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Daily Republican., 1886-01-12
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Life and accident policies Issued pay
able at death or at the end of twenty
years, and weekly benefits paid when
YOU meet with an accident, disabling
You from duty. A policy costs but a
few pennies day. For rates and par.
ticu!ars call on or address Thos. f.
Hanlon, No. West Seventh street.
Evening office hours from $50 to
O'Clock.
Daily Republican., 1886-01-12
The Red Border.

The program of the Academy Of
Music was fair sheet for the first one,
aud ia published by Whitaker g. Son.
1t promises many good performances I'm
the near future, speaking, we suppose,
for the manager of the house.
Daily Republican., 1886-01-12

"For forms of government let fools
contest" For ordinary life 1t is enough
TO know that DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup
cures coughs and colds
Daily Republican., 1886-01-12

w. j. Kemble, successor to j. w
HowRate, dealer in groceries and Hour
at low rates, 2nd and Justison sts.
Daily Republican., 1886-01-12
aore Tnroat or Cough,

if suffered to progress, often results in
an incurable throat or lung trouble.
/" Browns Bronchial Troches" give
instant relief.
Daily Republican., 1886-01-12

The pen Is miahtier than the sword,
and much Of the wealth of this country
is due to the hog pen. St. Jacobs Oh
has been found to be a cure for hog
cholera,
Daily Republican., 1886-01-12

Our readers are requested 10 use Sal.
vation OIL for all pains. 1t 10 sur0
cure. Price % cents.
Daily Republican., 1886-01-12
AT
VIM. B. SHARP'S
FOURTH AND MARKET SITS.

FOURTH AND MARKET SITS.
We tave a small lot Of
Boucle Jackets and Wraps,
which are much reduced to
close the season.
Jackets, S.. from $1o.
Jackets, $40 from $I2,
Jackets, $I2 from $I6.
Wraps, $I2.5o from $Io.
Wraps, SIG from $22.
These Jackets and Wraps
are trimmed with Astrakan
and Fur, are new this season
and will repay any one to ex
anime who is interested in the
goods.
Here's a special offering
1--WE have two elegant Broche
Shawls with black centres
magni6cently bordered and
mounted-a rich Shawl OF
superb quality, but we can't
afford to hold them at $Ioo
|apiece. lis all we have at
1.-THE price. $50 apiece will
buy them.
/ A small lot of Ladies' and
MEMS Merino Underwear is
reduced for the late season.
Ladies Vests, 25c.from 81 bc.
!, Ladies'V ests, 81 &c. from see.
I Mems Vests 81 &c from SOC.
5 Mems Vests. 69c. from 81.
A line of Scarlet Vests for
s Ladies, IS cents from 81
E No drawers left
A line of Merino Vests for
FlChildren, in I6 to "a inches,
e from II I-2 cents to 35. No
: drawers left.
Il Ladies' Cashmere Gloves,
lin Colors and Black, all
s sizes, 25c., 81 Ia cents and
'0 SOC.
Il Ladies Black Silk Gloves,
is is self lined, ST. and $I.35.
ot A few Silk Plush Table
or Covers, raw silk borders,
it! with knotted fringes, are
nIs one yard square, in Grim
ed son, Gold, Gendarme, etc.
h. All that are left, $3.75 from
Ut l''$5.
ss ss VIM. B. SHARP,
n Fourth and Market streets.
Daily Republican., 1886-01-12

Come and look at the Capital range
Piekels' steve store, East Fourth st.
Daily Republican., 1886-01-12

Palace, New England and other mrs
class organs at 800 West Sixth street
Tuning and repairing.
Daily Republican., 1886-01-12

II you feel sickness coming npon
you take dose of DIR. Bulls Baltimore
pills. Price 20 cents.
Daily Republican., 1886-01-12

The snow is beautiful 70 zoe
Ana TO the poet gives delight
Whs n over law n and over lea
1t lies, Q mantle pure snd white.
But when sik inches doop, or 30,
II lies at morn, beside htA door,
And must be sh0vsled OF, tho snow
The poet deems a blasted bore.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
SELF-INJURED.

Hancock talks so much about state af-
fairs in his speeches that it is barely pos
.ible that politicians oe a curious and
guileful sort may suspect his candidacy
for the United States senate to be blind,
a real aim at the gubernatorial chair.
The Hon. John would make promising
gray horse.-GalvestOn News.
1t was suspected, and still may be, that
Judge Hancock was only ambitious for
political preferment, and would be salts
fed with either the governorship or the
United States senatorship. But since so
much venom has been instilled into the
canvass it is conceded he is irrevocably
bound to the quest of the senatorial Office
alone. 1t was hoped that between aspi-
rants for such dignified office as United
States senator, there would be no such
thing as personalities, no ordinations and
determinations of little petty spite. If
there is an Office in the gift of the nation
and people that should call for wise states
manship and cool, conservative wisdom,
it is the Office of United States senator.
here politics, so called, of the tricky,
wire pulling style, should not obtain.
merit should be the only guage, the in
variable standard. We think Judge Ter
rell was conducting his canvass in this
dignifed, statesman-like way. He was
discussing theories, facts and policies
not men. True, he alluded to the other
aspirants to the office he was seeking, but
not to criticise "them,' but their rec
ords," made in the state or at Washing
ton. For this reason, twas calamity
that Judge Hancock so far forgot him
self as to make the unprovoked personal
attack he did upon Judge Terrell. We
think it hurt him seriously-it was a
boomerang that disabled him in the sena-
torial contest, and excluded him from the
gubernatOrial arena.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
BANK SWINDLES.

The Provident Savings bank failure, of
st. Louis, seems to be case similar to the
Houston City bank swindle. In both cases
deposits were received after the officers
and directors knew the bank was failing.
In the st. Louis case criminal prosecu-
ton has been lodged against the bank
officers, some of whom will probably be
lodged in the penitentiary. The same
thing ought to happen to some of those
connected with the late Houston City
bank.
There should be no distinction between
the swindler who gets dollar from you
under false pretences and the bank presi-
dent, or other officer, who accepts tens of
thousands of dollars out of your pocket,
when they know their institution is worth
less and you will never get your money
back. Such was the case in both the st.
Louis and Houston instances. If the peni-
tiary is the just penalty in the one case,
it should be in the other. Both cases are
nothing but downright thievery.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29

peaceably if possible, forcibly
if necessary. OF course these
men, whose influence is supreme
in the west-even to the extent of dictat-
ing the verdict in the court room-had
rather have any other man than Swain.
They want a man they can manipulate
and who will carry out their purposes,
Swain is not that man, on the contrary
they well know he is the man to see that
the school fund is not swindled out of mil
lions of dollars. 1t is no wonder then
that portion of the west is going
against Col. Swain. Central and Eastern
Texas will not join the west when it
comes to balloting in the convention.
We do not believe the people or the demo-
cratic party of Texas will allow them
selves to be hoodwinked in this important
matter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
LAND COMMISSIONER,

While the fight is progressing over the
governorship let us not forget there are
other positions in the state government
little less important, and that require, in
an equal degree, honesty and capabillty.
One of these is the land commissioners.
Ordinarily the place involves the care of
vast interests connected both with the state
herself and our educational system.
1t is position where incompetency and
dishonesty might rob the state of millions,
possibly without chances of detection; a
position in which integrity and faithful
ability might save the state millions of
dollars.
Just at this particular epoch Texas
needs man of determined character,
long experience, and irreproachable hon
ssty in charge of her land oflice-a man
in whom the people can implicitly rely
and entrust interests so extensive as those
of the public land system, with its 27,000,-
300 acres of school land-a system over
which sharks, thieves, sharpers and grab
beers of all description hover.
Such man we believe to be found in
Captain Walsh, the present incumbent.
He has served four terms, but this, in
stead of being an argument against
his continuance in Office is his very best
endorsement. Let it be remembered
Capt. Walsh is the man who did SO much
60 break up and destroy the infamous gang
of land thieves long years ago, all of whom
went to the penitentiary. He knows the
land sharks and their crooked ways by ex-
perience, and possibly there is no man
connected with the state government they
fear 50 much.
To put new man in, unacquainted
with the intricate workings of the admin
istration of our land system, would be
what the grabbers most desire. They
would probably work" him to suit their
own purposes.
We believe it to be to the / est interests
of the state at large for Commissioner
Walsh to stay where he is. He
is now opposed by Hall, of Will
hanson, and Shannon, of Shackleford,
who have, it is understood, put up job
to insure the defeat of Mr.. Walsh. If one
is defeated, his friends are to concentrate
on the other, and thus, if possible, down
the present commissioner.
1t is to be hoped Capt. Walsh will over.
come all opposition and be returned to his
old place, where he has served the state
so long and faithfully.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
DIFFICULTY WITH MEXICO.

Special dispatches for the last day or
two tend to indicate that whilst no abso-
lutte disruption of our relations with
Mexico had occurred, the Cutting case
is still unsettled. The Mexican authori
ties at Paso del Norte continue to refuse
TO release Cutting, and not only so, but
the United States consul and his chief
clerk have been threatened, showing the
temper of the Mexicans.
So far there has been no absolute utter
ance from Washington, as to the stand the
administration proposes to take in this
matter. But, if the guarantees in the ma
tional democratic platform, on which
Cleveland was elected, promising prOtec-
ton to American citizens in other coun
tries, are to be followed, the president and
his cabinet can take but one course. The
government of Mexico must releaseCutting
and apologize for fragrant outrage, not
only on an American citizen, but upon the
liberty of the Mexican press itself. If
not, the administration must carry out
its obligations to the party that elevated
it to power, and perform a duty every
government owes Its humblest subject.
1t should resent the insult thrown in our
faces by Mexico iu the arrest and i'm
prisonment of Cutting, for an alleged Of
fence perpetrated not on Mexican soil,
but within the jurisdiction of the state of
Texas, and of the United States,
1t is a matter that cannot be ignored.
1t must be settled. Peacefully, if posi-
BILE, by force if necessary. The final re-
fusal of Mexico to surrender Cutting
would be justifable casus belli.
And here we would say to our Mexican
neig hbors, a war with the Diaz govern
ment would, just now, be popular
all over the United States. We have well
nigh recovered from our civil war, and the
country is now amply prepared to enter
on foreign war with power like Mex
leo. Inside of six months, the armies of
the United States-the volunteer soldiery
of the north and south, again under the
same flag, could dictate terms for the
Cutting insult, in the shadow of the his
toric palaces of the city of the Monte
zumas.
The honor of Texas, as well as the
United States, is involved in the Cutting
matter. If he is not released, then, like
Milton's Moloch, "our voice is for war"
In avenging the Paso del Norte insult
the United States government could also
wipe out the prohibitory tariff on the
Rio Grande and add new territory, the
vast and untold treasures of the Sierra
Madre, and new balance of power to
this great republic. There is nothing to
lose, and all to gain.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29

stitute essential checks upon unrestraine d
exercise of power and guarantee chang
ing policy conservative and sitting, pro-
noting harmony and efficiency. But be-
hind and above the parties stand the peo-
pie. These are they who delegated to the
government its power, primarily belong
ing to them; and hold the government to
strict accountability for its faithful
exercise of that power, not as between
parties, but as among themselves, be-
tween themselves and the government,
and between the home government and
foreign powers. Mr.. Evarts has done
himself an infinite credit-the negative
republicans have Stabilized themselves.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
WEEKLY STATESMAN.
TERRELL's RECORD WILL PREVAIL,
AUSTIN TEXAS.

After having been defeated in Travis
county by majority of more than tour-
ffths, the enemies of Judge Terrell are
now making an effort to poison William'
son county against him. They have iaid
their plans to food the county with their
slanderous falsehoods and misrepresenta-
tions, just prior to the holding OF the pri-
mary elections, and by taking TINS
undue advantage and depriVlhg
Judge Terrell of the oppor-
tunity to reply they hope to influence the
people against him. A large plumber OF
copies of the San Antonio Times, con-
tanning malicious and abusive articles
against Terrell, have been sent to this
county for distribution among the peo-
pie, and oth0r undetermined and unfair
methods will be resorted to for the pur-
pose of carrying out their netarlous
plans, but they will find that the
good people of Williamson county are not
to be gulled in any such manner They
are too well posted. They know Judge
Terrell too well to give credence to the
ISLANDERS uttered by his enemies, and they
will not countenance such proceedings
Judge Terrell has served these people
faithfully, and has been endorsed by them
at three successive elections, by majoritles
running from a thousand and upwards,
and they will not at this late day turn
their backs upon him. For eight long
years Judge Terrell represented the SEN
atorial district, composed of Williamson,
Travis and Burnet counties, and during
that time he held the most important
position of chairman of the senate judi
ciary committee number one, and in that
capacity, by reason of his superior legal
knowledge and his familiarity
with the wants and requirements of the
state generally, and of this district espe'
cially, he accomplished more good and
prevented more injurious and iniquitous
legislation than any other man in Texas.
In attempting to prejudice the people of
Williamson county against Judge Terrell
his enemies will find that they are
dealing with an intelligent, educated
people, who recognize and appreciate
merit, coupled with ability and fidelity and
who are disposed to sustain public men
who have shown themselves possessed of
such qualifications as Judge Terrell has
uuquestionably exhibited, and who will
demand of his enemies TO know, why they
should now turn against a man whom
they have so often endorsed and trusted,
and who has never failed them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
DOCTRINES OF SOCIALISM.

1t was in evidence at the anarchist trial
in Chicago, yesterday, that on one occa-
sion Fielder made a speech to crowd on
the Lake Front. In this address he enun-
ciated what will be recognized as the great
underlying principle of socialism, the an
archists and other like movements in this
country as we'll as abroad. Equality of
possession was what was wanted, and to
obtain this the laborers were justified in
using force" said the anarchist speaker.
FieIden said the laboring classes had
claims against the rich which would justify
force in asserting. These claims and
'rights," so often limited at by agitators
of his class, amount to just this:-the re-
distribution of wealth and the equaliza-
ton of all property, which, it is the aim
of modern socialism to divide out equally
among all men. That is to say, the
doctrines preached by Herr Most the
anarchists and socialists of Chicago and
elsewhere, is that the S600O00,000 of prop
erty in Texas, for example, of right,
ought and should be divided out equally
among all the people of the state, so that
one man could not be richer than another
This is what such labor agitators as Martin
Irons really mean by the ''rights" of the
workingman. But the anarchists do not
stop here. Another and still more infa-
nous tenet is that society must be rele
gated back to its original elements. Mar
riage must be destroyed, religion de-
thrOned.
There is little doubt, however much
they may deny it, that these principles
form the foundation of most of the So
called labor organizations, American COM
munism. 1t will be remembered Par
sons, the anarchist, at Chicago,
week or two ago, denounced the Knights
of Labor as having, to his knowledge, the
same purposes and aims as the anarch-
lists.
If these things are so, then American
craftsmanship is confronted by the most
profound political problem of the age.
Is it problem that will eventually have
the same solution as in the French revolu-
ton when the pillows of civil strife castup
the First Napoleon, and the rich and
poor, the capitalist and the workingmen,
each found master?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
SWAIN IN THE WEST.

After the bold and determined stand
Z taken by Col. Swain in regard to illegal
. occupancy of school lands, it is not sur
prising that he has, in his candidacy for
governor, encountered the bitter opposi-
zion of the cattle syndicates of the west.
Goodnightism does not want such man
as Swain for governor, for he has already
said that had he the power he would either
force the men, who are swindling the
school children out of million dollars
annually, to pay the rental of lands occu-
pied by them, or to get off the same
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
A FEW POINTS.

Judge Hancock, in his Georgetown
speech, attempts to make capital against
Judge Terrell on account of the fact that
Terrell, DIR. Tobin, Maj. j. L. Bracken-
ridge, and Messrs. Walter Tips, Frank
Hamilton, J. A. Hooper, j. H, Raymond &
Co., and few other liberal and public
spirited citizens of Austin subscribed to
the capital stock of the Austin compress
company, which was established in Aus
tin several years ago. This enterprise
was started because it was thought that it
would benefit Austin by inducing people
to bring their cotton here, and in that
way increase the trade and business of the
city, and all property holders and business
men of Austin were waited upon and re-
quested to take stock in order to help the
enterprise along, and, to the credit of the
parties named, they responded literally.
The officers of some of the railroad COM
panies whose lines center in Austin, also
subscribed to the stock, because they felt
that it would be to their advantage to have
the compress established, There was
nothing wrong in this. The men who put
their money into this public enterprise
and carried it through are to be COM
mended. The compress was an absolute
necessity to the place, and these men,
recognizing this fact, raised the money
and built it. Are they to be condemned
for this?
In another part of his speech Judge
Hancock seeks to create the impression
that the sale made by Judge Terrell of
his stock in the company to Capt. j. A
Hooper, is not bona fde transaction,
but an examination of the books and rec
ords kept by the secretary and treasurer
of the company, Mr.. Frank Hamilton,
shows that Capt. Hooper, in the last sixty
days, has not only bought Judge Terrell's
stock, but has also purchased $4,000
worth of stock owned by Major Bracken-
ridge. $1,000 worth of stock owned by Mr..
Walter Tips, and $1,000 worth of stock
owned by Messrs. Raymond Il Co., proving
concusively that the insinuation made by
Judge Hancock is utterly without founda-
ton. Judge Hancock denies that Terrell
has ever assisted him in any of his politi.
cal aspirations; but truth is mighty and
will prevail, and the fact remains, that
but for the able assistance and co-opera
ton of Judge Terrell, Hancock's political
career would have been a series of failures
and no one knows this better, or believe:
this stronger, than Hancock himself, not
outstanding his denial.
1t is not necessary to elaborate on thi:
subject. The people are too famil
lar with the history of Terrell:
work for Hancock to require re
capitulatlon here. It is folly foi
Hancock or his friends to deny that they
got Terrell to make speeches in behalf OF
Hancock, that they had these speeche.
printed and circulated them by Thousands
throughout the congressional district. L
Hancock did not do this in person, thu
committee having his canvass in charg,
did it for him, and no doubt with his ap
proval. No denial by Judge Hancock
however positive, can refute these abso
lutte and well-known facts.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
WEAK AND UNDEVELOPED

portions organs of the body enlarged and restored to
proper size and vicor Particulars Medical Testimony
&c. sent sealed free. ERIE NED. CO., Buffalo, n. Y.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-29
PEOPLE NOT POLITICIANS RULE.

Much is constantly being SAID of the
constitutionality of legislative questions.
Congress exhausts many weary hours in
futile discussions of this character, while
the truth of the matter is, the constitution
is simply made breastwork from behind
which any hostile measure may be as
sailed. 1t is not so much whether general
policies are conservative and wise, not
whether the tendency of the measure is in
the line of republican government, and
within the implied intent of our fOunda-
ton principles, the constitution; but the
ambition is, to distort the technical letter
of the constitution, project a meaning
not intended, and defeat the moOting of a
quention on ultra grounds and because of
precedent inimical to the constitution as
thus construed. This Is the glaring evil
now growing to monster proportions in
our legislative halls
Rarely is the country favoredwith such
clear cut, statesmanlike exposition of the
true meaning of the constitution, as was
evnced in Senator Evarts' speech on the
non-advisability of an investigation into
the Payne election difficulty. Senator
Evarts is the foremost constitutional law
yer in America, and he is man enough to
make his partisan zeal subservient to his
sense of right and justice. To quote the
gist of his argument:
1T was TO be doubted that the senate
was master of the question presented, and
was under no law or restraint except that
imposed by the constitution. But, by the
same reasons, the scope and boundary of
the senates mastery and power was linn
tied and fixed by the same firm instruc-
tions of the constitution. Whatever rights,
whatever duties in regard to the vindica-
ton or punishment of those concerned in
| frauds in state or senatorial elections,
rested in the senate, and were fixed in the
constitution. The senate had no power
and no right to investigate the conduct of
one political party at the request
of another. 1t had no power
to investigate discords of one party at the
party"
This is complete summary of the
Payne embroglio. The question was re-
duced to one of party, rather than princi-
pie. Every one of the seventeen votes
cast in the negative were of the repubh-
can complexion. True, other republican
members of the senate voted yea, but the
absence of a single democratic vote i'll
the negative showed the animus of the
seventeen. That men considered worthy
of holding Office in the highest legislative
body in the land, should thus demean
themselves, and truckle to partisan ha-
tired, rather than prove themselves states
men above suspicion, is, indeed, lament
able. And this, too, in the face of the per
feet portrayal of the rights in the case as
proven by Senator Evarts, whose words
can not but find approval in every
honest mind. He laid dowr
the broad principle that the
state is supreme, not the party. 1t Is
the people as such, and not the various
political parties who constitute our gov
eminent. Political parties are unques
tionably most essential to our govern
/ ment's equitable administration, they coz