The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-31

have made the tax twelve times
greater, and there was need for
speedy protest and action on the
part Of the people. The people OF
Texas were speaking through the
tax convention in the interest of ar
resting confiscstion, and the Davis
government met the demonstration
with the most contemptuous osten-
tatIon. The convention was in ses-
sion two days Tit was in the youth
full days of the STATESMAN, and it
labored IN the causel, and on the
night after its adjournment there
was q grand radical demonstra-
ton in Austin. Many remember
it well. The colored people were
ordered out TO give responsibility
in numbers, and a long black
line with white head was
marched up Congress avenue to
the capitol. AT the capitol the
rites of Voodooism were inangu-
rated, and E. j. Davis. Governor of
Texas, headed the procession, and
marched it around the capitol
several times, leading in the singing
of "John Browns Soul is Marching
On" orally Around the Flag, Boys"
and with lamentations. This cere-
mony was performed with some
other heathenish maneuvers, as stat
ed by Mr.. Davis at the time, to purify
the capitol, in one of whose halls the
convention met, of contamination, re-
sulting from contact with the peo-
pies representatives, who obeyed
the popular behest in considering
and advising upon the question of
public taxation. After incarnation,
it is said there was a sort of smoking
rite, in which Mr.. Davis acted as the
chief high priest of Radicalism,
hooking a sacred church rite, SYM
bolical of the devils expulsion and
of purity. The writer was as near
the scene of these disgraceful pro-
ceedings as it was safe at that time
for anyone condemning them to be,
heard the marching and the singing
around the capitol, knows that Gov
Davis led in the affair, heard him
singing and speaking to and infiam-
ing the ignorant rabble, and is
perfectly satisfied that the report
then circulated that he led in the
smoking or burning out process is
true. Such was the degradation of
the ostensible powers of government
in 1871, when civil processes were
being suspended IN all parts
of the state, when armed
minions of military power were
authorized to shoot down the best
citizens of the state for opinions
sake, when fraudulent and unpop-
ular government was preparing tt e
way for the coup Fetat in January
1874, when the voice of the people,
speaking as one by hundred thou
sand majority, was set at defiance
by this same high priest of Radical
ism. who then proposed to hold the
state government by armed force
and through the effusion of blood.
1t was Davis, the same man who as
governor had purified the capital,
who now proposed to drench its
balls with blood, that he and his
minions might hold a government
against popular will, being in
augurated under the forms of law
and at the direction of the people OF
Texas. 1t Is this same Mr.. Davis who
now asks. as an independent in
one sense, Republican in another,
and Radical in every sense, suffrages
of Texans to place him in congress,
where he may insult Texas and
Texans. 1t is this man Davis, this
high priest in Voodooism, who OPP
poses the Democratic nominee for
congress, and last Saturday we find
him fiving over to San Antonio on
the heels of faction of disorgan-
izers to claim the votes of the people
of San Antonio, as he stated in his
speech there, because "what San An
tonla had Austin had no business
wanting" And now, since the
STATESMAN has explained what Mr.
Pfuefer referred to, we ask who
will vote for this man. Can
the Jones influence, by which
Davis was bitterly opposed in
1S7O-71-72-73, give him strength
or is there one Democrat in all ives.
tern Texas who can be so SCREEN
as to suppose he possesses, because
he has been high priest of Voodoo'
ism, any sort of "devine" right
to have aid from others than those
who have been for these long years
his creatures.