The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-07-17
10. d. Savers.

JOs IL. SayefS.
liz has given THE STATESMAN SIR
crest pleasure to announce, as 1t ulu
Q Nerday, the formal entry OF tne [
% I'VE well known and popular gen
'man into the race for the nomlna- '
ION to congress from the TENN
congressional district. We have no
disposition at this time to enter lhto
my elaborate review of the Dlrtn' '
EDUCATION and public career of Sayers.
we Will be content to briefly glance al
e's work of which Gov.
Sayers, his family and his country
may well be proud. Coming upon
the scene of active life during the
recent great war, he at once, youth
as he was, entered the surgiDg mass
struggling against the onset OF TOO
powerful foe 1t is to his infinite
credit that he was not swallowed up
and lost in the vortex. Not so, he
took high rank and at once, by the
gallantry of his conduct and his
abili ty, rose to the grade Of major.
Often wounded, once desperately, yet
his zeal was unfiagging until the
end, and it remained all unaffected by
the dead certainty of ultimate defeat,
as he saw it. Gentle as woman, he
was at the same time as courageous
as lion. Friend aud foe both re-
member the gentle, almost womanly
ministrations of the swart young ma
jor who had in his teens won imper-
ishable honors over the heads
of older and more experienced men
When the war closed, with the same
steady fixedness of character he con
menced the study of law and soon en-
terered the practice. Here, as il
war, the steadiness, broad views, great
ability and .earnestness of the young
attorney met with grand success
From the very start success was as
sured, and high as was the expecta
tions of his friends they were ampl,
realized. A comfortable fortune sool
rewarded his efforts. This he has al
ways generously shared with thos
about him, making no parade Blu
always .sedulously endeavoring T.
conceal the good acts which 81
thickly stud the record of his unos
tentatious life. His neighbors an
friends recognizing his supreme lit
ness for the public service soon Gale
him from the bar to serve the pee
pie in other and more important C;
pacities. He at last rose to the pos
ton ofsecond in the state government
and as acknowledgement, he did tn
state good and efficient service. Hi
career as president of the senate
well remembered. His courtesy, hi
unfiaggingly faithful attention t
business and gentlemanly courtesy
often referred to to-day by those VIII
either witnessed or experienced i
His counsels were alway
. wise and temperate, cor
, templating only the greatest goo
of the greatest number. He served OF
his term, and when he retired to hi
) home in Bastrop, to take up the brt
ken threads of his professional bus
ness again, he was followed to his r.
tirement by the hearty plaudit {
"wen DONE" from the whole people {
9 the state of every party and of a
shades of political opinions. SIM
that time his entire time has been al
, sorbed by heavy professional care
: and meeting with a wonderful su
cess, yet his interest in the public a
fairs and political occurrences h
never abated a single degree. He e
tiers into all with the keenest zeS
y and no one is ever in doubt as
\ where Joe stands on given issue.
In politics he is an enthusiastic al
devoted democrat, true blue refor
< democrat, and of the old and accepts
g free trade model at that. Both Il
:. people and their leaders have the L
: most faith in Savers. Their confiden
!, is unfiagging and unlimited. Fl
, friends never fear treachery or ne
lect at his hands, and his foes fe
Only his gallantry and his gre
i fighting strength, not the trickery al
. chicanery by which SO. many mt
l win success before the people.
congress he would stand by tt
q side of such men as Carlisle al
t Morrison and for the principles whit
f have so grandly illustrated them pc
sonally and glorified the manhood
the great west.
3 Joe SayeIs does not have to reso
to the tricks of the politician, and l
would scorn to hold a place by an
such means. His competitors for tt
nomination need never watch hin
They may understand at all time
that a vigorous, utterly frank an
open-and-above.board battle will |
legitimately waged for legitimat
end and purpose, but further tina
this he will never go. This announc,
! ment means business-business fc
| the other gentlemen who propose
; contest the nomination with hiI
| and business for the man who stand
up before him at the ballot box an
before the people. lie will not onI
be nominated but he will be grand
elected. He scores no failures. Hi
partizans are the honest masses, tn
intelligent men and the working d.
mocrats of the 10th congressional dis
trict.
1t will be proud day for the State
man no less than the other devote
friends of Governor Sayres when it
called upon to put on record such
triumph as the one which is reserve
for this Chevalier Bayard of the Texa
democracy. Now then, to work a
along the line,