The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-11
From our New York Correspondent. ]
Politics and Immigration.
New YORK. November s. 1850.


of the philosophy of victory and
defeat. Each one knows the ex-
act and all-sufficient cause of the
Democratic defeat and of the Re
publican victory.
Mr.. Barnum, who managed the
Democratic cohorts, suffers the fate
that ever falls To defeated leader.
while Mr.. Jewell has all the plaudits
of a victory. Ask the crowd of
journalists why 'this was thus" and
one will answer: The solid South
did il :" another will tell you that il
was 1.-The tariff plank of the plat
form" a third that ii was IN ade
Hampion's folly and the bloody
shirt and Others that il was corrup
ton. The truth is that all are right.
for all these factors entered into the
problem and contributed TO the re-
suit. But there was something more
Notwithstanding more power
tut than all these.
Look at the history OF the canvass.
Before the nomination we find the
third term men, supported and
backed by the enormous wealth of
all New England and New York,
supporting Grant. Not one of the
Grant men entered the contest.
Cameron and the rest stopped at
their homes in silent sickness. Gar
field was beaten in Maine, for that
is what the October election meant.
Then there was counsel called.
Grant and his supporters went to
Mentor. They consulted with Gar
field and went into the field with all
the vigor of men who had great
prize 10 win. At the same time
there was such a rallying of the
manufacturing and the bank inter
ests as this country never before
saw, aid | pray heaven never NAV
again. Money was poured into the
campaign treasury with prodigal-
ity that you can not conceive. Man.
ufacturers gave their workmen TO
understand in language so plain,
that no man could mistake it. that all
hope of employment depended not
only on their votes, but on their ac-
tive partisanship. They actually
paraded their workmen under
their shop flags, and mar
shaled them either i'll person or by
their foremen. Do man need any
palmer language? 1t is true that
the law makes it misdemeanor to
discharge workman because of his
political opinions, but they do not
call it by that name. There is some
other reason assigned, though every
man knows the cause. | tell you
that it requires Il pretty sturdy pa
triot to vote against his employer
when that vote brings idleness-an
impoverished family hunger, want
and suffering in its train. One might
rise 10 that dignity of patriotism
in the month of May, but it is No
vember now. There is snow and
ice in New England, and there soon
will be i'll the Middle States. do
not blame these poor men. The
fight that Gen. Jackson fought when
he removed the deposits from the
old United States Bank is to be
fought over again. John Sherman
is the Nicholas Biddle of this con-
test. Garfield in 80 means Grant
in '84, and to his life's end. He may
not wear a crown; he may put on.
as did the French tyrants, a liberty
cap, but be the head gear of what
fashion it may, the head beneath
will be that of empire. This is not
idle vaporing. There is a strong i'm
perial following in this Northern
country. It may be that before this
decade shall close Southern forces
will be called to rally and fight for
the preservation of the Republic.
Of course Mr.. Watterson made
blunder when he insisted on these
words, "a tariff for revenue only"
But it mattered not what the plat
form was, the defeat of Hancock was
foreordained when wealth became
omnipotent in the political strug-
giles of our country.
IMMIGRATION.
We are now beginning a new
struggle, and it becomes the thought
full citizen to consider we'll the situa-
ton. In the last ten years Texas
doubled her population. We have
not yet the means of calculating
what her relative influence in the
congress and electoral college will
be under the new apportionment.
We do know that in 1850 she was the
twenty-fifth state, in 1860 the TWEEN
ty-third, and in 1870 the nineteenth.
My judgment is that she will
not fall below the eighth state
in magnitude of population and
influence This is big leap;
it means power; it means re-
spect and consideration il means
for necdful work it
means everything that power brings
in its following. | know that the
immigration into the state during
the last ten years has not been much
more than half what it might have
been made by an enlightened state
policy. | tell you that Texas might
have stepped into the fourth place
in the government of this republic.
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
alone would have surpassed her in
population. At the present ratio of
representation Texas will be entitled
to fourteen congressman. Had our
immigration policy been liberal as
that of Kansas we would have called
for twenty-five. OF course the ratio
will be changed, but the proportion
will be the same. One hundred
thousand dollars n year would have
accomplished that result, and with
that power Texas could have de-
handed and would have received
such liberal appropriations as would
have developed her harbors, i'm
proved her rivers, protected her
frontier, and built her up an empire
among states. This is what might
have been done, but it was not, be-
cause a blind policy of penny wis
dom prevailed. Now let us see if
there he craftsmanship and liberali-
~ enough In Texas to place her
third in the line directly after New |
York and Pennsylvania when the |
census of 1890 shall have been |
counted. If the liberal movement |
made by the railroads OF Texas is
seconded by her people, it will be |
done. The division of Texas was
one of the terrors by night TO |
frighten voters in this campaign. |
1t is not in the division of Texas, il |
Is in her development that the COM
ing strength will be found. TEXAN. |
There were sweet sprvices I'm the |