Year: 1874

FALSE STATEMENTS.


From the meeting Of the Legislature up to
its last issue, may say from its existence to
the present moment, the Austin State Journal,
the organ of the late Governor Davis, has been
filed with Misrepresentation, abuse and false
hoods concerning the Democratic party, its
distinguished leaders and the state Of affairs
generally in Texas Under the promptings Of
Davis, it has hesitated at nothing, however in
famous its character, to advance the interests
of the few white Radicals in this State and
continue their corrupt reign. This conduct
has seriously injured the Republican party
and made it looked on by the people of Texas
in a more abhorrent light than it has been re-
garded elsewhere. Honest Republicans, COM
ing here from other States, and even Federal
/ officials, with well known devotion to their
pas..g; have been disgusted with their pro-
ceedings and astonished at their audacity A
very intelligent lawyer, from the northwest,
and a correspondent of well known Re
publican paper in Cincinnati, who
visited our State more than year
ago said to us, 'I have been Repub-
lican always and expect to continue one, but
the Republicans with whom have been asso-
ciated at home are gentlemen of character and
principle, and if were citizen of Texas, 1
should feel compelled to cooperate with the
Democratic party to put down the present
Radical rulers of this State They are utterly
indefensible The same opinions have been
expressed by hundreds Of other Republicans,
who have been here, either on business or for
better health. Republican immigrants from
other States, as soon as settled down and in
Termed by observation of the real character of
the Radicals of Texas, headed by Davis,
Tracy, DeGress and Newcomb, have Joined
and voted with the Democratic party as the
only honest party to be found here. They
have comprehended the situation at once, and
have done their duty as faithful citizens Of the
State Of their. adoption, looking to their own
as well as the best interests Of all Hence the
increase of the Democratic majority from a
little over 10000 to near $1,000 at the last
election. 1t might have been reasonably sup
posed by all who had no intimate knowledge
of the Radicals of Texas and their despicable
character, that after this overwhelming rebuke
and reputation by the honest people and
property holders of the State, they would
have submitted sullenly to their fate, and
sl1ulked away to their holes and dens, like
other vermin and beasts of prey, into the dark
ness and out of the sight of community they
had so deeply injured and outraged. Not so.
They have continued their brazen assurance to
the last They have combined and conspired
to overthrow the government of the State and
leave it in anarchy or in the keeping of the
military Regardless only Of themselves, and
full of revengeful feeling, they have done all
they could do to provoke hostile collision and
bloodshed, and to involve their party else
where in complications which could not fail
to injure II. To bring this about they have
made numberless false statements in the State
JoufpqI, and sent ON false telegraphic dis
relation to existing affairs. Fortunately,
the President and his advisers have given
no credit to their falsehoods, having full
| ly found out by this time, we trust, the true
character of these selfish, reckless and utterly
unprincipled wretches. We rejoice at this,
and the thanks of the people of Texas are due
to Grant and his Cabinet for acknowledging
the true government of the State and giving
no assistance to its rebellious sealawags. And
vet the lying goes on, and the Fridays issue
of the Journal is full of it. There is what is
pretended to be 80 candid and true statement
of the facts of the situation" in which it is
stated that "GoEernor Davis had nothing to
do with the Rodriguez case" that ''the counsel
for the State had ample opportunity to have
the ease dismissed for want of evidence" and
that call parties had been agreed that the term
of Governor Davis and the State offices ended
on the twenty-eighth of April, all of which
statements are totally false and made to blind
and deceive people alta distance. Here every
body knows them to be false and made vii
fully with wicked intent The Supreme
Court were the creatures of Governor Davis
appointed by him and would have obeyed
his nod When the counsel for the
State moved the discharge Of Rodri
ouez for want of evidence that he had
committed any offence, the court refused, be
ing determined to pronounce on the constitu
tionality of the election law, as was expected
by Governor Davis. The question of tenure
Of Office was raised at the Democratic Stat'
Convention at Corsicana, nearly year and (
half ago, and a committee OF the first lawyer
in the State appointed to consider and repor
upon it, which they did, and in their opinion
the ablest Republicans Of Texas, Judge Bell
Judge Mccormick, and others cOncuTTed
Il The Journal knew this-it knew the claim {,
the right Of Office from the determination o
the general election had never been abandoned
So, too, the statements Of the desire Of Davi
to avoid collision, and his efforts to that end
are wholly untrue. When no act Of violenc
had been committed, during recess of tn
Legislature, when everything was at peace, b.
the order of Davis, She Capitol was filed witt
armed desperadoes, who it was thought coul'
provoke a collision with the authorities ant
the citizens Thank God the efforts Of thi
plotting madman failed, and no blood Ia
been shed 10 mark the incoming Of an homes
Democratic State administration.


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OUR thanks are due our able member o
Congress, Hon. John Hancock, for continu
Gus copies Of the Congressional R,oOrd, b,
which we are enabled to keep up with Al
the proceedings Of Congress. We read
with great interest, and hope he may con
tinue to favor us as heretofore. We ar