The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-25

excite share of public spirit and OF
popular enthusiasm in behalf of a
, north western railway from this city.
GERMAN VOCsBS IN NEW YORK
| AND IN TEXAS.
The hostility Of Tam many to r nbin-
son in New York will probably bring
to his support the greater portion of
the German vote of that State. Ger
man voters hate corrupt, partisan COM
binations and empty platforms. If
Germans in Texas ascribe to the Dem
ocratlc party the adoption of the Sun
day law, it will probably cost the
party 10000 German votes, and 10,-
600 of the native population. Add
this to the Republican vote proper, and
there is no exsggerating the mischief
done by our local law -givers. But these
are local facts. They affect in
nothing Federal contests. Whatever
ones opinions of the bell punch or of
the free school swindle or the fanatical
Sunday law, the Democratic party of
the United States is in no wise re-
sponsible for Texan legislation. When
Germans of Texas are required to an
swer at the ballot box whether they
prefer the consolidation of an empire
under the two Shermans, the one hold
ing the sword, the other the purse, or
under the personal government of
Grant and Boss Shepherd or the purely
republican sway of an honest states
man and patriot like BlYsrd, they
would never hesitate. Happily, there
fore, for the Democratic party in Texas,
German voters have degree of intelli-
gence which enables them to discrlm-
mate between the Legislature and the
people of Texss. The latter, as shown
by the voice of the press. condemn
what the Germans condemn, and when
a new Legislature is chosen, new men
and new measures, and a changed
public policy will shape the course of
events. in accomplis hing this result
the press of the Seate will cooper
ate with the Germans, even as these
will vote with the Democracy when
Baysrd, the devoted friend, political
and personal, who rendered the last
honors to Mr.. Schleicher, becomes a
candidate for the presidency. The
knaveries and beastly corrup-
ton and despotic acts of Tam
many render its hostility to
Robinson, the Democratic gubernato-
rial candidate in New York, most for
tunate for him. If Tammsny support
ed, the Germans would oppose him
but fortunately for Robinson and un-
happily for Cornell, the sluffing off of
Tammany lmpels decent people to vote
for the man betrayed by knsves, aud
Robinson's strength springs from this
treason of Tammsny. In Texas, on
the contrary, if the Germans betray
the party, because of the acts of
the Legislature, they would do gross
injustice to their own intelligence and
to the party to which foreign-born
citizens owe personal and political
rights. In the presence of the ghost
ly habiliments of Know Nothing
ism, laid low by the stalwart blows
of Democracy, and smItten year after |
year whenever Radlcalism invokes its |
strength and memories, no German can
be induced to betray the Democracy
because itself was betrayed by the Leg
islature. Davis and his black cohorts |
have no attractiveness as allies of |
German Republicans; Hamman and |
and Jones from whose lips the froth |
of empty delusive paper money is blown
to the winds have no potency in
the presence of green memories of |
Schleicher's profound financial philos-
ophy and finished, practical speeches.
Bsysrd, who came to Texas to tender
supreme honors to the dead German
statesman of Texas, will never lose the /
power to consolidate, when the curren-
cy question is discussed, In State or
Federal elections, the German vote of
Texas. A few months ago German
aversion to Greenbackism would have
been enough to drive the children of
fsderland into the embraces of Democ-
racy; but the extinction of that evan
escent organization, which has new
er done more than invest Rad
icalism with supremacy in CAL
ifornis and Maine and tolls to
accomplish the same result in Ohio,
leaves the German no recourse. He
must either vote with native American,
negro Radicalism or 60 with the Demo-
cratic party, expurgsted of modern
financial vices. and follow Coke and
Maxey, beneath the shameless banner
and honorable leadership of Bsysrd.