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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24
A Travis County Issue.

We have a rich and prosperous
county, and it's population will grade
as high as to intelligence, enterprise
and go-aheadativeness as any in the
state. We have about the same pc
Iitical divisions among US that other
counties have, and we are to be cred
tied with an interest in events fully as
keen as they. We are to elect a new
county administration this fall, and
are in search of an issue upon which
to predicate sharp campaign. Why
not adopt the free bridge question as
one. 1t would answer very wei
and it would bring out all the enlightl
ened business get-up of the county and
array it squalely against that honest,
conservative old mossbackism so
charming as a sentiment but which
gets so awkwardly and so uncomfort-
ably in the way of our modern pro-
gress. 1t is not necessary here to re-
state all that may be said in favor of
or against the proposed policy of pur-
chasing the bridge. What we want
to see is the adoption of the measure
as an issue, and let the county align
on it for the next race. Let US deter
mine in this way what the peo-
pie think of the policy of
throwing open to the free use
of the people all the avenues and
thoroughfares of trade and commerce
leading into Austin. While this city
has significance which she gets
purely from her quality of political
capital of a great state, she has
another of local point differing in no
whit from the other county sites. She
has county interests as grave, business
policies and purposes as valuable in a
money sense as any other, and it be-
comes her to care for them as assldu-
ously as though the state capital were
located hundred miles from her.
If to the vast advantage which
comes to Austin as the political CAPT
tai, the center of political interest for
Texas. We add sharply incisive and
intelligent local business policy, we
will very speedily become not only the
most beautiful city in Texas or the
south, but the richest, most prosperous
and most enterprising. Let us deter
mine to fetch out the aspirants as
well as the voters on this exceedingly
important question, and the way to do
that is to adopt the free or anti-free
bridge idea as a lusty local issue.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24
SPICY TALK BY MORRISON.

The Free Trade Leader Chats of His Bill
and Uses Some Naughty Adjectives.
Washington Special to the Chicago News.
Mr.. Morrison has been in uncom-
monty good spirits all day, more cheer
full and clipper than his friends have
seen him since the session began. The
defeat of the Converse bill is the reas-
on why. He was asked tonight what
he considered the significance of the
vote on that bill. "Now, what a-fool
question that is to ask" he replied.
Any man with sense ought
to know that it means
majority in favor of tariff reform
in the House of Representatives.
That vote contradicted about mil
lion - republican lies. You fellows
for the last six months have been
telegraphing all over the country that
| there was a majority in the house OPP
posed to tariff reform, and the first
vote that was taken showed exactly
the contrary"
when are you going to call up
your bill?"
Next Tuesday"
"WiIl there be long debateP +"
al judge so. There are 325 men IN
the house, and every one of them will
want to make speech. I've heard Of
a hundred or so, and some of them
have been delivered already and are
being sent out from the folding-room
now."
"Will the bill pass p"
"Pve got nothing to say about it.
You can judge yourself by the vote
on the Converse bill yesterday"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

pension. If this were the act of an
enemy it surely indicates bitter and
relentless one indeed.
The wonder is that such a raid
could be planned and carried out sue
cessfully in the heart of populous
city which has all the means and &C
cessories of a competent police ad-
mlnistratlon. It will prove a
lasting disgrace to the force if
it fails to unearth the dastardly
perpetrators. AS a pointer we may
say the act was not that of a printer.
While we have some entirely mean
men In the printing business, yet in a
long life spent in the active service of
Journalism, we CAN say, of truth, that
we have never yet seen man IN ii
who we thought was mean enough to
do such an act of pure, lost, unfath
enable meanness. 1t is bewilderinG
in the very blackness of the turp1tudt
it represents.
The good name of the city of Aus
tin is stained by this act of simple, I'm
adorned vandalism, and will remain
with stain upon it until after thu
perpetrators have been ferreted on
and condigaly punished. Many sup
pose that the fell enterprise was en-
gendered by the political rivals OF tn
Dispatch management. This idea i
only tenable on the theory that non
o,her could be mean enough, n,
other influence goveling enough
to impel man to the commission o
a crime so dastardly, so wanton ant
so cruel.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24
Vandalism.

The complete wrecking of the Dis
patch Office Tuesday night, in this
city, was one of those acts of van
dalism indicating wretched state of
disregard for law, for consequences,
and as well as of deep seated mali.
ciousness altogether shocking in its
entire and unrelieved wickedness. No
one but printer, or one acquainted
with the publishing business, has any
knowledge of how much evil Is repre-
scented in the very graphic report pub
lished in THE STATESMAN yesterday
morning. 1t amounts almost to the
complete annihilation of newspaper.
Type worth from forty to sixty cents
per pound in the cases or in original
packages pied in this way is worth
but six cents, to say nothing of the
loss occasioned by the enforced sus-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

record he made as q soldier of
the lost cause is a powerful
confirmation of this claim. To this is
to be added his record in civil life
since, and his brief but glorious his
tory as a representative of the people
in the halls of their legislature.
His boyhood, manhood and entire
life has been spent in Texas. Norman
within all our broad borders has
better understanding of the views,
capabilities and general situation of
Texas than Sull Ross, or who would
come nearer to carrying them out
fully in such position. He
is in full sympathy with every
progressive theory held by the
people or which is neglected by the
rapidly unfolding possibilities of the
state. His unselfshness is proverbial.
He has scrupuously held his own over
topping claims back and he has al
ways preferred others to himself.
This is the only subject of dissatisfac-
ton with him which his friends have to
urge. 1t is rare one indeed, and all
the more charming for its very rarity
Few other men holding place so full
in the public eye can be said to
have repressed himself as Ross
has uniformely done. Texas is
very proud Of him as one Of
the best types of her perfected man.
hood, and the day whea he takes his
seat in the executive chair will be a
proud and a fortunate one for the
state.
All this we say without disparage
ment to other aspirants and theil
claims, and least of all that very
distinguished gentleman who stand!
to-day at the head Of the state govern
ment, and who is also a candidate fol
denomination and reelection. AS W,
said, we have no personal war t.
make against any man. w,
will further on honestly, fai
ly and fearlessly examine of
fetal records and weigh impartial,
the worth of opinions and theorie:
held. This is not only a privilege, bu
1t is high duty. Public men stant
or fall on these alone, and there il
nothing else to guide the public in it!
search for the "best man." With in
terests so vast and so powerful,
affected by the personal character anC
policy of the executive, Texas cal
lily afford to take leap in the darl
or to continue an administrator
which has been weighed in the balanc
and found wanting.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24
The Ross starter.

There is no use in denying it, nor is
there any earthly use in further ig-
noring the fact that there is deep
seated, broad based and earnest
determination inside of the demo-
cratic party to place the very strong
est man in it in the race for the
nomination for governor in opposition
to the present incumbent. This will
be friendly contest to test the rela-
tive strength of Ross and Ireland.
There will be not a particle of bitter
ness in it. Not a word will be
spoken which will leave a sting
behind it, and we are perfectly
assured there will be no unkind
or unfriendly feeling entertained
by either of the distinguished gentle
men themselves. Thepersonal friends
Of both will exert all fair means,
and exhaust all their honorable
and honest resources to secure
the prize at Houston. 1t will
be a race peculiarly interesting be-
cause it will be stingless. 1t is two
gentlemen with grand party records
running purely upon the merits of
the theories each holds and the
measures they advocate. Personally
they are pure and untainted, and moth
ing need be said of either of person.
ally disparaging character, and neither
will object to being discussed purely as
a public man on the merits of the pub
lie policies he proposes and other mat
tiers relating to race of this kind.
We defy all Texas to produce a
man who has better record than
this same big-hearted, Drained,
modest, pure-handed gentleman, Ross.
From his early boyhood down to the
present moment, his life has been but
a bright record of good, unselfish and
manly service to his state, his section
and humanity. OF singularly pure
and abstemious habits and with
grand physique unbroken by the dis
sipations which too often bring
their bad fruits to destroy man.
hood in middle life, he has to-day all
the elasticity, fortitude and endur-
ance of early manhood. This physi-
cal trait is but a reproduction Of the
mental condition. He has an exceed
ingly active, strong, working and ex-
act brain; mathematical, with de-
cided taste for detail, and that exacti-
tude In all things so necessary to one
holding the position of governor of
an empire such as Texas is. His
well-known and widely acknowledged
abilities constitute in
an advantage of vast
worth in such a contest as the
,ne before him. The splendid
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24
a Scene In the Senate.

From the Washington Republican.
A large and imposing senator from
a western state was walking up and
down the senate chamber behind the
chairs. His hands met at the small of
his back, and one of them held the
other. His step was stately and his
head leaned forward a trifie. On his
face was the far away distracted ex-
preston which is usually interpreted
to mean thatlthe owner of it is in deep
thought. On sofa in the corner
of the senate chamber sat senator
from another western state talking to
friend. Pointing to the senator who
was pacing back and forth in full
view of the galleries, the sitting sena-
tor said to his friend: There's
man who is laboring under a very
strange hallucination." What is
it?" inquired the startled friend.
!" Why, he thinks that he's thinking"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

If Mr.. Barney Gibbs will listen to
THE STATESMAN he will eschew
the interviewer. When necessary to
speak it is always right to speak the
truth. But good sharp man can
get on very well very often by keep
inc his mouth shut. An intervie W
at arms length has always enough
of mischief in it. but these long
range fellows are always peculiarly
unsafe. They knock callow statesman
ship over about as do toy pistols the
callow youth who uses them. 1t
is always a good thing to seek
intercourse with the people, and find
out how the public pulse beats, and
when public sentiment goes. or is
about to go wrong. seek . fair oppor-
tunity, and in a frank manly speech
say Just what you mean and in the
very teeth of the voting sovereign.
In the main Barney Gibbs is sound
man. clear-headed and fearless fe,-
low. This is the sort of man the
people of Texas delight to honor.
They always take kindly to frank,
honest, outspoken man who has no
nonsense about him. and this is emil
nently the case with Mr.. Barnett
Gibbs, of Dallas.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24
My Secret.


Il told my secret to the sweet Wild rose,
Heavy with dew, new-waking in the morn,
And they had breathed 1t to a thousand others
Before another day was fairly born.
"Oh, tickle rosei" said I, .you shall periShl"
SO plucked them for my lady sweet to wear
In the pure silence If her maiden bosom.
The curled luxuriance OF her chestnut hair.
told the secret to bird new building
Her nest at peace within the spreading tree,
And ere her children had begun to chatter
She told 1t DER and Ger right joyously.
"Oh, traitor birdH 1 whispered, "stay thy
singing;
Thou dost not know, there in thy nest above,
That secrets are not made to tell to others;
That silence is the birthright of true Lowell"
1 told the secret to my love, my lady:
She held it close to her darling breaSti
Then as l claSped her came tiny whisper:
"The birds and flowers have told me all the
rest.
Nor should'st thou chide them that they spake
the secret
The whole world is a cloud of love divine,
And birds and flowers do but fulfill their mis-
sion
In telling secrets sweet as mine and thine"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

veloped carelessness as to conse-
quences on the part of the negro
which renders dangerous the associa-
ton formerly so innocent and inoX-
lous. There are bad men among them
as there are among the whites,
and a negro under the influence of
whisky, with his passions aroused, and
in full play is fully as dangerous and
as reckless as the white beast under
similar circumstances, and yet our
colored servants are never leld at the
same distance at which white men
would be in similar Positions. This
is an evil growing out of the customs
of the past, and these customs cannot
be abandoned moment too soon.
Another bad custom is the latitude
permitting young half-grown girls
to freely appear on the streets
alone, day or night, and espe-
cially in sparsely populated dis
tricts of the town or neigh
borhood. 1t seems hard indeed that
any precaution whatever against the
crime of rape should be necessary in
any civilized country. But we are
dealing with stern uncomplimentary
facts and not with Utopian dreams OF
possible human security, but which
alasl does not exist except in dreams
| This is a real situation, not an ideal
Paradise where no serpent Grags his
Shiny length, and seduces the fail
daughters of the garden to taste forbid
den fruits. to suffer forever after al
the throes of worse than living
death.
We would see the punishment fol
this crime swift sure and RELENTLESS
after crime had been committed, bu
we would first see every precautioI
used to render it an utter impossible
ty. After an innocent and thought
less child has been ruined it is too lat
to speculate and to determine wha
might have been done to guard agains
it, but when we take sufficient pre-
caution we then contend with non
of the dreadful consequences whlcl
after all has been done possible t.
soften and ameliorate, leaves a blast
ed and distressful life behind.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24
MISS wEITRAUB's MISSION.

n Philadelphia Doctor Who is to Prac-
tice in Turkish Harems.
FROM the Philadelphia Daily Times
MISS sarah Weintraub, the graduate
or the Women's Medical college. who
was naturalized Wednesday, seeks the
protection OF the stars and stripes in
unique experiment she is about to I'M
oertake. . am going to Damascus,
IN SYRIA, she said yesterday, "to prac-
tlce medicine there. 1 believe 1 will
be the first woman who has ever tried
this, and expect to be very success.
full. Men physicians, you know. are
not allowed in the harems to attend
the women, and from these latter 1 ex-
pect to get a large practice. don't
believe there will be any prejudice
against me; in fact, think will be
welcomed. have lived in Palestine,
and already know Turkish, so that
can begin practice as soon as / reach
Damascus. If L succeed, 1 expect to
to spend my life there, and do all the
good l can. l shall go through the
help of some Episcopalian friends in
the city, who have already established
missions in Syria, and who desire to
do something for the women. These
have never had doctors, but have had
| 10 get along aa best they could.
The naturalization papers 1 took
out as a safeguard for myself. The
Turks have great respect for any
strong nation, and if it is known that
can appeal as citizen to an
American consul my work will bt
made easier. 1 don't anticipate any
difficulty, however, but simply tool
out the papers as a precautionary
measure. l look forward to my work
with much pleasure and hope to b.
/ in Damascus in September: / shall
leave Philadelphia the Sth of May"
Miss Weintraub graduated from
the Women's college last year, aftel
the regular course of study. For thu
past year she has been actively EN-
ployed in the Women's hospital. II
addition to Turkish she speaks French
and German
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

HAVING exhausted all regular
causes for quarreling the Examiner
and the Day are now breaking lances
on religious themes. The church has
been the cause of many louder wars,
but not any more bitter, or in which
more blood was spilled than is likely
to flow on this "dry mass" question.
It's funny world, and this is the
funniest cause of quarrel we remem-
Der ever to have heard of.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24
sit Means DEATH"

The outraged feelings of the good
people of Palestine rose above all law,
and escaped for once from its delays
and uncertainties to administer one
act of sublime justice. We are I'M
alterably opposed to mob law. To
those terrible executions which
phrensy dictates and blood-heated
with passion makes so terrible. SO re-
voting, so shocking. But there is
one crime which can only be atoned
for by a speedy execution in the most
terrible form sknown to men. In this it
is the duty of the mob to execute. We
say mob. Not so, when as in the case
of the Palestine affair, the cool-headed
respectable men of the community 90
in body to execute the sentence
passed by the fathers of the village
upon a wretch who attempts to COM
NIT a crime upon one of the daught-
ers of the place far worse, far more
dreadful and shocking than the most
murder. Nothing but
death and that at the least possible
waste of time can in any adequate
way make even shadow of atone
ment for the dreadful crime of rape.
While we are busy avenging such a
crime it would be well also to consider
q few preventive measures. The
dreadful consequences following the
infection of such an evil-so much
worse, so much more dreadful than
death ought to. operate to indut Q
parents to exercise the utmost watch
fulness and care over their daughters
that an evil 50 dire may not possibly
overtake them. Too much latitude is
allowed young girls. They come too
often and too Familiarity In contact
with the colored servants. Before
the extinguishment of slavery there
was but little danger in this freedom
of intercourse, but freedom has not
elevated the morals while it has de-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

THE memory of good deeds done,
of unselfish acts performed, of for
bearance and tenderness, is among
the priceless good things of this life,
and he is very foolish man indeed
who fails to add to his store of such
recollections whenever he has fair
opportunity.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24
Not Stamped Out.

There was a decided lull in the en-
ergy of the fence cutters for some
time after the special session of the
the eighteenth legislature adjourned
Hope that the worst had been passed
mounted high. Gov. lreland's friends
all felt buoyant and saDguine that he
would be able to place that feather in
his cap-the glory of so skillfully
handling the resources and applying
the policy of the legislature,
that the crime of fence cutting
would be heard of no more.
That would have gone far to-
wards assuring his nomination. 1t
would have represented sort of shad-
ow-success of the administration
which might have strengthened him
very greatly. OF course it follows
that revival of the malign energies
of the cutters will weaken him to that
extent.
The late occurrences in Runnels
county and elsewhere in that region,
If they are continued, will deal the adj
ministrat;on a fatal blow we think.
Nothing succeeds like success" says
modern pruverb. and we may be par
doned for adding the converse of the
principle, nothing fails like failure
If the governor fails to put down
fence cutting he will have rough
sailing in the coming state COZ
vention. Be all this as it may,
The STATESMAN would see the evil
destroy ed effectively and perfectly,
and it would reck not as to whose po-
litical fortunes were marred or made
by the result. We do most sincerely
trust that we are not to have re-
vival of the destructive business.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

THE Iroquois club of Chicago Is
fast coming to the front as an active
democratic influence. We have but
one objection to it, it is rather toe
certain that the field of battle is in
New York, when it is plain that the
next struggle will be decided by the
western states.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

PsHAwl Mr.. Gazette, Georgia has
always, or nearly always, given Alex,
Stephens big majorities. AS we said
before, he was one of those men who
rise high above all partisan conditions.
There were very few human rules
which would apply to the skeleton
commoner of Georgia.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

THE republican felicity at Dallas is
taking the direction IF the early re-
moval of the United States marshal
Lee. Still. Russell will develop into a
very angel Of light yet, compared
with some of the gang now at the
surface.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

THE Houston Age is the sort Of a
democrat who believes that a man
may vote and act with the democra'
cy couple of million of years and
when he goes against the two-third
rule he is no longer a democrat
That's just it. The angel of heaven
was an angel for cycles upon cycles
of time, but when he sinned he was
cast out and became the prince OF
devils. Uncle DanI knows what the
qualities of democracy are, does Uncle
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

From the Merchant Traveller.
Two young ladies of literary tastes,
in Clifton, were discussing their read
in when one of them remarked:
u have been engaged on delight
full work fer week past"
Indeed, what is iLr"
ANTHONY rrollope's autobiogra-
ply"
who is the author?"
"Really, L don't know. / have look
ed over the title page and through the
preface, but can't find any reference
to the author at all. Whoever it is, is
charming writer and seems to have
known the novelist very intimately"
"1'll get it and read it, but it is too
provoking, isn't it, that so many de-
lightful authors of late are writing
anonymously.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24
The Rosicrucian.

"Llfe las grown gray, sings the poet,
The lamp OF the present burns low:
The light OF the future, none know it,
The past, lost glory doth show.
We drag through our paIlid existence:
We grope through the gloom of TODAY.
The light that shines on from the distance
But deepens the shade Of cur way.
"Ashes Of roses!" we mutt4r,
With smiles deeply drowned In our tears:
Bitter the words that we utter,
Bitter our days and our years.
Oh, life! filed with music, and pleasant
When lime, now grown weary was youn0
We catch through the signs Of the present.
A snatch cf the song that was sung
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-24

After four days absence the Dallas
Times again dumps itself upon our
table. The Times is whole boquet
of journalistic flowers in and of itself,
and we do miss it from our table
rodlrr