The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-09-13

L ne railroad element In the late Dallas
convention wanted the democracy to
pledge itself in favor of a new constitu-
tional convention, but the railroads did
not quite make it this time.-Fairfeld
Recorder.
The people of Texas showed their ap-
probation of the valiant services of Attor'
ney-general Hogg in their behalf when
they so enthusiastically renominated him.
He has always guarded the citizens OF this
state against the encrosohments of grasp
ing corporations and monopolies, and by
so doing has won their everlasting graft
tude.-Jefferson Iron News.
The Tarrant county non-partisan con
vention has ratified the naming of Marion
Martin for governor and the balance OF
the Rehabilitation Monitor.
The so-called labor non-partisau peo-
ple of nervous nature will
please close their ears while we
predict rousing success for the entire
county aud state ticket. After the election
in November the whole concern will pass
into oblivion.-Tyler Courier.
The union labor party in Van Zandt
county have been sending anonymous
notices to the editor of the Canton Tele-
phone to let up on the party, or It's mem
bers will take him out some night and
hang him. The parties who sent the
dastardly notices TO Brother Foster
should be tarred and feathered and made
leave the country.-Moody Monitor.
The union labor convention at the court
house in Athens two weeks ago, came near
terminating in riot. Knives we're drawn,
and the whole convention was at the
| highest pitch of excitement. The cause
of excitement was the asking of some
pertinent questions by the democrats
present, which the union labor men could
not answer. They tried to intimidate the
| democrats, as only three or four were
present, by surrounding them and making
threatening gesticulations, and yelling
"Yantis?" which is interpreted as their
signal for violence. Henderson county
should give its anarchists the full benefit
of the law, and the public can rest assured
that justice will be meeted out to them in
a manner that will not be altogether
pleasant for them .-LawDdale Ledger.
1t is reported here that V. Weldon, Of
Dewitt, is being strongly solicited by the
farmers of the Eighty-seventh district tC
run for the legislature in opposition to
the regular democratic nominees. Tha
is always the case. The farmers stay al
home and let the town boys nominate,
then they kick. If the farmers would pay
more attention to their county conven-
tions, they would never have cause fol
Observation-Disclosures Bee.
1t is becoming more evident every day
thlt the colored voters of Fort BenC
county are growing tired of the dictationt
of political bosses. For the past twenty
five years they have had their vote:
bartered and themselves driven to the
polls like a flock of sheep. Those whom
they have elevated to Office by their votei
have grown rich, while they 1.-THE colOre(
voters), are no better off than they wert
at the beginning. Promises made by pro
fessional office-seekers have been broker
like pie crusts, and the colored voters are
left to hold the bag. AS freemen, the,
have a sufficiency of this sort of thing ant
they now propose to cast their votes a
freemen should. They feel that the count
cannot be worse off under democrati
rule, and they are learning that thei
| former republican rulers are their friend
only for their votes. In Fort Bend count,
the colored voters have been made tn
tools of republican Office seekers eve
since the war. These office seekers hav
met them at the dead hour of midnight il
dark recesses of the woods, and in burn
ing words painted to them how tn
democrats would curtail their libertie
and make slaves of them should the,
be placed in charge of the county's affairs
To the colored people we will say, tina
these stories were only told to influenc,
your votes for the office-seekers who re-
peated them, and to array you agains
your friends, the white democrats. Ii
this county the white democrats are tn
chief property owners. To till their land
they must have labor, and they naturally
| look to the colored laborer on our bottom
lands, and common sense should teach tn
colored people that it would be to tn,
democrats interests to protect this labor
This they propose to do, and this the.
will do, and any democratic officeholde
who would dare encroach upon the right
of the colored citizen would be dethroneC
quicker than words can tell it, and foreve
after denied recognition by the democrac.
of Fort Bend county. These are facts Il
have laid before the colored voters of For
Bend county, and we urge them as free
men to exercise their right as sach, ant
no longer be driven to the polls like sheel
to the rambles.-Richmond Democrat.