The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-12-29
QUITE ENOUGH OF THEM.

In u late interview with Georgi;
newspaper reporter Senator Bel
Hill was brought to the contempla
ton of the result in Virginia. He
said:
"Mahone and the Republicans ar
now exactly where | expected tC
place them. Mahone's idea was to
stand between the tive parties, and
it was my policy 10 drive him where
he belonged. The result in Virginia
did not surprise me, except that /
expected larger result for Malone.
The effect on the senate will be to
make it more than ever solid. There
can be no such result in any other
southern state, and, all apprehep-
sions are needless Virginia is sim
ply going through what the other
states south have endored. The Nir-
ginia delegation that made an ar
rangement with tIrant in 1870, kept
the state free of negro rule at that
time. have often had Virginians to
boast oftheir freedom from the evil.
Told them ten years ago that it had
to come, just as certain as the
measles has got 10 run through q
family when one of the children
catches il. Virginia is just having
the measles now, that is all /; bat she
is the last to have them-nOt the
first. The truth of the matter is.
the Virginia trouble was the best
thing that could have happened for
| the south. 1t not only made the
south stronger, but it will make the
| Virginia Democracy spliq. The Ma
hone issue was not between the Re-
publicans and DemOcrats-it was q
general state issue. in which, by q
union with the Republicans, tbs
MahoncitCs were able TO triumph.
There were thousands who voted
with Malone, also, who honestly did
not believe the debt should be paid,
yet whom you would insult by
calling Republicans. | have no
fear for Virginia whatever.
But the Republicans have blundered
fatally. They have committed them
selves to reputation. They stand
before the country as indorsing re-
pudiation. Had they gone into the
south on another issue they might
have effected something. AS it is.
they have made an attack where
nothing could hc gained, aud by the
assault have made the other
states solid. fOu will hear
from me soon upon the sub
ject. II the Republicans don't find |
Malone and 'Old Man OF the Sea,
then am mistaken"
"Do you not think the Republi-
cans have swallowed Malone with
out winking?'
"NO sir. There are plenty of |
them winking, and more yet to
wink. Prominent Republicans have |
admitted 10 me in conversation that |
they were heartily sick of Malone.
They will be sicker yet before the
session is over"
Altogether the senator's views |
are very much the same as
those of the STATESMAN. This plan
of again turning the people of the
south over to the Republican party,
through the deceptive agency of
such mon as Malone and Wash |
Jones and Speer, is absurd. These
movements mean nothing but an at
tempted capture of oftice-an effort
to put the offices in possession of
the outs. A few men lead
the movement in Virginia, and sue
cess there revives hope among the
old crowd in Texas and elsewhere
tn t they may be reinstated. But
the people had quite enough of Mr..
Davis, ana Mr.. Newconb and Mr..
Davidson as state officers. They are
not spelling either TO rcinstate a
semi-colon court for the subversion
of popular government. They are
quite satisfied as 1t is, and the Geor-
gians are not anxious to welcome
back into power Bullock and
Blodgett and such fellows
They are satisfied with the popular
governments they have, and will
stick to them, even though Malone
ism, which Is deluslye name for
Republicanism, prevail in Virginia.
Texas, ground as she is to-day, will
not waste her magnificence in being
caught IN any such trap. She went
through the Radical mill, has
served her time with destroy
ers, and her people are content to do
as they themselves have willed-live
under the government of their own
adoption. None of them have asked
Mr.. Jones to lead them out of a
Democratic wilderness" They are
content and happy as they are, be-
cause they are now enjoying greater
prosperity than ever before; they
are growing rich, and capital, also
content with our Institutions, is pour
ing into Texas more rapidly than
into any otrcr half dozen states
of the Union. Railroads are pushing
through every community. and
arc penetrating in dozen
places our remotest borders. We
are raising more cotton and meat
than any state, immigrants arc
crowding into Texas at the rate of
100000 annually. With all this
prosperity, with all this money, the
states credit re-established and
cash balance in our
treasury, is it any wonder that a
band of plunderers would like to
feast again upon these rich viands
The power behind George Wash.
ington Jones' throne shows itself in
the very inception of this move
ment. Desire is too great 10 cover
deception, and the cloyen foot that
protrudes beneath the garments of
this "sayior" of Texans is evidence
that the devil is in waiting.
ONE AFTER ANOTHER THEY COME.
A delegate to the Atlanta exposi-
ton, from the farmers club. of the
institute, of New York,
now in Austin, writes to approve
the STATEsMAN's editorial of We'd