The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-10

speech, delivered last Tuesday. He
said: -
The fght this year ia for position ia
the great bstt OF 1880 The forces
on each side are so evenly balaOced
that. whichever party secures Ohio
has a point of advantage. which will
probably turn the. THE of battle ia its
favor. / shall enter on the canvass
fully realizing ths popularity, ability
and capacity for oIgsnIZ itIon Of the
gentleman who heads the
Republican. ticket, aud the mighty
power, wealth, privilege, patronage
and plumber which will be arrsyed
against US. We expect TO show them
that whatever may have been the ser
vice Of the Republican, party in the
Past, the material interest of the
masses and safety of local self-goverB-
ment alike d, maDd q change of admin
istrstion. No party that ever existed
could have held power as long as thu
Republican parry hid held II without
detriment to the public welfare. / /
high time for change. It canBo0 be
for the worse il will certainly be for
the BETTER The publical party
emerged from the War amid the plandIts
of q vast majority of the people OF
the N1rIb, but with EDcoln's assss-
sinatIon and JJbDsOn's political mur-
der, it lost popular leadership and fell
into the hands AMI under The control,
not Of men who bore the heat and
burden-of the war, bat of the money
sristocracy which grew and fattened on
their sacrifice. 1t turned its back to
the soldiers and Il face to the bond
holders. 1t conf scsted the interests
of the masses and piled mountain high
the fortunes Of a favored few. Fear
ing to submit it's measures to the judg-
ment of the people, II enacted them IN
secret, Stunned popular discussion of
them, and blinded the people with
passion and prejudice On fallacIes IN
vented to deceive them. Ten years
have passed since all the constitutions,
amendments and all legislation adoI I'd
by the Republican party to secure the
results Of the war have been inscribed
on our statute hooks, admi oistersd by
our courts and aoquiesced in by the
whole people, but sectional dis
trust, prejudice and passion are
still kept alive by that party, not
for your good, feil0w-citizens, not foI
the security of the toiling millions,
black or white, North or South, hnt
solely for party advantage. The r
publican party has thus become u Toe
of that restored, harmonious and pros
porous UDion for winch the best blood
of the North was shed. l. has become
the enemy of civil order, the promot,
Off discOrd, the o6; .cle to lraternal
union. For thirteen wears past it has
so managed our debt currency and
revenue, as to lift the burdens of the
government from the shoulders of the
rich and lay them ON the shoulders OF
the indu trial classes, 10 double the
wealth of the holders of money securi
ties and double the burdens of people
groanIng under AN accommodating load
of debt and t0xsliun, and so as tC
strengthen its relaxing hold on power
by enrching privileged classes and
cOrpoyati0ns,i wh hose means and disposi.
ton to sustain it increase in ratio u
the itnpOverishment of the masses.
In referring 10 Federal interference
in elections Mr.. Ewing said: The
Republican party has further fortified
itself by usurping Federal control over
elections, which heretofore has never
been asserted since the foundation oil
our government, and that our fathers
never knew or heard of the phrase
''natlonsl elections" which President
Hayes and Mr.. Foster So giiOly use,
and this attempt of the Republican
party to coerce and cont roll the State
officers VIXEN eonducting the State
elections under SIT laws, by the use
of the Federal army and swafIns oil
hirelings, spies and marshals, is fl :
grant, monstrous and intoleraole usuT-
fatiop. r.-., ...,.... ~ ....- i
While speaking on this, subject he
said: Fellow-ciuzans, this assumption
of power, if Tecoen zed snd established,
tends and will, l beUeve, lead to tn,
utter destruction of the bent ticent sys-
tenn of government established by cul
fathe 8. U Ider that system formulated
under the Constitution all powers OF
the Federal government are strictly de.
fee and limited, while the States and
people, reserviBg to themselves al
power not delegated TO the general
government, are sovereign in fal
wider sphere lhsn TO the general gov
eminent. / spebk in no spirit of par
tisanship, but in candor of conviction,
when say that the obliierstion of the
reserved rights of a state and people
and the absorption in the genera gov.
eminent OF all, regardless of the Con-
stitution, has become the controlling
tendency, if NJ t the final aim, of the
Republican party. These policies o.
the Republican party by which they
are impoverishing the masses and alb
sofbing unlimited power in the genera
government, ere only steps towards the
ultimate subversion of our popular lib.
erty and the establishment of rule o
money aristOcracy. i+ 90
He said never IN the history of oul
government have principles and meth.
DDS opposed to true Democracy been Sc
boldly and powerfully maintained a
by the Republican party in the pas
twelve years. It's long and firm hole
Of rapidly expanding power and enor
nous growth OF concentrated wea't Il
havs developed and ripened forces in
imicsl TO popular govtroment u1th
now, having reduced the labGrine
masses almost to -psuperism, having
stripped the middle classes of large
share of their wealth, having learned
how to ex sct enormous tribute from
corporations il has enriched by uojusi
legislation, it seeks by corruption Il
bride and by force 10 ovefawe electors
aud to perpetuate it's power in uttel
contempt Of the Constitution and Of
the free and unbought suffrsgts of The
people.
Mr.. Ewing closed by appealing for
support to the State ticket; to wage
men, whose employment is cut of by q
depression Of values; TO debtors and
payers, whose burdens are doubled by
that depression to men who know
that a change tends to reform abuses
to these who love free government
to soldiers Of the UuIon army, who
fought to make the South ab de BY
the Constitution, aud are themselves
obedient to il; who are genernu.
enough to ALLOW the South 10 Ell y
the same blessings of the free govern
ment we enjoy. who, after saving the
Union by sufferings aud sacrifices,
have been robbed by the heartless pol
icy Of the Republican party. '
After ell, the most CURIOUS part Of
the game &C bull fight is played OF
by the performers in the lists. but y
the bystsnders in the snphitheateF.
Though ladies of rank and rstiaemeot,
both natIve and alien, are to be seen in
the boxes and reserved sestS the but
fight n = manss anastinea and M at al