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WEEKLY STATESMAN.
AXSTIN TEXAS.
THURSDAY ... MAY 13 It
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GKNKItAL HONS' SPEECH.
General Ross did not come up to the
expectation of the people in hit) speech At
Sulphur Springs the other day. Some-
thing beyond the mere vapid platitudes of
the times was expected from a man who
aspired in such a time as this to be the
chief exeoutive of a great state. He at-
tacks the lease system in its execution and
.inferentially as a policy of the state in
almost the same language that has become
stereotyped without suggesting one single
care for the evils that he so readily re-
peats from a thousand throats. Every
schoolboy in the state is acquainted with
the embarrassment even under the lease
system and could have as readily given
a catalogued list on any examination day
but the schoolboy would have attributed
his own loss of the school fund .rather to
fie want of the execntion of the law by
the exeoutive depa-tments of the state
thin content himself by denouncing the
only arm of the government by which it
is passible in a large portion of the state
to execute these laws.
Not only in this but in other things
General Ross is a disappointment. No
oue can read his speech without noticing
the glaring fact that General Ross divided
all iisue with all classes of parties And
labored in his effort to trim his sails
to catch the breeze from every wind
that flows from every popular point of
the compass. He dished out a very
tempting bait to the cattle barons in re-
pudiating the use of all force in defend-
ing the school and university domain
from the violent possession of cattle cor-
porations and individual cattle barons
and attemptei to cast odium on the bold
and independent declarations of Colonel
Stain that if necessary he would use all
the force of the state the rangers includ-
ed to force these feudal lords to respect
the laws of the state by paying for use
of the grass that belongs to the children
of the state. He knew what a large fol-
lowing these men had to whom he
was thusly appealing for support and
he must have known that in all the coun-
ties organized under the patronage of the
barons and usurpers of the public domain
they would send delegates to the conven
tion instructed for Ross but he mistook
the intelligence of thi people in presum-
ing that they would not see through this
thin veneering and visit upon him their
indignation and opposition. It is to the
interest of these men that Gen. Ross
should be elected governor and protect
them from the arm of the law which is
able to force them to pay for their
usurped domain.
It is evident from Gen. Ross' speech
that he would not use the rangers if it
were necessary to enforce the provisions
of the lease law and it is quite as evident
that in many counties if that arm of the
state government is not used the law can-
not be enforced. The election of Ross
therefore would be equivalent to the
abandonment on the part of the state of
its claim for payment of rent for public
lands. Col. Swain however we are as-
sured will enforce the law even if he
should have to use the rangers and militia
and summon the whole state as a sheriff's
commitatus to do so. That is an import-
ant question in this campaign.
Swain will execute the law and Ross will
follow in the rets of the present admini-
stration which has stood still and permit-
ted a few men to deprive the school fund
of its revenues. The tender manner in
which Gen. Ross touches the question of
capital and labor con linns the suggestion
that he is pandering to popular prejudice.
CHAHUEH KEKLTKI).
In his effort to assail Col. Swain's record
on the capitol building question Gen.
Ross has nil unconsciously put his foot
into it and the blow that was intended
for Swain has squarely hit two governors
of Texas.
In commanding military tones the gn-
eral demands that Col. Swain explain to
the people "why the three million acres of
capitol lands were disposed of in a solid
body to an alien corporation at a valua-
tion of fifty cents an acie thus
permitting it to be locked up for all
time to the exclusion of the actual
settler against the settled policy of the
state since annexation." Will Governor
). M. Roberts please rise and answer
General Ross; for it was the old Alcalde as
president of the capital board before
Col. Swain was a member who let the
capitol contract for the three million
acres of apitol lands when the legisla-
ture of which Col. Swain was a member
had left it with that capitol board under
the law eitlter to sell the lands and build
the capitol with the proceeds or to give
the lands in exchange for the construction
of the capitol. If the Statesman is in
error it would be pleased to hear from
Governor Roberts.
Again General Ross charges Col. Swain
it ti being responsible for the use of con
vict labor on the capitol job. It is true
that Col. Swain as comptroller is a mem-
ber of Governor Ireland's administration
but then he is not entitled to the commen-
dation or criticism resulting from his
excellency's acts as will be seen from the
following which appeared in an interview
with Col. Swain in the press of the stnte
last July :
"What about convict labor f"
Col. Swain : "The governor made a pro
position to furnish the contractor with
1000 convicts at the cost of maintenance.
I did not agree with the governor in this
and for two reasons: First I think it is at
least a stretch of the law because as I
understand the statute forbids the use of
convict labor on the public buildings of
the state; and secord I am opposed
most unqualifiedly to convicts being
worked in competition with honest labor."
There is no use for Gen. Ross to at
tempt to make political capital against
Col. Swain on the latter's record iu regard
to the new state capitol building. The
magnificent proportions of this grand
structure are growing daily and its
massive and imposing style of
architecture is the admiration not only
of every Texan who visits Austin but of
strangers from every section of the
country who declare that in its unity of
design and symmetry of proportion it
will surpass the national capitol building
at Washington which has cost upwards
of forty million dollars. Bv the wise
management of the capitol board our
Texas capitol will be built for the three
million acres of land without the possi-
bility of any extra additional cost and it
will be completed and ready for occu
pancy beyond the shadow of a doubt on
the first day of January 18110 a little over
three years from now. While if the nolicv
f
that General Ross advocates had been
pursued the building would not have
been completed for twenty-five years and
would have cost the state millions of
money wruug from the hard earnings of
the tax-payers.
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Col. J. N. Simpson of Dallas gives to
the Live Stock Journal a discouraging ac
count of the condition of the range in
the l'ecos country. He says:
Of course there is plenty of water in the
river coutiuously running snow water
from the mountains but the country
bordering on it for eight and ten miles
back is as barren of food almost as a
sand bank. Many of our steers go back
into the interior fifteen and twenty miles
to where a sufficiency of cured grass can
oe nau uu. the amount of travel neces
sary to cover the distance between the
elements of existence keep them poor and
fit subjects for the bog and of which that
country Iibs its share. We have not had
a good rain since last June enough to do
real good a lew snows along through the
winter being the main dependence."'
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PFRSOXAL.
Senator Mitchell continues to improve.
Situator Pike has gone to New Hamp-
shire and will probnbly not return this
season.
George Bancroft has bought a new sad-
dle horse for use (it Newport this Hum-
mer. Professor Bell is said to have given his
deaf and dumb wife a present of $ lO'OOO-
000. Annie Dickerson's mother is lying nt
the point of death in her home at West-
pittson. Secretary Kndicott is enuevoriug to get
President Cleveland to attend the Harvard
commencement.
Mary Anderson after her present en-
gagement will pass a week wit h Mrs. Law-
rence Barrett at Cohasset.
The death ef General Hancock is said to
have plunged Mrs. Hancock into an al-
most constant melancholy.
Ben Butler has been asked to defend the
Monongahela river mine re who are to le
tried for conspiracy and riot.
Miss Folsom the President's prospec-
tive bride is still in Paris but will sail
for this country about the 18th. of this
month.
A competion has been opened in France
for designs for a statue of Jean Baptiste
Dumas to be erected at Alais at a cost of
$S(MH).
Ex-Minister Klihu B. Washburne who
has been in California for three mouths
in quest of health has returned to C licv
go unbenefited.
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THURSDAY. MAY 13 1886.
THEIR CAUSE IS GONE.
The monthly finaicial circular of the
big New York banking house of Henry
Clews i. Co. is a most interesting paper
and will be especially pleasing from the
fact that it deduces from an elaborate
comparison and a strong array of figurss
the joyous conclusion that financial and
business affairs are on the very verge of a
grand revival. The "bears'' and labor
troubles have done their worst now the
bulls and the strong conservative business
element will carry the country along tri-
umphantly to great success. This house
represents the best authority on such
money questions and this opinion is truly
a harbinger of joyous self-congratulations.
Their estimate of the late labor
troubles is as follows:
From the nature of the case
however this labor disease must
soon end one way or another and there
is not much dinicul'y in foreseeing what
its termination will be. The demands of
the knights and their sympathizers
whether openly expressed or temporarily
concealed are so utterly revolutionary ot
the inalienable rights of the citizen and
so completely subversive of social order
that the whole community has come to a
firm conclusion that these pretensions
must be resisted to the last extremity of
endurance and authority and that the
present is the best opportunity for meet-
ing the issue firmly and upon its merits.
The organizations have sacrificed the sym-
pathy which lately was entertained for
them on account of inequities existing in
certain employments: they stand discred
ited and distrusted before the community
at large as impracticable unjust and
reckless; and occupying this attitude be
fere the public their cause is gone and
their organization doomed to failure.
COL. SWAIN WAS RIGHT IN HIS VOTE.
Gen. Ross in his speech last Saturday
tried to make capital of the fact that Col.
Swain voted last summer for Indiana
limestone in preferenoe to some Texan
stone to be used in building the new state
house. Nothing could be move auspicious
for Col. Swain's candidacy than the (lis
cussion of this question as it will result in
a boomerang on Gen Boss; because the
people of Texas will learn before the can
vass is over what the truth is in this mat-
ter; and every fairminded citizen of this
great state will acknowledge Col. Swain's
statesmanship in that he together with
Attorney-General Templeton and Land
Commissioner Walsh protected the inter-
ests of the state in a business like way
and accepted the superior sample of lime
stone no matter from whence it came.
rseimer tne law tne contract or
specifications required the limestone
should come from a Texas quarry
uut limestone was demanded a
sufficient quantity uniform with the stan-
dard sample could not be obtained in
Texas the legislature refused or failed to
make provision for a change from lime-
stone to the much more expensive gran-
ite. Then what alone remained to be
done?
These men Swam Templeton and
WalHh did not propose to relieve the con-
tractor of the obligations of a $2o00C0
bond simply to pander to a sickly senti
mentality or any species of demagoguery.
And voting as they did they
not only caused the contractor
to submit a proposition which led to
Ljie building of the capitol of Burnet
county granite but nlso to the widening
of the interior walls and constructing the
dome of dimension instead of rubble
masonry thereby rendering them safe and
substantial; while the construction ac
cording to the original plans had been
declared unsfife and improper by leading
architects and engineers throughout the
United States.
There is no better illustration of the
wise business like attitude of Col.
Swain on this subject than by compar
ing the actual condition of the rapid and
satisfactory progress now being made
upon the capitol building with Col.
Swain's answer last summer to the ques-
tion of a reporter of the Houston Post
on this subject of "false sentiment versus
duty"; it being a most fit response to
Gen. Robs' assertion that Col. Swain vio
lated every sentiment of state pride in
favoring the demand of the capitol syndi-
cate to go to a state 1.500 miles distant
to procure limestone for the building.
This was the same question put to Col.
Swain last summer and he answored it
as follws in the Houston Post
"Yes but sentiment is bound to give
way to duty and it is ttie duty of the cap-
itol board to see that the new state cap-
itol is built and that for the lands agreed
upon. There was no preference. There
was no choice. It was Indiana stone and
the enforcement of the contract for the
erection of a great structure at the cost
agreed upon or forced abandonment of
the contract with no chance for the state
to recover damages. It was to take that
or entail upon the people of Texas a
chance for jobbery which would take
twenty years and millions of money to
liquidate. These are just conclusions
carefully gathered from facts and the his-
tory of capitol building in other states
especially New York. I have a sentiment
for Texas that goes above and beyond
such sickly notions of granite or lime-
stone material. It goes with the execu-
tion and performance of a sacred trust
imposed upon a public official. It goes
into the future greatness of her people
aud the development of her resources
with such means as are given by law.
I cannot submit to a sentiment that would
subvert duty; that would disregard and
override vested rights; that would teach
us to annul our contracts and bankrupt
and disgrace our people.
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Christopher "W. Bornman a well-to-do
baker of New Haven Conn. was divor jed
from his first wife last Friday. On Sat-
urday he surprised his friends by mar-
rying his housekeeper.
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From the Galveston News.
.Houston May 7. 1'owderly who is an
overrated and hypocritical fraud comes
to the front with an indignant denial of
responsibility for himself and his follow
ers of the direct immediate and neccee
sary consequences of his and their lawless
and outrageous precept and examples.
In my opinion he is a liar because he is a
coward lie and his Irons Blacks Gol-
aens vasmers and other coadjutors are
the instigators movers and expectant ben
eficiariea of all the communistic devil-
ment. When men organize to starve and
orture people into a complience with
their onesided demands they are common
enemies of mankind and deserve to be
treated as such. Professing to intend
compulsion only against Jay Gould they
directly and immediately apply theinstru
ments or torture to the whole consuming
and producing classes in order that may
enforce advantageous alliances' however
unwilling with both. The merits and de-
merits of their controversy with Mr. Gould
are not debatable. JNo peoole or govern
ment can afford to treat with incendiar
ies assasins and plunderers while they
hold in their hands the blazing torch the
dynamite bomb and the fruits of their
rolb3ries. Suir.nder unconditional ar.d
complete should be first demanded and
after this will be time to discuss their
claims. Until they do surrender let such
foice as will compel it be brought down
upon them and let the contest be sharp
and decisive. The Knights of Labor can-
not shirk the consequences they and
theirs have brought about. Who began
this devilish insurrection? Who fired the
hearts of the communists and socialists of
Chicago? Who inaugurated this seizing
of property with violent hands? Who
drew first blood of innocent men who had
gone ont peacefully but industriously to
labor for the honest support of their wives
and children ? Who forbade the furnish
ing of food clothing or even employment
to men ana women who were lawfully and
peacefully pursuing laudable vocations?
Is the slow death by starvation less wick
ed cruel and devilish than the quick des
tructiou of brave men and officers bv dv
namite? Who wonld stand fairest before
the law when answering the charge of
murder with express malice? Not a drop
oi uiooa nas oeen shea not a groan has
b .sen wrung not a pang has been suffered
in all this miserable business for which
the Knights of Labor are not directly and
immediately responsible. Who drew the
spikes from the rails and precipitated in
nocent people to death in Texas? Point
to a single instance where these delectable
Knights have ever organized to enforce
the law They made pompous proffers of
ineir services to protect property and aid
the officers but whom have they ever ar
rested or when have they ever forbidden
the evil deed being constantly done in
their interests and behalf? If Knights of
Labor have not done these devilish deeds
then who has? Where is the offender
brought to justice for these crimes who is
not jvnignir ny is it that every
crime done is directly m the interest and
direction of the accomplishment of their
purposes? It is too thin. The Knights
of Labor are responsible and their coward
ly disavowal of the responsibility is a tra-
vestie upon the title they have filched
from honor and chivalry. They have
stolen the livery of heaven to serve the
devil in.
Texas connot afford to tolerate this
wave in the sea of progress and civiliza
tion wnicn is ueiuging our state from
foreign states and nations. The
spirit of true primitive democracy revolts
at mis co-operative league union social
ism wnicn overwniems individuality and
sinks personal freedom into the depths of
ooiiviim. wi every irue democrat stand
to his faith and thrust out these insid-
ious enemies of free government. They
and their doctrines are not welcome in
Texas ond the next democratic state con-
vention should declare the true faith. It
is time that a halt should be called in this
march toward anarchy and revolution.
Heretofore the democratic party has been
a party of individual liberty and personal
freedom but of late years gradually and
by almost' impreceptable degrees it is
drifting away. Society cannot be pre-
served without government and the una-
dulterated principles of primitive democ-
racy furnish the only safe method for ad-
ministering it.
. Gdstave Cook.
J.Fred feimmerman manacer of tho
Chestnut street Opera House will sail for
i-uhiib um msi weeK in June with his
family. He goes for recreation ohif.
BEASTLY BRUTALITY.
ONE OP THE MOST KKPULS1VF
FEATURES OF SLAViKY RE-
V1VEJ) WITH A CHANGE
OF MASTERS.
For the credit of a common humanity
it is seldom that the chronicler of curient
events is called on to record so brutal an
exhibition of fiendish passion as that
about to be recounted.
Louisa White a) talored girl of seven-
teen the daughter olf Fred White one of
the most respectable and well-to-do colored '
men of the city was a pupil of the gram-
mar school in the Eighth ward near the
Methodist church of which W T. Phillips
was principal. The young girl is said to
be uncommonly bright and attentive to
her school duties but yesterday Phillipg
saw or imagined he saw a want of respect
for his high prerogatives. Taking fire
he lost all control of his demoniao temper
and inflicted upon the poor girl a merci-
less castigation one which would have
been a disgrace to a slave pen. The im-
plement used was a raw-hide and with its
cruel edge the girl's shoulders were almost
literally flayed. One of the best known
citizens of Austin told the reporter that
the girl waa brought to his house after
night by her father for his inspection'.
He said her shoulders and back were
cruelly lacerated and raised in "welts" of
four to five inches in length and that in
two or three places the bruised blood waa
trickling through the frayed skin.
Colonel vvooldridge promptly suspended
fiend Philips in which he has been subse
quently sustained at a meeting of the
board of trustees. If he is not made to
answer to the outraged penal laws of the
state justice will suffer a grievous wrong.
Neuralgia and kindred diseases prompt
ly yield to the immediate action of St.
Jacobs Oil the pain conqueror.
Manager Barns will bring out in Lon
don during the autumn season a roman
tic drama written by an anonymous
American for the late John McCul-
lough.
The Princess Bargash Said Medfid sis
ter of the Sultan of Zanzibar is now visit-
ing Paris and exciting much admiration
for her superd horsemanship.
Surah Bernhardt is writing a play in
which she will herself act the chief role in
Frauce. She will r serve the English
ritrhts for Mrs. Bernard Beere.
TRADE X; MARK.
"v
C OUGH URE
Free from Opiate Emetics am Jfoison
sube'. O K Cts.
PR0MPT.dO
AT DRUG0ISTS AND 0RALKRS.
TH CHAKLKS A. VIH;KIKK III. HALTIM0RR Ml).
ACOB
TRADE
bERto an REMEDY
For Pain"
CuieiBhnimatism HeuralgU.
kHafkaehe Headache Toothaeh
npraina nrtmct oir. lit
PItll'K FIFTY CENTS.
At DrueKlMtA and Dealer.
IUB CUABLES A V'.KJELKK CO. BaJ.1 laOUK BO.
JUDICIARY IlEFOKM
Under call of Chairman Roberts the
committee heretofore appointed by the
Texas bar association to consider and sug-
gest necessary amendments to the judi-
ciary article of the state constitution met
yesterday at the temporary capitol. There-
were present of the committee the follow-
ing: Ex-Gov. O. M. Roberts chairman;
Ex-Chief Justice Robert S. Gould; Judges
J. B. Rector and B. H. Bassett and Hon. J.
Hancock. Messrs. O. N. Roach John S.
Woods and Jhn A. Green being absent.
Circular letters containing printed ques-
tions on the subjects of inquiry were sent
to prominent lawyers throughout the state
which were very generally and intelligent-
ly responded to. The reading and casuaL
discussion of these constituted the prin-
cipal portion of the work accomplished
at yesterday's meeting. There will be an-
other sitting of the committee to-day at-
which the various suggestions will be con-
sidered seriatim and their comparative
merits discussed. When the committee
formulates its report it will be presented
to the bar association for its action. This
action will take the form of an amend-
ment to be submitted to the next legisla-
ture in the form prescribed by the consti-
tution. ADVlCfc lt .MOTHERS.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. It
soothes the child softens the gums al-
lays all pain cures wind colic and is the
best remedy for diarrhoea. 25c. a bottle.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Stevenson accompanied by his wife left.
Washington on Wednesday evening for
Hot Springs Ark. where Mrs. Stevenson
who is in ill health will remain a month
or more. General Stevenson will return
in about ten days.
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