The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-08-13
ANOTHER WORD WITH YOU, JUDGE
TERRELL.

morning daily in Texas. LII SaVePuo'
licity to his letter for Ihe
entertainment of the same aud
fence which read the crltl-
cisms of this distinguished gentleman,
and the letter did not reach the edl-
torial rooms of THE STATESMAN via
the business office. And now, since
Judge Terrell has had the entire state
for an audience, a few more words
with him concerning his letter may
not be out of place or misdirected.
Judge Terrell writes that he was
especially anxious that the legisla-
ture, which enjoys when in session,
the hospitality of Austin, should not
regard this city as leading in a move
to condemn them.n The hospitality
extended the legislature during its
last session was at the expense OF the
very men Judge Terrell would IN MS
letter exclude from all voice and in
fluence in law making. The business
men of this city who met as all clti-
zens have the right to do, in order to
discuss public question, are stigma
tiled as money changers and driven
from the political temple. But the
reader should remember that theTravis
statesman is on his last political legs.
He had made a campaign on corpora
tions and failed; he had made another
on railroads with like result; he had
vainly attacked every honest inter
est that challenged the envy
and enmity of the ignorant and ma
levolent.
Public intelligence is always under
estimated by politicians of this char
acter.
When devotee of luxury and
wealth, exhibiting lofty contempt
for the "spawn of the cabin by the
wayside" undertakes to disfranchise
the business men of Austin and Texas
that he may pose as the peoples
friend, the dissembler's assurance
that he is no candidate does not dupe
the public.
Personalities are properly appreci-
ated by the people, and so further
reference to the sham devotion of the
Travis statesman to what he erstwhile
regarded as the doltish "spawn" Of
rural white trash is invited by his
personal argument. He probably has
on record mortgages upon more lands
in Travis county than any one land
speculator. He owns his broad acres,
his mortgages and his barbed wire
Enclosures, "posted" against the intru-
sion ofthe' spawn" of wayside tenants,
by right of purchase and landlords
penal statutes against the tribe of
poachers.
He has tasted deep the sweets of
the town boomers profits. Personally
speaking, when such tenant-makers
and land monopolizers exhibit these
spasms,of compassion for the "spawn"
it may be taken as an exhibition OF
death-bed godliness, pleasing to the
beholder and morally beneficial to the
person whose lands and chattels and
movable things are in no manner
ieopardized. Politically speaking, ex-
hibitions of this sort, though by one
past the meridian of life, as stated by
the Travis statesman, imply hunger
for office. Judge Terrell contempt
uously refers to city boomers and own
ers of town additions and quick belt
lines as presumptuous in asking a
voice in public affairs. Judge Terrell
was the first man in Austin to put his
money in o town lot speculation; to-
gether with outside land and city
booming capitalists that have given
Austin quick belt line and the state
encampment. Meantime, Judge Ter
rell has sold out, and having
no further interest in the venture
mathematics those who by his ac-
ton were led into the speculation.
When the land boom he helped to
start was in full swing Judge Terrell
was in the swim up to his whiskers.
The boom is off now, Judge Terrell is
out of it, and all who helped it and
were in it with hired pens, and all
who came to help him, imported from
another state with money in hand
and pen in hand are now insolent
idiots. He has played his cards,
pocketed the big profits and is in a
position to hound on communistic
wolves to rob his vendees.
Judge Terrell is not the proper man
to write personalities. His legislative
acts have turned over more lands to
alien owners than all other legisla-
ton. BY his own acts he is in
honor and truth and justice
estopped from the whole
colo Qualification of his fallOu