The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-01-07
REpuBLIcAN INsIpIorsNEss.

The members of the society of the
Jesuits are said to be the shrewdest of all
men. Their logic, true or false, has been
sufficient to defeat the most infexible
purpose of empires. They have de-
throned kings and, Warwick like, have
created lines of monarshs. handful Of
men in the cloister, clothed with the rob.s
of superstition, they have invaded and
disrupted the most sacred relations of
life. Their influence is unaccountable,
and its effects wonderful.
Such is brief synopsis of their inhu-
ence and power, but the shrewdness of the
Jesuit is insignificant compared to the
diplomacy of the managers of the repub-
lican party. The intelligence of the
Jesuit and the sagacity of Richelieu has
been combined in the individual and
political sagacity of the leaders of the re-
publican party. Especially is this
political sagacity demonstrated by the
carpet-baggers, who came south many
years since, to fill state and federal Offices
that could not be filledby our own citizens,
by reason of the fact that they had served
in the Confederate army, and the repub-
lican party denied them the right of suf-
frage, and were completely ostracised, as
far as the humblest Office was concerned.
Such men came south and took posses
sion of our offices, with all the arrogance
of conquerors, and so bore themselves i'll
Office, doing all they could to humiliate the
southern people, and, in some of the
states so administering affairs that the
states were burdened for years with debts
arising from their INSCRIPTIONS extrava-
gance and personal peculation.
Their reign is remembered by
our people with shudder and
a deep feeling of humiliation.
that any state of affairs compelled them
to yield to such calling rule.
In South Carolina, the congressional
committee reported outrages by negro
militia upon the persons Of defenseless
ladies, too brutal to mention in the col
umns of newspaper. In every southern
state these men tainted and insulted the
refinement and intelligence of the coun-
try, and gloated and gloried in their abil-
ity to make the southerner feel the weight
of their intense hate.
Many democrats, as well as republicans,
fought for the integrity and re-establish-
ment of the union, but during the SUI
premacy of the republican party in the
federal government and state affairs, a
war democrat who had fought in a hun
bred battles for the union, had no more
chance to obtain and hold the
most insignificant Office than the
men whom these gentlemen are yet
pleased to call rebels
1t did not then require any political
management to keep even the war demo
Gratis out of Office, but the power in fed
eral and state governments has been
changed, and once more the democratic
party are in control of federal affairs and
all the states of the south.
Under these circumstances, one would
imagine the political Adventures who
came south solely for political emoiumept
would desert the south and leave her to her
awful fate under democratic rule. but the
Imagination only supplies the basis for
such a supposition.
Now, and not until now, has the time
come for the demonstration of the Jesuit
ical sagacity of the republican leaders.
The old war democrats vainly imagined
that their time had come along with
the time of the rebels to hold Office anG
havo fair show in the army and navy
under democratic administration.
They we're mistaken. Only under such
difficulties did the genius and sagacity OF
the republican leaders exhibit itself
With solemn visage of the God and NOR,
ality party, and with the "SibbOleth" OF
civil service reform upon their lips, they
| have encompassed the president of thC
! United States with their insidious inAu
ence, and managed by a political leger
demain understood only by them to III
duce the president to retain large
numbers of them in Office, and playing
upon the strings of army influence they
have succeeded in keeping out of position
and promotion the most meritorious OF
the old officers and ex-ofticers of thu
army, simply because they wer'
democrats, not that they have used tina
fact as an argument, but using the affilia
tons of army influence acquired undel
republican administration, they have beer
enabled to effect their purposes.
There are in the south to-day man.
men who served i'll the union army. L
the inquirer will look around in his owl
neighborhood he will find such a man. l
was not strange that during republican
administration that these old war demo
Gratis were kept out of Office, but is it no
strange that under democratic admins
tration they should still be kept out of of
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