
have been fairly elected, but we will
again turn over the government to the
Radical party" Will the fact of Til
den's election go down to history II
will undoubtedly go down to history
that Tilden was elected, but that by
his imbecIlity and cowardice he lost
it. / was a member of the st. Louis
convention and voted against Tilden.
| would do so again, and would not
vote for any man for any Office who
was a hard money man and in favor of
the oppression of the people,"
This speech of Governor Woodson
should arrest the attention of each
honest member of the convention that
sat yesterday in Waco. They who CO.
operate with its leaders, whatever their
honest purposes, only cooperate with
those who, whatever their professions
to-day, will vote for Grant in 1880.
We, more than they, abhor Tilden.
Every reader OF the STATESMAN is cog
infant of this fact. The STATESMAN
absolutely had the hardIhood to con-
gratulste the South that HAYES
had supplanted Fiiden. Tilden would
have fastened, if he could, the bond
holders yoke on the neck of the Dem
ocracy. He would have perverted the
purposes and creed of the party. He
weuld have welded power enough and
controlled enough Democrats ard Re
publicans to perpetuate the supremacy
of syndicates and bondholders. Hap
PLY for the country Hayes could not 1
pervert the purposes or shape the finan-
cial policy of the Democratic party, and
with TildeA beaten the Democracy vas
still uncorrupted and intact. Its po- {
tency in 1880, If this Republican Arti-
flee do not destroy it, assures the tri-
umph of the Democratic party and of
the enactment of the leading tenets of
the Greenbackers. Why then should
honest patriots follow our Republican
mayor and city marshal to Wacol Why {
enter into this plot devised in the {
North to dIssever and thus destroy the |
Democratic party in the Southl They
are surely weak or very ambitious and
selfish men who lend themselves, in $
order to secure nominations, to the {
purposes of Brady, Tracy and many I
like them who lead the new party In