The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-07-29
TEXAS POLITICS.

Bowie county is for Senator
Maxey.
Galveston has q Garfield and
Arthur club.
Red River county approves the
official acts of the Old Alcalde.
Morris county convention sends
delegates wholly uninstructed to
Dallas.
So far Governor Roberts has
over two-thirds of the delegates
elected.
Houston and Anderson are for
the Old Alcalde, and so is all East
ern Texas.
Hon. Scion Stewart, of Kinney
county, has been nominated for the
legislature.
Coleman county instructs for
Roberts, and Col. Thomas NJ. Jack
for Congress.
Delegates to the Dallas county
convention stand 80 Roberts and ~
anti-Roberts.
The Fort Worth Ereaiag NetrS
hoists the name of John Hancock. of
Austin, for governor.
The Kaufman Sun says there are
from 1000 to 1900 Greenback voters
in Kaufman county.
Wash Jones says that Seth Shep-
ard will be his opponent in the COM
ing congressional race in the fifth
district.
"A man named Howell, for kill
ing man in Homer, Illinois. about
eight months ago. has been arrested
at Fort Griffin.
The Milan county convention
instructed for Roberts and Shepard;
n. II. Garnett for state senator. and
w. w. Oxsheer, for representative.
III. w. Lightfoot is a candidate
for the state senate to represent
Delta, Fannin and Lamar counties.
He is the law partner of Senator
Maxey.
CONGRESSMAN Wellborn has been
notified that the cadetship, to which
Beaumont G. Buck was appointed,
has been declared vacant. He will
be appointed.
The Washington county Democ-
racy instructs its delegates to vote
for Roberts; second choice, ID. G..
Giddings. Shepard is of course the
choice for congress.
Colorado and Fort Bend and
Brazoria and Wharton counties de-
sire to see Roberts kept in the exec
utive chair, and SO do all the good
people in the alluvial belt.
Lieutenant Governor Savers
spoke at Galveston on the 21st, and
was followed by Senator Street,
who defended Governor Roberts
against attacks made upon him.
z -Bandera county says it wants
Roberts and it will have him. Palo
Pinto county takes up the refrain,
and its farmers and stockmen say
they would have his policies carried
out.
Coleman county is young and
vigorous, and managed by young and
vigorous men, says Roberts should
be made governor. In fact the
frontier citizens are almost solid for
him.
Ex-Governor Throckmort0n met
Col. G. w. Jones at Mckinney in
political discussion, and the Demo-
Gratis were happy at the manner in
which the Ex-Governor exposed the
falacies of the Greenbackers.
The Cleburne Chronicle says:
INSTRUCTED for Roberts" endorsed
Governor Roberts," is the way re-
ports come from nearly every coun-
ty in the state. Progressive expen-
diture wins not against honest econ
omy.
The Dispatch says Democrats of
Lampasas county are for Roberts
and Lang, with chances for instruc-
ton for the former. With the latter
out of the race it will be all one way,
for the Dispatch says there is none
there for Major Sayers.
The Falls county convention
indorse Hon. VIM.
Brown for comptroller, L. c. Alex.
ander for attorney general, and X.
Q. Mills for Congress. A resolution
to indorse Governor Roberts was ia
bled, out of Difference to Col. Lang,
at his home, by a vote of 40 to 81. 1t
was evident, however, that a major
ity of the convention were for Rob
erts. Delegates go ia the state con-
uninstructed.
"A man named Stanley Welch,
whom we think has been heard of in
Austin. is trying to blow his brains
out at Corpus Christi in support of
Democracy, and in a meeting there
the other day he bitterly arraigned
Governor Davis and the old Radical
regime of Texas, to whom and to
which this self-same Welch gave
most earnest adhesion and faithful
service. The STATESMAN weeps for
the Democracy of Nueces county.
The Colorado county conVen-
ton instructed: For governor, o.
NJ. Roberts; lieutenant governor,
l.. j. Storey, comptroller, w. Nj.
Brown; treasurer, F. II. Lubbock;
commissioner of general land office,
w. c. Walsh attorney general, j.
I'll. McLeary; Congress, Seth Shep-
ard; representative, j. G. Kendrid !;
eleetor of fifth district,
Wells Thompson; district judge of
judicial district. w. j.
Darden, first choice, Everett Lewis
second choice.
The Dallas Times says: "Briga-
der General James had hardly re-
ceived his appointment from Gov,
Roberts. when he commenced writ
ing to the military throughout the
state that we must have Sayers9
Savers is the man here, etc, If the
shoulder-strapped malitiaman don't
know any more about military tao
tics than he does about politics, he
should retire. The arrow which
rankles the worst is the ONE shot by
a freacherous friend. a fellow feel
ing, etc. is probably what actuated'
the redoubtable brigadier in his adj
miration of Jody. They are both of
the same pattern"
In the Georgetown Democratic
convention the result of the ballots
for Offices were as follows: Repre-
sentative-D. s. Chessher, 102; Jas.
III. Robertson. u. County Judge
S. s. Munger. %; G. W. Glasscock,
go. County attorney--W. L. Cor
don, 10S; A. o. Clark, 2. County
Clerk-Levi Pennington, Ill. Conn
" Treasurer-C. NJ. Lesueur. 40.
District Clerks. NJ. Lesesne. 120.
lax AsseSsOr-J. -. DHucc, oJs jas.
III. Faubion, 1S. Tax Collectors.
NJ. Strahorn, 105; John E. King, 8 !;
J. w. Branch, z. Sheriff.. III. Lea,
81. Milt Tucker, 80. mspector-P.
A. Henderson, IS; Sam Romans, az.
The convention endorsed the admin
istration of Governor Roberts.
Such speculation as follows,
from the Brenham BaitneI,, will be
settled at Dallas bv the nomination