The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-26
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Governor ROBBERS, in one yesr. says
ih- K u'maD Star. has p rdoned six =.
. convicts, commuteo s.x aud remit
ted thirty tive Il es aud fotf-4tures. In
TWO years Governor Hubbard psrdoned
10S conyicts, commuted forty EIGHT
IN u remnted 22S 6nes and tor;eitures.
The pspers opposed to the G vernon
hsye been trying TO make it appear
that be was TuoDiug the state by his
pardons and combinations, bur the
above Official figures will show for
themselves.
The Victoria allocate twits Cover
nor Coke with being the author of the
International railway compromise,
whereby, according TO the Adcccate,
the state lost 81 600, 600 in taxes and
$40, 600, 900 in lands. Tae AduOcdte
Is particular not 10 mention the long
period oyer which the a 900 600
''lost taxes" ale distributed, nor the
vast benefit the rad has been TO the
s. ate. Let the AdcOcdte calculat- the
millions of dollars worthi I, [ spprecis-
ton In lands and real property the
road has csused to the state and its
people, and then say whether the COM
promise wasn't good bargain all
round Besides, 1t isn't exactly fair
to saddle Governor Coke with q trade
that was endorsed by msjority of the
leading men of his party at the time.
The Navasota TdLlet is satisfied that
Governor Blberts has worked un-
tiringly and against great odds for the
curtallment of expenses of govern
ment and the reduction heretofore an
nualjy increasing state debt. How
we'll he has succeeded the cash bal
snce of $500, 900 in the treasury, and
the exchange OF SIX per cent. bonds
for ten per cents, thereby saving to
the sta'e tens of thousands of dollars
annually, are forcible evidences. The
people OF Texas whose public funds
and interests he has SO ia tafully
guarded should gladly throw the mar
tie of charity over the few mistakes
of his sdministration-for where was
ever an executive whose policy on all
questions of public interest met the
hearty approval of a unanimous con-
stituency
nc " itio Oint 1-OCut 10 IL HuCuCcu
by patriotic motives when it says SIT
was the gallant national Democracy
that grsppled with the fell spirit of
Radicalism, and after years of strife
restored the supremacy of the civil
law to the cng-sufferlDg s nth. 1:
all the charges against Roberts weie
true, his administration is still inf
nitely superior to that of D.vis. The
Democracy possesses in the main the
wealth and worth, the brains and
backbone of T, xas. Indeed, it may
be fairly doubted whether outside of
the democracy there is enough virtue
and intelligence to run our state gov
eminent. Without D mocrstic sup
port..no measure, however beneficial,
could be prosecuted successfully in
Texas. So strong is the popular con-
fidence in the Democracy that, as anti
Democratic measures even the multi
plication table and the ten command
ments would fail of approval if advc-
Gated by Stewards proposed coalition
of Radicals, Greenbsckers and disaf-
fected Democrats. TIE record of the
snti-Democracy in Texas has been al
most wholly bad, and no amt uut of
fair promises can face the memory of
their corruption ID Office. Whatever
faults attach TO our Texas d mocrscy
may be wholly corrected in the party
and not ou side of it,"