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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27
WILL THE GOVERNOR BE
FORCED TO RECONVENE
TIE LEGISLATUREe

The action of the Legislature in be-
half of the public free schools was in
duced by mistaken conception of the
force and direction of that public opin-
ion which statesmen shape and govern
and which weaker men observe and
follow and obey. School masters have
seized the press and the Legislature
has been grievously misled. With one
voice the people demand the consum-
nation of two ends: the one affects
the maintenance of perfect public
credit and reduction of the public
debt; the other the diminution of pub
lie burdens. II the school bill be en-
acted, and State police force kept in
the field, new bonds must be issued to
raise money to protect the State
credit, and seeing this necessity the
Legislature busies itself in discovering
new subjects of taxation. Nothing
escapes. Railways and pro fessionsl
men and all industries and trades and
avocations are burdened, while all
know that every dollar of taxation is
dug out Of the ground. Producers at
last pay the whole in paying for
everything they buy and consume.
Months may elapse before farmers see
how they are impoverished by codes of
taxation in which they are not even
named. But they will sooner or later
discover the force and burden of evils.
They will first discover in the present
condition of the money market, by
which agricultural products are re-
duced to minimum of saleable value,
that industry is profitless. 1t will cost
this final taxpayer more to live than he
can make. Industry will be paralyzed
by these tax-grasping, ravenous, all
pervading revenue laws. Money is
scarcer to-day than yesterday. Pow
erty Is daily expanded, breeding multi
piled tramps, and idleness is enforced
by unwise laws and even made COM
pulsory by taxation. Vigorous laws
then provide for the punishment of
idlers generated by taxation to which
the State and the Union and counties
and towns resort. Are they statesmen,
or are they wise and just, who thus
disturb popular industry till it
makes paupers, and then when
wretchedness leads to crime these
governments punish these beg
gars begotten of them. The prin-
eiples of our governments are in oppo-
sition to one class of taxpayers being
robbed to educate another class of
non-taxpayers; and then this State po-
lice, instituted and conducted more
for personal service than anything else,
the old man Of the sea,
which Texas, beggared by Federal and
State taxation, cannot shake of. II
the burdens Of the people be not les
sened it will surely happen within .
twelvemonth that Governor Roberts
will be forced by popular clamor to
reconvene the Legislature that this bo-
gus school system and State police
force may be finally disbanded and de-
stroyed. It were wiser to suspend, y
unless the Legislature destroy finally
and forever. the schools and the Mill
tary arm of the government Of Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27
A PRIEST WHO CAN'T TELL THE
TRUTH.


Bishop Haven's letter from Austin
is still commented on by the Northern
religious" (O newspapers. The
Bishop wrote as follows frsm this city:
81 was invited to an afternoon drive
with my hostess, the step-daughteI Of
one of our bishops. The coachman
was an honest old German. The
drive was to Mt. Bonnell, hill that
commanded the valley OF the Colorado
for many q league, rich, narrow, set
around with lofty hills. At night the
same driver took me to the Wesley
Church. The next morning lie carried
me 10 the depot. That night he was
missed, and, two days after, found be-
hind the town in hollow. hls throat
cut, and riddled with bullets. He had
been dead several days. He was
buried darkly at near dead Of night by
the gentleman and lady whom he had
so long served. Some might think his
late services caused the death, as that
would not be altogether undesIred by
some in the South, but it was probably,
as they say in Mexico, the custom OF
the country, and that only. He may
have had few dollars, and that was
cause enough for his taking on"
The coachman Of whom Haven
speaks was about thirty-aye years old.
Therefore he was not an ''old Ger
man, THIS coachnah was not a Seer
man, ~ but Swede, and If the bishop
employed him as often as he states he
knew the hackman not an ''old Ger
man," The valley Of the Colorado is
s.uch, but not ''narrow," and the
hills are only on one side Of it, and not
''set around 1t. y As alleged by this YER
.eioua bishop. who cannet -tsll- TIE
truth even when he reoites simple geo
graphical facts. The murdered coach
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27


THE country is curious to sec what
Speaker Randall will do with ex-Sec-
reLary of the Navy Robeson, now a
member of the House from New Jer-
sey. By all rules Of precedent and de-
corum he is entitled to the chairman
ship of Mr.. Whitthorne's Committee
on Naval Affairs; but Randall will
hardly remove his friend, partisan and
personal, who has served the country
with fidelity and confessed ability,
that the embodiment of all the virtues
of Grantism may supplant the admir-
able and facile Mr.. Whitthorne. But
there are many surmises, and much dis
cussion of Mr.. Randal's probable
mode of disposing of the famous Mr..
Robson pervades political circles.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27
WE HAVE PAID 1ILDEN.

Tilden's is not a lovabie character.
He has ground the faces of the poor.
He plundered remorseiessly the rail-
way builders of Michigan and of the
West. He was professional railway
vret ker. Despite his confessed re
morseless selG5hness, illustrated in his
bachelors life and habits, by some
legerdemain, he has secured q hold
upon Democratic leaders. The people
neither venerate nor respect him, and
yet these party-leaders confess that he
has ''twist on them" They do not
care to please him, and yet say he is
obliged to run. We are not, they say,
desirous of seeing him President, but
he has money and controls New York
with money, and we will be spared the
necessity of spending money if Til1en
lead. Therefore he must be our leader.
II we owed him anything, except for
editorials and letters furnished news
papers, and which he now causes to be
distributed afresh. we paid the debt
of gratitude by electing him President
in 1876, which act of preference he did
not appreciate enough to defend. By
what inscrutable force he holds the
Washington politicians in the hollow
of his gold and bond grasping hand
none may divine. But evidently Til
den has "twist on them," and the
more 3 the pity when purity of pur-
pose Is not ascribed to those who ally
themselves with this remorseless spec
ulator in the grIefs of Western railway
builders and in bonds and in unpaid
income taxes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

AN Austin correspondent OF the
R,ekport Transcript does not hesitate
to eriticise the conduct and policy of
Stephen F. Austin, who, shaving fat
coIoniz Ition contracts with Mexica,
hesitated and opposed" the separation
of Texas from the greaser government.
This was in December, 1885. Austin
and others also opposed Governor
Smiths scheme OF independence.
Houston obeyed and concurred with
Smith, FAnnin with Austin. and this
writer for the Transeript alleges that
this alienation Of Fannin from Hous-
ton caused that dIsobedience Of Hoss-
uOn,s orders which proved fatal to Fam
nm and his forces at Goliad. Governor
Smith, in one Of his letters, referring
t. the FAnnin-Austin party, hopes be
ssmay yst throw them = fall which viii
break their damned necks.~1
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

THE opinion obtains that the jetty
job was put up by EAds and the East
that the commerce of the country
might never be turned down the Mis-
sissippi to the Ballzs, but always move
from West to Est over the big bridge
to New York and Boston, to the rum
of New Orleans and of the South.
Eads's scheme was devised to prevent
the opening of ship canal from New
Orleans to BArratAria bay. When Eads
has squandered ten millions uselessly,
as he will, Congress will virtuously
say to the South: 1--WE have wasted
enough on the Gulf coast, and no Suez
AAnal ahan- -aannnot the inner and outer
seas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

man was not found Gin a hollow" as
stated, but on the summit Of the high
est hill in the immediate vicinity OF
Austin. H. was not riddled with bull
lets, but was shot twice with two balls.
He was not buried ''darkly," but late
Sunday afternoon, and simply because
he had been dead several days when
found. In this the bishop utters a
falsehoOd by innuendo. He was not
'buried by the gentleman and lady
whom he had so long served, but by
his own family and personal friends.
"Some might think his late services
Ito Bishop Haven't caused the death,
as that would not be altogether unde-
sired in the South" There is much
more of the same sort of inane stuff
published by this godly priest. But
nothing he has ever written or said
and he has devoted his life to absurdi-
ties-is comparable with this. His
pretended recital of facts is q concate-
nation of falsehoods and misrepresen-
tatIons disgraceful to man wearing
heavens livery to serve the devil of
RadicalIsm. But when he intimates
that the hapless Swede, who had been
intoxicated and exhibited his money
st Mexican circus, was put to death
because he served this marvellous
proper bishop, his vanity becomes
matchless insanity. Nobody here cared
aught about Haven. Nobody. as far
as we could learn, followed him or lis
tened to his cranky, rhapsodical dis
courses. We sought to give him many
hearers and spoke kindly of his COM
ing and purposes. But he failed to |
create a sensation. He failed to draw. |
He failed to create even town talk. !
He came and went away without |
making the faintest ripple on the sur
face of popular feeling, and he was
angry. Therefore this malice and
IuCSC puDliShCu ldlScuOOuSs VIC uOpC |
our haven of final rest will be as far as
the poles asunder from that which
lying priests like this inhablt. In an
other place Haven asserts that Gov
ernor Roberts, in 1867, led a mob by
which one Of Haven's sweet disciples
was put to death. Governor Roberts
never ''headed msb" in ell his life.
He is the very impersonation of law
and order and of sturdy conservatism.
He abhors mob law and cannot look
with the smallest grains of allowance
upon the deeds of Judge Lynch.
Haven is the foremt st liar of modern
times, even as he is the fore most priest
of his extravagant, revolutionary,
psalms-singing, violent party.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

THDEN's agents confess" their
guilt and Tildcn as softly and sweetly
"confesses" his innocence in the cipher
dispatch business, and the people are
tired of the trouble that seems to an
noy the politicians so seriously We
would wash out all memory of Louisi-
ana and Florida knaveries and begin
de noOo with an honest gentleman ike
Bayard or Thurman or Hendricks.
Bayard, in the estimation of fearlessly
honest people, and of those who ad-
mire purity and dignity of character
and lofty patriotism, stands first.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27
DEB TORS AND CREDITORS-THE
HOMESTEAD LAW.

There is no justice or wisdom in the
proposition to amend the homestead
law so that debtor and creditor shall
always he reduced to equality Of for
tune. The law of Texas intends that
each citizen, if he choose, may have
realty worth, when acquired, $4,000.
No citizen can haYe credit because of
such ownership of such property. No
one in Texas credits another because
the latter owns home however mag
nificent and costly. Credit is given, if
at all, because of faith in human ma
ture, and mot faith in property. If
the creditor be the loser, the debtor
retaining the homestead, there was no
harm done or fraud perpetrated by the
law. The law only guards the family,
the wife end children, and creditors
are supposed to take care of their own
interests. Everybody trading in Texas
trades with his eyes open and In the
presence of the Constitution. The
splendid abode of opulence is above
ground and as well the law that makes
it inalienable, excmpting it from execu-
tion sale. When a wretched woman
OF neighboring city, having four
little children, awoke one bright morn
ing to find the doors of the bank
closed, and that her gains of weary
years of lamplit toll were all gone, she
wept bitterly. Bat the just law that
protected the banker in the possession
of his splendid abode, built upon lot
that cost $4,000, was only just to the
bankers wife and children, and did
no wrong to the penniless. helpless
widow. She never gave credit to the
bankers Homestead" The grossest
ignorance would hardly do this in
Texas. The homestead owed not
dollar of this debt even though the
banker, with fearful eyes, confessed
his liability and promised again and
again to pay. The organic law of
Texas separates the "family" from the
man. Wives and children have rights
and distinct legal existence and separ-
ate and distinct legal rights, and even
though this law operate harshly in
some cases, and now and then knaYe
has taken advantage of it to wrong
the unwary and innocent, its purposes
and general results are admirable. l:
will never be repealed or materially
and those who give credit to
Texans, unless stupidity ignorant, are
never wronged by the homestead ex-
act. If it deprive Texans of
credit, it secures on. the other hand
fixed homes to wives and children, and
will yet produce the most patriotic
race that ever loved the homes and
land of their birth. If the Legislature
would prevent the possibility of
wrong-doing under this constitutional |
homestead act, 1t might provide for Its
in such manner that the |
property held as homestead must br
described as such on the county |
Then no creditor, rich or
poor, could ever complain if he lost |
money by crediting any one holding a |
under the organic law of |
Texas.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

HENDRICKS falls backward out of
sight. He is heavy and slow. Htncock
is stronger to the extent he has not
spoken about hard money and might
''straddle blind" or even the Texas
Democratic platform and that of hard
money and Sam Tilden. Thurman is
stronger now than Hendricks, but this
does not mean that he can beat Grant.
Bsyard has more personal and rela-
lively fewer political admirers than
any LYING American. II "a candidate
he would have more supporters as
man than as partisan. Honest pa
triots are painfully few and to this ex-
tent Bayard is off the track. But by
this election of Randall, even by one
majority, Tilden is thrust far ahead.
He stands before the country as
mighty fgurehead of his party. TIL
den, with hard money, hard times and
the supremacy of the money power, as
when Grant was the ceuntry's master,
must be accepted for the moment as
the unrivaled coming man. But moth
ing ls more changeful or variable than
the winds that fill the sails of party
leaders, luck. Tllden has no hold on
the affections of the people. He, in
spires no enthusiasm and is only ac-
cepted because he has money and can
carry New York and the party leaders,
without cost to them, into power.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

After taxing everything and sleep
ing coaches, aud making oficehold-
ers shell out 81 for commissions, and
falling 70 reduce burdeasome rates OF
taxation upon anything or anybody,
the Legislature cliDgs with Desperate
tenacity 20 the wet weather schools
and war department. The pressure in
behalf Of the maintenance Of armies Of
pedagogues and bangerson in Offices
and sinecures is Irresistible, and the
people must still grozn when cotton
sells at SIX cents and taxation il two
per cent. upon everything We eat.
drink, produce, wear, have and in
hale Isn't IL awful-those schooIa.
and the war department and the mil
lion and quarter o. half which shcy
wring from = destitute reapIaL :
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY has con-
tracted with Gen. j. 3. Price, of St.
Louis, for the delivery of the mails
from st. Louis to New Orleans by the
swiftest possible steamers carrying pas
sengers and mails alone. These steam
ers will traverse distance of twenty
or twenty five miles an hour, but can
hardly compete with railways. The
distance from New Orleans to s..
Louis by water is twice as great ss
that measured by railways. These
touch at all the larger towns and only
villages will be accommodated. au. f.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

NEW YORK has thirty-tive electoral
votes In 1880, and no Democrat except
Tilden can secure these. Therefore it is
claimed that Tilden must be nomi-
mated. In the presence of this fact,
as thrust forward by RIndall's re-elec-
tion, it is stated that Sunset Cox and
Morrison will lead off in favor of q
paper money Western Democrat, and
an alliance between these and the
Greenbackers is discussed.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

The STATEsNAH has received .
pamphlet copy Of the speech delivered
by Hon. A. w. Houston in the Senate
on frontier protection. Il is an able
argument and does infinite credit both
to che zeal and capacity Of the disfiD-
guished young 6enetoF. The people
Of the West will find in him no mean
champion Of their rights. He has al
ready shown himself an advocate who
can break lance with the most dcx-
trous Of the opposition. Even bcyond
the limits OF his district Mr.. Houston
is honored with pablic applause; and
already vote OF confidence Il ten
dered him from section be does not
officially represent, but which klroba
with an impulse Of admiration toward
the gallant defender in . common
cause. We refer 20 q recent CONVEX
ton held March 3 By the people Z (
McCulIoch county, and take pleasure
in extracting the following from their
proceedings:
"Resolped, That the thanks of the
citizens Of McCulloch county Be and
the same are hereby rendered 70 the
Hon. A. w. Houston lor his fidelity q
.ae interests Of oar county, and al
though not our immediafe rtpre6fnfa-
tive, he has proven % be fsfend 81
the frontier, and that We shall niusya
cherish his name IN the fondeeE IecoI-
lection"
Major Tom A. Drysn va chair,nss
and Dr. s. Bose secretary.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27
SLOFrr.
"Yes, thank God," exclaims fran

"Yes, thank God," exclaims fran
tic, senseless, sloppy Mississippi news
paper, 1--WE have captured The Capitol,
and in 1880 our man will walk up the
White House steps and take his seat in
the presidential chair. Then will our
glorious triumph be complete. Then
will we proceed to tear your amend
ments from the Constitution and
trample them in the mire. Then will
we break the shackles you have forged
for the free, sovereign and lndepend-
ent commonwealths of the Union.
Then will we recognize the right of
secession-a right that is not dead, but
sleeping. Then will we decorate the
Capitol with the pictures of Davis and
Lee and Stuart and all the glorious
leaders of cause that is not lost, but
living still. Yes, thank God, we have
captured the Capitol, and from that
coigne of vantage we propose to rule
the Republic in way that will make
your Radical laws and your Radical
leaders forever odioaS in America"
A phrenologist would discover no
bumps but wind bags and pustules on
the head of the ranting idiot who
wrote that balderdash. We proposed
to fight for theory and lost, and that
ended it. We were brave enough, even
foolhardy, to fight the world consoli-
dated in Its prejudices and convictions
against a social system surely unfer-
tunate for the white race. We were
fairly beaten and assented, each State
accepting terms defined by the victors
and vanquished. to that construction
of the Constitution given by Patrick
Henry when for the last time he en-
countered the youthful John Randolph
at the hustings. The amendments, to
the Constitution may be modified, but
not while we live, and surely this as
sertion, that the right of secession will
yet be recognized, should never come
from the lips of one fairly beaten in a
conflict ''precipitated" to determine it.
The South could hardly be silent or
give assent il a Northern common
wealth sought to practice the philoso-
ply of Davis and Yancey. There is
honor among States as among indi-
viduals, and the sword, when treaty
supervenes. is final arbiter of State
rights. We have to say to the North
ern press and people that a ranting,
fierce aud furious guzzler of mean
whisky and gunpowder, who lays .
nwhide and chunk bottle and repeater
on the table and begins "to fight all
his battles e'er again, is not an awe
inspiring figure or dangerous public
enemy. He is only ridiculous in his
frenzy and deemed rather idiotic than
insane. There were only enough Of
them in this potent congressional dis.
trict OF Texas to turn the tide. by CO.
operating with Governor DayIs's black
subjects, and defeat John Hancock and
send Wash jones to thu Congress of
the United States. We make this
modest suggestion that the Republican
papers may be taught and confess some
day that their adherents in the South,
even as was the case with Greeley and
Phillips in 1850, stil cooperate with
Radical editors like this rare genius
who fOams aud slops over so ridicu-
lOusly in this little Mississippi news
paper.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

Tn.DEN is exOnerated from all COM
plicity in the business of bribery con-
Quoted by his factotum and nephew,
Pelton, and by Smith, Weed, Marble
and Woolley. They spent their own
money to elect Tildeu, and now the
anti-Tilden people of Washington and
the paper money Democrats and
trainers of the Texas Democratic plat
form must learn to eat crow and take
in Tildeu.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

IT WAS a small business for the great
government of the United States to
vent its spleen, through Zack Chan
dler, upon the head Of one old Mexi-
can veteran, because, later in life. this
old soldier was rebel Governments
have the right to punish treason, but
not to vent petty spleen or in mean
little devious wars 10 assert hatred.
II Jeff. Davis were the devil and served
ss soldier through the Mexican war,
the government when paying its
debts should have simply confessed
that ''the devil i 70 pay When an
honest man owes an honest debt he
pays il without = word 70 his direst
enemy.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

The strength of the anti-Tlden sub
division of the Democratic party is
shown in the fact that Randall was re-
stored to the Speakers place by one
single vote giving him msjority.
Blackburn ana Cox represent the
strength of those opposed to Tilden.
Hard money Eastern Democracy has
won the first knock down in the prize
fuht of 1880.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-27

THE base murder at Marshall by
Curric, detective Of the Texas and
Pacific Railroad Company, of Mr.. Por-
ter, who belonged to the WariC Barry
more Combination, Is the most disgust
ing, Infamous deed done in the State
for q tweivemonth. Is there no pre-
ventiye for these das:srdly, bloody,
disgusting deeds? Can the Legislature
do nothing to corrcc. the evil. A half
drunken brute Insults helpless
woman, when her friend. NJ. Porter,
interposes, nnarmcd as he vas. The
brutal detective. accustomed TO wesr
arms and thus to contemplate murder,
snatched out of this towards pocket
on the hip the fatal repeater, and a
bullet was dispatched on its errand of
death. 1t is said this villain has mur.
dered his men into the teens, and the
wonder is expressed that great rail-
road company that has been nourished
so we'll by Texas should give employ
ment in our midst to such brute.
Keep them out of Texas.