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The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04
A Matter of Fact.

The Cleveland Leader, specializing
on electoral votes, sets down $50 votes
as surely Republican in 1884. This
leaves 221 votes to be fought for by
the two parties, and the Leader claims
that Maryland, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Tennessee, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana
are doubtful" and may give their
seventy electoral votes to the Repub-
ican candidates. OF the northern
states the Leader places New York.
New Jersey, Indiana and California
in the doubtful list, and gives the
Democrats only the eighty-three votes
of Alabama, Arkansas, Georia, Ken
lucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Texas and
Delaware. As a matter of fact, the only
southern states which may go Repub-
lican are Virginia and North Carolina.
The Democrats are reasonably sure of
carrying New York and Indiana, and
their chances are very good in some of
the states claimed by the Republicans.
or classed as doubtful by the Leader,
as New Jersey, California, Oregon
and Connecticut. The Republican
party, in fact, can not count upon
former Republican strongholds. The
leaders can present no tractive in
fiuence to the people, but the expo
sures of Republican corruption are
daily weakening the organization and
Fastening it to a downfall as decided
as that OF the old Wing party.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04
A Woman Hanged in Hungary

u.l
VIENNA, Dec. There was hanged
to-day at Steinamanger, in Hungary,
peasant woman from SZerdaIiely,
named Lyukas Lathi, for a series of
crimes which had excited universal
horror. The criminal was fifty-two
years of age, short in stature and of a
placid aspect. She procured a large
quantity of arsenic upon the pretense
that her house was overrun with rats,
and mixed the poison in little cakes,
which she disposed of at high price
to persons who desired to get rid of
their relatives.
Her customers were chiefly wives
who had got tired of their husbands,
lovers who thought the removal OF a
rivid would facilitate their own pur-
poses, and even some children pur-
chased the cakes that by offering
them to elderly relatives they might
| the more rap. dly come into the pos
session of their property. Lyukas
killed two husbands of her own, and
she was accused of twenty-six other
| murders, six of which she confessed
she had committed.
At her trial this arch prisoner as.
sumed an air of great piety, and stood
the whole day with rosary in heI
hand, she being a member of the Ro-
Sary club founded 10y the Dominicans
The result was that she was sen.
fenced to a long term of penal servi-
tude, but the crown appealed against
this, and the court of appeal sen.
fenced her to death.
During her imprisonment Lyukas
spent all her time praying, or receiv.
ing spiritual consolation from the
priests, to whom she confessed. Upon
the scatfold to-day she blessed the by.
ISLANDERS with an air of great fervency
The convict's only daughter attempted
TO be present at the execution, but SHE
was prevented entering the yard, anC
as she turned away she barely ESCAPED
being lynched by the mob assembled
| outside.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

IT is now perfectly clear that Dorsey
was furnished 1886, 1000 with which to
corrupt the voters of Indiana in 1880
and there is also conclusive evidence
in Mr.. Garield's letters that the Chris
tian denomination was enlisted as an
ally with this slush fund. Had these
things been known before the late
election, the defeat of the Republican
party would have been even more de-
cided than it was. The people were led
alone by desire for change, for relief
from tariff oppression and tax imposi.
tions of all kinds. They voted
for relief, and had these dam
aging facts, made public through
the publication of the Gar
field letters, been known, tens OF
thousands of good people would have
refused to cast their ballots in aid of a
party whose most trusted leaders and
managers resort to the basest prac-
ticeS.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04
Business for Phipps.
philadelphia Bulletin.l


Vennor, the Canadian weather-seer,
has made many mistakes but much
money. People patronize even false
prophets at times The pecuniary
success of Vennor must have induced
the other Canadian, Virgins, to set
up in business as weather prophet,
and he is on the high road to success
with his predictions of great storms
that are to take place in February and
March. There are plenty of people
who are advertising him, as even we
ourselves are doing now, with
out waiting to see whether
he knows more than ANYBODY
else of the weather of the future. or
is more to be trusted than the sacred
goose-bone, which is still consulted
religiously in many parts of Pennsyl-
vania. The strange thing about this
business is that it is thus far confined
to Canadians. Why do not some en-
terprising Yankees begin to make
weather forecasts? 1t is reproach
to their country that Vennor and
Virgins should usurp the power to
foretell American weather. Major
Phipps should take lessons in the art
while he is in the Dominion.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

GRAPHIC wants to know what good
reason there is for taking off the taxes
on whisky and tobacco and keeping up
the taxes on articles which every per-
son must have. To take them off
would be a license to vice and des-
truction; more than that, it would be
injustice to the many who need pro-
lection that the few who do not need
it may be protected. 1t would be done
that there might be no reduction in
the tariff taxes, and yet a high tariff is
a benefit not at all to the workingman,
but to the few men who control labor
Every dollar saved to our industries
by protection goes into the pockets OF
capital, and not into those of labor.
1t does not give or take away en-
ployment, and it does not make
wages higher or lower. 1t is
for the benefit of thesman class which
would have all the protection it needed
if there were no protection at all, and
it makes the taxes of the small tax
payers higher than they would other
wise be. Think of free whisky and
taxed boots and shoes. Think of free
tobacco and taxed household goods
and implements of labor. Think OF
privileges to vice which are not
dreamed of in behalf of industry and
virtue.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04
Through an Opening in His Throat.


The students OF the hospital of Oral
Surgery, at Tenth and Arch streets,
were shown patient at Saturdays
clinic whose throat had been cut from
ear to ear, and who had been hung by
the neck, but still survived his inju-
ries. He breatheS through silver
tube in his throat, and for six months
was nOurished entirely by enemata.
The mans name is Simon Ladenski, a
native of Roumania. In the winter
of 1867, he then being twenty-three
years old, LadenSki was one of party
of ten men whose Threats was cut by
Il band Of Gypsy robbers on the road
from NarSloe. Ladenski was not kill
ed, and on regaining consciousness and
finding the robbers quMrellng over
the division of the plumber, he at
tempted to crawl in some bushes by
the wayside. Being detected he was
strung up to tree by the neck, and
when again unconscious he was let
down and thrown among the bodies of
his companions, but not until he had
been stabbed in the abdomen
and cut in the neck Two days
later the bodies were found by Prof.
Russ of JasSay, and Laden5ki and a
companion, who was still alive, were
removed to town. Prot. Russ relnov-
ed his patient to Vienna. There La-
denSki was placed under the care of
the most eminent Austrian surgeons.
1t was found that the windpipe was
unable to utter a word. He breathed
through an opening in the neck. AT
ter many efforts a large threaded
| needle was passed up through the
trachea and into the mouth. Small
beads were then drawn through, be
ing daily increased in size in order to
effect permanent Enlargement of the
obstruction. The man is still obliged
to practice this deVice, ana wears the
instrument i'll his vindpipe during the
night, being able to breathe when in
an upright position without its aid.
! He has been examined by the leading
surgeons OF Berlin, Paris and London,
and it is expected that some day it will
be possible to clos up the opening in
| tha thrOat
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

oil mill, two cement factories, two
iron boundaries, large tannery, two
wagon and ambulance factories and
several cotton gins. Below the city
is wool cleaning and securing estab-
lishment, and a Touring mill. both of
large capacity, and driven by the
water power of the San Antonio
river.
The county and city taxes are at the
rate of about 80 cents each on the
500. The county has a bonded debt
OF about S2S0,OOO, and a floating debt
of $4,000.
Situated above the region of malaria,
BeXar county enjoys exceptional
healthfulness. Invalids, especially
those suffering from consumption and
kindred diseases, flock thither in large
numbers. The winters are so mild
that flowers often bloom in the open
air in January, and the summer heat
is greatly modified by the perennial
Texas trade-winds from the Gulf of
Mexico.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04
WHO ARE THE DRINKERS.

The charge is all the time being
made that the Democrats do the drink
ing and make the drunkards of the
country. Democrats are generally
opposed to sumptuary legislation, but
this is because they adhere to
principles set forth in the
higher law of personal free
dom. Senator Beck, of Kentucky,
made a statement, few days ago in
the United States senate, and this
statement was based upon statistics
for 1882 in the hands of the commits.
sioner of internal revenue, in which he
clearly refuted the imputations that
have been cast against Democrats
We submit the following table Of
whisky statistics, as presented by Mr.
Beck:
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04
FaVOritism In the Army.

Ben ButterWOrth is just now in bad
odor with the aideS-de-camp of the big
generals. These faVoriteS of fortune
and the ladies have been having the
easiest, LATEST kind of time for a
good many years, with nothing to do
and double pay. They have basked
in the smiles of the bellies of society,
and drank the champagne of the swell
nabObS, utterly forgetful and negli-
gent of their brother officers who
were fighting Indians on the plains,
enduring untold hardships on the
frontier, and waiting the better
part of their lives in mill
tary posts, deprived of the charms
and pleasures of civilization and So
ciety. Ben ButterwOrth is the man
on the appropriations committee who
set his face against favOritism in the
army, and who secured that provision
in the present army appropriation bill
which will, if adopted, deprive those
comfortably situated aides-de-camp of
a very large part of the extra cash
with which they have been so COM
fortably supplied. The extra pay
which these aides-de-camp get
amounts to good many thou
sands of dollars annually. For
instance, in a little investiga-
ton had before the military
committee of the house not very long
ago, it appeared that two captains who
ranked as colonies on the staff of Gen.
Sherman had received in twelve years
$4,000 each more than they would
have received if they had remained
with their regiments and put in their
time fighting Indians or Superintend-
ing government works on rivers and
harbors. To get an idea of this aide
de-camp business it is only necessary
to state that Gen. Sherman has five
aideS-de-camp. While serving as staff
officers they rank as colonies. Their
lineal rank is as follows: Two of them
are lieutenant colonies. They get
about $1,000 additional as staff officers.
One is major. He gets $1,000 addi-
tional. Two are captains, and
they get $3.50 more than they
regiments. Gen. Sheridan has three
aides-de-camp, and while on staff duty
they rank as Lieutenant colonel. Their
lineal rank is that of captain. The
places they enjoy give them about
SlOOO tdCn I1OI0 Iudll Ill6lI ItR uldI
pay. Major generals are allowed three
aides-de-camp, and brigadier generals
two. These aides, of course, enjoy
increased radk and cOrreSpondingly
increased pay. Butterworth's provi-
sion in the army appropriation bill
declares that officers when on staff
duty shall receive only S45 per month
extra and lops off one from
each of the major and briga-
der generals. 1t also provides
that aides shall not enjoy their easy
places more than three years, and at
the end OF that time they must go
back to work and give their less for
tunate brother officers chance to
come to the rear and lead the german
at the capital.
Gen. Sheridan's brother has been on
his staff for many years. Howard has
taken care of his son, Anger of his
son-in-law, Crook of his nephew, Pope
of his nephew, Schofield of his nephew,
Wilcox of his son-in fact, all of them,
except Hancock, have put relations in
these desirable places
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

to appreciative listeners. There is
no doubt that the government
has been outrageously swindled
by Indian agents. Hundreds of thou
sands of dollars have been spent in
school-houses. books and furniture at
the different agencies, and nowhere
can there be found on the plains a
single child who can speak a word of
EnglISh learned at these schools. The
schools are kept open and teachers are
PAID, but no pupils attend. At one
place, Mr.. Logan says, he found "a fine
stone building, fine furniture and
plenty of books. Once a month. he
was informed, a lot of old suuaws
were led in, shown some gaudy pic
lures and led out again. Mr.. Logan
proposes to have an investigation to
show who is responsible for this waste
OF money. Indian children will not
attend school us long rs they are per-
United to remain At their homes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

IT begins to appear rs though this
congress will not give the country a
revised tariff bill. But in the senate
and in the house tariff bills are being
prepared by committees and this fact
will retard the legislation. Probably
that is what is intended, just as it was
intended that the reference of the
tariff question to commission at the
last session should give time to the
protected barons. No tariff bill can
be passed in the house without several
weeks debate, and even in the senate
much time will be consumed in the
consideration of such a bill. The
opinion at Washington is that the SEN
ate will pass one bill and the house
another, and there is no possibility
that the bills will be anywhere near
alike. If the senate bill passes first it
will come into the house, and be
placed on the calendar below the house
bill, and the house bill, unless the SEN
ate bill is substituted for it, of which
there is no probability, will, when
passed, go to the senate. The senate
will want to stand by its bill, and the
house will probably show the same
disposition. To harmonic the differ
ence between the two houses will be
a very difficult task. There will not
be time for a great deal of tariff dis
cussion. There are only about eight
weeks of the session remaining, and
the house has not touched the civil
service reform bill yet or any of the
most important appropriation bills.
1t is evident that Chairman Nor
rill in the senate and Chairman Kelley
in the house have put their heads to-
gether to arrange that the protected
monopolists shall not be disturbed for
a season. Even when the forty-eighth
congress meets the senate will stand
in the way of the Democratic house
securing to the people what is de-
minded. But will the senate dare op-
pose the popular will as formulated
by representation fresh from the
people2
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04
These FIGURES show that in the sun

These figures show that In the sup
posed whisky drinking states of Ala
Oama and Arkansas there has been a
decrease in the last year of about
twenty-five per cent in saloons, while
in California and Colorado there has
been an increase. Connecticut "holdS
it's own" but Delaware and Florida
show decrease. In Georgia there is a
decided decrease, and so there
is in South Carolina and
in Tennessee. Republican and
prohibition Kansas shows a decided
increase, and Michigan, Minnesota and
New Hampshire present increase; and
so the increase, heaviest in the
Republican states. In Democratic
states the decrease is most not
able. Texas shows an increase
of over six hundred saloons in
one year, a thing that can be ac-
counted for, probably, in its rapid in
crease of population, coming in from
Republican states and from the old
country on the other side of the At
lantic. The commissioners report
shows a production of spirituous
liquors in 1882 in the United States OF
l05, $3.50, 161 gallons, which is less than
the production of 1881 by 1884, 1889
gallons, which may be accounted
for in the growth and influence OF
Democracy, as shown in the late cleo
tions. The reports also show that
there was consumed in drinking in
the United States, during 1882, 6S, 1885,
924 gallons-about seven gallons to
each adult male in the country.
Taking Republican Kansas as an
illustration, we are led to conclude
that there is a world of hypocrisy
among Republicans. In that state
they pretend to be prohibition
lists, and yet the saloons in
crease over twenty-five per cent in
one year. But such is the Re
publican party. 1t practices fraud in
everything. appeals to every fanatical
sentiment, combines with every ism
that starts, marshaling all the power
it can against Democracy, in whom
the people do confide, because it adj
heres to truthfulness of purpose.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

THE mayor of New York was asked
for license for the rendition of the
Passion Play in that city, and the
wires tell us that he refuses to grant
such license. The ministers took
strong stand against the proposed
play, urging that such an exhibition
of the historic facts and sacred mystic
ries of the christian religion was cal
culated to shock the religious sensible
titles of christians of all denomina-
tons; that it was calculated to desc
crate the hottest of things and names;
that it would have the effect of letting
down public respect and veneration,
instead of increasing both of them
that it would represent the Saviour in
his agony, on the stage devoted to
things trivial and profane, when
to most christians it seems i'm
pious for any one to presume to per-
senate him there. The whole effect
of the performance, it was claimed,
would be to lessen faith in and rev.
erence for the Christian religion, and
to play into the hands of infidels
1t is properly said that it is no an
swer to these objections to urge that
the Passion Play has been represented
at 0ber-Ammergau, and that thou.
sands of people flock to witness the
performance. The representation il
an anomaly. All the surroundings o.
it are peculiar and cannot be trans
planted. Whether that representation
does more good than harm; whetheri
is not becoming increasingly objec
tionable on moral and religious a
well as on artistic grounds, are serious
questions. Certainly the last per
Torrance of the passion play Their
was severely criticised and condemned
What is suited to one age and countr.
may be entirely unsuited to another
In these days of universal education
people do not need to be instructed il
the mysteries of religion by dramatic
representations.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

AN old Republican writes to the
Newton massachusetts, Transcript as
follows:
what is left of the Republican
partyp am an old man who voted
with the Wing party while that party
existed, protesting in its latter days
against its devotion to privileged legis-
lation in the tariff system of taxa
ton and in the banking system OF
making currency by a forced loan from
the people, charging them interest on
money which the banks never had
and that never existed. l said such
policy would kill the Wing party, and
it did so; because it was opposed to
equal rights and personal liberty; it
was opposed to the right of the indi-
vidual to buy where he could buy
cheapest; only to be taxed equally
with others on his possessions and not
on his consumption of products; to
have money, instead of being
obligated to buy and sell on
credit, involving a needless cost
of interest to maintain bank
currency that drives money out of the
country by degrading its value in loss
to the public. And have voted with
the Republican party from its birth
because that party was conceived in
the spirit of personal liberty. The
reason for its being was the abolition
of slavery; its purpose IN this regard
being so plain and so holy as to sink
all minor considerations and carry the
party to success in the elections, re-
CARELESS of its errors in every other
direction. But these errors were
plainly to be seen by those who cared to
search for them. On every convenient
occasion have protested against them
in public and in private, knowing per-
fectly well they would go far to sink
the party as soon as the pro-slavery
resistance was at an end.
And thusit Is. Slavery is abolished:
the mission of the Republican party
in this regard is closed, and now comes
TO the surface the same interference
with the natural laws of trade, the
same spirit of antagonism to personal
liberty in unequal taxation and the
substitution of debt for money, which
destroyed the Wing party"
The Wing party ceased to exist,
both because it had nothing to live
upon and because the people had lost
confidence in it. The Republican
party now stands in relation to the
people hundred times kTorse than
did WhiQism-
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

The fraudulent purposes of the
tariff commission are apparent. Re
auctions are claimed to be based on
twenty-five cent, but under the head
of wooden goods the fraud becomes
eiaring. The largest reductions on
wooden goods are made on the lower
priced goods. which are not imported
TO any large extent, while the duties
remain almost prohibitory on goods
costing from 81 and upward a pound.
There is only ten per cent reduction
of duties on hannels and blankets of
the qualities most largely imported.
IL Is so with cotton goods and others
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04
OF the Sane Opinion.
[Brazoria Independent. /


The Austin STATESMAN is a firm
friend of the Improvement of the
mouth of the Braios river, and it says
there seems to he a very strong i'm
preston in the minds of those who
watch the progress Of affairs at the
mouth Of the Br,Zos river, that the
engineer in charge, Col. Mansfield, is
labouring to retart the removal of the
bar instead of dong that which the
government has Intended. 1t esti-
mates that Col. Mansfield is sighting
the mouth of the Brazos in the inter
est of the deep water at Galveston
Banner.
After carefully Watching the move
mentS of Col. Mansfield for about
three years, we are of the same opin-
ion as the ST ATESMAN
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-04

1t has been said that American ships
cannot compete with English ships,
because the English sailors are paid
less and eat less than American. An
English steamship worth $4,000
would probably earn $4,000 per an
mum. This would be taxed as income
at per cent. the tax amounting to
$500. The American steamship cost
ing the same money would pay a tax
of per cent on the value, or $4,000.
If all other things were equal she
could not compete with her English
rival. Our whole revenue and COM
mercial system is full of such absurdi-
ties, and the progressive press and the
people have begun none too soon to
remove them.