The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-06-10
THE CHICAGO NOMINEE.

result effects the fortunes of the Re
publican party, it tells tale of signifi
canoe that must make the politicians o
all parties and of all communitie
tremble. Through years of pstien
and vigorous labor, the couDtr,
has witnessed three huge ma
chimes, moving together in tn
presidential harvest, ready for tn
reaper in the season of 1880. Gran
has been kept constantly in a whirl o
glitter and pomp at the couutry's ex
pense, and Col. Fred has had the hard
ihood to damn anybody who dared no
bow down at the feet of his illusirieu
'father." Grants canvass has been on,
OF brillisnce, sustained by the contribu
tions of a government. used for indi
vidual gain instead for public good
and, with all this and the ADMINISTERS.
ton Of the most powerful political tri
umvlrste in the country, we see the for
tunes of the ''silent man" decline, aad
the banner of the would-be Ca ar trail.
ing in the dust of ignominious defeat
We see the "Plumed Knight" through
four long years of calculating, with &
large remainder from previous engage
ment, bow his head in humiliating dc.
feat, and pass out of the lists. his in.
struments of war shattered into atoms,
while amid the debris OF the field the
lesson is taught that machines are val
ueless. The next spectre that passes
before US is the ghastly, hsggafd fig-
ure OF the treasury king moving in
crest-fallen silence to the rear. Hi mil
lionso of money did not Wild, and his army
of Office holders and hirelings are dis
mayed and dumbfoundred, and with
painful yisage they see the last stay
gone and the machine bursted; and
now we see this defunct giant, whose
chiefest delight was to witness the
effect of thumb-screw appliances,
laid away in the rear of the treasury
vaults, to be preserved as a monk IN
the dry vaults of the monastery a;
BONN, ever a memento of departed
human folly. Grant and Blaine and
Sherman no longer live in the political
agitation of this country. Their tale
has beer told and 1t was one OF
fury, signifying nothing. They
have been swept from the polit-
ical field by a cyclone, power
full enough to demolish and scatter
to the winds the last vestige of huge
machines. Such was not the purpose
of one-tenth of the delegates at Chica-
go, but it is reality, and we are led to
reflect that it is one OF the negotiable
things of the times. 1t is an age for
the overthrow of schemers and trick
sters, an age which had its inception,
as far as we are able to trace it, here
In Texas, and which is destined to be
felt until the country at large is once
more relieved from error and corrup-
ton, and placed on the highway that
leads to truth and purity. These are
the lessons taught by the defeat OF
political giants at Chicago, men who
have grown into grandeur on the dis
tress and misery of a people, and who
pass out, probably under deceptive ap-
pearances, to give place to others.
Grant was an accident, but he became
the tool of the most corrupt rings that
ever preyed upon the sustenance of q
people. Hayes, too, was an accident,
in 1875, defeating the machine, going
into Office with no obligations, and
determined to do right. But the
power was at hand to check
him, and he succumed before
the Conklings, and the Came
rons, and the Blaines, and his "clvil
reform" pledge became byword for
insincerity and duplicity. So it will
be with Garfield. He cannot turn his
back upon his party, and it was shown
at Chicago that but very small por-
ton of this party is friendly to him.
The great majority would have prefer
red some other man, Grant, Blaine OF
Sherman, not Garfield, and while he is
said to be quite correct man, like
poor Hayes, he must become the tool OF
these 700 men, who were his enemies.
Should the Senate and House remain
Democratic, it is possible, in the event
of his being made President, that for
q time he may accomplish good, but
with the vast power of the same party
that supported Grant, and which en-.
dorsed Blame, he must shortly become
the same tool as was made of Hayes,
and under him the country will set
tie down into the old Republl.
can groves. Just so long as Re-
publicsnism prevails in federal
administration will these corrupt.
ing influences be perpetuated. Gar
fields record may be one of the best
in the Republican party, but he belongs
to it, and it has the faculty of shaping
men completely to its measures, and
he dare not oppose, dead though they
may be, these very spectres of de-
feat that passed off the political boards
at Chicago. THERE'S but one safe re.
treat from its plans and machinat,ons.
The two houses of Congress are both
Democratic. They have instituted
many reforms, but have also been de-
featsd in many by Republican pres
ideht. Let Us accept the lesson al
Chicago as one leading towards better
public sentiment, and let rs reach
happy results alone through the cleo.
ton Of q Democrat, who does not
even possess machine. Thur.
man may be regarded by some
Is the proper man to oppose Garfield.
They are both Of Ohio, but Ohio wal
Democratic, and Thurman was elected
by Democratic Legislature to th'
United States Senate. The finsn
cial theories OF Old Billallen, which
were accepted by Thurman, turnec
Ohio over to the Republicans
and Garfield was not long AGO electei