The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13
THE ELECTION IN NEW YORK
AND In AUSTIN.

Tammany is an incorporated Demo-
cratic society having wealth, numbers
and intelligence. For years the pow
erful organization which controls the
Irish voters of the great metropolis has
not only governed the city, but ruled
the State. 1t conducted a most pro-
ductive commerce in offices. The
public schools of the great city, its
streets aud every incident of munich
pal administration were sources of
profit to Temorseless scoundrelism,
which eliminated in Boss Tweed over
thrown at last by TiIden. Tilden be-
came famous in fact because he made
Tammsny infamous. Governor Rob-
inson succeeding T,lden and following
in his footsteps is a great reformer.
Railroad and canal rings had preyed
upon the people, and Robinson was
as reckless OF const q fences to himself
as his predecessor. The terrible canal
thieves when crushed also lined
Tammany. These two forces consti-
tute powerful political engines employ
ed by Conkling to destroy r Ibinson and
thus overwhelm Tildeu as candidate
for the Presidency. II will be seen
from results given in the dispatches,
that though Robinson be defeated he
has really won great victory. With
the central force of his party led ty
Kelly and Sunset Cox, with all dissd-
vsntages incident to the elevation of the
bloody shirt ipj Il ted into politics by
Potter, Robinson q lieutenant candidate,
with the money and moral power of
Sherman and the custom house and
navy yard and postofiice all CO.
operating to defeat the VEN
cradle Democratic candidate it is
absolutely amazing that he was
not thoroughly crusned and his party
finally and fatally overwhelmed. Cor
rell's election, when Kelly and Cox
led away from Robinson certainly fifty
thousand Irishmen, Was a ioregone
conclusion.
But Cornell's trilling majority teaches
that invectives against the South, en-
ployed even with the marvellous force
and Infinite skill of Conkling, and re-
peated by Beecher and every Republ:-
can declaimer and newspaper of the
Empire State, have lost large share
of that effectiveness which made the
bloody shirt tor ten years The ensign of
inevitable victory. Every orator, every
newspaper, every candidate and every
ranting partisan preacher :hat has spo-
ken in behalf of Cornell, has devoted
genius and learning, or emanations from
vulgar brutality, to the production of
mos hateful pictures OF Southern mcr-
ais an d social facts. And this is the |
oldest result of the contest in the |
great State of New York, half of
whose people are made to believe that |
We are hourly plotting the country's |
ruin, that our chief occupation con-
sists in numbering Chisholms and Dix
ons, men and women, and that we
send none but Confederate brigadiers |
and captains to Congress, and elect |
none Others to Office, because we in
tend these same leaders to lead in the |
next Interstate war.
May we not set up the modest little |
picture of lowly events of Monday in |
Austin, beside this grand panorama of |
an empires acts in New York, to show |
how utterly untruthful are these |
Was not the election
of an excellent Federal hslt-pay colo |
mel IN this city over faultless Con-
federate brevet major general an
answer to the whole argument of |
our enemies in New York, and |
cannot human ingenuity conceive of
this political reason for rel ,icing that
the caDital of Texas did this thinD2