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THE REFORMER.
WIN. B MOORE
JAS B CASSIDY
Editors.
SATURDAY OOT. 14 1871.
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2E" Hon. McD. Lorancc is our agent in
Smith county.
The Republicans doubtless have
been dctoated in every district in the
State. The cause of this defeat will
bo put upon the leaders of the Re-
publican party and men who in
times past have stood high as Re-
publicans will be foremost in agita-
ting this against our trusted leaders.
We hopo that there is not a true Re-
publican in Texas that will allow
himself to be led astray by the de-
ception of our enemies. Wo know
that thero are men in the party who
have been guilty of many excesses
but the party is not responsible for
their conduct. Benedict Arnold be
tiayed tho Americans but iho cause
for which they were fighting was se-
cured and so it will be with the Re-
publican party of Texas.
The State Journal denies the
charges made by ex-policeman Wil-
liams against Adjutant-General Da-
vidson but produces no argument to
prove the contrary. Wo believe tho
charges made by Mr. Williams are
true and we trust that a proper in-
vestigation will bo made We have
heard of other charges of a very se-
rious nature against this official
which wo will bring to light in the
future provided the authorities fail
to do their duty in tho premises.
Why was the Ropublican party
defeated in this contest ? Because
a few infamous tricksters were al-
lowed to run the party in their own
interest and to the detriment of the
best men in tho party. Tho oldest
and truest men in our ranks were in-
sulted at public meetings and were
told they must take back seats by
individuals who liad not been in the
party .twelve months Gov. Davis
seems to havo more regard for these
men than tho men who elected him.
Republicans of Texas press for-
ward. Do not allow defeat to break
your ranks Wo are defeated this
time but let us not despair.- We
havo seen times more gloomy in
Texas than the present. Lot us
haye a. Republican Stale Convention
and. re-organizo our party thoroughly
to meet tho onemy in 1872. Lot
any differences which may hitherto
have existed be laid aside and then
we aro certain of success in tho fu-
fjuve; The Republican candidates are de-
feated but tho Ropublican party
will carry tho State at tho next
gubernatorial election certain. Don't
bo despondent RopublicanB; tho day
will como when wo will carry this
State by fifty thousand majority.
Whitmoro attributes his defeat to
tho ."puny efforts of puny men"
such as E. H Quck in driving re-
spectable Republicans from publio
meetings and lendering themsolvos
disgusting in the eyos of decent men
through' out' the entire district. u'
Republican State Convention.
Tho condition of bur party at
present demands tho earnest atten-
tion of every true man in it than at
any time since tho close of the rebel-
lion. A class of men who have
crept into our ranks sim:e the can-
vass of 1869 combined with another
class nearly ns dangerous to our safe-
ty wo mean "moderate Republi-
cans" havo well nigh brought our
party to ruin. They havo put for-
ward their "moderate" men as lead-
ers and have attempted to crush the
spirit of every true Republican in
tho State. They have introduced
into every Department of tho State
their "moderate" measures for a com-
pleto establishment of Republican
principles in Texas; for example the
present tax law is one of their "mo-
derate" measures for building up the
Republican party. They have
thrown out several "feelers" to test
their strength the late election is
one the result of which will be
wrongfully thrown on the honest
masses of the party.
Now we do not pretend to charge
all men who como under the head of
moderato Republicans with fraud
and corruption ; but what we wish
to impress upon all good Republi-
cans is this : There are a set of bold
adventurers many of them ex-Confederates
who scruple at nothing.
They are aggressive and have pushed
themselves forward iu everything
that has been undertaken by the
party and their main object has
been to enrich themselves no matter
whom it injured. Many moderate
Republicans who are strictly hon-
est have given way to these adven-
turers and accepted their views in
many things relating to our party
safety fearing that opposition might
create disturbance in our ranks. All
this goes to show tho utter fallacy of
moderate Republicanism . You might
as well talk of being a "moderate
Christian" as was onco said by a
distinguished Republican leader in
Texap.
This misraauagemenr has injured
our party but it is too 'late to
"grieve over spilt milk" Lot us set
to work and remedy tliG evils that
menace us. Let us havo a State
Convention composed of delegates
from each county in the State and
re-organize our party upon such a
basis as will enable us to meet the
enemy in the coming contest.
--..
Tho Senate has refused to take
tho State Journal but the House
continues it notwithstanding the
fact That there are no facilities of
mailing papers. Nino hundred co-
pies aro furnished tho Houso daily
and sold for wrapping paper we
presume.
Tho weak-kneed Republicans who
'worked their Democratic friends into
official positions aro responsiblo for
tho defeat of our candidates. They
nro the gentlemen who have driven
from our party the truest men in it
and they should bo hurled from place
and power and nothing but true
unflinching Republicans trustedhere-
aftor. It is high time this double-
dealing was at an end.
--.o-
It is alleged by tho enemies of tho
Governor that tho defeat of tho Re-
publicans is attributable to him.
This is falso aud if every Republi-
can had performed his. duty as well
as .tho Governor the Republicans
would havo carried the State.
Tho people of Texas Republicans
as well as Democrats demand a re-
duction of taxation. Wo trust that
the yoice of tho people will bo heed-
ed and that the Legislature will
'take action in this matter immedi
i ilBfct;
What can a people expect save a
triumph of dislbyalty when tho very
Government itself is a supporter of
men whose highest aim is to evince '
their treason by tho ballot even as
they did of yore by the bullet S.
A. Exjircss.
This is very tmo and is what we
have been trying to convince the
present administration It kept from
tho polls hundreds of the best Re-
publicans in the State. The Ex-
press however has not practiced
what it now teaches. A few weeks
ago while we were in the heat of
tho canvass when every Republican
should have been called upon to de-
posit his ballot for tho Republican
standard-bearer the Express very in:
sultingly informed us that our servi-
ces were not needed iu the campaign;
that Mr. Degener had timo and
again insulted us etc. This was
unkind but we did not allow it to
influence us in the least ; we voted
for Mr. Degener as all good Repub-
licans should have done.
We understand our young friend
A. E. Fnrr contemplates delivering
a lecture on the " Formation of
character" shortly.
Mr. Parr has recently been ap-
pointed an Evangelist by the Chris-
tian Church at this place and we
hope our people will attend his lec-
ture as we feel confident they will
hear much both entertaining and in-
structive. We know he is a most indefatiga-
ble worker and his voice and pen are
always ready to promote temperance
and religion. He does not purpose
to follow lecturing but to use his
talents to enable him to do some
good. The price of admission will
be small and the subject is a good
one. Let us go and hear him.
Had Republicans been true to
themselves the Democracy would
have been badly beaten. However
it will servo to teach us a lesson for
the future. It may be for the bet-
ter. 4
The committee appointed to in-
vestigate the conduct of DeGress is
merely a hoax. It will be picked
of course and will cover up his ras-
cality. 3 -a
At the last legular mectincr of
Austin Council No. 94 F. of T.
the following resolutions were read
and adopted :
Resolved That Austin Council
No. 94 F. of T. direct the holding
of a public meeting at the Hall of
Representatives on Tuesday 17th
instant at 7A o'clock p.m. for the
'purpose of reviving an inteiest in
the cause of temperance.
Resolved That Hon. George H.
Slaughter Hon. H. R. Latimer and
Mr. J. H. Baker bo invited to ad-
dress tho public on that occasion.
Resolved That a select committee
of three on arrangements be ap-
pointed by the President to obtain
suitable music and preparo a pro-
gramme of exercises for tho evening.
Resolved That these resolutions
be furnished by tho Secretary to the
various city papers with a request
that they publish the same.
Wo had almost; forgotten tho Rev.
H. W. Beecher's ingenious if not
convincing argument in favor of do-
mestic flogging when we saw tho fol-
lowing oracular utterance by the Ro-
man Catholic Bishop of Liverpool :
"Thero is not a nicer ornament or a
moro homely useful article in the
home than a birch-rod. It isfar
moro UBotul than an old-fashioned
warming-pan or perhaps copper-
Kettle." As Koraan Uishops havo
no children this bit of wisdom re-
minds us of certain Essays upon tho
duties of wivesi which upon inquiry
have turned' out1 to be tho production
of old maids. ' " '
1 ' ' . . trarv") lot thorn "corrio to tho rnnk."
Communicated.
Them (Jo.
Let
Wo aro pained to bo obliged to
note tho fact that some of our jour-
nals claiming to be the exponents
of Simon-puro Republicanism and
tho avant couriers of advanced ideas
show from time to time a spirit of
desire to become the npologists of
weak-kneed spineless political camp-
followers As an instance we would
particularly refer to the following
extract clipped from tho Staco Jour-
nal and which was approvingly co-
pied in tho Houston Union of the
2nd instant :
At Victoria the Democrats by a
skillful use of such campaign false-
hoods as "that the school law orders
mixed schools" had gathered nearly
all the German voters into the Dem-
ocratic club. But the uoxt day after
Mr. Degener made his speech in
German at that place moro than
one hundred honest Gornmus took
off their names from tho club and
the citizens of Teutonic descent are
a solid phalanx for Degener.
Tho inference that the writer of
the above seeks to force his readers
to adduce is that unless the impres-
sion that tho Republican party fas
vored mixed schools in any degiee
had not been removed from the
minds of "moro than one hundred
honest Germans" so many votes
would have been lost. But we are
not prepared to credit this and beg
to be allowed to take it ifatall "cum
grano salis" and a huge grano at
that. We do not believe Mr. Dege-
ner capable of endeavoring to honey-
fugle any set of men into our ranks
by the declaration that he as well as
the party of which ho has been and
again hopes to be one of the stand-aid-bearers
in our national halls of
legislation aro opposed to granting
equal educational advantages to all
even if tho much hated and feared
word "mixed" has to be engraved
upon our tablet of school laws and
the admixture consummated by plac-
ing Ethiopian and Caucasian side by
side upon academic benches instead
of by the old plan of having the ar-
ticle ready mixed and made outside
and left to como to maturity through
the slums of ignorance and vice be-
yond the pale of education This
we would remind the Journal (and
we speak by tho card quoting from
its own columns) is "an age of en-
lightenment and progress." Caste
ostracism is about played out in the
land and the German element com-
posed in the main of the most liber-
al and progressive minds have had
and are yet having a considerable
hand in scourging it to death . Mixed
schools aro as "iirepressible" and as
certain as the operation of natural
laws. ' They may be retarded by the
icourso of individuals and their agents'
to whom free thought and its attend-'
'ant blessings arc of comparatively
recent date but kept back never.
It will not answer' for the Republi-
can part' to halt in its onward
march or to look back. That expe-
riment was tried on by Lot's wife
and she got "salted" for horj pains
In hor fate is a moral that we can
well profit by. fi-'his is no time for
us to apologize ftor or truckle to po-
litical nondescripts and hybrids. The
influence of such is most dangerous
and pervortive. Wo havo already
lost much by it. Men who stickle
at mixed schools are not fit for Rad-
icals of tho Ninetoenty Century. If
thero aro any such j ns we said at tlio
head of this article so say wo now
Let them go. Tho lint's must be
clearly and distinctly drown and if
they wish to bo salved in tho lan-
guage of Hon. B.If. Williams a
colored member of the Legislature
(which by the way' contains men
who composedly sij; "mixed" and
draw per diom while- they vote "con
Communication from a Cih
Austin.
Is it not now full timo thatf
Governor should awako fromf
slumbers look about him and
how public officers under his jui
diction are fulfilling their duties
the sovoral positions with whtt
they havo entrusted sinco tho dawn
of his administration ? Aro these
officers pursuing their official course
iu a straightforward honest irre-
proachable manner that would bring
honor and prosperity to themsolve
and their party ; or aro theyt? nr
working merely to gratify theirfov
selfish ends and lovo of money J
gardless of tho interests ofth
country and party which path
pursued with impunity must ulti-
mately result in the downfall dis-
grace and final destruction of the
party.
Theso aro grave questions and
arise daily. They are not easily res-
ponded to by a great many of our
political biethren (Republicans) foiv
evident reasons. Some (who hold'
office) aro afraid of drawing down
upon themselves the displeasure of
their rulers which would result in
their being decapisated ; and others
from fear of injury to tho party. No
straight-out Republican should ever
entertain any such empty fears. Our
party is now too far advanced in the
glorious achievements for which it
has so nobly struggled to become a f ifcjy
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thieves and corruptionists who would
sail under the flag of Republicanism
merely to satisfy their love of gain;
but who have no more interest in
tho Republican party or any other
party further than their love of
plunder is concerned than the fish
of the sea.
If the Republican party is still to
continue on its triumphant course
we must got rid of all corrupt rings
thieving officers dead-beats and
swindlers. Wo must hunt them up
expose their hellish tricks have
them tried and punished according to
their deserts and replace them with
honest loyal men.
I should be sorry to have to be-
lieve that his Excellency the Goy-
eraoi could ;in any way be a party
to the corruptionists who infest some
of our State offices at the present
time. If he is not he must either
be asleep or very dull of discernment. '
Therefore I would say unto thee
Governor wake up get after all
thieving scoundiels smash up cor-
rupt rings oust all defaulting offi-
cials frem office have all guilty par-
ties tried and when found guilty
seq that they are provided with their
proper .positions in tho State Peui-
tentiary and save the reputation of
yoyrself and the Republican party.
You"caunot 'serve two masters. If
yoii try to straddle the Republicans '
'the corruptionists and the Democra
cy-all at once you will find it too
much for you. Jack Hamilton tried '(
it and failed ond so will you.
Oivis.
A New Jei sey editor has announced
the death of his uncle in Austria-.
leaving mm a gold mine and $400-
uuu. iiis viiiago contemporary pro-
fesses to regard the matter ns a pla
'ouuningly devised to obtain credit
for a box of paper collais and a
straw hat.
A horse car in Cahoes N. Y.
was a few days ago very quickly
emptied of all - its passengers but
two these two being a lady and a
child the latter suffering from a ma-
lignant attack of smallpox and tho
formor being its mother. Even the
conductor and the driver.
A new paper is about to bo start-
ed in London to bo conducted on the
'principle of attacking everything. It
is.to bo all blame and1 no praiBe.
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Moore, William B. & Cassidy, James B. The Reformer (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1, Saturday, October 14, 1871, newspaper, October 14, 1871; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth78485/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.