The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-03-16
VOL, XI,
now THE THING WILL END.

ftFltNaLN -
f, 1 The Post is doomed to disappoint-
ment IN the matter of giving aid and
encouragement and Inauguration to
something that will have the power
to kill off Democracy. First it tried
the force OF Speer's baby,sFith which
it absolutely believed it could over
throw the grand old political
being, and then it took up
Wash Jonesism with vim
that deserved better accomplish
ment. AS in its first love il was
again doomed to see fond hopes de-
part, and Texas Mahoneism, as it
was called, was buried deeper and
with less feeling than the tender in
fant which had first secured its So
licitude aud motherly care. Wehad
hoped it would not be ever thus
with the Post we had hoped
that it would at last find
something creditable that 1t could
fondly dete upon and love, because
Of maternal care, but wear afraid
a fatal mark attaches to its offspring
and things of adoption-something
that requires checks to be handed
IN at the end of e very short run
and therefore we must be allowed
TO condole- with our esteemed
cotemporary. Especially must the
STATESMAN be permitted to do this
when it reflects over the sad dis
appointments to which the Post has
so lately been subjected in its rather
prominent effort TO secure a con-
sultation among the opponents of
Democracy. 1t called for meeting
on the Fourth of March 1--WE now
advise it to renew the call for some
indefinite place on the Fourth
of July, so it may take
advantage of public gathering land
the result was that few rather OBJ
scure gentlemen dropped into Hous-
ton on that day 10 see to some al
legged business transaction. They
saw no crowd collected, and there
fore they consulted, if at all, very
obscurely, and the Post did not her.
aid the birth of new born politi-
cal baby, and the very
pages and columns and paragraphs
of the Post look sad and read weary,
because it is the throcs of its third
political failure. What the Post is
after we can not understand. 1t is
a good newspaper, and were it only
content to accept its reality and be
satisfied 1t could accomplish great
deal of good. Evidently it does
mot = understand how to
make q new political party, and had
it the power and influence to do
such thing, il is hard to divine
what profit the Post could secure
therefrom. Political parties are the
most ungrateful things in the world,
and were one of the Posts creations
to grow up to be a great
big thing and a powerful ma
chine, it would cut down the Post
among the very first of its potential
acts. But we were contemplating
failures, and all is going to be fail
ure in the line the Post pursues. A
few desperate men in the state, who
want office, and whom the people
have refused to crafty, are
crazy over their disappoint-
ments; but because the Post
believes they are a multitude and
powerful. we do not propose 10 call
it cranky. Even the suggestions of
the Galveston Journal can not save
The opposition. 1t must have been
dreaming for a year, for it thinks
"Young Democracy" might. t.give the
old fellow a jolly good contest. Rest
your souls in peace. The grand old
Democratic party will live. 1t is In
destructible because it lis based upon
principles underlying all the tounda-
tions of our government, and it
cannot die, though its opponents
fall off and are forgotten like au-
tumn leaves. Not only will Dem
ocracy continue to triumph in
Texas, but there begins to appear
many of the best reasons why 1t will
shape federal results in 1884.