The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-05-26

ana TINS trading, corrupt crew
one and all of them, Conkling, GaI
field, Blaine and all of their sort
should be driven from the honorabl
places which they hold by dishonor
able means. ..-.,......a..
HOME DEMOCRACY AND FRDERAl
| tr. REPUPLICANISM. -....
While the country is shocked a
the disgraceful condition of publ
affairs, as they are shaped by tn
Washington government, sit j
pleasing to contemplate a most sal
isfactory condition ofaflairs at home
Time was, and that not long age
when similar shocking public Incl
dents blottcd the pages of Texa
history, but these things belong 10
period when true Texans had Ii,
potent influence in the conduct O
the state government, when corrup
agents of these very powers, tha
have plundered and degraded tn,
federal government, legislated il
behalf of, and enforced with tht
power of the bayonet the bases
practices in Texas. Denial of thu
right of suffrage, with false election
returns and declarations, directed
and executed by agents of this fed
.eral Republicanism, enjoyed feast
of crime in Texas. leaving upon the
bright escutclieon of the state politi.
cal, social and financial blois,. from
which IL has taken years to recover
These ageneles robbed the people
and scattered and squandGrcd theiI
substance and the public money, un-
til no one would have invested even
in a Texas ten per cent. bond at fifty
cents on the dollar. The states obli-
cations TO pay at sight went beg
ging, and, unless back door payment
at the treasury had been agreed
upon, they were often held three,
four and five years for payment.
The state departments were in the
hands of iobbers, and the judiciary
was organized to sustain corrupt
men in evil practices, while Il mer-
cenary military was held in COM
maud to carry out the brutal orders
ofa despot. Such was the condition
OF Texas when Texans secured to
themselves a popular expression at
the ballot-box, when out of voting
population of two hundred thou
sand only fifty thousand lately en-
franchised slaves could be found to
sustain, because of their ignorance,
the base agencies that had usurped
the state government. One hun
dred and fifty thousand white men,
the solid white vote of Texas, alb
jured at the ballot-box the men who
had misgOverned Texas, and yet it
was concluded by these evil men
that the voice of the people should
not prevail, and they absolutely rose
in armed revolution against p )pular
will and proposed to perpetuatc
their own power at the point of the
bayonet. Instantly the blood of
Texans was aroused, and when the
fierce sound of the tocsin rang out
through day and night along the
avenues and streets of the
Capital City, and when brave men
gathered about the Capitol to do or
to die in the cause of popular gov
ernment, the miscreants fled, and
some ofthem- are to this day finding
refuge in foreign lands under as
names. Such was the condi-
ton Of the state under control o..
this Repnblicanism, which has de-
graded and which continues TO de-
grade the federal government.
From the control of Republicans the
state passed to that of Demo-
Gratis, but lack of executive skill and
the wretched condition of the states
finances brought. no immediate
change, except that the people were
to inaugurate self-gov-
ernment, and to begin a re-
cuperation from conditions brought
on by financial oppression and
supremacy, Perfect re-
coyery has been slow, but il has been
sure, and to-day and for more than
two years past, Texas has maintained
a position in the political and finah.
iial world equal to any of the adj
Vanced nations With one million
and a halfdellars cash balance in her
the state feels its ability to
build up its charitable institutions
md ITS schools, to establish aud pro-
1lde for great state university, en-
lowed with lands worth millions of
ioIlars, to enter into contract for
he erection of a new capitol, worth
fifteen hundred thousand dol
are, to be paid for with
,ublic lands set aside for this
'specialpurpose, to Improve its peni-
entiaries, and to improve its vast
lomain by encouraging the intro
luction of foreign labor aud capital.
'o7day Texas is one of the centers
f. attraction for the financial
Forld Hundreds of millions
4 money is being expended
Fithin its limits in the construction
railways and other works of in
ernal improvement, and che best in
ormed railroad manager in the
tate asserts, that within the last
welve months three hundred aud
fly thousand immigrants have
welled its population to over
wo millions. The sight OBJ
cations of the state are paid
efore the Comptroller's signature,
laced upon them, is dry, and it's
wv interest bonds have attained
8 high q value as any class ofl