The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-27
The New Capitol.

this one appointment.
The New Capitol.
The work on the new capitol of Tex
as is now progressing, we are glad to
| be able to say, satisfactorily. 1t seems
that all the material now being taken
out and hauled is of the very best. It
is the universal opinion of all capable
judges who examine the building
stone about Austin, that it is, besides
| being tractable and easily worked, the
most beautiful and durable material
in the state, and fully equal to that
taken from the most famous quarries
in the country. The STATESMAN has
no purpose to speak, except inciden-
tally, of the character of the material
being used in the construction OF
this grand building, but it is
rather our purpose to refer to and
commend the intelligent vigor with
which the work is being pushed. Gen.
Walker is indeed proving himself to
be the right man in the right place,
and at exactly the right time. Solid
worth in experimenting force is
needed at the foundation stage as well
as solid material, and this the selec-
ton of the general has fully supplied.
! The contractors and their agents and
employees are giving to the work, we
verify believe, the most conscientious
care and the most unremitting atten-
tion. This also may be said of al
connected with it in any capacity
whatever.
THERE was a wonderful Improvement
on the editorial page of the Express,
anent the Thompson-Fo ster business,
on Sunday morning, albeit there was
discrepancy between that and the
local department which was painful |
in the extreme. Foster is made by
the local, a sober, peaceful, industrious |
and useful citizen. Would indeed
that he had been, but he was not. The |
local claims merit for his sobriety. 1t |
is our theory that a sober man who |
follows the line of life which poor |
Foster did is doubly damned. That a
man cody trades in the baser passions
of men, and who panders to the lowest |
appetites of mere brutes in human
shape for money, and does it soberly,
is almost incredible, and that is just
what Foster did. 1t would have
lifted an awful burden of sin from his
shoulders had he been drunken sot.
The two-thirds rule finds the
strongest man say we, and the proof
of it is that he is always elected, in
Texas. The majority men cannot
deny this. Those who have run indie
pendent against the two-thirds nomi-
nee have often had the support of the
papers and the men who have fought
the rule. Will the Gazette call this
bit Of plain history only "the STATES
MANS dictum" Why should anybody
fight the two-thirds rule just now?
The conundrum has but one answer.
1t is in somebody's way. There is
some democrat standing very high in
the estimation of the party and it is
feared that his majority will make
him governor, if the great minority :
guard, the two-thirds rule, is retained.
Now there isn't thing else in the
whole matter.
Col. JOHN ID. TEMPLEToN, attor- ,
ney-general of Texas, is perhaps the
ableSt man in the state administra- S
tion. He is certainly one of the most
affable and obliging, and that quality
goes slap to the bottom of a news s
paper mans bosom every single time. /
We predict for Col. T. a long and hon. i
orable career in public life. 1t would
be no bad thing for the public service
f there were more such men at the F
wheel.
AND still the people are grumbling L
because the city council convicted e
Marshal Lee and then voted to retain :.
him In Office afterwards. The people G
Ire hard to please indeed, if so fexi- t
BILE a body cannot do something 2
which will "catch" 'em. Austin is Z
,ul of Indignation at the result of the
ate farce of trial and it's more than F
arcical result.
OLD MAN STERRETT is both unique o
md charming. His serio-comic re- t
ply to a paragraph in the News nomi-
lating him for lieutenant governor, is
me of the best things of the kind we y
laye ever seen in print, and it exhi-
tits feelings which do honor to the L
ace Well done, Governor Bill.
THE STATESMAN expects to be 7
allied pet names boss, domineering b
Id thing, brazen-faced and the like. u
But it doesn't hurt. People who know r
themselves to be on the line of duty T
re never particular how much they c
ire jumped upon.
: WHEN Ell Madhi gets through with F
he British forces in Egypt John Bull
Will have good many sore places to c
Ittend to. They viii press for at I I
entionl n
THE cattle men are in hard row G.
or stumps since the New Mexican leg
stature has turned loese at tem.
THAT San Antonio grand jury
loesn't know how to stop when it = Z
nee turns loose, it seems. O
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TENDERLY wrap little Jack up in d
lis CLOAK. His race for the judgeship
vas only a joke. .