The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-09-13

aided the northern Democrats to de-
feat the law, but it is not TOO Iate
to hold candidates tor congress-
responsible for the advocacy OF such 9
law. 1t is strange that Major Hutchl'
son had the temerity to run for con
Rress In the south with such record
He must have known it would nav.
been used fatally against him. AS TAI
as his political ASPIRATIONS are con-
cerned his advocacy of the force Ia"
is enough to condemn him, and sent
ence him exclusively to private lie,
in which, according to these gentIe'
men of Bastrop, he plays much
more honorable part than he does III
politics.
Major Sayers made the same
charge against Major Hutchinson
at San Marcos but it was in his clos
ing speech and Major Hutchinson had
no opportunity to deny it. IL I'M
pressed us so much that we gave
Major Hutchison the benefit OF the
doubt aud said nothing aboutit, real'y
hoping that he might in some way
explain it, but as the charge has Oeeh
repeated and he stands silent under
il we must conclude that he can maze
no denial or explanation.
We say we are sorry for it. Major
Savers could have beaten Major
Hutchinson without making that gen
tleman obnoxious to the people with
whom he lives and we regret that a
man for whose private character we
have 80 much respect should 80 de-
mean himself as TO advocate
one of the most radically OPP
pressive laws that q Republican ma
iority in congress have attempted
to use to harrass, annoy and humili'
ate tie Southern citizen voter He Is
one of the last men that we supposed
would have manifested such spirit
towards the people among whom ne
was born and reared and through
whom he has prospered.
We repeat, it grieves us to hear 1t;
for political differences have never
influenced our estimate Of men in 60
eial life, but such spirit as the advo-
,acy of the federal election laws man.
tests a willingness to resort to any
expedient of annoyance and humllla-
ion TO advantage the Republican can
iidate in such contest to be settled
by federal bayonets, or the same
hing, armed federal marshals.
We know well who those
narshals would have been
lnder a Republican administration.
The most desperate negroes OF the
ountry would have formed the body
f the marshals, controlled and urged
n by some "roughs" from the North.
We can't forgive Mejor Hutchison
ither privately or politically for ad
coating such a supervision of cleo
ions in the South as the enactment
{ the force bill would have entailed
pom us. Imagine that at each poll
lg box in the South, bully from the
Torth with his select coterie of the
cry worst Negroes he could find.
rmed to the teeth. What kind OF
sedOm would Southern Democrat
ave had at such an election box?
he fact is the South would not have
admitted to it and the very first cleo
ion under it would have plunged the
outh in difficulties, for they would
ave resorted to arms and blood would
ave flowed like water and then
hink of the consequences. Are you
American treemen, respectable citi-
ans, going to vote for man that ad-
COATES that state Of affairs? If we
ad heard this of Major Hutchinson
efore he announced as candidate
Or congress We would have thought
10 had lost his mind, for it thoroughly
elies any act OF Major Hutchison's
Ife. God forbid that freemen should
ote for such man to represent them
u congress.