The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-03

the rich, the powerful, the manufac-
turers, the monoDolists and the hang
ers on of the government. The pres
ent uneasy condition of finance and |
trade, is the loud and potent protest |
OF the merchants, the traders and the |
business men OF the country against |
the policy of the republican party |
which has built up lordly race of |
favorites, rolling in the accursed mil
lions wrung from the toiling masses
who are growing poorer and poorer
every day, while yellow gold in a
ceaseless tide flows clinking and ring
ing into the Golfers of the rich. Well
indeed will it be for the country if
this protest is listened to in time to
prevent the recurrence of the dis
tresSful scenes which marked
the blood and tear drenched
march of the dreadful panic of 1873.
The whole country is trembling
on the very verge of disaster
of even greater magnitude than that
was, and uselessly and needlessly at
that. A wiser policy; smaller gains foc
the monopolists and wider margins
for the poor, such as will surely come
by and through a complete tariff re-
vision, and it would have been utterly
impossible for such a threat as this
last furry IN Wall street and its broad
black border of failure and crash.
would not now be Haunted in the
face Of the trembling and overtaxed
producers and traders of the nation.
1t is time that these danger signals
were needed. These disorders are
Likely to bear fruit in a crop of COM
munism, which will eventually
drench fair America in the blood of
her best and most useful citizens.
Now, it does seem to us, that with all
these facts starring them in the face,
the democracy Of this nation will not
only be recreant to the fairest chance
it has ever had since the war, but it
will be recreant to a holy trust, re-
posed in it by the lowly and the poor,
who beg that, among all these lordly
fortunes being built up for the favor
ties of the rotton tariff system, they
be accorded a fair chance to win bread
for themselves and their little ones.
The platform constructed at Chi
cago ought to have this point
in view. The convention ought
not to loose sight for moment
of the dark background of the picture,
in the foreground of which pose the
millionaire favorites, such as Van
derbilt, Gould. Sage, Blaine and a
hundred others, some of whom were
poor enough when the tocsin of wal
sounded quarter of a century since
The democracy constitutes the hope
of the nation to-day. If it fails then
will the overwhelmed hearts of the
people mourn for comforter who
cometh not, and sigh for a RELIEF
which taketh wings unto itself ant
: flies away to dwell with the wiser ma
tions who refuse to tear down ont
class of its citizenship. that another
may mount to place, power and riches
over the ruined workers of America
THE STATESMAN doesn't think thu
! governor a statesman and it is jus
frank and independent enough to sa.
: so. 1t does this, however, in no ma
licious or wanton way. It points on
l his short comings as man and an of
ficer in order that the party may bt
induced to give us a better man t.
;. vote for. Governor Ireland is Ger
< tainly not an illustrious statesman
nor is he even a passable one in ability
l and we contend that Texas is entitled
7 to frst-class talent in the position
l which he fills. In this thing tn
e course of the paper is inspired rather b,
: its fealtY to the people, than by its en-
l nifty to one man. We have nothing
4 against the governor save and excep
} his general unfitneSs to hold the placl
of governor of Texas. Now he would
+ do well in Rhode Island, but here i
takes broader based man altogether
4 The people are becoming very restless
and we should not be very much sur
prised to see very formidable show
S of real pungent opposition offered a
5 Houston to the denomination of tn
governor. at least that is the wa,
things look just now to close observers
THE following is given in Sunday
mornings News as Judge Terrell'
!, emphatic denial of the charge tina
he writes the leading editorials Of
THE STATESMAN:
Judge Terrell was surprised at see
l ing copied into local paper, from tn,
' San Antonio Times, paragraph stat
l ing that he was writing articles
against the governor in a paper not {
thousand miles from Austin, meaning
doubtless THE STATESMAN, which
contains frequent editorials hostile tx
, Governor Ireland. Judge Terrell said
, emphatically to the News reporter
"Any statement emanating from any
source that I have written one syllable
in the way indicated is utterly false
l am candidate for no office; but
what think of him or his measures
l exercise the privilege of citizen IL
expressing. This, I suppose, is moi
, grateful to those who differ with me
but they might at least refrain from
, falsehood. The advocates of Govern
or Ireland, 1 think, could employ theil
time and inventive faculties to better
advantage, if they have his interest al
heart"
THE editorial force of the STATES
MAN has recently had fine compli-
ment paid it in having its work as
cribed to the brilliant and talented
Terrell, We immagine, however, that
the compliment was unwittingly
paid, as that class of men hate the
STATESMAN cordially-which Is in
itself compliment surely they
would think of paying it a compli-
ment the last of all acts of their lives.
Now Is the time to do effective adj
vertising. The weather is so warm
that most men prefer to lie in the