The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

mond ornaments; Miss Julia Locketr
pink surah and lace. Miss Lillian Gid
dings, the hostess, wore a light blu
surah silk, decollette, sleeveless an'
diamonds.
The Democratic Chairman Talks
Nonsense.
From the New York Herald
Democratic Chairman Barnum Is, as We
judge from our dispatches from Roches-
| ter, talking a fair amount of nonsense IL
the western part of the state. 1--WE have
he says, "the republicans on the rum
"The prohibition movement Is growing
fast and gets its recruits from the repub-
lican party" "There is no doubt that
the result will be glorious victory for
dem cracy."
Mr.. Barnum cannot believe this non
sense, or that Mr.. Cleveland is to be elected
by such drivel. The republicans are not
"on the run" They began with an ag-
gressive campaign, and they are forcing
the fighting in every northern state.
Wherever we look We see them perfecting
their organization. In congress they
have drawn party lines with INSCRIPTIONS
rigidity and assail the administration at
every point. They are raising money,
forming clubs, sending out documents
and striving by all means TO win. There
is no more run" in the republican ranks
than there was in Lees ranks when Grant
crossed the Rapidan. Like Lee they
mean to fight, and can only be whipped
by the hardest kind of fighting.
1t is nonsense to expect to elect Cleve-
land by temperance prohibition votes.
| When it comes to close quarters these
temperance votes cannot be counted on
assuredly not against Harrison, who has
been preaching temperance and running
Sunday schools and Bible classes in 3
Presbyterian church for a generation.
The republican leaders understood this
when they nominated him.
Mr.. Cleveland can and should be re-
elected president. The highest interests
of the nation are to be served by contin-
uing the democrats in power. So strong
was this conviction in the minds of the
people that when Harrison was nominated
we understood the campaign to give Mr..
Cleveland seven chances in ten of win
ming. That public opinion still exists,
but it must be disciplined and
brought out, and not frittered away.
To do this there must be better
democratic leadership than we have yet
seen, and there must be an end of this
nonsense about republicans being "on
the run," depending on "Cleveland's luck"
and re-electing the president by temper
ance votes.
Thus there was to be "solid south"
for Cleveland in Virginia, for instance,
nd Mol 70 civ a
TO Cleveland by republican Kilkenny
cat arrangement. Now it appears that
Field Marshal Quay, with his capacity for
silence and in peculiarly quiet way, has
adjusted the Kilkenny cat BUSH
ness, and Virginia is to be
fought in every county with united
republican party. West Virginia is to be
challenged to the uttermost. Here in
New York-where the battle should be
fought and may be won-what evidence
is there of party energy or enthusiasm
Already the great democratic party, which
should be a unit, shows signs of disin-
tegratlon upon some miserable quarrel
about the governorship and mayoralty-
miserable indeed" when we think of the
imperial prize of the presidency, which
selfish, purblind politicians may in their
folly and greed throw away.
While the republican campaign shows
animation, the democratic canvass droops
and hangs. Instead of clear, resembling
words of light and command we have
drivel like this from Mr.. Barnum. Mr..
Cleveland can win, but he is not to win by
the leaders of the democracy incoming in
land of dreams. The issues must be put
with unfailing emphasis. The republicans
must be attacked along their whole line.
They must be challenged in every state
in Maine and Wisconsin and Michigan, as
we'll as these doubtful" states of Con-
necticut and New Jersey, which after all
depend upon the caprice of the metro
polls. The burdens upon labor involved
IN this wicked tariff; the corruptions en-
gendered by the surplus; the truculent
tone of debate on the fisheries in which
war with England is almost made repub-
lican party question; the vice like grasp
of the monopolies and trusts; the
growth of money power more sordid
and debasing than slavery, because
it is slavery without the humanities and
domestic responsibilities of that institu-
tion the land robberies; the universal sys-
TEN of treasury spoliation which marked
republican rule; the destruction of the
federal relations between the states
these are only few of the issues upon
which the democratic battle can be fought
and won.
But it can only be fought and won by
fighting. And, as Wellington said of Wa
terloo, it must be hard pounding from the
beginning to the end.
A bottle of Angostura Bitters to
flavor your lemonade or any other cold
drink will keep you free from dyspepsia,
collie, diarrhea and all diseases originstins
from the digestive organs. Be sure to get
the genuine Angosture, manufactured by
Doctor j G.. B. Siegert d. Sons.
Years ago the county commissioners
adopted the habit OF making an aOnqal
visit of inspection to the county pauper
asylum, and the keeper adopted the prac-
tice of entertaining them at dinner. The
county Judge is the chairman of the com,
| missiOneis' court, and, the Judge accom-.