The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-15

Hsnc aok, politically, and doubt not
that he would make good governor
for the State. Yet there is little hope
of his getting the nomination, and no
probability that he would run other
wise. Tue truth is, Judge Hancock is
sn Independent, upnght politician
and had rather not have an officeth
to pander to the intrigues OF conde-
scensions of s:demagogue, and this is
mainly what defeated him for the Sen
ate st our last Ssnst lrial election, and
perhaps also defeated him for Congress
last year. Such men, though an honor
to the profession of politics, are rarely
useful TO the party, and hence We are
not enthusiastic in again urging the
STATEsMAS's candidate for defeat.
The Telegram calls attention to the
fact that witnesses in criminal cases,
ss in case at Palestine, come into
open court and admit to swearing
falsely, and yet no official action Is
had upon such perjury. 1t says:
This, one of the most infamous of
crimes, is far too common in cur courts
and should be punished with a severity
that will deter witnesses from going
into court as mere partisans prepared
to swear their friends clear of dagger
Gus crimes, as they not unfrt quentlv
do, and then laugh in their sleeves at
the gullibifty OF soft-hearted Jurors
and cheese-headed district attorneys
and judges.
The Telegram is justly opposed to
this foolish sentimentality about
Grant, to which the Galveston Netcs
has allied itself, and says:
The Nstos says the South should
take hold of the sausage itself inste ad
Of fighting for and defending its
charge. That is, if Grant and his
sycophants plundered the goveromens
during his two terms, thc Snurh ougb,
to re elect him this timr, ani join iD
the robbing. This it. tin- morality for
the ''Greatest and Best" paper in the
South, the leading paper in Texas.
To what base uses q newspaper may
sometimes be put. General Grant viii
never forget either the Nees, nor the
plain inference which is deducible
from what it says. Can we ex-
pect higher order of patriotism
or political service, when the
press of country spends twelve
years in proving the dishonesty OF 3
public servant, and when that fact is
sufficiently established, turns about and
urges with all its might and main his
reelection to the highest position with
IN the gift of the American people.
The Neaos reads the impromptu greco
ing of Grant in the South In a very
shallow way. Not every man the South
tips Its hat tn would it support foI
President. Ia reply to its suggestive
and self-committing inquiry, as 70
whether Georgia and South Carolins
have at last determined to ''swim with
the stream" we may reply, not if it is
the business of that stream to bear
GIsnt on its bosom 10 third term.
They will never so s;uI.ify themselves,
however the NesOs may do it.
The Hespsrian condemns the toadying
to Grant. 1t closes en- article upon the
disgusting theme as follows:
Gen. Grant will not be nominated
for third term, and in few years he
will be forgotten. IT'S true the his
tories which his toadles have written oil
paid for, will claim that he was hero
and great man; but even these will
perish, and what every man of this
generation knows to be a truth, will
come to the light of the future, and
that is. ''he is a hero, and general,
and the only one the world ever saw
who made a great name, yet never won
a victory nor fought battle where his
antagonists were not vastly inferior in
arms and men," True he is the hero oil
numberless defeats, and who, when his
enemies were exhausted, received the
surrender of the immortal Lee, whom
he never fought without defeat.
Upon what meat
| Has this, our Caesar fed,
| That he has great