The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-09-09

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will bring millions into Austin.
San Antonio is straining every muscle
to extend the San Antonio d. Arkansas
Pass road to Waco, and thus take advan-
tage of this beneficial connection, and if
San Antonio can bridge over the two hum
dred and odd miles from that city to
Waco, is Austin to hold back for sixty
miles, with the rich plum almost within
her grasp?
A POLITICAL RACE WITH MANY ENTRIES.
As candidates for the Legislature in this
county there are four men. AS the repre-
sentatives of the democracy, Emory Smith
and Taylor Moore, resolute and pronoun-
ced in their candidacy, are ready to cham
pion their cause, and 1t is said will chal-
lenge their opponents to meet them in
Joint debate. Judge Richardson and
Felix Smith are presented as the republl-
can nominees, and are expected, of course,
to defeat, if possible the democratic ticket.
This task can but be a pleasant one to
Judge Richardson, who has been a con
sistent republican all his life. Whether
Felix Smith can work to this end with his
usual energy in canvass, is thing for
future development. 1t is boldly said by
more than one prominent republican that
Felix Smith sought his present posi-
ton and promised to make the
race against the democratic ticket
if the republican convention
would nominate him, and they say affida-
Wits can be secured to this effect if Mr..
Smith persists in denial of it.
Mr. Smith finds himself in dilemma.
He is afraid to come out and reject in an
open and manly way, the effort to use him
as an instrument to defeat ticket, which
he himself helped put out, because he is
afraid the republicans will then expose
his infdelity to them, and he hesitates to
accept the nomination and thus justly in
| vte torrent of abuse, that would deluge
and wipe out all hope of renewed political
confidence in him. He has already heard
the mutterings of the storm, and being
reminded of impending danger, he hest
tates before the lightning shock, that
would sever in twain the ties of the past.
Felix Smith stands mute upon the quss-
ton of his candidacy, and like many other
men driven into extremity, he seeks
refuge in the house of silence. 1t is
predicted, though, that Mr.. Felix Smith
will not make the race. 1t is believed that
since his nomination, he has discovered
that his personal following is not as great
as he imagined. He had pretty strong
intimatiOn of that, when the democratic
county convention was in session. His
Inspector, in very handsome speech, by
Col. Carleton, in which he was referred to
as the son of a tried and true democrat,
the Hon. Felix Smith. Out of over one
hundred votes, the son received only
seventeen. Mr.. Smith desired to go as a
delegate to the state convention and was
defeated. He, nevertheless, went to the
state convention, but returned to Austin
on Thursday, when the convention had
only been in session two days, and before
single nomination had been made He
came to Austin again on Friday, he came
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Saturday, the republican county conven
ton nominated him for the legislature.
Notwithstanding the alleged desire of
the Hon. Felix Smith to be en-
dorsed (?) by the republican con
vention, it is believed that the oppo-
sition to him is so evident that though he
be blinded by an inordinate ambition,
he cannot fail to realize its presence.
If Smith and Richardson for any reason
do not make the race, it is to be pre-
sumed, they will let those in whose conf
dence they are, know of their declination.
has been already impaired, for the reason,
las we are informed), that j. I. U. Loe is
taking a very great interest in trying to
get out another ticket. No one supposes
for a moment that the Hon. j. T. L. l.. is
working for the success of the demo-
cratic ticket, which would be plainly the
case if two tickets are put into the field,
to split the opposition to the democratic
ticket. Any man as smart as Loe is, can
grasp so plain fact, and it is therefore
predicted that the republican nominees
will not run, but that j. L. L. l. will put
out his ticket and proclaim it the peoples
Ticket" and as the joint production
of the Knights of Labor and Farmers
Alliance, when, in truth, and in fact, the
movement will not have the countenance
of the good men of either of these organ
izations. 1t is understood that the Far
mers' Alliance, on last Saturday, declined |
to have anything to do with putting on t
another ticket.