The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-14

and pity the poor old man." than to try
and answer his vigorous logic.
The Dudley crowd welcome the adj
vice of Reagan and Lubbock, and CRATE
fully heap honors, praise and office upon
them, but Reborts is too old to counsel
Il free silver crowd. Isham q. Harris,
Pugh and Morgan, while no 'spring
Chickens" are competent to hold Office
and advise free silverites, but old man
Roberts is too old. Now, all this talk
about Roberts age is the silliest bosh
and sickly rot. If he had commended,
as did "old Pop Reagan" the outrages
of Dudleyism, the Old Alcade would
have received no pity on account of his
senility. If he had footed the silver
horn, alone, as did Lubbock, Harris,
Pugh and Morgan, his old age would
never have been charged against him.
He is old, but he is not too old to cher
ish love for pure Democracy, and for
the state to which his life has been de-
voted.
There are old Democrats in Texas who
have ever been true to Texas and Dem
ocracy, who have long deplored the put
ting aside of the old Democracy and
such men as Throckmorton, Roberts and
others are an eXaltation of the so-called
young Democracy.
These old Democrats remember, and
will tell to their children the fact that
when the Old Alcade ruled in Texas
taxes were low and old-time simplicity
and economy prevailed. These old fell
lows have no recollection of state war
rants being hawked about the streets of
Austin and discounted by the states Off
GERS and her heroic pensioners in those
days: but these old men cherish fond
huf nuh IN va
low, the Old Alcade managed, with strict
economy, to pile up in the treasury u
large and healthy cash balance. In those
good old, glorious DAYS, when Democracy
was harmonious, none of these old fell
lows ever dreamed of stocking com
munities for the purpose of cheating
their opponents of their just and equal
rights, these grand old Democrats, who
made Texas the banner Democratic
state, never stopped to low trickery and
chicanery to thwart fair count and just
representation; the old time executive
committees, when Texas Democracy was
ruled by the old-fashioned Democrats,
had no power and never usurped any.
Yet in those glorious old days Democracy
was triumphant on every field over
Greenbackism and Radicalism. When n
retrospective view is taken of the re-
splendent past under the old regime, one
can not refrain from making n COMPARE
son between the old and the new. and
how transcendently more glorious and
grand is the old over the new. Then,
machinery of the party was clean and
worked without friction; now it is I'M
clean and clogged with mud and filth.
Then the nominees of the party stood
squarely upon the platforms of the party
now they glory in disregarding them.
Then, Democratic majorities were inn
mense; since then they have been re-
duced to mere pluralities. Then, with an
overlooking treasury, the people hardly
felt the burden of taxation; now, taxes
are Onerous and now, at times, the treas
ury has to register its warrants, and
even the few old veterans left to remind
us of the grand heroes who made Texas
free, have to discount their paltry pit
tances. Then, old Texas Democracy
repudiated fiatism in the shape of Green
backism; now, the new embraces fiatism
in the form of free silver. Then, old
Texas opened wide her arms to the home
less of all lands, gave a cordial welcome
to both capital and labor, and Texas bios
somed as the rose; now, the new drive
from her borders capital and its con-
comitant, labor, and grants homes to
only such as can pay more for them than
will buy private lands, and Texas flow
ers are all withered and gone, and in
their stead there stands the blab-mOuthed
Populist and the siver-tongued fiatist.
These comparisons could be made ad
infnitum and with each succeeding one
the old would continue to surpass the
new.
Hence. is it anything strange that the
old guard which was so ruthlessly thrust
aside to make places for these new place
hunters should now call upon one of their
old leaders to snatch from impious hands
the glorious banner of the old Dem
ocracy and to lead them and Texas back
to old-time honesty, old-time fairness and
old-time economy?
The old Democracy has as much rev.
erence for the machinery of the party
as is necessary to maintain fair and hon
est discipline, but no more. Some of
these old Democrats cherish the Old-time
doctrine that the people are above the
machinery, and the machinery must be
controlled by the people and the people
are not to be controlled by the machinery.
Some even think that the Democracy of
Texas has the right to ignore entirely
the machinery that is manipulated dis
honestly and disgracefully to further an
issue and to keep in power set of can
uluuUpS WHICH were plcClcu, utSIltt tlth
contempt for and dsobedience of the
last platform of the Democratic party
in Texas.
The old Democrats of Texas have been
Il long-suffering people, but the time is
near at hand when they intend to. at
least. seek TO save Texas from further
disgrace and spoilation.
The young Democracy may express
contempt for the protests of the old
Democracy against all unfairness and
usurpation, and give vent to their pity
and scorn for the Old Alcade's candidacy.
but they can not drive the old guard
from him into Dudley's primaries. These
old men are made of sterner stuff than
that which fills the average npstart and
bulldozer, and will hardly be deferred
from doing right by threats and insolence.
OLD DEMOCRAT.
YOUR BOY WON'T LIVE A MONTH.
So Mr.. Gilman Brown of "a Mill street,
South Gardner, Mass, was told by the
doctors. His son had lung trouble, fol-
lowing typhoid malaria, and he spent
1915 with doctors, who finally gave him
up, saying: "Your boy won't live a
month" He tried DIR. Kings New Dis
ccovery and a few bottles restored him
to health and enabled him to go to work
a perfectly well man. He says he owes
his present good health to the. use of
Or Kings New Discovery and knows