The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-11
rRAINIxa A CESAR.


Our New York letter, from n well
informed Texan, will be read with
interest. Like the STATESMAN, he
thinks the last struggle for popular
government will be in 1884. The
sscendancy of the Republican party
after then means the end of Repub-
lican institutions in America, and if
this be achieved it will be the result
of opinion controlled by money and
not by reason. Nor will it be that the
masses of what is known as the Re-
publican party desire change in gov
eminent. These masses, incur opin-
ion, if left to think for themselves,
would secure the perpetuation of
our government as il has existed,
but they have left both conception
and execution to a few leaders, who
have, by their position, grown
enormously rich themselves, and
who have, besides, by favors
of government, concentrated wealth
in the hands of privileged class,
until the masses are powerless. The
file OF the Republican ranks is made
up at the North of a vast horde,
having NO thought but to work for
real estate owners and manufacuur-
ers, money lenders and bondholders.
These masses owe allegiance to ia
vored class, and these are persuaded
that they not only owe their wealth
to Republican management, but that
its retention is to be preserved only
by keeping the dominant party in
power. Thus the masses and their
masters are controlled. The one
has been taught to know that the
Republican party represents no
sentiment, except hatred for
Southern whites, while its true en-
bodiment is Conkling and Grant
and Blaine and Logan and a few
others, who, with a syndicate of less
than one hundred wealthy men, con-
troll the money of the United States.
So do few men constitute the Re-
publican party, and around these
swarm hundred thousand Federal
Office holders, with a half million
strikers, ready to promulgate the
plans of the most powerful political
syndicate of the globe. The Repub-
lican masses have long since ceased
to think. They take doctrine as it
is progulated from a center, and act
up to the faith without thought or
reflection. Republican voters scratch
no names from their tickets. They
cast them solid ut the dictation
of their masters, who name the men
who must fill office,while at the North
the favored class presents the alter
native of acquiescence, or of no work
with beggary and want. In the
South this party is sustained alone
by office-holders, or those who de-
sire and hope to hold office, and
by u thoughtless host of blacks
welded on false political inhu-
ences. Such power in the hands of
few men has not been equalled in
the history of modern governments.
There is no such parallel in Europe
or in Asia, in the present civilized
and uncivilized world. The person
al governments of Rome, that broke
down and supplanted a liberal re-
publican form of government with
one of the most debased monarchies
the world ever knew, is being now
repeated in American political his
tory. The policy of robbing the
poor and enriching favored class
has been going ON here, like
it went on in the ancient
republic, until the one is pow
erless, the other all powerful, till
the substance of Republicanism
is gone here as it went there. under
the same influences, while the result
that was reached then is approach
ing now. Men never grow satiated
with power. AS the rich man adds
millions to his millions, so do the
stalwarts, who shape the destiny of
this country, add power to their
power, until it knows no bounds.
Not content with majority ofstates,
they will use the syndicate's gold in
every part of the Union, until they
control for any purpose the votes
of three-fourths of the states. Then,
under the guise of popular desire,
the constitution will be amended
until every yestige of our present
system of government will be Oblit-
Grated. The masses will become
poorer, and therefore more easily
and the pretense of an
election 10 show popular desire will
be the plan devised by few enc
mics of popular. government to eff
feet the change. This win be the work
of INSCRIPTIONS and ambitious men,
who have undermined the morals
of a people until everything
has its price. 1t was not alone
voters protesting to be Republicans.
who added strength to the victory
lately won, but it is demonstrated
that Democrats of the North, and
even some of the South, have en-
tered the mercenary ranks. Our
correspondent is right as to 1884
u most eventfGl period in
the history o: American politics.
Our Cesar has already been in train
ing for twelve years.
CoNKLING and Blaine, it is said, |
will select the cabinet to be named
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