The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-07
now THE COMBINATION
WORKS.

support for Judge Hancock. 1t
takes the STATEsMAN's comments
and deals with them as follows:
They found Mr.. Upson poweriess rs a
candidate, and thereupon they announced
for inaction, unless the organized conVen-
tion, composed OF large majority OF del
egates, would pledge them to withdraw
the name of Judge Hancock, and allow
dark horse to receive the nomination.
StatSsMdn.
No, they found that they had been
trapped by falsehood and deception
and they concluded not to disturb
the harmony of the Austin machine
by intruding upon its presence. 1t
says, further:
"As Democrats they y'refused 10 obey
the direction of their people, and while
calling themselves Democrats they at
tempted to give Democracy fatal
thrust, to destroy its probable power in
the district, and to turn over its repre-
sentation in congress to the arch radical
of Texas.
They found they could not obey
the direction of their people with
out betraying them into the hands
of their enemy-the tree traders
and so far as turning over the dis
trict to the "arch radical" is con-
cerned; we suspect that our west
ern Democrats are not.so welded
to John Hancock as to take his
insults to the Democracy as a qauliti-
cation to represent them and that
between a Union brigadier that
tried to raise negro regiment to in
wade Texas, aud afterwards denied
it, and a Union brigadier that won
his promotion upon the battlefield,
they won't feel hard if the latter
wins the fight in the tenth district.
The Light repeats false charges
that were refuted long ago, but that
does not matter; it will continue to
repeat them, knowing them to be
false. Unjust attacks upon Judge
Hancock by the Light would hardly
be noticed, were it not that the
Express follows in its wake, and by
adopting the course of the Light,
probably does Judge Hancock a real
injury. The Light says he obtained
the nomination through "falsehood
and deception" and the Express uses
these identical words in referring to
the nomination. The Light refers
to the machine" and so does the
Express. But let us prove by the
Express that 1t really does look up
to the Light for its convictions. The
following extracts are taken from
its columns:
"Many persons were surprised at
the mild temper of Davis speech
when referring to the Democracy
Saturday night"
"Trickery in convention matters
appears to be at a discount among
the people of western Texas this
year."
"Ex-Gov. Davis believes conven-
tions fail to represent the wishes OF
the people. He has had abundant
evidence of this"
$50 far the STATESMAN and the
men controlling the cOoked-up ma
jority have not dared deny the un-
fairness complained of; they simply
claim that, having been elected, the
delegates should have entered the
convention. They were totally un-
prepared tor and astonished at the
bold, dignified and stinging rebuke
to treachery given by the western
delegates"
The Austin correspondent Of the
Express is also enlisted in the move
ment against Judge Hancock, and
he Is led to say:
AT this time, politics is the only
theme of discussion. This state of
things is usually epidemic in Aus
Unlike smallpox in "greaser"
camp; but at this particular period,
Austin has a real, genuine, let-us-
try-our-best to explain it away
muddle on hand. 1t is in reference
to the. late lamented so-called con-
vention for the purpose of nominat-
ing q congressman in the tenth dis
trict. There is no use denying the
fact that there are number OF
"leaders" no, a thousand miles from
the capital city, who are sorry for
what they did. They put up little
gam for defeating the will of the
majority of voters in the district by
the show of a majority of delegates
votes. This little game succeeded
beyond their most sanguine expec-
tations. In fact, they are now sick
of the surplus success they enjoyed.
If the thing were to be done over
again, they would rather die than
do it.
Then the correspondent repeats a
dialogue that he says passes between
himself and any number of Austin
ians "every hour in the day." and
there is about as much truth in what
he asserts, in the whole, as there is
friendship for Judge Hancock dis
played by either the Light or the
Express. The STATESMAN asserts
that there is perfect confidence
among the friends of Judge Han
cock, and they are only mortified
that there are men calling them
selves Democrats, who at this juno
ture would SOW dissension in Demo-
cratic ranks, because they could not
succeed. The Express gives reasons
for the opposition of the Upson dele
gates that are in themselves degrad-
ing to think of. 1t says:
1t was known that the western
portion of this district would have q
candidate for congress this year, and
the Democrats of that section being
given to understand that the Austin
end would have no candidate, it was
deemed no more than fair that the
political honors be divided, and
Bexar county and her friends there
fore worked for and obtained the
nomination of West (Hancock's
partner) for one of the highest Off
ces in the state, gave their support
to candidates from Bastrop and Will
hanson counties in the Galveston
convention, gave the craftsmanship
of the Democratic executive COM
mittee to Travis county man, and
conceded the convention to Austin.
The western delegates then return
ed home, and went quietly about
their ordinary business, reposing
trust and confidence in the profess
sions OF the Austin party, who re-
turned to their homes and went oui-
city to work to undermine the can
didate of the W estern men and con-
troll the convention. 1t may be that
the Austin party could not help it.
They may be victims of political
kleptomania; that the habit of grasp
ing everything, taking everything
in reach, whether by fair means or