The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-10-09
A SOLID SPEECH.
COL. MILLS TALK AT THE COUNTY
COURT HOUSE, LAST
NIGHT.
Able Exposition of Democratic
Policy and Prin-
ciples.

The court house was packed last |
night to hear the. Hon. Roger q. /
Mills. MIR. Woodbridge called the as
to order and presented DR.. /
G.. s. Morse, who introduced the |
orator of the evening. He said that |
few remarks were necessary, as all |
present knew that as a congressman |
Mr.. Mills had served twelve years.
and to show how people appreciated |
him he had been always nominated
by reclamation, and notified when last
nominated by committee consisting
of one of each of the eight COMMITTEES
composing his district. Applause
Mr.. Mills commenced by apostro
phiZing liberty;that Americans pecu-
iiarly living as they do within broad
limits inheriting the sentiments from
their ancestry who named the wilds of
Europe in Teutonic tribes, they
should zealously guard this free and
inalienable right aboye all others, this
being possible from the fact that
power comes from those upon whom
it is to be exerted.
All political contentious sprung from
the exercise of this power democrats
seeking to keep all possible power dis
tribute amongst the people and the
republicans to draw it to focus about
them in Washington. Thank God our
fore fathers had not trusted to an I'M
written constitution, and it was a
democratic doctrine that each one of
the sons of that constitution was
subject and every subject sovereign.
The republicans have broken their
faith as the devil did of yore; they
got the power by promises, and after
getting it they have used the spoils
and continued to hatter without help
in the people. They promised at the
close of the war to befriend the work
ingman. They had complied by in
creasing his taxes, and even while the
thunders of the lost cause yet reverber-
ated, in congress assembled, lifted
the taxes from express companies
banks, factories and great corpora
lions. The results of statistically
cited receipts of taxation showed
a much greater proportion of the
amount of taxes paid by laborers than
blythe wealthy to-day. Abiding here
Judge Rector, he said that the
pie would be ashamed of the judge
is a republican, he attempted earn
by to explain this fact.
The republicans had professed
Eiendship to the Irish. AS conse-
uence the imprisoned McSweeneY
jailed vainly from. his dungeon on the
plumed Blaine. He believed the Irish
naturally liberty-loving people and
always in favor of home rule, would
return the compliment in November
and give Mr.. Blaine his liberty to &c
at large.
Mr.. Blaine, the republican, fiirted
with the prCh;bitionists in the
temples of temperance, and
sung "Faderland" with the
Germans in the gardens of Bacchus
Then the'republicans deserve the col.
ored vote in return for the establish.
ment of the bureau of information
and the donation of the "forty acres
and mule"
During the arbitration of the Til.
den-Hayes election, Gen. Grant, whose
experience had taught him that the
military were good mathematician
sent the military to New Orleans tC
solve the problem. Garfield was
there, so was Arthur and Kelly. Two
of the returning board, being white
were soon bought over; the remaining
two. being colored, were more
exacting, knowing that they
held the fate of empires
in the hollow of their hands, they ex
acted many promises, among Others
social equality, the Inauguration o.
which was to open with an octorooI
ball. The speaker said he coulC
well imagine the plumed courtiel
there on that occasion, approaching
some dusky Liza of beauty rare
with a view of taking her rounC
tenderly, fashioned so slenderly younl
and so black; then waltzing abou
with his partner, whose feet, like fair,
mice well swollen with pride, occa
sionally stealing to view beneath he
tresses, whilst whispering go way
niggah, done lost all taste for you," a
merrily around they go, chasing tn
time with flying ieet. hugging the de
lusive phantom of hope, and whis
pering to the knightly Blaine, you j
tshe man I long have sought" o
course the electoral vote went TO
Hayes. But soon there is anothe
sound of revelry by night, when a
faced Astor, sparkling beneath grace
through the mazes of the dance. Thi
Illllt l1iLd udO W DC 1OOh
ing through the crack. and all the CO.
ored.votes in all the cotton state
could not have opened the door 70
her as she sighed so near and yetso fal
In this manner then have they com
piled with their promises to the Gel
mans, Irish, colored men, mechanic
and farmers, whose taxes they promis
ed 10 reduce. On the contrary, wheI
fhn,
united themselves in solid phalanX tt
defeat that bill, and returned to thei
laboring constituents with praise IL
theiI months, but not in their hearts
Here the Colonel entered into a log
ical exposition of the tariff fraud, b,
showing how in reality it was the con
sumner, and not the producer, WIFI
paid the tax, not to the government
but to the manufactury. The pro
portion received by the manufacture
corresponding to the height of tn,
tariff and the consequent exclusion o
commerce.; and continued by saying
that labor is controlled by the demand
and That the demand is regulated h,
nature. Let China produce the tea
and Iowa the wheat-the republican
idta. lie compared the republican
party TO hell. where it is all work an(
no pay; and the democracy, wher
it Is all reward and no ex
toll. Speaking of Rector. he said tina
ii Il was true that Sayers had turned
his back on Jones, Rector had turnet
his back on his best friend, to-wit, tn
state. He thought that if Blaine wa
elected Gov. Moses would wonde
whether they missed him at home
Did they miss him through the bar
of the Albany penitentiaryp That hi
could not reconcile his conception O
Henry of Navarro. to the plumet
knight from Maine, but that in homes
Grover Cleveland the language of ;
patriot would not be amiss. How
grand the figure would be to SCI
Cleveland in November proclaim:
Cofumbial Columbial the home of the brave
Again does your free flag in liberty wave.
Columtlal Columbial the gem Of the skies,
Again amongst nations you bear off the prize