The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-25
STATE UNIVERSITY LOCATION.
Mr. Dudley G. wooten's speech at Dallas.

Mr.. Dudley G. wooten's Speech at Dallas.
II is known that Mr.. Dudley q.
Wooten, of this city, is now devoting
his time and energies to canvass OF
the question of locating the state
university. He is the earnest friend
of Austin, and is putting in telling
arguments in northern Texas where
he has been received with much ex-
preston of appreciation by the peo-
pie. Several of his speeches have
been reported in the papers of that
section, but none so fully, probably
as the one made at Dallas. Here
he met Col. Herring, ofWacO, in joint
discussion. On this occasion Mr.
Wooten said:
The capital of Texas sends greet
ing to Dallas, the metropolis of north
Texas, whose enterprise and resist
less business energy have built up
the resources of this vast and grow
ing section and done so much to
make the name of Texas the synonym
of pluck and progress. The location
and establishment of q great institu-
ton of learning, whose aims and ca
pacities shall be commensurate with
the demands and worthy the sup
port of this grand commonwealth.
whose pride and possession il will
become, are topics that ought TO en-
s.e a l. lalt - 81
man and woman, who claims to have
any abiding interest in the prosper
ity and happiness of Texas.
AUSTIN Is A CANDIDATE
for your votes in this race, not as a
representative town of western or
central Texas, or of any other sec
tion of the state, but as the repre-
sentative and common property of
all Texas, and she asks your support
because it is believed that the state
university of Texas should be locat-
ed at the capital of Texas. We are
not, however, disposed to rest our
claims merely upon this ground, but
we insist that the intrinsic and act
peror to those of any other, aside
from its inducement as the seat of
government.
The sanitary statistics of Austin
demonstrate it to be the healthiest
town in the south. Situated among
the cedar-crowned hills of the Colo
RADIO, in an atmosphere as pure and
bracing as that of any town in
America; surrounded by scenery
that is unsurpassed for lOveliness,
and entirely removed from the IN
fiuences of malaria or the ravages of
epidemics, n safer or more suitable
spot for educational work can not
be found, not in Texas only, but
throughout the southern states. Its
altitude obove the sea and its sur
roundings, render the climate of
Austin more similar to that ofnorth-
ern latitudes than any city in the
state, thereby avoiding the general
objection urged by some of the peo-
pie of this portion of the state to
sending their children TO southern
| location.
The society of Austin, to those
who know it,needs no encomium, but
the interested and malignant SANDER
| ers of her enemies render it proper
that something should be said in its
behalf. Her population is composed
| of representative men and women
from every section of the state, and
from the choicest circles of southern
culture and refinement. There is no
art known to cultivated christendom
that finds not there as many and as
devoted patrons as dwell elsewhere
in other cities of Texas. The spires
of her score or more of churches,
crowning almost every hill top, at
test the religious, God-fearing tem-
per of her people. Her costly and
extensive system of public schools
proclaim her love of learning and
her devotion to the cause of educa.
ton; while the universal tone of re-
i finement, and the practice of every
higher and nobler virtue that pre-
walls among the great majority Of
her citizens demonstrates the living
libelous falsity of all the caluminous
assaults that her desperate detrac'
tors may level against her. care
not who may deny it, proclaim anC
maintain, against every baseless as
sertion to the contrary that no moro
REFINED, vIRTUOUs, INTELLIGENT,
chivalrous and noble-minded mel
and women reside within the limit!
OF Texas than are those who live il
Austin and do honor to its name
With the attacks that have been made
upon Austin on the score of the in
temperance and profiigacy of state
officers and legislators there congre
gated, we have nothing to do. They
are sent there by the people OfTexai
and are no permanent part of Aus
tin society; but this much may bt
said, that such wholesale charges
upon the good name and character
of those whom the people have
chosen to represent and do theil
will, are an insult to the intelligen
and virtue of the whole people o
Texas-a shame and disgrace to TIT
authors of these vile ISLANDERS, an(
will require something more thai
mere reckless assertion TO sustain
and justify them. The attempt t.
villify and blacken the fair name o
the capital of the state, besides be
ing founded on f,llsehoods, indicates
the miserable subterfuges to whicl
the opponents of Austin are reduc
ed. To hear aud read these scurril
Gus misrepresentation, one woult
imagine that the heads of the state
departments and the members o
the legislature were men of the vii
est instincts chosen and sent to Aus
tin by the people for the special pur
pose of corrupting and degrading
the youth and virtue of the country
Passing now to the consideration
of another argument for locating the
university at Austin, we maintain
that the necessary buildings for thu
university can be more permanently
elegantly and cheaply erected a
Austin than at any other point il
Texas. The commissioners, whose
duty it recently became to lnvesti
gate the matter of the building o
the new state capitol, after an ex
haustive examination of the building
material and resources of the state
have pronounced the Austin marble
granite, brick and lime to be thu
cheapest and best to be had in Texas
or elsewhere, and one eminent for
eign architect states that the stone
there quarried has no superior any.
where. The bills of lading on file il
I the railroad offices at Austin show
that lime and stone are being con
stantly shipped to almost every rail