The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-07-27

SAM A. WILSON,
of Cherokee.
The first bales are beginning to
pour in.
THE tariff commission appears to
be a gigantic fraud.
The nominations for the supreme
bench give universal satisfaction.
THE full text of the platform
adopted at Galveston appears in this
issue.
THE Republicans in Arkansas are
having a Slack time and the party is
flying to pieces.
GEORGE WASHINGTON JONES be-
fore retiring to private life, it is said,
will stump the state.
NORTH CAROLINA thinks that
Tuesday is just as good a day to
hang a murderer as Friday dare be
THERE are 10000 postofilces in the
United States, and here are $4,000
workers for the Republican ticket.
THE Republicans are getting up
nice little scheme to snub the Green
hackers and freeze out Wash Jones.
THE board of university regents
will meet at Austin on the 10th in
stead of the 9th of August, to select
q faculty.
The one thing that disturbes the
happiness of the Republican Green
back party in this state, is that 100
600 majority.
If the Egyptians will only carry
on their war few months longer
they will have as many colonies as
the state of Georgia.
e JIM BLAINE of Maine" is fur
nishing the New York Tribune with
editorial matter upon Stalwartism
aud Arthur's administration.
WHILE the Russian Bear has his
hands full in the management of the
Nihilists. he is not too busy to keep
one eye on the affairs of Egypt.
AN attempt will be made in the
Republican convention to prevent
the endorsement of Jones for gov
ernor, and lively times are antici-
pated.
Now, we submit that the country
is on the highway to peace and pros
perity. Brother Barnes has induced
a lightning rod man to repent and be
converted.
IL THE Macon Telegraph is to be
believed, one of the Invest issues of
the campaign of Georgia will be the
right of citizen to destroy a book
agent upon sight.
THE Greenbackers of Connecticut
have prepared for being comforta-
bly, tanned and stored away for safe
keeping. Mr.. Tanner is their candi-
date for governor.
IT was thought that Henry w.
Grady, of the Atlanta Consultation,
will be nominated as the Democratic
candidate for congressman at large
of the state of Georgia.
HENRY WARD BEECHER testified
in court that he could not solve the
simplest problem in arithmetic
Let the Plymouth church agree TO re-
duce his salary one-fourth its pres
ent size and he would figure out the
result in few minutes.
The party which wants to be the
dominant party in this country must
be a party of one idea, and that idea
must be tariff for revenue only
Democrats who are afraid ofmaking
that issue dominant will find out
their mistake. The war tariff must
go.
THIS is the season when people
leave comfortable houses in town
and engage eight-by-ten rooms a
some mosquito-haunted caravansary
by the seashore for the alleged pur
pose of keeping cool and enjoying
themselves. 1t requires a lively
: Imagination to convince anybody
who has tried il that there is mucl
genuine fun in this sort of thing
The sun-blistered countenanceI
which daily appear on the streets a
the result of few days dissipation
by the sad sea waves take the TO
nance out of this method of keeping
cool, and the poor fellows who cam
afford to leave town console them
selves with the thought that thei
lot is not the most unhappy, after all
The Republican senators now ad
vocating some reduction of tarif
duties because they see what q bas
record their party has made on thu
subject of reducing taxes, appar
emily forget that they emphaticall.
declared not long ago that it wa
the next thing 70 treason to toucl
the sacred tariff, and that everythin,
concerning that taxing machine
should be left to John l. Hayes ant
his colleagues of the tariff commits
sion. The action OF the Republican
senator's proves that persistent anti
protection agitation is having it
effect There will come q day whel
few men will care to boast that the
were champions. OF the taxing ma
chine known as the war tariff.