The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-14
POLITICAL NOTES.

How WOULD free whisky and taxed
blankets do?
Representative Kelley of Pennsyl-
vania announces that if the Republi-
cans will not abolish all internal reve-
nue. taxes at this session of congress
that he will vote with the Democrats
Rats desert sinking ship.
Burrows, of Michigan, is still suf-
fering from political paralysis. He
remarks that his defeat was utterly
unaccOuntable." He left home to
work for some of his friends, fancying
he was safe by 1900 majority. Julius
will hereafter hug the home base
while the fight is on.
President White, of Cornell univer-
sity, thinks it would be well for the
Republicans in congress to steal Pen
dleton's bill for civil service reform
and pass it-that it would be a mis-
take to try to patch up something
else! The people found out before
President White did that Pendleton
was right.
The Democratic party in Massachu-
sets go in for petticoat government.
One plank of their platform was that
the ballot should be placed into the
hands of all citizens, irrespective of
SEX" If the legislature will pass the
bill now asked for by the female suf-
fragists, the widow Butler in the state
house will hardly veto it.
The London Economist has it down
fine. 1t talks about the probability OF
Canada entering the American Union,
as a result of the success of the D1mo-
cratic party here, should that success
be repeated in 1884, and declares that
many circumstances would tend, if
Canada ever entered the Union, to
make Canadians Democrats rather
than Republicans"
The Republican press is devoting it
self to painful inquiries concerning
what the Democrats are going to do
in the coming session of congress,
when it seems to US that party in its
precise fix, with both houses, the ex-
ecutive, and all tho responsibility and
a pair of black eyes received in the re-
cent elections, should be enquirIng of
itself, what shall do to be saved"
1t seems after all that ATTORNEY
General Brewster engaged Marshal
Henry IN private conversation and
got him to make admissions which
were written down by shorthand
writer not in sight, and on these ad-
missions were based the reasons for
his dismissal. This may be a very
good way, but not very dignifed, nor
can it be satisfactory even to the at
torney general.
President White says very large
portion of the clergy are thinking with
strength and precision on political
questions, and that their thoughts are
spreading among the people. Indeedl
and how will it be when they begin to
talk? Beecher began to talk about
free trade several months ago. If he
had only thought nobody would have
been the wiser. How can the Cornell
professor know mems thoughts?
The factions of the Republican
party in New York have called upon
old Simon Cameron to act as arbiter
of their differences. They think "his
peculiar genius for political manage
ment at delicate conjunctures" is un-
questioned. Perhaps. But somehow
or other his peculiar genius failed to
avail him in the recent delicate con-
juncture" in his own state. Don's
father had better try his hand at
mending breaches at home before he
presumes to exercise his special talents
in that direction elsewhere.