The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-28

tho Garth and teorin1 their clothes in
o1,oniyinC ordor ovnr this oncioi amos
| tion thought of tho hennfts conferred
mon Tnvns Inv nnmocrots and NV the
jnmocratic pnrtyf All of those who
made hor constitutions with few cXcep-
lions. were Democrats. All her governors.
nycopt one. were Democrats. All of her
iudges in the highest courts were Demo
| Gratis. Nine-tenths of her legislators were
Democrats. and. until lately. nine-tenths
of her voters were Democrats. though
many of them have gone into other pO-
liticul parties. partly on account of the
diSScntiOn produced in the Democratic
party during Il few years past by the alb
sorbing attention, which has been given
AS IL test of Democracy, to this federal
question of finance. Let survey be
made of all of the vast improvements of
every kind that have grown up under
the shadow of II Texas Democratic gov
eminent. controlled by Democrats, all of
whom. until lately, were Democrats of
and in the Democratic party of the
United States, who can give their first
| consideration to the welfare of Texas
and its government, and only incidentally
to that OF the federal government.
1t should be always so with the Demo-
Gratis of Texas, certainly so long as the
Democratic party nationally. performs
its mission in the administration of the
federal government to the advantage Of
the local government of the states rs it
was originally designed to do and has
done. | have come to the front to have
this protection to the rights and interests
of the people of the state continued. and
have more confidence in it being done
by the national Democratic party than
by any other national party that now en-
lists or that is likely to be formed in the flu
| turC. 1t is not because | am opposed TO
| the restoration of silver as redemption
money. as it was before 1873. when it
was dcmonctiZed. Why? | do not be-
lcve that if all the gold and silver that
way ever taken from the earth by man,
in all the ages of the past and to come.
should have been or should he coined into
money, that there would have been or
will be more money than has been or will
be necessary for the increasing pOpua-
ton and growth in wealth throughout
| the world.
Tnx,s novy with ire VAST unmoturod
;nto,o.ts ,u,,itinr doyolonmont tic
innLs for snIo and its immense n~,icuI
tnroi stncl, nnd ntbar nroductions moods
FROM tw.o +n tbron times moro money
~oIJ md silyor in tho hands Of tho moo,
nln than any old deyelonnd state of oduol
that silver will be restored as money.
upon such Il ratio. or in some way, that
will make it Approximately equal to gold
in value. and that when it is done by the
federal government. it will not be done
in a way to iniure any one unjustly or to
rrpudiatc legal contracts. And | do not
think this great and powerful country
should be dependent upon any other coun-
try as to how it should manage its own
affairs for the benefit of its own people.
Who ever read of country that had
too much gold and silver money perma-
ncnty or hand! Now, as this is Il mat
ter within the control and concurrent
management of forty-four states of the
Union. it surely should not be allowed
to he the cause of raising such Il storm
of political agitation as to have the in
tcrcsts of our home government obscured
as an insignificant object of public con-
Germ. as may now be witnessed all over
this state: and if it be true. as it is re-
ported in the papers. that the annual OK
| pcnScS of the federal government have
| run up To the enormous amount of SoGO.-
| 0DO,OGO it is high time that some efforts
| should be made to tighten the burden of
| taxation in this state so far as it can he
done consistently with the efficiency of
| the state government.
This stirring confusion of political par
tics with no beacon light but the glitter
of thr white metal. is not confined to this
stotr Inf EXISTS cuuolIv in other states.
oId oven in the congress of the United
| States. that has been brought by it to a
| Notwithstanding thereby unable to pass
any hi. either upon finance or on the
| tariff which leaves the president with
running deficiency of revenue. to carry
ON the government by purchasing gold
with iutrrrst-brnr bonds. If has at
| last hrcome evident TO my mind. upon a
survey of this condition of public affairs,
| that federal measures will enter largely.
| if nnt cnprossingly. into the political can
voss of this vrnr in Texas. and that we
orc entering unon it in the dark in the
absence of tbe national platforms of all
of the political parties. and that there
fore if is useless for me to do more to
stances having said nil I wish now upon
the silver party scheme in Texas and
nthnr st,tns In conclusion. | wish TO
sew tbnt nil This nonsense about the cold
mon bovinr used me to do what | have
Innn Is simnlv ridirulous and untrue In
IN l ;t;n, ,,onu,,;od L,, mo I b,vn