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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

\ CERTAIN new fabric has just
been received in New York from
Paris which is expected to be "all
the rage 1t hears the significant
name of cloth of gold" being
thickly woven with gold threads.
1t is said to be splendid beyond de-
scription. The price in New York
is S22.50 per yard, but its price
throughout the country in general
is to be put at $50 the yard. It's
best market is expected TO be in the
West, particularly in Austin, where
these enterprising capitalists win
elothe their good wives and
daughters in dresses worth from
$1,000 10 $500 each. Who will
create the first sensation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30
DENYING JUSTICE.

At meeting of the Texas associa-
tion of veterans of the Mexican war
Gen. VIM. Steele. Col. A. J. Dorm
and Col. Robert Josselyn were ap-
pointed 10 prepare an address 10
their comrades. In performing this
duty they call attention TO the fact
that Mexican veterans have been
denied a inerited recognition of SER
vice, while vast sums have been do
mated to those who served the Union
at later period. They call atten-
ton to the fact that the Republican
party mas persistently refused to
grant pensions 10 the Mexican vete-
rams, while Democrats have voted
to give pensions to all who have
done the country service. They
say:
Among the Republicans who have
prominently opposed with vigoI
and all the arts of filibustering any
and every attempt to recognize the
just debt due the veterans of the
Mexican War, will be found their
candidates for the Presidency, Jas
a. Garfield. the Chairman of the
Chicago Convention, which nom
mated him, Senator Hoar. Senator
Blaine and others of but little less
prominence. These parties will
doubtless continue their efforts,
and it is by no means improbable
that Garfield, should he be elected,
will veto any Mexican War pension
bid that a Democratic Congress may
pass.
Gen. Hancock, the Democratic
nominee for President, is himself a
Mexican War Veteran Zone of the
youngest) and will naturally feel a
deep interest in his older and less
fortunate associates. r... a.
For these reasons, then, we urge
upon all who feel an interest in
their welfare. to vote the Demo
cratic ticket with Winfield Scott
Hancock at its head.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

SENATOR MAXEy's term expires
next March. The fact that he will
then have been a L. :. senator for
six years gives him no greater
claim than other men to the posi-
ton. Why did not the TyupScript
apply its theory to Governor Rob-
ertS as well as to Senator Maxey +?
The STATESMAN does not DENY the
worth and energy of Senator Max
ey. hut there are as brilliant and us
able aud as efficient men in Texas as
he, and there are many of these who
would not have allowed, and would
never allow themselves to be used
by Conkling and other stalwart Re
p0blicans of the Senate to the detri-
ment of good government, and in
opposition to Democratic principles
of action.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

ALL parties, it appears must be
ovcrthrOwn, sooner or later, and the
signs indicate that the time for the
overthrow of the Republican party
is at hand. The very fact that its
leaders have gone into the business
of predicting disasters as the con-
comitants of their expulsion from
power by Democracy. under Gen.
Hancock. is one of the symptoms of
agony
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

The Austin STATESMAN wants
Senator Bayard to come to Texas.
Does the STATESMAN think that
Texas could hold Bayard and Coke
at the same time?-TyIc,' Courier.
There is nothing hard about such
IA question. n response to the call
OF Texans that Mr.. .Bayard come to
Texas might make our Junior Sem
ator" leave, but Bayard would GER
tainly not he disturbed in his awful
presence.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30


A CLEMENT factory. at Windsor,
North Carolina, has 612 spindles in
operation. and two Clement attach
menis. The capacity of the mill for
one day is 1000 pounds seed cotton
converted into warns. II employs
fourteen operatives. The cotton is
worth three cents per. pound. max
ing n daily expense of $50: the ex-
'penscs of skilled labor-cngincer.
firemcn. etc.,-fuel. operatives. and
incidentals. $1210: total. S42lO.
The product of the mills 800 pounds
of warn. at 20 cents. $50: ~ bushels
of cotton seed. at 10 cents. s.. 20 +:
waste etc. 50: total, S64,2O. which
leaves net profit of S22.1O on the
days work. The interest on capital
and insurance and wear on ma
chinery is not included in the above.
BY operating the entire year, the
profits, after paying all expenses,
win considerably exceed so per cent.
on the original investment. Several
other factories of this kind, using
the Clement attachment, are soon to
be built in North Carolina. And
why can we not have one big cotton
factory at Austin. .ll
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30
VOL. Y.

THE Cheyennes are becoming en-
ragged because the agencies. as they
say, are starving them to death
And vet the government pays these
agents two or three times what
would support these Indians. These
Indian agencies were always rotten
To the core. and they should be
abolished and the Indians turned
over to the army.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

TuR Tyler Courier favors the
election of Judge Reagan to the
United States senate. While the
personal advancement of this gen.
tleman would be gratifying to his
friends, Texas and the South would
by 1t lose his invaluable services in
the House as chairman of the com
mittee on commerce. Had he not
held this position Hon. George
Washington Jones could not have
boosted Of getting fair appropria-
tions Tor the improvement OF har-
bors In his district.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

THESE unknown people whc tele-
graphed congratulations to Gen.
Hancock on his nomination. and
then on the Maine election. hope TO
get their names in print and o-pave
the way for being called in to take Il
hand when the official dealis made.
As with Democrats so ii is with Re-
pubIicans. and il makes one nervous
To see these god-fashioned poll
ticians moving straight forward to-
wards blissfIl official fields.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30
The Cincinnati .Abendpost. IL Ger

The Cincinnati AbeRdpOSt. II Ger
man Republican paper, has now de-
clared against Garfield. 1t says:
Gen. Garfield and Gen. Arthur
have been proven by II congressional
committee to have been guilty of
bribery, official corruption other
wise, and the dirtiest kind of prac-
tices in general. 1t is really great
that our glorious party
is compelled to take rs cemprO-
mise between Grant an Blaine, who
themselves were none too clean. such
a Credit Mobilier and DeGolyer
contract swindler rs this man Gar
field. 1t was only jumping from the
frying-pan into the fire"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30
WHO REPUDIATES.

The Republican papers were busi-
ly engaged, after the Arkansas elec-
ton. in circulating Il deliberate and
malicious falsehood, to the effect
that the repudiating amendment OF
the Arkansas constitution had been
adopted, the truth being that it had
been rejected. Democratic Arkan-
sas, preyed upon for years by Radi-
cal thieves, and thus reduced to great
financial distress. hOnors its state
pledges, while Republican Minneso.
tn has continued to repudiate its
obligations for the last twenty years
It's state Democratic convention
in 1859. under the leadership OF
Governor Sibley, who still. lives to
work and vote for Hancock in 1880
declared that 1.-The doctrine of repu-
diation announced by the Republi-
can party is one that is abhorrent to
the Democracy" and pledged "the
Democratic party that Minnesota
shall honorably and promptly meet
all obligations resting upon her." But
the Republican party, which opposed
the payment of the interest to which
the faith and credit of the state were
pledged, carried the day, and Min
nesota has ever since stuck to Re-
publicanism and to reputation, and
the only hope that her creditors
have of ever seeing her redeem her
character depends on the restoration
to power of the Democratic party.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30
TREASURER LUBBOCK's CARD.

Attention is called to the card of
our very worthy state officer, Treas
urer Lubbock. 1t was not originally
intended for the columns of the
STATESMAN, but is admitted. because
we think this gentleman, who has
been personally attacked, should be
allowed the means of reply. 1t
would certainly have been more
proper for this card TO have APP
peared, as was intended, in the col
umns of the Galveston Netrs. which
has reproduced all these ugly insin-
uatiOns as to the personal character
of state officers: but since it appears
to be the policy OF this paper TO vii
ify these good men. because.
as il seems, they are Dem
ocratic officers, and to then
deny them the right of defense, we
feel that the STATESMAN does moth
ing more than an act of justice TO
honorable men to make the publica-
tiOn. If all papers were like the
Ne'rS, in this particular, great out
RACES would certainly be accom-
plished upon those who are improp-
erly attacked. These charges are
certainly very CALLING to a gentle
man of Treasurer Lubbock's, sand-
ing, whose exemplary character and
model social conduct is well known.
But he speaks for himself in Ian
guage strong enough to show that
he is tired of falsehood. and his ma
ture would lead him to stseh acourse
instead of one ut law. The STATES,
MAN has not circulated these oufra-
geoas statements. knowing them to,
be false. and, while Il would
have preferred for paper uttering
them to be used as the channel for
this personal explanation, we cannot
refuse to give wronged gentleman,
entirely responsible for his utter
ances, the right 10 public hearing.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30
The Panola Watchmon saw !:

he dHUId WUtCNHttH sHNr
This senatorial business is getting
terribly mixed, and may result in
the defeat of bOthMaxey and Throck-
morton; if so. dark horse will be
the result. and that dark horse may
be Roberts. o. VI.
We hardly think so, and should
Governor Roberts be brought for
ward it will be a disappointment TO
his best friends.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30
TOUCHING the Virginia troubles,

the Philadelphia Times SAYS:
The Times stated the case exactly
II few days ago. when it said that
Virginia would settle herself in the
Hancock column if Hancock's elec-
tion became promising. while her
vote would be tumbled over TO Gar
field if his success seemed rcasona-
bly, certain. Maine has settled the
Virginia teud, and both sides will
fall in, each swearing that it was first
at the traternal feast. Success is
wonderfully successful in politics
and war.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

WILL Senators Coke and Maxey
be so kind as to inform their con-
stituents. if the matter is fit for pub
lie information, why they, as the
Senators of Texas, agreed to the
confirmation of Al. Evans as dis
trict attorney for one of the judicial
districts. These senators certainly
knew Evans, his character and his
hatred of Texans; and they knew
his record as politician then as
well as now. There must have been
some good reason why they did not
oppose him, and we want to know
what that reason was. The senator's
will please answer.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30
A .WAsH1NaroN special

y WASHINGTON special to the
Missouri Republican says:
Mr.. Hayes will undoubtedly re-
main away from Washington until
the close of the campaign. Life here
would be painful to him and he knew
it would be before he left. He went
away because the managers insisted
on running the departments as polit-
ical machines. He was obliged to
Weld 10 the necessity of the party,
but he was unwilling to stay and
witness his own humiliation. As
soon "a he was away the politicians
took command and the civil service
of the government is now used as a
party machine. Besides the whole
sale assessments that have been
made, there are other misdoings
going on which Mr.. Hayes once
said should never be tolera-
ted. A large number of clerks
of the Treasury Department are
daily employed, to the neglect of
their regular duties, in directing
documents for the Republican con-
gressional committees. Others are
busy translating documents into
French and German. while Others
are preparing cooked up figures for
campaign purposes. Assistant Post
master General Hazen has prepared
letter charging the Democratic
party with misfeasance in the man.
agement of the Postoffice Depart
ment, and Commissioner Bentley an
other, defending the Republican
management offthe pension Office.
These are given currency by ymeans
of the pretenee that they are official
documents prepared and issued in
the regular course of official duty.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

OK the 23d EX-G GOvernor Throck.
morton made a telling speech al
Dallas, reviewing the issues OF the
canvass. Touching the Democratic
leadership, lie said:
What a glorious day ii was for
the people when the Democratic
party at Cincinnati nominated W.
5. Hancock. He is chieftain who
aims TO restore our government to
the simplicity Of the fathers. Even
Grant had the honor to acknowl-
edge that no more illustrious name
was in the history of the late war
than W. S. Hancock. His name is
hOnOred all over the country. even
in Maine. There is affecting all over
the country that ii he is elected, the
constitution will govern this land
To maintain the constitution in all
its parts is the mission of the Demo
cratic party. Let the SONS of Texas
come up as band of brothers. put
their shoulders to the wheel and
push the car of victory
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

made from Indiana papers before
us. but these are enough. Suffice il
to say that they are moving heaven
and earth, and are resorting To the
most glaring and outrageous false
hoods TO carry Indiana and other
states against Democracy That
intelligent people can be thus
influenced 10 vote against party
whose faith TO the government has
been tested, and whose standard
bearers, on this and on all other oc-
casiOns since the war; was Inaugural
ted, have been tried Union men. il
one of the things that must be de.
monstrated to be proven. We be-
lieve Indiana viii roll up de-
cided vote for its Democratic candi-
dates and thus turn the tide of public
sentiment in retrieving the country
from a party that breeds sectional
hatred and sectional strife. and that
the Democratic party, thoroughly
uniting North and South as one peo.
pie, will lead us on to grander ac-
complishments than were ever be.
fore witnessed in any country.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

THE amount of "rebel claims TO
be paid when Gen Hancock and the
other 3 traitors come into Office, in
cluding of course compensation for
emancipated negroes and redemp-
ton OF confederate bonds, is now,
according TO Republican organs,
Ss.4s7, ,eR, ,5sI, ,Oes, ,l47. .esI, ,2Is s5. 1t is
difsicult to imagine how they got at
the exact amount, but they got II.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

A REPuBLIcAS paper calls the
Democratic orators assigned TO duty
in Indiana. san iEnpecunious set,
working for pay We might call
the Others thieying set, working
for public plumber.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30
T1RAvIs COUNTY MARS

Large slrs <,<sksS feef. for sale a. he sarysy
nr,s oncc. IN ne eoaEt house. These mays an
nsn and up with ne surtegs TO date. Austin
cry nsps alsr Cor sale = he szne p!ese.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

there are i. oil mil. in Texas
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

THE election in Georgia comes
October 6th.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30
An Indiana editor says:

There are at least seven states in which
the Republican vote can not be freely
cast and honestly counted. They are
South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Ala
bama. Mississippi, Louisiana and Ar
kansas. t f.'
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-30

REGUT-kfEs The Bowels, corrccts Kidney
Derangemcnts. Cleanses the Blood and ne
moves Fecas Matter fnoul the stomach
An complaints such as BiliouSness. Head
ache, CostiveneSs, Indigestion. Pain in the
Side. Back or Chest. LanguidneSs. DtEzi-
ness, Sour Stomarh Etc. are speedily cur
ed By this Wonderful Remedy,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-10-06
The Two Sailors.

A mother on the green hills of Yer
mont was holding by the right hand a
son, sixteen years cid, mad wilhS the
love of the sea. And as she stood by
the garden gate one morning she said
edward, they tell me-!or l never
saw the ocean-that the great tempta-
ton of seaman's life is drink. Promise
me, before yousQut your mothers hand,
that you will never drink liquor"
"And,"h said, for he told the story,
81 gave the promise, and l went the
globe over, to Calcutta and. the Mcditer-
aneau, San Francisco and the Cape Of
Good Hope, the North and South Poles
saw them all for forty years, aud
never saw a glass filed with sparkling
liquor that my mothers form at the gate
did not rise up before my eyes, and to-
dav am innocent Of the taste OF liquor"
Was not that sweet evidence OF the
power of . single word? Yet that is
not half. "For," still continued he
"yesterday there came into my counting
room q man forty years old"
"Do you know me:"
"No."
"Well," said he, 81 was brought
drunk into your presence on shipboard
you were a passenger; they kicked me
aside you took me 10 your berth ano
kept me there till had slept of my In
toxication. You then asked me if hac
a mother said l had never heard a
word from her lips you told me Of
yours at the garden gate and to-day
am master Of one of the finest ships IN
New York, and came TO ask you &c
come and see me-"
The mothers words on the greer
hills Of Vermont! God be thanked iol
the mighty power Of single word!
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-10-06
Exagge ratiOn.

Some habits are so unconsciously
praeticed that q movement TO mend
them is the only way 10 detect them.
The beam in ones own eye is less MOTTO
ed than the mote in another PERSONS
eye.
A family while at the breakfast table
one morning pledged to observe the
strictcst veracity for that day. A mem
Der ofthe family tells the consequences.
AS first fruit OF the resolve, we ask
ed The one who suggested it:
what made you so late at breakfast
this morning !"
She hesitated, began with, Because l
Couldn't and then, true to her COM
pact, said: The truth is. ! was lazy
and didn't hurry, or might have been
down long ago.
Presently one of them remarked that
she had been very cold, adding: 4
never was so cold in my life.'
An inquiring look caused the last
speaker to modify this statement in
stantly With: oh, 1 don't think it was
so cold, after all
A third remarked 10 the effect that
Miss So-and-So was the homelest girl
in the city, was. recalled as soon as
made, the speaker being compelled to
own that Miss So.and.SO was only
rather plain, instead OF being excessively
homely.
So 1t went on throughout the day,
causing much merriment, which was
goo2-naturedly accepted by the subjects
and giving rise to cOnstan. corrections
n the interest of truth.
One thing became more and NOR
surprising, however, to each one OF US,
and that was the amount Of cutting
down which our most careless state
ments demanded under this new law.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-10-06
POLITICAL NEWS.
Continued from first Page.
WAS GARFIELD A TRUE OR PERJURED

WAS GARFIELD TRUE OR PERJURED
JUROR.
state to you that whatever the
truth might be about the DeGolyer
pavement, whether he did take fee
against the interest of the Government
when he was a representative receivA
irg a salary; whatever the facts
might be about the Credit Mobilier,
whether it was terrible fraud or not,
1 will not stop to speak Of that I'M
til this greater question is settled
Whether as a representative OF the
people. 'as juror sitting between my
self and Wheeler and Tilden and
Hayes, he was true man or a false
man. And if l have case in Court
aud you are called upon as juror,
and no questions are asked you at.an
and you have a bitter prejudice
against me and that there is no YER
dict at all except against me, would
you go and take your seat? Would
not it come up to you? My oath would
not allow me to do it, and l know
that you would not. Yet Garfield,
after he had helped to make up the
case down at New Orleans, comes to
Washington, and without protest or
apology or excuse he takes his seat
aud he votes day after day contrary
to what he said in the House was the
law. No, gentlemen, he will never
be President ofthe United States. A
voice-'No, never y He is man OF
ability, and the more ability such
man possesses the worse it is for the
Office. l don't want him, because
when | have President in Washing
ton, whatever his politics may be, l
want to feel that he is as much my
President as yours, and as much yours
as he is mine, and that as President
be is free from those prejudices and
passions which pervert the judgment
and destroy opinion. Gentlemen, l
have occupied your attention longer
tonight than l expected to. L Will
repeat that when l took my breakfast
this morning had no thought OF ad-
dressing you. 1t was not part OF
the day at all. When said that the
Journal said that if l did not make
this good 1 was disgraced, and if l
did, that Garfield was disgraced.-
Then, gentlemen, as soon as l saw
that l longedto see you and speak to
you with more earnestness and feeling
than ever l longed to before. II l
have tailed in any one of thequesiiOns
presented by the journal I know it
not. have appealed to no witnesses
except Garfield himself, and by GAR
field is Garfield this night disgraced.