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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

On both sides the party leaders at
Washington, fighting each other with
absolute fierceness, assert to the ex-
pectsnt, eager spectators in the pit and
galleries of a continental theater that
they are Saving the country" Mean
while the Republicans declare that the
Democracy is about to conslgn US to
perditlon, and the Democracy for
eighteen years have seen the Radicals
utterly destroying the federal system.
The Republicans object to the policy of
the dominant party which would sus-
pend the operations of government
that a partisan law may be instantly
repealed aud the Democracy claim
that they have the right to use their
power unsparingly for the purpose of
eraslng from the statute books infamous
laws directed against the freedom of
the people. Very certainly the odious
laws should be expunged, but whether
the party leaders have adopted the
wlsest method of gaining their ends
remains TO be seen.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03


THE more inimical newspaper to
the people of Texas, and bitter its
assaults and unjust its Inscriptions
OF vices, the more it is read. The
circulation of the Globe Democrat in
Texas Is greater than that of any for
eign newspaper, and that of the New
York World is said to be next widest.
People are curious to see what their
fiercess enemy and truest friends say of
them. The World smoothes down the
hair on the dogs back, of ones vanity
and self-love, even as the GlO6e-DemOcrat
turns it all the wrong way. The two
resulting sensations are almost equally
agreeable. AS a Texas norther is
most delightful in its effects upon the
atmosphere, so the malignant bitter
ness and hatred OF St. Louis Radical
ism enables one to appreciate the ten
derness of flttery of party leaders
ever seeking to win popular favor by
popular foibles and vices.
Il Is well, in any event, to know what
our enemies say OF US, and to this ex-
tent the Gto6e-DemOcrdt is most useful
to intelligent Texans.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

THE brutal negro that committed
rape in this county, and confesses the
unquestioned fact, has cost this county
board and lodging for year or more.
His case goes up, in the usual way, to
the Courts of Appeals. 1t will rest
and swing and rack there q season
and come down, down, all gilded
with costs TO be paid in silver
and gold, land sometime, perhaps, be-
Jore the close of the century, the
depraved villain will pay the pen
atty attached to his hldeous vices and
crimes. Cannot the law be so re-
formed that appeals and delays are not a
matter of course Uncertainty of
punishment is an inseparable incident of
delayed punishment, and the slothful,
uncertain law has no terror for muir
derous bloo1y-minded scoundrelism.
Is there no skilled master of the GRIM
inal code in the Legislature who can
remedy this glaring evil of the laws
delay and laws enormous cost 2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

THE Bolton Journal, denounclng
trlmmers and towards and dema-
gogues, is pleased to say that, Gin our
opinion, the entire public school BUSH
ness of Texas is laundering, ill-work-
ing machine that does less good in
proportion to its cost than any other
one branch of public service" The
Journal further says that public opln-
Ion throughout the State, az expressed
by the press, seems about equally
divided upon the subject of the bill
giving one-fourth of the public reve-
nue. to the public schools. Public opin-
ion was wholly one-sided till the press
of Its own volltlon and thinking for
itself began to discuss the question and
evoke the facts. The system 10 rotten
and corrupting and must die.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03


The Denison Ne,cS says nine-tenths
of the papers of Texas favor the con-
stitrtionsl amedment requiring the pay
ment of spoll tax as condition
precedent to the exercise of
the privilege" of suffrage. Then We
would ask the Nelrs how incorporated
towns are to be protected, and how
are those who may fly into towns that
they may vote in many elections each
year, and may neither work on public
roads nor pay n road tax We would
ask how are these people to be reached
and how this evil of which Sher-
man, Den;son, Austin and Houston.
complain SO bitterly is to be remedied.
Should not corporations be permitted
to duplicate the Ssate poll tax as
condition precedent to the exercise OF
the privilege of voting in municipal
elections Bat since a corporation
only deals with property, should any
person not a taxpayer be suffered to
vote in corporate election Z UNI
versAl suffrage Furnishes cities and
towns infinitely more than the country,
and vet tie proposed constitutional
amendmentavails them almost nothing.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03
no subsor1bers

By postal card, other means being
too expensive, subscribers to the
STATESMAN will be rendered accounts,
showing amounts due, or soon to be-
come due, on subscription. 1t is q
time of the year when all may settle
accounts, and subscribers are request
-ed, in receipt of statements, to remit
at once. BY the first of January it is
proposed to have all outstanding mat
ters closed, and a prompt reply will
rave further trouble in collecting bills.
Our friends, regarding this ss bust
ness, viii not fail to respond.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03
BKwARE OF BLOODY DEEDS.

The three murderers of George
Morse at Calvert are still in jail. The
shenfI's official bondsmen want to get
of. People stand aloof aud shudder
when innocent blood is spilled, and it
was proven that the murdered man
proposed to give $1,000 bond that he
would keep the peace and did not
wish 20 harm the murderers. The
pocket on the hip in the end is worse
enemy to him VINO wears it than to
those who fall before its deadly muir
derous contents. Morse's woes are
lighter as the cold clods rest upon
him IN his grave than the terrors and
grIefs that must pursue his slayers
while they live, and hunt them down
N the world to come.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

IT would not only be an act of de-
cension, but one of INJUSTICE to the read
ers of the STATESMAN, to reply to gen
eral and personal attacks made upon it
and its attaches by papers in this city.
The STATESMAN Is read in every house
hold in Austin and all over the
State and answers to abusive and fsls;-
flying publications would be distasteful
to its readers. 1t occupies plane in
all respects above Its defamers, and is
content that it has merited the esteem
and good will Of the good people of
Austin and of Texas. This malevo-
lsnce arises alone from the fact that
the STATESMAN occupies field not at
tainsble by others, and 1t would be d
folly as well disgrace to bring these
little competitors before the public
through these columns when they can
reach it NO other way.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

A FELLOW named Hatog, who has
played the hspless part of a Turnkey
for Grant and pensioner. like Mosby
and BAbcock, upon his country, writes
book, after Grant thrust him from
from his presence. devoted 70 the
abuse OF the ex-president- It tells of
Grants private, personal habits and
sayings-of his drunkenness; whether
the book be true OF false. gentlemen
win 50 despiss the trAitorous writer
that none can dare to quote it. What
Is written in private letters or SAID or
done 1t ones table or Preside il held
lnyiolabls and sacred among civilized.
honest people The world over. asd
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03
PORTER will be tried. OF course he

PORTER will be tried. OF course he
will be tried. He will have forty trials,
more or fewer. He is entitled to as
many as RothsehIld at jefferson and
to as many continuances and appeals
and changes of venue Texas surpasses
any State in trying murderers. The
code exhsusts human genius in its pro-
visions for certain, intermlnable trials !;
but tina. Porter will be hanged or
Rothschild, nobody believes. 1t IS
surely enough to have the people taxed
to pay costs in these iuterminable and
multiplied trials. The world should
demand nothing more of the codes and
courts of Texas. Porter shall be tried
and again and again and if trials meet
the ends of justice and appease human
ity Porter shall be tried.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03
INJUSTICE or THE PRESS-VIR-
TUES OF THIS LEGISLATURES

This Legislature, if the privately as
serted opinions OF its most expert
enced members, and of the oldest citi-
zens of the capital be worth anything,
he's discharged weightier and more va
ried tasks than were ever imposed
upon a like body in Texas. Many
members have perused and thoroughly
mastered the new code which must be
revised, amended and in part trans
formed. The whole country has un-
dergone tremendous financial revul-
sion and every incident of government
must be regulated with reference to
the difference between volumes of pa
per and those of gold and silver.
Systems of taxation were to be re-
duced to rates conformed to the rel
alive scarcity Of this shining currency
which was the the preferred money of
our honest fathers. Rates of interest
o. Tue State debt, because of this re-
duction OF the volume of currency,
were to BE- lessened, and ten per cents.
converted into four or five per cents.
The worse than worthlessness of the
wet weather schools, which cannot be
maintained if the States credit be pre-
served .and taxation lessened, has
been discovered and authoritatively
confessed, but unfortunately they have
not been elected. Six months ago
there was not q voice in Texas that
suggested the possibility of suspend
ing the schools, and few were they
who proposed to tax the privilege of
suffrage. This Legislature has led,
rather than followed public opinion,
and while il has failed in many impor-
- matters, under the working of this
sersble Rutabaga Constitution, it has
Shaped public sentiment in many
things, promising at an early day ab-
sol1yc lelief. Ia truth, here has been
the stumbling block to every good
measure proposed. These constitution
makers assumed that they were the
- - ------s<OuSIUus people
in the State, and that the race would
do out when they vacated the Capitol.
'The limitation OF sessions, too, has
been a fruitful source of disorder.
one class of legislators, deeming it
theiE.duty to elose-the lsbors at the
end Of sixty days, worked to this end.
ACOnfiicting sentiment on this point &C.
tuated Others, and the body has been
left at sea without compass or lights
to lead it TO the close of voyage. In
fact the Legislature has not performed
lis duty in permitting this insult to leg
islative Intelligence and honesty to go
unattached. There should be no
cramping as to time, aud the per diem
Of legislators should remain So during
l6e>entire session, which should be reg
nlsted 6y~the intelligence and con-
scientiousness of members. With
more reasonable organic code legisla-
ton would be moro satisfactory.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

WHEN the Rutabags constitution
makers gave taxpayers" in incorpo-
rated towns and cities the exclusive
right to vote in elections involving the
expenditure of public money upon
schools, two principles were conceded /;
the one, that those who must pay
should alone vote; the other, that one
man, if he do not at the same time
vote away his own, has no right to
vote away the money of other people.
A natural sense of justice compelled
the Rutabsgas, who trembled in the
presence of the roaring mob, to con-
cede the principle that, in a popular
election involving no civic or personal
right and only the expenditure of
money, none should vote besides those
who must pay. Why did not these
trainers of the Constitution follow the
principle to its legitimate Tesults9 They
who pay no taxes should no more vote
for or against candidate for the mayor
atty than for or against free school.
The reason he cannot vote on the
proposition to establish q school is
discovered in the fact that he will pay
naught in maintaining it. The same
reason applies to the case Of the may
or. The pssyo7 may fine aud imprison
a drunken rough or taxpaying citizen,
but II either be wronged the States
courts intervene with habeds corpus to
protect the wronged and oppressed,
and thus it happens that the franers
of our organic code confessed the Jus
tice OF q principle which they
had not the moral courage to reduce
to practice. They admitted that one
man had not the right to taA another
when he did not. at the same time, tax
himself, and yet they stultified them
selves and asserted, when every rough
aud tramp may vote for the mayor,
that these Migrants are invested with
this divine right of taxing others
when they do not tax themselves. But
1t Is hardly necessary to advert
to this subject. Within the past three
years pubic opinion has been wholly
snoverted. Fur long tame the
STATESMAN stood alone, hat Was never
silent. We saw one CITY sfter another
plundered by men in eflce who bought
votes. and were forced ito get their
money back" by psculAtion in Office.
The worst and most incapable
class naturally enough elected imper-
sensations of themselves, and robbery
snd ignorance sat side by side in high
places. and people were impoverished
and foarishing cities wrecked. The
press Of Texas, with almost perfect
unsnimity st length assents to re-
saTictions OF suffrage indispensable 10
the peace of the country, to the sta
bili,y of the government. prosperity
and existence Of towns and cities, and
mAirtenanes Of personal property
rights.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03
The Act TO ReOrganize the Sixteenth
Judicial D1strtct.
An act to reorgan;ze the Sixteenth Ju-
d;clal District of the State of Texas
and to provide for the times of hold

An act to reorgsn;ze the Sixteenth Ju-
d:clal District of the State of Texas
and to provide for the times of hold
ing court therein.
SECTION /. Be IL reS0lred by the Leg
islature Of The State Of J'sras. That the
sixteenth Judicial district OF the Sssta
of Texas shall be composed of the
county of Travis.
SEC. 2. That the district court of
said district shall be holden in the
county of Travis on the first Mondays
in January, May and October, and
shall continue in session until the busi-
ness is disposed OF.
SEC. B. That all processes Issued
by or from said district court is hereby
made returnable in conformity with
the provisions of this act; and that all
laws and parts of laws 10 conflict with
this act be, and the same are hereby,
repealed.
Sec. 4. Nothing contained in this
act shall prevent the holding of court
In the county of Lse by the judge of
the sixteenth Judicial district, for the
term to begin on the eighth Monday
after The first Monday in January, A
ID. 1879, and said court shall be held
by him for that term.
Sec. 5. Is simply 81 emergency
clause.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03
Crops.

Dallas papers are always dry and
thirsty; bat now they want rain.
The Meridian Blade says B ,sql,e
county will make this year the biggest
crop of its life
The Stephensville Empire anticipates
heavy cotton crop, and says farmers
are nearly out of debt.
The Houston Telegram says crops
are earlier by two weeks. But then
The Telegram is a rapid paper.
Our advices are that crops are late
Though planted early. There is an
extraordinary drought that began
last summer, and the rainfall for eight
months has been very light. Recently
there has been hardly enough moisture
in the ground to make seed germinste.
From two-thlrds of the State we re-
receive through the press and letters
complaints based upon these facts, and
now and then farmer recurs in
touching accents To the famine of
1867.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

The Express describes the falling off
II immigration this season to the ''poli-
Cyl OF Gov. Roberts and the doings
0 Che Legislature. Did Governor
Roberto discover LeadviileG Did Gov
ernor Roberts frame the Criminal
Code and create courts whose
sgetems and inefiicienoy invite crime3
"a Governor Roberts respon-
able for those wet weather schools,
which it has been persistently alleged
wculd draw boys and girls into Texasi
How elaborate must be the Goyernor's
vices and injurious and potent his
cfininallty to compass all these horri-
Bile resnltsl A legislature and govern
81 that would do either of these things
should be exiled or forever ri6icaied
Or despised, but lswgiveEs and the
chief magistrate Of to-day are alike
Innocent. The State police is stand
'iee menace to decency ard order that
Has dreaming Of seeking homes in
Iexas. Why should Texas. unlike
aus other border State, maintain
Standing army when the Union fur
nishss onei Is not the world told by
.tnr acts that desperate state of soci-
IS. inviting the bad ard repelling the
good, exists, rendering the local war
bllice 3 neeessityl Governor Roberts
<na The Legislature did not create this
.1<ly core On the back OF the common
NIB, bent and bruised By many an
nemly burden sud awkward rid
81 Il the Express would measure
@tt1Iately the responsibility OF
.4osc wha suffer burdens 70 endure
Mo wrongs done the tax-burdened
@pp.e 70 be perpesratcd, it viii watch
~ >l,ndaet Of law-makers when they
1's upon schemes Of taxation. twill
y rAoythey are who vote isaElessly,
1eE asking What others think or say
what. in he present condition of
inanee the Union, is wise and
E o1e per cent. is more difficult
9.y than Two eight yesrs ago. Aud
<t< pressure OF hard times grows
2tfiy. Londoa Is ia terror. The
.ak Of England draws in al loana
IEs rate Of interest IS raised, and gols
. f14s 70 I.ondon iron all quarters Of the
|.E4 efsaov 1, harsiar 4, oet ana che
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

Of toll. immigration is not les.ened
in volume By Governor Roberts; but
by what former Legislatures have done
and failed to do. The chsnces are
that Governor Roberts will veto
the absurd school bill and cause
the practical execution OF the State
police, compelling sheriffs to do their
duty without fees from the State
treasury, and when the world learns
that State taxation is only thirty five
cents on the 500, and that each lmmi-
grant msy have homestead, thus mod
estly taxed, and when the LeadviIle
bubble busts, Texas will grow IN
wealth and numbers as never before.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

The amendment to the j1int resolu-
ton in the Senate affecting suffrage,
offered by Senator Terrell, in yester-
days proceedings, and which was
adopted, was not in accordance with
his previously expressed views, but
was offered as a compromise of con-
flicting ideas, and with view of Sc
curing strength for the resolution. The
amendment was in accordance with a
provision of the Georgia constitution.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

MONDAY the Senate confirmed
the appointment of Hon. a. S. Broad
dus, of Burleson county, to the judge
ship of the thirty-second judicial dis
trict, composed of the counties of
Washlna>-a, Lee and Burleson. Judge
Broaddus has grown old in the ser Tice
of Texas. He has occupied honored
places in its legislatures, and five years
ago yesterday Governor Coke sp-
pointed him to district judgeshIp,
which he held with eminent fitness for
two years. Now Governor Roberts ap-
points him, and in doing so he reflects
credit upon the State, while he raises
the standard of the bench. He is o
sterling old Democrat, and citizen of
excellent reputation and honor. He is
the fsther-ir-law of Senator Homan.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

The Sherman Register says that
nothing SO much benefits community
as high order OF free schools" True
enough perhaps. But We happen in
Texas to have no knowledge of such
schools. A million dollars per anuum
gives US the meanest and lowest and
worst possible schools. They are pro-
nounced worse than no schools by the
highest authority in the land
and yet that the people may be
fieeced and the parasites of q
rotten system of peculstion and plum
der maintained the curse and burden
is perpetuated. About one-half of the
world, under the order of things inau-
gurated by the vices of civil war, lives
in idleness by preying in offices upoL
the industry and toll of the other half.
Offices and sinecures have been multi
piled till rates of taxation, deemed ex-
brilliant when ten cents on the hun
dred dollars were exactei by States,
are now fvefold greater. Radical
ism sc ed the reins and institut-
ed systems of plumber, psrceling
out Offices and increasing their
numbers, even as the worthy and
valorous heroes of war, demanding
soft places and honors, were number
less. Democrats, hungry, poor and
numberless, came at last into power,
ana so countless were the deserving of
this party that Radical systems CT
schools and Offices were perpetuated
and the richest mine opened up for a
fearful army of pap suckers was this
running ulcer and ugly excrescence
upon popular stupidity and partisan
greed, the extraordinary wet weather
school system of Texas. 1t gives berths
to thousands who don't love work.
They are of those who dance while
unthinking industry plays the piper.
They often do the beer Jerking for
pyrotechnic newspapers, furnishing
reading matter for dull editors. They
have absolutely made many honest, in
tellIgent people believe that one man
should toll to educate the children OF
others as we'll as his own, and that the
laws of republic should force him TO
do this. They have imbued honest
peoples minds with the worst in
stlncts and impulses of despotisms and
of the commune. They have popu-
lsrized hero theory of government
that invests the Prussian empire with
the worst incidents of insufferable des-
potlsm. They have created an army of
barnacles and wandering loafers, and
literary (O tramps who prey upon per-
petuated stupidity three months and
then groan on the shady sides of vii
lage greens through nine months of
their worse than useless lives. These
are the people and this the system of
education which the SHERMAN Register
denominates "high order of public
schools" The sooner We come down
to the original simplicity of pure
republican scheme of government, ed
ucatipg none but the poor and help
less maxine th~-r-~PfS ScII-TeIlant,
protecting the family in its integrity
and unity and independence, even as
patriotism guards the Repubhc-when
our rulers have done these things pub
lie schools will deserve the laudation
the Register bestows and not till then.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03
THE editor of the Victoria Advocate

TIE editor of the Victoria Adcocate
is an excellent member of the House.
The Adoocate says that this Sixteenth
&C I.eninlns,,-.-;s- O0rsPoseu GI 81
farmers, 20 lawyers, physicians, 5
merchants, 2 mechanics and z poll
ticisns." Since editors are not named,
and Mr.. Linn is a member, does he
deem himself politician, p" or "me-
chsnic 2 Is he q blacksmith OF
q prinkor
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

Ex-Governor JNo. L. PALMER is
in training in the stables of the New
York Sun, for the presidential race in
1880. He has bottom aud pluck and
We don't see why he should be beaten
by bar'ls o. money.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

Tobacco leaves broader than ones
hand are growing in Austin gardens
Why not manufacture here the chUceat
tobacco, like that which gives It's de-
iiRhtful and dreamf0l arorna - Cuban
cigsrss
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-04-03

however odious CT criminal Grant may
be, his honest enemies can never re-
cognize this foul book, even If Gre
dence be given its statements, as truth
full or Just, or fit to be read.