The Representative. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Monday, May 29, 1871 Page: 2 of 4
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THE REPRESENTATIVE.
Richard Nelson,
Editor* and Proprietor
Republicanism A Necessity.
In the prospectus of the Be-
presentative we stated that
the great necessity for a true Re-
publican journal in the city of
Galveston induced us to start
the publication of this small
sheet, in order that we might be
instrumental in healing the
breach made in the party in this
State, and also, aid in advancing
the interests of the party, believ-
ing as we do that the salvation
of the country depends upon the
continuance of Republican rule.
We know that there are those
who claim to be Republican in
their belief, and who act in every
way calculated to retard the pro-
gress of the Republican cause.
We know that each cannot have
his oWn way in everything, and
therefore to be a good party man
all must give up some of their
peculiar opinions. Only he is a
good party man who is willing
to sacrifice his own individual
interests for the good of the par-
ty. Nor should so much be re-
quired except when the success
of the party is essential to the
interests of the country. J. .
If Republican principles are
interwoven, as we claim they are,
with the good of the country, then
we have a right, not only to ask
that t^py be supported by all,
but we have a right to demand
that all professed 'Republicans
stand firmly upon those princi-
ples and fail in nothing that will
tend to secure the election of Re-
publican candidates, and, we also
demand that no man has .the
right, as a true party man, to in-
sist upon his individual claims
as against the wishes of the par-
ty he desires to serve. The only
excuse in such case would be in
the abuse of the faith and trust
reposed and rights thereby neg-
lected.
Now with these principles to
govern us, it will not be expected
that we pin our faith, as a party
man, to the skirts of any one
1, no ma
1 may t>e.
man may be. We will advocate
in the Representative the
whole party and will stand by
those cardinal principles laid
down long ago as purely Bepub
Jican, that the people have the
l ight of choosing their Bepresen-
tatives, and thatthey may choose
them in precisely suclipreliminai y
manner as they see proper. With
this rule all are familiar, and to
this all should yield implicit obe-
dienc.
Now if all who are0el aiming to
be good Bepublicans will do as
they desire others to do by them
the breach in the party will be
heald and all will be success. It
will not do to be too sanguine.
We have a wiley foe with whom
to deal, and it behooves us to
guard well the trust reposed by
the people in the Bepublican
party of the country.
The Democrats have just nom-
inated a candidate for Congress
in this District, in the person of
Mr. Giddings, of Brenham, and
he says he will make a desperate
fight for success. With the right
kind of a man 011 the Bepublican
ticket Mr. Giddings will have a
hard time to keep in seeing dis-
tance in the race. At the same
time we must not fail with our
confidence and thereby neglect
our duty and our interests.
On the 20th of May, 1865, the
U nited States Treasurer shipped,
per Adams Express, $1,000,000
in'legal tender notes and $160,-
000, in seven-thirty bonds to the
Sub-Treasury at San Francisco.
The safe containing the funds
was a part of the freight of the
steamer Golden Bule, which
sailed from New York on that
date, and which was wrecked on
the 30th of May on Raueador
Beef, in the Caribbean Sea.
Wreckers were employed to find
the missing treasure, and after
several weeks of constant labor
the task was abandoned. Since
then the sum lost has been
charged against the United
States Treasurer, and last week
the Secretary of the Treasury
addressed a letter to the First
Comptroller asking his opinion
as to the manner in which the
missing funds should be accoun-
ted for to the goverment. Af-
ter a careful examination of the
history of the case the Comptrol-
ler is satisfied that neither the
bonds nor the money were ever,
recovered, andr that the United
States Treasurer is entitled to
credit the amount lost as "des-
troyed money," and Adams Ex-
press .Company will be relieved
from any further responsibility,
in the matter.
At a large meeting of the Be-
pulicans of this city, assembled
at the courthouse, on Friday last,
the following resolution was un-
animously passed:
"Resolved, That the Hon. Ho-
race Greeley be invited by this
meeting to address the citizens
of Galveston upon the political
issues of the day, on Saturday
evening, the 27th inst., on his
return to the city."
The following gentlemen were
appointed a committee to com-
municate with Mr. Greeley by
telegram:
Messrs. DeBruhl, Ilobbs, Reed,
Dodge, Parker Stancel and the
editor of this paper.
We will give the matter further
•notice in our next issue.
The San Antonio Express of a
late date says:
Seven wagon loads of cotton
passed through our town yester-
day, to join a train of some twen-
ty-live more wagons, camped
outside of town, and ready to
leave for Mexico. There is still
an immense amount of cotton in
the country, which the planters
are holding in expectation of
higher prices.
Our thanks are tendered to
Mr. Cyrus Elder, Secretary of
Industrial League of Pennsylva-
nia, for recent documents for the
Labor Convention, to assemble
at Houston, the 8th of June.
Eve was the only woman who
never threatened to go and live
with mamma. And Adam was
the only man who never tantal-
ized his wife about u the way
mother used to cook."
When a rooster crows he crows
all over.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
The Austin Legislature lias
passed the bill amending towns
and counties. It requires a new
registration on ,every proposition
and two-thirds vote of all regis-
tered to vote in favor of the pro-
position.
Governor Davis has made the
following appointments for this
city:
Aldermen: Sealy. Stuart, Par-
ker, Rosenberg, Patton, Johnson
Reed, J. M. Brown, J. P. Cole,
Thos. Baker (colored), Fredrieks,
Mason, Kopperl and Somerville,
Mayor.
Woman's Suffrage.
The National Woman's Sufi-
rage Association came out' par-
ticularly defiant against the male
kind in genreral during its ses-
sion. Mrs. Stanton, one of the
leading spirits of the bright ga-
laxy, thought that the secession
threatened by women (meaning
herself and associates) had at
last frightened the press into
respectful language towards the
Woman's Suffrage Convention.
Another lady, Mrs. Hallock,
launched out upon her favorite
topic, the social evil; while Miss
Anthony, among other bright
things, said that women who
were competent to obtain a live-
ly hood were competent to ask a
ballot. As the best proof of this
argument she referred to the ad-
vertising columns of the Herald.
One speaker, Mrs. Middlebrook,
talked about organizing a socie-
ty for the prevention of cruelty
to women, as women, she said,
are more in need of protection
than even Mr. Bergh's proteges.
She gave the eminently gentle
and feminine advice to her sex
to go to the polls, if necessary,
armed with revolvers, in order
to enforce their right to the ex-
ercise of suffrage. Altogether
the proceedings seem to have
been very spirited, and the Con-
vention dissolved to meet again
in Washington and to establish
a new political party, "based on
the declaration of i776," if Con-
gress should refuse to come to
terms on the basis now proposed.
^e New Territorial Government for the
Distric'.
On the assembling of the new
Legislature virtually expired the
corporations of Washington and
Georgetown, although the coun-
cils of both cities have the right
to meet and transact business
until the 1st day of June next.
Georgetown lias been a corporate
city Tor over eighty-four years,
anil when its affairs are wound
up it will have the honor of be-
ing the only city in the United
States that is not encumbered
with a dollar's indebtedness to
any one. The first message of
Governor Cook will be transmit-
ted to the Legislature directly
after the Council and House of
Delegates have organized.
It is understood that it will re-
commend a judicious expenditure
of the money of the people in
carrying out such public improve-
ments as will add to the beauty
and attraction of the capital.
The Board of Public Works,
having charge of such matters,
has already prepared an elabo-
rate plan forinproving the grades
and sewerage of both Washing-
ton and Georgetown, and many
important changes will be inau-
gurated in the mode of carrying
out their designs.
An Irishman had been sick for
along time, and while in this
state would occasionally cease
breathing, arid life be apparently
extinct tor some time, when he
would again come to. On one of
these occasions, when he had
awakened from his sleep, Patrick
asked him—
$~\"An' hrtw'll we know, Jemmy,
when you're dead—you're after*
wakin' up ivery time I"
"Bring me a glass o' grog an'
say to me, 'Here's till ye, Jemmy,'
and if I don't raise, up and drink,
then bury me."
A sign in a Western city an-
nounces, "Boots blacked inside."
We prefer the old way of black-
ing them on the outside.
What did the spider do when
lie came out of the ark? lie
took a fiy, and went home.
The man most looked up to-
the man in the moon.
In the dressing-room: Husband
—"Mary, dear, aren't you well if
why don't you comedown stairs?"
Wife—" Oh, I've got one eye-
brow blacker than the other, and
I can't find a pencil anywhere,
and it won't wash off, and I don't
know what to do at all."
A fellow having a spite at a
sausage maker, rushed into his
shop when crowded with custom-
ers, threw a large dead cat upon
the counter, and said: "That
nakes nineteen; we'll settle when
you're not so busy," and made
his exit. He was, of course, soon
followed by the sausage amateurs,
empty handed.
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Nelson, Richard. The Representative. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Monday, May 29, 1871, newspaper, May 29, 1871; Galveston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth203063/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .