The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-15

such wonderful results may not be consummatet
in my time-likely they will not, but can have nc
other interest in them than any other citizen OF
/ Texas But IL has been my pride, as felt IL my
duty, wherever could lift my voice in behalf OF
the rights and interests OF Texas TO do so though
| those who are now very active in their prOffeTeC
services for you would disparage me by the impu
tation. Alternately cajOled and repudicted by the
! democracy, and only when have been specially
needed have been deemed worthy TO labor in the
interest of this people. II matters not the motive OF
! those who NAV have control, | have always been
willing to be used when by doing so / could anne
liOrate the condition of my cOuntrymen.
CIMany of you will recall the terrible contest in
1871 when were seeking to restore to this peo-
pie what they righttully entitled to, the con-
troll of their own state goyernment-the canvass
that was made in your district by Col Giddings
and the canvass that ! made In the adjoining dis
trict where abOred four and half months
through a summer very like this in point of heat
and drought, unremittingly for the overthrow of
the tyranny that deemed intOlerabe.
Those who would dsparage me now were not
here then asking You for favOrs that were silent as
a grayestone then, because il was not deemed very
safe at the time and was often admOnshed to be
more prudent in expression lest | should be ar
rested and incarcerated by military authority, but
needed not these warnings, but fought the battle,
and glorious victory perched upon our banners
and this people were made free again. ! think II
comes in bad grace now from these people, VINO
were so silent then, to say IL was the result of a
party that | was selected for the labor ] will not
believe it, nor respect him who seeks to bestr him
self up by the nsidiOus effort to disparage one who
did work that he had not the courage to per
form.
With a graceful compliment to the ladies', and an
eloquent invocation for the blessings upon Texas
for her glory, her greatness her honor the speaker
closed amidst rounds of cheers. His speech was
evidently well received.
JUDGE TERRELL's SPEECH.
judge Terrell consumed the hour and half al
lotted him in a magnificent discussion of Jeffer-
sonian democracy and illustrated how departure
from them in the administration of the govern
ment had produced the evils that threaten the
country now,
Ills earnest manner lent force to his brilliant ar
gument. He urged his hearers TO remember that
organizations of men, whether farmers or others,
however praisewOrthy, should be regarded as
schools in which to educate, advance and promote
American manhood and prepare men for an intelli-
gent use Of the ballot That when this was done
men should align themselves in face of day with
one or the other of the two great parties OF the
country, and make their influence felt by attending
the primary meetings Referring to Judge Han
cocks remark that if representatives. had to be in
struCted il would be better to send them to the pen
itentiary, he said; "For one, | believe that this
should be made If IL IL not, a government of the
people, and he who denies the right and duty Of
the people to instruct their representatives, assals
the spirit of democracy and would place the official
servant above his master Why, my friends, old
Virginia, when she adopted the federal constitl-
bill of rights which said that the right
of the people 10 instruct their representatives shall
never be questioned. This is your government,
and when you nominate your representatives, II
you want railroad commission, unseal their lips
and make tn m tell you their opinions, and send
them to your work with instructions The gentle
man who has just addressed you has spoken much
of harbor improvements by the state and wants
the state to borrow about ten millions in value of
the school land, which he knows cannot be done
until we amend the constitution. But he has not
Ia
rany ON our local commerce of railways by law,
both state and national no deep water will ever
send our commerce through our own ports across
the gulf.
the PhaIaohs, who he said transported the com
merCe of their kingdoms over the Euphrates river.
This will be news to the historian. Five days be-
fore bespoke at Dallas, attempted to show how
Texas could help herself by devOtng the remnant
of our public domain locked up in reservations,
to improving our harbOrs, and that the general
government would then do what she has done for
other states in donating literally with public
seems NJ think lightly OF the pre- emptor-
as If his claims were only championed by dema
gOgues
Gentlemen, | am among those who believe that
every of the public land capable of actual set
tlement should be kept for the use of those who
will occupy it, and Oh whose devotion to our coun-
try our safety must depend and that corporations
have no rights there.
The speaker paid an eloquent tribute to Senator
Coke who had lately exposed in the senate the in
i1nity of waered bonds and stocks of railways and
cautioned his hearers that the only way TO correct the
0 Ill must he found in creating an intelligent rail
way commission to fix and change rates as justice
might require. To fix any maximum freight under
which the roads establish sliding scale is to
perpetuate their tyranny over agriculture and com
merce
The state, and not the railroads, must slide and
change the scale as necessity and Justice NAV re-
quire. There is no other way in which the water
can be squeezed out of stocks and bonds except to
adjust rates that will only pay an interest on values
actually invested
The speaker said that any man who, in time
like this, when civil liberty trembling in the
grasp of corporate power who woHld not aid in
checking its lawess ways, must be dstrusted.
For himself he had no defense to make
for his past political course, What he had
done the state knew, and he needed not to
defend himself against attacks either covert or
open. 81 teel more concern" said he, ''that the
liberties of the people be transmitted rs receive
them, to our children, than that grand enterprises
shall be worked out. Whether | have done my
duty as public servant can be best answered yon-
der at the capitol of your state, by the people
among whom have lived for thirty-four years,
where Judge Hancock has lived still longer, and
where Governor Ireland now sOjourns. That peo-
pie two weeks ago, nominated democratic candi-
dates for the legislature, and instructed them by
vote to sustain me for the United States
senate.
The contest in which | engage is indeed unequal
On the one hand corporate power, and the vast
patronage and prestige and position of an American
senator, governor, and perhaps others. On the
other hand |, private citizen, who stand upon a
level with you ALL with neither rank, patronage or
power. II defeated, let no man dream that my
crest will be lowered one inch, for am contending
for the rights of man against the grinding tyranny
of corporate power, and, with Gods help, will SOW
seed which, in the fulness of time, will bear fruit.
| have an abiding confidence in the good sense of
the people, and the ultimate triumph OF the Amer
lean white mau made by the Creator, over the an
aconda coils of corporate power, created by the
state, and which nov press him to the earth
The above is hnt an imnerfect synnnsis of Soma