The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-10-14
THE CAMPAIGN,
ADDRESSES LAST NIGHT BY HON.
j. ID. SAVERS, COL. A. 7.
PEELER, COL. FRED CARLE-
Ton AND G. Il. WILL.
LETT, ESQ.

ex-Comptroller VIM. Nj. Brown, said:
MIR. Peeler, amongst other things, said
l leave to Major Sayers, who has the mer.
tied honor Of the unanimous nomination
Tor second term in congress, the discus
sion OF national questions, briefly devo.
ting my attention to the state and county
canvass. l do not appear before you as q
candidate, or at my own solicitation, but
III the discharge of duty which rests
upon every true democrat, when called
upon to raise his voice in the advocacy OF
democratic principle and organization
The legal right to form party alliances, tc
vote as he pleases and to be candidate
is conceded to every voter; but the exer
else of this right in popular government:
his supposed to be influenced by duty anG
the public welfare. That it is to the in
terest of every good citizen, and the duty
of those protesting to be democrats to
support our state and county tickets
seems plain. 1 grant, if corrupt un,
worthy or incapable standard bearers
were put forward by the democracy, even
democrats might well feel absolved from
giving them their support; but look at
the ticket, from governor to constable
and you cannot find one that will not
stand the Jeffersonian test of honesty and
capability.
Notwithstanding the several able and
worthy aspirants for the highest Office
within your gift, all who know him best
cOncede that the mantle of chief execu,
tive could not have rested upon a nobleI
Roman than Gen. Ross-the soul of honor
chivalrous in his bearing, true to his
country under all circumstances and pos,
sessing in a rare degree those qualities OF
head and heart which peculiarly fit him to
manage the helm of state.
OF Judge Wheeler, candidate for lieu
tenant governor, 1 need not speak.
Reared in your midst, honored by you on
many occasions, you are familiar with his
sterling virtues, and to vote for him must
be pleasure as we'll as a duty.
Not Indifferent to the claims of Travis
county, the democratic party has given
you for comptroller worthy son, whose
well-merited success cannot fail to excite
emotions of pride-need l say that refer
to John D. Mccall?
Completing the ticket with that noble
old war-horse, Gov. Lubbock, for treas
urer; Mr.. Hogg, who is spoken of as an
able and learned lawyer, for attorney gem
eral; Dick Hall, the very man to manage
our land office; Mr.. Cooper, whose selec-
ton for superintendent of public instruc-
ton is universally commended, and Judge
Gaines, one of Texas ablest iurists, for
the supreme bench, 1 ask why is it that
the whole ticket should not have the sup
port of every good citizen, and especially
of those within democratic allegiance?
But 1 hear it said that our county
ticket, though composed of as worthy
men, is to be left to take care of itself, and
that some who have heretofore called
themselves democrats, infected with Sin
dependentism," will Withhold their support
and in some instances actively oppose its
success.
Why this tendency to disintregate and
demoralize? If party honor and party
ties are but rope of sapd in county cleo
tions, what gives them greater force in
elections from the state at large? Why
should the man who has worked in the
democratic harness all his life, receive the
support of democrats for state office,
and have this support denied him when
he runs for a county office?
Is it not plain that such a policy must
lead to the destruction of all confidence
and end in defeat? Great results in the
political world cannot be accom- plished
without organization, and what tends to
impair or weaken organization, postpones
or defeats the end sought to be accom-
plished. The democratic party has not
yet completed its great mission in this
country. In its war upon the abuse of
power and the attempt to build up the
few at the expense of the many, it has
not fured its banner. But it must soon
do SO if the idea prevails that
every company in regiment and
every regiment in brigade, and every
brigade in division is to do as it pleases
that each soldier may desert his colors
at pleasure, and even those who have re-
ceived the emoluments and honors of
rank, can go over to the enemy and turn
their swords against their former com
panions. The democratic ship must soon
go down in troublUus waters if every sailor
on board is to have his own way in its
management and refuses to assist in her
navigation, unless she is steered and con-
Quoted exactly according to his own no.
tiOns.
1t must not be forgotten that Travis
county is the capitol of the greatest dem
mocratic state in the union.that to the
democratic party, she is more indebted
than my other county in the state 1t Is
here upon her public institutions that the
state expends most of her revenue; and
citizens of Austin who get their bread ana
meat from official stations may be counted
10y the hundreds Can the city of Austin
or the county of Travis complain of any
10 Justice AT the hands of the democratic
party? From the year 1874 to the present
time, have not all their reasonable de-
mands been even readily granted: The
splendid court house which l see before
me stands upon ground which belongs to
the state.
With democratic governor, demo-
cratic state officers and democratic legls-
lature, does it not seem out of place to
send as our representatives, men claiming
to be independents? Even if party fealty
does not appeal to us with sufficient force
to stand by four nominees, self interest
US that from independents"
with such surroundings we must expect
little or nothing.
Those familiar with tho matter know
that it has been, to Travis county, re-
proach in state conventions and on other
occasions, that the democratic party here