The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-05-11

associates. In spite of the earnest
opinions expressed on the floor of
the senate by an able Democrat, the
STATESMAN most righteOusly dis
sents from the proposition, that Mr..
Jones is "patriot" of "untarnished
virtue" the "reverse of the dema-
gogue." The appeal he made in 1876
was the very essence of demagogue-
ism, and the fallacies to which be
then appealed, and to which he has
since attached himself, were de-
nounced as false by every Demo-
cratic speaker in the fifth congress
sional district. But Mr.. Jones has no
political convictions, and therefore
poorly deserves the Specification OF
patriot" He has gone through the
vocabulary of political creeds, and is
always the advocate of every new
issue that the quaintest political
prospector digs up out of hidden
places. He was once a Whig, and
then a Democrat, but next he flew
off on the Greenback phantasm, and
then he loved "Young Democracy"
and now he basks in Independent
ism, which is the proper slgnitica-
ton of political harlotry. Yes
Wash Jones says he is going to be a
gubernatorial candidate, that he is
going to run for place, ''indepen-
dent of cliques and combinations
which means that he can
not be a Democratic candi-
date, because of his political idiO-
syncracies, and that he will there
tore enter the field as the candidate
upon which all opposing political
cliques will combine against Democ-
racy, he becoming the leader of an
army of political janissaries, bent
alone upon spoils. Mr.. Jones is not
a patriot, because he denounces the
instrument of these agencies, and as
the mouthpiece OF these rapaciOus
elements, he has of course detained
all that has been just and good in
our state government has asserted
to the world that Texas Democracy,
as personified IN Governor Roberts
and his administration, is untrue
to all honest public thought aud pur-
poses and the synonym of all
that is perfidious and base. When
Mr.. Jones presents the political
question in this wise, when he at
tempts to lead the public mind to
believe such monstrous things true,
the STATESMAN finds the best OF
reasons TO dissent from the state
ment that he is a patriot, and to
boldly assert his hypocrisy, coupled
with a willtul opposition to truth
the final resort of dissatified aspir-
ants for office. Mr.. Jones once held
position at the hands of the Texas
Democracy, and he desired to hold
it again, but, opportunity not occur
ring, IN anger he met and opposed
this same Democracy, and now
he defames tho noblest and
wlsest period in the his
tory of Democratic govern
ment in Texas. No, the STATESMAN
refuses to endorse Mr.. Jones' hon.
esty, and it would deplore a politi-
cal period in Texas in which Wash
Jones-ism could cut any figure in
the states destiny. OF course he
has the right to become candi-
date. He has perfect right to re-
sort to demagoguelsm, especially
since it has already won him posi-
ton in congress, but it can never
win him the position of governor
The masses have learned to
love Democratic government.
The people have enjoyed prosperity
and advancement under the Rob-
erts administration, giving them
confidence in the purposes of De-
mocracy, and they will ad here to it,
no matter whether the Old Alcalde
consents to remain governor, or
whether some other tried
and true representative man
succeed him. But few people will
attach to the announcement of Mr.
Jones, that he will be a candidate.
the same Importance as the Meas
applies to it. The Texas masses are
by no means influenced by the pet
theory of the NelCS, that "an intelii-
gent observer, divesting himself ol
prejudice or personal interest, in re-
lation to either party, and surveying
candidly the recent course and
present condition of national pol
itics, must find only too much to
sustain the opinion that the two old
parties, as they now stand, are
fatally lacking in organic ca
pacity for usefulness, and
that, instead of meeting the wants
of the country and the wishes of the
people on practical questions of ma.
tional policy, such as the tariff
finance, internal revenue, currency,
foreign and Interstate commerce
they co-exist and cooperate as OBJ
structions to progress and instru-
ments of mischief" But few viii
thus honestly agree with either Mr..
Jones or the Neacs' ''intelligent OBJ
server" Honest adherents of the
falIacies in Texas are scarce. There
may be adherents of Mr.. Jones, who
will follow him, not from convic-
tion, but with the hope of secur-
ing something palatable. There are
any number of political nondescripts
who are ready to follow him, or any
body like him; they are ready to go
pell NELL into Greenbackism, Inde-