The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-03-11
WHAT KIND OF MEN WE WANT.

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the United States senate we want man
of original capacity and first class genus
hensive mind and the most thorough
practical talent. One to whom the his.
tory of the country and the philosophy OF
government is readily remembered and
practically applied. We do not want a
mere genius to startle, by eccentricity, the
senate of the United States, but we want,
in the senate of the United States, man
both of practice and theory. A man of
manners, equal to the most refined gentle
men of the east, as an evidence to the
world that Texas civilization clusters
about it all the refnements of the most
cultivated society, and possesses, with
that refinement, the most vigorous intel
lect and comprehensive craftsmanship;
she has beeL long regarded as the border
of civilization with representative men of
rude and uncultured intellect and pistol
drawing defence of personal rights.
We want to show the world that the idea
entertained of Texas civilization and so
ciety is incorrect, and that the representa-
tive capacity of our intelligence has long
been weighed in the wrong balances.
Society in Texas many years ago, was
very different from what it is now. The
"aborigines," or what may be termed as
the first settlers, and what is risively
termed as "moss backs" had amongst
them a criminal class that left the older
states for the good of the older states,
and to many of them it might
have been insidiOus and insulting to ask
where they were from? But now all that
is changed. Texas population for the
last ten or twenty years has been drawn
from the best classes of all the states in
the Union, and, like the population Of the
older states, the blood of the best nations
of the earth commingling in a common
stream, the best and the most enterprising
of that population, animated by enter
prise and adventure, have sought home
and opportunity for the display of enter
prise and talent in Texas. We have an
intelligent and refined population here,
who have in their hands elements of the
highest develo pment. There is no country
in the world with more wonderful resources
than Texas. Every man of brain and energy
who will make the venture on the from
tier is bound to succeed.
With this kind of intelligence and ener-
getic vim, we want a man in the senate
of the United States, of the very best ca
pacity; one who not only has genius that
will reflect honor on the state, but one of
broad and comprehensive craftsmanship,
that fully appreciates the relations of
Texas to the general government, and
who will stand in his place in the senate
of the United States, fully representative
of the enterprise and intelligence of her
Where in the state of Texas
will you find man more fully equipped to
fill to all the qualities of dignifed oratory,
profound intellect and solid craftsmanship
than the Hon. A. w. Terrell, of Aus
tin. Look all over the state and if such
n man is found superior to Judge Terrell
name him as your representative in the
most august body of representative men
to the world but unless you find his supe-
rior, we insist that he is the man above all
others best suited to that responsible and
dignified position.
We want, also, governor of, perhaps,
not rs many snowy, but as many solid
qualities as that of our senator. We want
a man fully acquainted with the history of
the state, whose early education was i'm
pressed with its organic law and its pecu-
liar responsibilities to the fast
accommodating citizens of rich and
state. Texas, of all other
states, has the most difficult question of
state craft in her land problem of govern
ment to solve. We want man as COVER
nor whose political life has passed through
every graduation of this unique education
al process, and who has had the ability to
advance with the development of the
times, eliminating the impracticable and
fast to the good in the theories
of this peculiarly responsible and almost
independent government. We want
man of solid, strong sense, of stiff back.
bone and inflexible purpose in the policy
Of state government. We name that man
rs Col. W. j. Swain, the present comp
troller of the state of Texas.
This is ticket for the senate and state
that will meet the hearty approval and
support of the people of Texas.
Without pretending to connect the for
tunes of these gentlemen in the present
race and distinctly declaring that they are
run by their respective friends as wholly
of each other, we merely an
nounce that this senatorial and state