The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-09-18
MANIFESTO FROM THE SAGE OF
BASTR0P TO THE PEOPLE
OF TEXAS, GREETING.
He Tackles the Democratic
Party, and Declares Him.
self for Governor.
Pitches Into the Present EXecu-
tive, ana Delivers Himself
on Lease Law.
He GOeth for Jack Evans,
Scalp, and CavOrts
Around Generally.

Special Telegram to The Statesman,
BASTROP, September 1l.-HOn. q
w. Jones announces himself as can
didate for governor, and expresse.
himself in the following letter, which
appears in the Bastrop ADVERTISER, ,anC
with which the editor was kinC
enough to furnish your reporter. TIL,
Advertiser, though published at tn,
home of Coli ones, is strong democrat
lc paper and supporter of Ireland anC
| the democratic ticket.
COL. JONES ADDRESS.
| To the People of Texas:
On the first Tuesday in November
the people of the United States vote
for president and vice-president, and
the people of Texas for state, district
and precinct officers. Wisely and well
our patriotic fathers organized our
pollty into general and local corrella-
tions, committing to the national gov
ernmen interstate and international
affairs, and to the states local affairs.
The pride and boast of states rights
man are both lost in the partisan who
surrenderS state to national politics.
To illustrate: What have the national
banks and tariff adjustments to do
with our school and public land sys-
tens? Any candid man must needs
respond, "Nothing,"- and yet while
Texas will doubtless give Cleveland a
large majority for president, it is due
to candor to affirm that not one-fifth
of her voting population supports
the herd law policy, or the so-called
democratic party. In their late con-
vention at Houston they declared for
the lease law but against the herd law,
the two things being really one and
the same thing inseparable in princi-
pie and cohesive in sympathy. That
the democratic party, so-called, in
Texas, III 1878, alarmed by
THE GREENBACK PARTY
fastened to express in its platform,
adopted at Houston, ultra greenback
sentiments, but was careful to nomi-
nate ultra national bank men. who
avowed they were not in favor of ma
tional banks; but who, from that day
to this, have done all in their power
to subserve the interests of their ma
tional bank masters, affords an exam
pie Of factions sincerity
SWEET ON THE GOVERNOR.
To illustrate: The present governor
of Texas who was the greenback can
dIdate for congress in 1878-against
Schleicher, is by acquiesence, If not
by positive declaration, the champanion
of the national banks, and so you have
the lesson by experience. AS to the
confidence that may be reposed in fac
tion, in further illustration, the gov
ernor, in his message to the legisla-
ture, at its extra session, recommend
ed the herd law in the following
words: 81 recommend law max
ing it a high penal otfense
for any one to drive
their stock on to any lands, private or
public, for the purposes of grazing
without express authority from the
proper source to dosso, or to herd
stock on any public or private lands
without express authority from the
proper source to do so." x 81 recon-
mend law giving land owner lien
on stock that may treSpass on lands
without the knowledge or consent of
the owner, and against the Will of the,
land owner, for all damages done by
said stock, and the value of the grass
and property destroyed by them" In
these two paragraphs of the govern
or's message you have an Hnequiyocal
declaration in favor of the herd law,
and yet the Houston convention en-
dorses his administration, but seeks to
dodge, as in 1878, the real issue; and it
pertains to the election of 1884 to
prove whether the masses are as
gullible now as then. Whoever votes
the so-called democratic ticket votes
for the herd law, and just as surely as
that ticket triumphs in Texas, then
follows the consolidated power of the
land owners, as followed the triumph
of the national banks in the election
of Roberts over Harmon in 1878.
The fool that votes the democratic
ticket under the pretense that the party
faction, as such, is opposed to the
herd law wins our pity if he does not
our excite contempt. Our public lands
were given away, or ostensibly sold at
fifty cents per acre, now worth five
dollars per acre. Democracy means a
government by the people and for the
people. and an infant in politics
knows that ownership iii land by the
voter is the bottom of