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


On the gubernatorial face. A nervous
tension was quite observable i'll all
thatlthe executive body did-in all that
executive tongue uttered, there was at
first doubt and 1ndecision, but gradu-
ally this air of haste and general up
passed off aud confidence |
seemed restored, and high emprise |
shined all over the statesman's face.
The hurrying crowd of lackeys, cou-
riers and secretaries disappeared and
the wonted staid quietude proper
to the executive mansion of great
state and great man was restored.
The statesman had solved the diff
Guilty, order and peace were the re-
sulting attendants upon the fruition
of the great idea which had defni-
tely shaped itself in the great mans
tired brain. But we are too fast. We
have forgotten that, perhaps, the pub
lie, up to this time remains uninform
ed as to what we are to teach in the
political lesson of this morning. A
waiting world shall remain no longer
in doubt. 1t shall anxiously and tear
fully learn that, once upon time,
seven or eight millions of negroes
over at Gause-Gause, in the state of
Texas. rejoicing in the completion of
rich harvest, and full of gratitude
and whisky Git is way they have OF
showing gratitude) went upon little
jamboree. They walked a little TN
steadily on their legs, and this in
duced an official of the railway
to regard them as bloody treason con-
coctors, and straightway his plant
found its way by shortest wire
route to the executive ears. This
was the cause of the hurrying legions
about the head of the government.
This it was that had perturbed the
usually serene self-possesslon of the
man of events. While the evil tidings
were slowly penetrating the brain,
and while the fullness and richness of
the remedy was percolating the mind,
the anxious expression and hurried
movements were kept up. But like
a bolt from heaven, from a clear and
cloudless sky, came the grand sug'
gestion, There is the military arm
of the federal power-it will sustain
me. 1 can gracefully fall into it AND
lihd rest and protection both. I'll cen
haste and invoke it" THE boys il
blue, the blessed boys anG
men in blue, will do the work if onl!
they can be had ere the black tide O.
revolution has urged to the uttermos
bounds of my empire" This great
Jacksonian governor of ours who's
glorious services so richly entities
him to reelection, called. and long er
the commander of the military coul
possibly mobilize his forces, the "ille
up" Africans, sobered by the dreadful
tidings of preparation on the part o
the governor, slowly crawled bacl
into the jungles of the Brazos an
were seen no more until the tanglt
foot had oozed out and left their leg
steady.
It was grand crisis i
the history of the state as
surely was in the official histor
and career of.the executive head Of
the commonwealth, His eagle glanc
roamed over the field and when the ide
dawned upon him as to the magnl
tude of the great services he had rem
dered the people, "EurekaI" "hurrah!
"by jingo," broke from his wreathe'
J lips, and joy reigned once more a regs
queen in Warsaw. Now, if anythin
entities the govern :, - e to tn
honor of reelection, it is this grant
Gauze campaign. See how pertec
the whole thing is in even to the mos
minute particular. The negro can al
ways be depended upon tor an emeut'
, rising or a coon hunt. 1t is al
idiosyncrasy OF Sambo, and non
know the fact better than the states
man who handles the helm in Tex
as. There were vast herds of then
perhaps a dozen men, not il
buckram. perhaps, as rotund old 81
John had it, but in liquor. The
were befuddled. In plain terms
drunk, and John Ireland subdue
them by single mighty flash Q
genius. He rushed to the front an
shook in their blanched faces the So
cred name of Uncle Sam. OF cours
no negro cound emeute worth cen
after he knew that Uncle Samuel ha
set his face sternly against that sol
of thing, and that in the good wor
he was backed by the majestic powe
of an earnest and fully aroused exec
utive of the state of Texas. To a
awful perdition with democratic thee
ries, with home rule with non-interfe
enee of the federal power with tn
domestic affairs of the states and will
the doctrine which declares that tn
civil arm must be exhausted ere tn
military be evoked. You see, the MAJ
who promulgated that comfortabl
political doctrine was theorist only
He did not at the head of a pitlfu
two and half millions of Caucasian
stand in front of a dozen loud smell
ing whisky befumed Africans, ard s
he did not know what he was thinl
ing of. According to Ireland, Jeffer
son does well enough except when tn,
Gauze negroes are in open rebellion
and rising fifteen or sixteen strong.
| Now all levity aside, but is this thu
man for either grave or trivial emer
genciesp Did this Gauze emeute devel
op the supreme fitness of Mr.. IrelanC
to be governor another term, ever
| with such chances thrown in the way
as that affair brought to him. Can
the democracy of Texas-can thu
state afford to take another lease OF
this man after he has developed F;
massive unfitness, such as this2 Car
we not do better2 Is the range Of
desirable gubernatorial timber so cir
cumscribed as that we must throw
! the state into the arms of such 8
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