The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-11-30
PRESS OPINIONS.

Somehow or other confederate
bonds do not advance any.-Indian-
apolIs Journal.
If there were a tax for Demo-
cratic majorities, the public debt
could be paid off with the November
collections.-Louisville Courier
Journal, Dem.
Coax an honest old-line Democrat
TO give you bottom facts, and he
will confess that Butler crow is not
filling diet.-Springfield Repub-
iican, Ind. Rep.
The Republicans tried opposition
to free rum in Ohio and lost, aud
then they tried free rum in North
Carolina, and lost again.-Philadel-
phia Times, Ind.
Stalwartism has got the worst
bruising this time than it has been
compelled to take since it was tramp
ed on in Chicago two years ago last
June.-Washington Post, Democrat.
What the people expect princi-
pally of the next congress is reduc-
ton of taxation to the needs of the
government, honestly administered.
The people will not refuse economy,
but they will have honesty. The
next congress should make note of
it.-Cincinnati Enquirer, Dem.
It's said that Folger has been made
the scapegoat of his party. The
load he has to carry, however, is too
heavy for one man. There are
enough "sins" to go around the adj
ministration family. Several scape-
goats are enough 10 pack them off,
Cincinnati Commercial, Rep.
What is demanded of the Demo-
cratic party now is that it shall live
up to the principles Of home rule, a
tariff for revenue, economy, an hon.
est and efficient civil service, protec-
ton of labor and sincerity. Mr..
Flower has struck the keynote of the
Observation-Disclosures Union, Dem.
By giving Senator Pendleton's
bill a reasonable amount of atten-
ton and full party support, there
is visible way open for the Demo-
Gratis to avert the catastrophe they
so greatly dread if change of party
administration is TO take place in
1685.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
Rep.
The profuse gush of Democratic
newspapers and politicians which
has followed the 9TH of November,
urging civil service reform, economy,
honesty, political morality and mag
nanimity, will in the end be found
to be nothing more than an emission
of "laudable pus."-Cincinnati Com
mercial, Republican.
The Washington Star hazards the
prediction that the congressional
committee now examining into the
needs of the Mississippi river will
have good time, and return as
wise as they started. Evidently the
news that Cowden met the commit
tee at Cairo had not reached the
Stdr.-St. Louis Republican, Dem.
Clothed in sackcloth and ashes
and in most peDitential mood for
past transgressions, the Republicans
must confess 10 each other their
errors and blunders, forgive little
here and forget good deal there,
and shaking hands break out in
singing, eve are band of brothers"
Cincinnati Commercial, Republi-
can.
The general result is a welcome
lesson which is brought home to the
Stalwarts who gained control of the
party in New York, to Mr.. Senator
Cameron in Pennsylvania, to Mr..
Robson i'll New jersey, and 10 the
order of bosses, to machine poll
ticians and to factionists everywhere
1t they will learn the lesson and
profit by it, the crushing defeat of
Yesterday will be the greatest bless
ing ever conferred upon the party
by the Democrats, whose own blum
ders have so often helped to it to
victory.-BostoI Advertiser, Repub-
lican.
There is no central point in the
cotton country where the exposition
can be. held conveniently, and the
choice, in our judgment, would lie
between Baltimore and New Or.
leans. Baltimore, in some respects,
is more accessible than New Orleans,
but for the cotton region i'll general,
and for thewhole Mississippi valley,
as well as for the gulf states, New
Orleans is the most accessible point.
Besides this, it is distinctively a
southern city which will have at
fractions for visitors altogether
apart from the attractions of the
centennial exposition.-Charleston
News and Courier.