The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-10-21

If they were nominated on this ticket,
which is published complete as The In
dependent Ticket" with its committee,
its programme and appointments,and they
ask the people to support this ticket, why
do they not inform the dear people what
secret caucus, what owl convention, what
midnight meeting of fusionists manufac-
tured the ticket?
Why do they presume the dear people
will accept such clandestine selections and
repudiate the open public selections of
the democratic party?
Is not nomination nomination!
In what down town law office was this
independent ticket selected!
What foxy republicans We're there to de-
mand and secure the lions share of the
nominations?
Did these foxy republicans represent
their party more effectively than the dis
gruntled democrats present represented
their people?
Do the mass of democrats exhibit symp-
toms of utter embicility which would lead
the secret makers of the independent
ticket to expect they may be deceived by
this impudent trade:
Do the mass of republican voters
endorse this insolvent attempt to batter
away their votes to elect set of
chronic officeholders and officeseekers of
no party principles?
IT, as he says, Mr.. Christian was politi-
cally paralyzed by the presence of men of
all shades of political aaffiiiation in the
democratic primaries, what antidote pre-
vents his fatal collapse at the presence of
men of all shades of political faith and
affiliation with himself on the same ticket!
Does he find the medicine in the fact
that while democrats were in the majority
in the primaries there are a majority OF
republicans and greenbackers on his
ticket?
Is Mr.. Republican Wren intollerably
repulsive to Mr.. Christian in a primary,
and yet a most acceptable associate on
the same ticket with himself?
Did the owl convention in the law office
cleanse Mr.. Wren of his republicanism?
Did Mr.. Wren promise Mr.. Christian to
vote for democratic men and measures in
the legislature?
Is Mr.. Democrat Christian proud of his
ticket; can he urge his late political asso
ciates to vote that ticket and can he turn
over democratic votes to the republicans
on it?
Mr.. Christian runs because he would re-
buke his late associates for permitting a
few republicans to participate in demo-
cratic primaries upon the obligation they
have thereby assumed, to vote the demo-
cratic ticket, holding, of course. they
would not honestly comply with the DELHI
erality assumed obligation, or else, if he
believed they would comply with their OBJ
legations, upon what grounds could he
object to their participation in the pri-
maries?
If he believed they would not vote, as
they were honorably bound to do, did he
SO conclude because he,himself, had DELHI
erately concluded that if the result of the
action of the primaries did not suit him
and his friends he woul1 bolt the party
and set up independently, and what he In
tended to do was, in his opinion what the
few exrepublicans had a right to do and
would do?
If he believed the few republicans in
capable of honorable conduct what guar
anty has he from the republicans on the
ticket with himself that they will act
squarely?
lluS ll6 SuCu al UNDERSTANDING WIFI HIS
associates on the ticket that he can guar
anty Mr.. Wren and other republican can
didates to Rave repudiated all old party
affiliations?
Have Mr.. Wren and republicans on the
ticket been satisfied that Mr.. Chris tian
has cut loose completely from his old party
Is the blessed fusion independent ticket
a democratic plant with republican graft
ings, or republican stock with bloom
ing democratic graft upon it?
Do Senator Maxey's friends in Travis
set up of nights till cock growing TO de-
wise means to elect Christian to vote for
Ireland, and Wren to vote for Hancock?
Now, confdentially, Mr.. Christian, do
you really feel satisfied with yourself in
your present position?
The sO-called independent ticket was
fully made up, with the exception of the
candidates for the legislature, when you
consented to place on it. You had
opportunity to study your new political
associations before you accepted. Now
are they pleasant, and is your political
flop as nice and agreeable as the foxy old
radical republicans who lnveigled you in
to it described it to be-?
If you find it not so eXquisitely harmoni
Gus and blissfuIly exhiliarating as per
promise, have you any one to blame ex
cept yourself
Do you refuse to tell, because it is not
democratic to tell, who you favor for the
senate?
If So do you refuse to tell who is your
campaign committee, because it is not
democratic to do so?
And, if so, do you refuse to tell who
nominated you, because it is undemo
cratic?
Is Colonel DeGress on your campaign
committee?
Don't you know he supports you?
What would DeGress rejoice at in all
this world more than democratic defeat!
You say you are new in politics, just
learning something, as it were. Now, if |
you live hundred years longer do you
expect to catch up in a knowledge of po-
litical skulduggery with the crowd you find |
yourself serving? Il x & =
OPEN LETTER.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 10Th, 1886.
TO the Democrats of Travis county: