Year: 1873

The Galveston News is exhibiting some
soreness under the friendly discipline, which
we felt it our duty to bestow upon it, and
induIges in some squibs against US, which
are quite natural, under the circumstances,
and which we care little about, as they can
do as no harm. What we rejoice at is the
evident good effected by our timely stric-
tures. The News seems now to be giving
up its tendency towards the Beauregard
social negro equality movement in Louisi-
ana, and it confesses it will prove failure.
It tries to explain away the Ohio Allen
county resolutions, which It at first APP
proved, and which, if they meant anything,
meant an abandonment Of the democratic
party, and it now declares itself against any
third party arrangement, and in favor Of the
old democratic platform, without any new
planks or patchwork our position all
the time. Whatever the News or other
papers may assert or intimate, the course OF
the Statesman has been plain, straight for
ward and consistent on all subjects in any
way connected with the democratic party.
1t has, from the first, insisted on keeping
up intact the democratic organization, de-
nouncing all attempts to>get up third or
,mongrel party, with no fixed principles.
While expressing its friendliness towards
internal improvements and the building Of
Important railroads, and maintaining the
good faith and credit of the State, it has op-
posed boldly all attempts to convert the
democratic party into a mere railroad party
or put it under the influence and control Of
any corporations. During the session Of
the Legislature it strongly advised fair
compromise and settlement of the Interna-
tional Bond question, so as to effectually
keep it out of politics, whatever might be
the decision of the courts. 1t has urged a
union of the democracy on the old platform
of undying principles, about which there
can he no difference among honest intelli-
gent democrats. This has been the course
of the Statesman, and the assertions of the
News, in its crawlish article of the 10th,


that we were experimenting to bring about
other results and commit the democratic
party to new issues, bearing against rail
roads, are utterly without any foun-
dation. We have steered between
the extremes, and have had to make battle
against the anti-railroad men and repudia-
tors on the one hand, who were threatening
to break up the democratic party unless
their views were adopted, and the Galveston
News, on the other hand, which was, to all
appearance, trying to get up a third party
on new issues or the abandonment of old
ones. How we have succeeded, it remains
for the true democracy of the State to judge
and determine 1t is gratifying to see that
the News has been benefited by orr exer-
tions, and now seems to be about right, if
it will keep so. The misfortune of the
News has been that, according to its own
confession, it>has been obliged to pick up its
editorials here and there, as the occasion de-
manded, now employing an interested
schoolmaster to write about school laws,


and now an old radical newspaper employee
to write articles on democratic principles
and practices OF course, this has involved
it in numerous inconsistencies, and has been
calculated to destroy its usefulness to the
democratic party. We believe the senior
owner and editor of the News, Willard
Richardson, Esq, if he had the time and
strength, would keep the old paper about
right, but he is not sufficiently careful of
the writers employed and the strange doc
trines they sometimes strive to inculcate


But enough for the present. We are truly
glad to see the News getting square again
and hope to have its earnest cooperation in
keeping up the old democratic party not
only in this State but the whole Union