The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03
SENATOR cox E's NEW DEPART.
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Senator Coke is commonly esteemet
a most passionate partisan. He is al
ways In earnest and often violent. Bu
when Senst1r Gordon, a few days ago
insi'ted that there should be no diVis
ions in the Democratic ranks, that W,
must not forget debt of gratitude t.
Northern Democrats, to the adherent
Of Tilden and Randall, and when b,
i properly enough eulogizad BIysrd
senator Cake could no longer remsir
siseBts-IIe said, referring in nothing tC
B4yard,
These Northern Democrats were will
ing to have the political cooper alton
ol the S nth upon sectional issues, but
they refused tn lin them on financial
issues. The Southern people were good
enough TO help the Northern Democrats
20 elect Democratic President, but il
they attempt to do so upon other than
sectional issues, then they would be
charged with attempting to destroy the
party Mr.. Coke, warming up to bis
subject, stated that he proposed 70
raise other then sec ional issues-which
would not keep the people of the Sout
IN trial. He regarded the financial
issue as good only 10 begin with. He
gave notice that in the future he would
ignore all leadership on sectional quCs
ions, and devote himself to the max
| ing of issues which would divide the
people in each Of the States, aud thus
crush out s6ctionshsm.
IL is needless u suggest that the
Texan Senator's unstudied but earnest
'peech produced, as stated In tele-
graphic dispatches, profound sensa-
tion. He expires cd thought OF
which the readers Of the STATESMAN
have often heard. THESE Southern
States are used simply as paving stones
20 smoothe the p Ithwsy of NoItlerD
)arty-!eaders to power. We are VIC
nmizad qpsGriennislly. Uniformly
he bondholders and tariff-mongers
and the rich and powerful, having the
squeaking Congress by the throat,
force 1t to excite, with the recurrence
of presidential elections, terrific sec
tionaI questions and discussions. The
newspapers and party-leaders and the
average Congressman is at once at
tackled with hydrophobia and whisky
maddened mobs dance st endance willie
the Syuth is yllified at the hustings as
40 people were ever before traduced.
Our property loses value. Intelligent,
decent people are frightened away,
and only the vicious ard depraYed
seek homes in this land, which God
has done everything to bless and man
Ill things to blacken and curse. Sena-
tor Coke is wise and right. We have
tolerated these outrages long enough.
We have assented to the enactment
of sueh tragIcal fsrces as this
in which Randall and Tilden and their
coteries of party managers would have
US reappear In 1880 only too often,
md the South thanks Senator Coke
for the words he has spoken.
There are only 90, 600 soldiers. We
are not scared badly, even if Hayes
propose have them distributed over
the Union at all the voting places.
To make them at all dangerous, he
must split them into more parts than
Solomon proposed to make of the help |
less brat clslmed by two cranky danes |
Theoretically, the argument is with |
the Democrats; but practically the |
great burden of the calamity, which is |
not the sword or the bayonet, falls |
upon the South. The North must
make it appear, while this issue is up
permost, that we deserve chains and
slavery. We would therefore prefer
the evasion of the issue to the repeal
of. the odious statute. When the ques-
ton of Southern virtue and pat ciotism
IS no longer discussed the law falls
INTO desuC tlde and repesls itself. In
fact, till Randall and the rest, Stephens
and cthers opposing, raised the question
We knew not that the code existed.
It was never heard OF, it seems, except
in South Carolina and New York. But
let this cup of sectional hates and
lgitations pass from US. We have had
anough of it. Let us strip the mask
rom Ttlden and his adherents who
would have US forget questions of
finance and of taxation and of tariffs,
and drive US like idiots, raving and
bowling about distractions and idle is
sues of sectional passion, to our own
slaughter. They would grow rich,
and If We grow angry enough against
the North and the North against the
south Tilden and Shermano or Tilden
aud Grant will be perfectly blest, and
and tariffmongers and
iobbers of intsrnal revenue, and those
who deal in doves and lambs of inno-
cenee in the temple of Wall street
these too will be supremely happy.
Meanwhile the Federal Union remains
divided, the North against the South,
the two sections thrust apart that Til
den's hideous, rattling little legs msy
bridge the chasm. Thtse Southern
States meanwhile are only remote
prov inces of q distracted empire
plucked to poverty by tax-gathsrers.
Senst,r Coke is right and wise and the
people applaud his revolt
HRRE IT IS--WHAr THE PEO-
PIE SAY ABOUT 1T.