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We are authorized to announce FRANK HROWN as a candidate for County Clerk of Travis county t the November election LIBERTY UNDER LAW. Liberty of speech, is aright moat dour to very American heart. Iu this ooutitry that system of espionago so prevalent in Rus sia, Germnny and otlier European coun tries, where public meetings, are dis banded and newspapers. suppressed, is not allowed by our institutions. In those countries expressions inimical to certain political faiths or governmental policies, are not only discountenanced, bat forbidden by the authorities. And it is no uncommon thing, for papers at one time fostered by governmental patron age, at another and upon a change in the ruling policy, either whimsical or funda mental, to be summarily crushed out and their editors imprisoned. With us it is different. To our citizens absolute license is granted to peaceably assemble, and discuss any question of moment to them. And our Truss is un fa 'idled by laws forbidding the mooting of any (tovernmeutal policy, the questioning of the acts and motives of our public men, and the tendencies of laws enacted or to be enrolled. But with all this liberty of free thought and unquestioned expression, it is most essential to the security and welfare of the government and its people, that a limit should be Axed beyond which it shall not be right for man or corpora tion te pass. We have no treason, but we recognize laws forbidding conspiracy. We do not forbid free speedier se, but when communistic talk results in overt acts, then these acts are cognizable by our courts of justice, and the speeches incit ing to these acts become a part of the res gestae, and their authors liable as "acces sories before the fact" and thus amenable to punishment. This is a statemeiij of the facts govern ing the trial of the anarchists in Chicngo' and this is the view of the law determining the conviction of the men, so plainly falling under its ban. Judge Gary's cliorge to the jury was most able and sound, and under it a guilty Terdict most justly followed. It was a righteous and salutary verdict. It called a halt in a movement whose drift was straight towards anarchy. For, lured by the almost absolute liberty of our coun try, a liberty having no parallel iu the eastern continent, men dissatisfied and rebellious, men living by plots and dis cord, fled the countries of the old world, where they were watched and repressed, and sought on our soil a field of action, free and unquestioned. This sort of im migration had gone past the reckoning Our states were flooded with men, regard less of law and order, and with nothing but their worthless lives to lose, careless of consequences. Our large cities were turned into hot-beds of sedition, and liberty had run rampant and was changing into anarchy. This verdict, then, comes as a warning and a lesson. It will write in letters of blood that oars is a liberty established for order, not discord; a liberty of free speech, but not of com manistio talk bidding to conspiracy; a liberty of, by, and for the people, and not to furnish license for BBy man, or set of men, under the stars and stripes to plot treason against a foreign power because of any grievance, personal or political, or to sow the seeds of sedition among our own homes; a liberty so restrained and firmly entrenched that it is, Indeed, a lib erty of freedom, and yet a liberty of law. NO ARISTOCRACY IN AMERICA. America is an offshoot and not an in digenous growth. Composed of dissent ing factions of the mother country, dis covered by one nationality and settled by many, she took on the complexion of the most powerful nation, and the one repre sented by the greatest number of immi grants. Oar nation, thus built up and governed, while to a great degree hobling sacred the history, prestige, and many of the customs of the mother country, yet hated her aristocracy, and spurned her claim to privileged classes. The result was a commonality in those good old days of revolution times. Some men stood out before the nation, but not because of birth or pedigree, but through sterling worth and manhood, that always counts and wins distinction. All governments presuppose rulers, But it was the theory of our institutions that oar rulers should not be a "class," but simple men, holding position during good behavior or at the will of the pooole This nrinciule kent us for three score years or more a repablic, a people demo cratic with simple tastes, opposed to aris tocrats. Bat the signs of the times point out a growing change. Oflice is being handed down from father to son. Three generations have represented Delaware, two Pennsylvania, in the United States senate. This senate now ope the airs of the stilled house of lords, they rule the people and are no longer servants. A groat man dies, Ms widow though perhaps with ample means for a quiet American life, is pensioned bountifully. Frank rights are granted some, peculiar privi leges another. All this may be very beau tiful in theory, sweet in spirit, and politic to catch popular applause, but is it demo cratic? Is it in the line of the principles, the bed rock of the union? It will not do to say, we have outgrown the rude and simple customs of our ancestors, those grand, good men, noble and true, but primitive and with but sim ple wants. This is not a question of custom," but of principle. It was not simply revulsion of feeling in those olden days that made the foundors of this na tion eschew aristocracy; they had seen its bad effects. They had seen the poor suf fering and ground down by the rich and those counting themselves Lords. It was for this and the principles of equity, jus tice and goo 1 government, the fiat then went forth no aristocracy. That principle is as true and fresh to-day, as a hundred years ago; and to sin against it is not to break through a custom, but to do vio lence to a low, whose perfection is justified by every page of history since the begin ning of government. Wo do not start a cry for sensation; we simply point out a growing evil, an ever shadowing calamity, and in time warn of the inevitable tenuency of toadying to power and olllce. The false show that as sprung up among us, is but an index of the future. Be luxurious, be profli gate, be sumptuous, if you must and will, but let the government be democratic, in principle and effect; and let its officials only hold themselves as men not above their fellows, and let them so be treated. MILLS RENOMINATED. The work of the convention at Waco, Saturday, was brief, but prompt and splendid. Col. Roger Q. Mills went through like a flash, aud without the semblance of opposition. The delegates simply went there to nominate Mills, and they did it without any nonseuse. In this case the hurrah method accurately ex pressed the popular sentiment of the Ninth district and the entire confidence of his constituents iu the present repre sentative of that district in con gress. Thus have all the threats of the prohibitionists and enemies of Colonel Mills of defeating him in his district vanished into the air. Thus hove they endorsed the silver and anti protection, anti-prohibition views so ably defended by Col. Mills, and at the some time rewarded an old and faithful public servant. That Mills will pull through is pretty certain, whatever the character of the opposition organized against him. In the contest of 18S4 Mills polled, in his district, L'L',.1.1 democratic votes, against 9,04'J for Osterhout, republican. It is scarcel) likely that the opposition can, or will, make any greater head at this elec tion. Thus the return to congress of four of our very best congressmen is assured Mills, Charles Stewart, Wellborn and Joe Sayers. Neither of the quartette may be great men of genius, but they ore the sort of men we want to represent us. They are men of solid judgement and ability, sterling worth and honesty of purpose. A CRY FOR BREAD. Public attention has been thoroughly called, through official, as well as uewspa per sources, to the drouth destitution in Brown, Coleman, Callahan and Runnels counties. There has been so much ex aggeration of such calamities that people have been somewhat incliued to be slow iu responding to the appeals for help com ing up from their fellow citizens in the west. But whilst, possibly, in this instance a high coloring has been put on the re AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN ports from the stricken district in order t j rain the popular ear, we have every reason to be assured that a considerable number of people in the counties above rior.tiinl mnllv are in need of assistance, which should be accorded by thvtr mnm fnrfnnnte fellow-citizens. The testimony of county officials, with no mo tive whatever for deception should be, and will be believed. Brown, Callahan and Runnels, are not the least populous among the counties in the lower Panhandle. They border on the waters of the upper Colorado, on the south, aud verge on the fatal 100th meridian on the west beyond which irri gation is the only certainty for raising any sort of crops. It would be a terrible thing if we allow our frienls out there to starve, while money is being sent to ameliorate the moral condition of the Chinese and other heathen nations. PROHIBITION A PROBLEM. The Houston Post is responsible for the circulation of the following rather fishy story. If true, it proves that the tnemies and obstacles in the way of Prohibition are Legion; and hoary years will scarcely see the work accomplished. The story is given for what it is worth. The Denver Tribune is of the opinion that Atlauta's reputation as a prohibition town has received a severe blow in the discovery, that the illicit manufact ure of whisky has been carried on in, of all places under the sun, the county jail. It appears that the prisoners had been en gaged in this work for several months, at the time their still was discovered. One of the prisoners, who was an illicit dis tiller, had a stove aud tea-kettle in his cell. Gradually he collected the articles he needed, and then begaii the manufacture of whisky, using a rubber tube for a worm. The other prisoners saved their corn-bread, and when they had a sullicient quantity, he succeeded in making out of it a fair quality of corn whisky. If the whisky traffic can be carried on in the county jail for three mouths without its being discovered, it will look like folly for the urohibitionists of Atlanta to hope to suppress it outside of the jail. General Pabsons, brother of the con demned anarchist, says the case will be carried to the supreme court of the United States. Of course, the object is to gain time for the subsidance of public opinion, and the probable death of some of the witnesses. The general evidently learned this trick in Texas jurisprudence, where it has been much used, and ef fectively. The supreme oourt of the United States has no jurisdiction in such cases. Governor Macebja, of Chihuahua, said if he "had authority to recruit an army he would clean out the Americans.'' Just for little "diversion" in these hot, dull times we would just like to see about twenty-five cowboys go down and teach the conceited, high-flown gentleman a lesson. We think, with that force, order could be secured there in about ten days, and an effectual quietus put to such blatant talk. We would like to see it tried, anyhow. The republicans in town boldly claim thot all names on their ticket are "repub lican candidates" except Felix Smith. They still accredit him a democrat, though "for why" is questioned. How do Brown, Metz, Jernigan and Morris feel? They have only themselves to blame they read ti.emselves out of the party, and now must not be surprised if tho republicans take them at their own estimate of them selves. Good and bad seem always blended in this world. The famished earth has drunk the rains but just sent down, but the vio tent storm on whose bosom the rain was sent, has played havoc with all standing above the ground. Much ruin lies iu the wake of the tempest, bat untold good has been accomplished in its passage. And now the female anarchists appear on the stage, with the evident intention of creating sympathy. But it won't work, unless probably they play the same game on the supreme court of Illinois that Mrs. Hubby worked on a former governor of Texas. Senator Blackburn declares civil ser vice the most arrant hnnibug ever saddled on the American people. A good many other democrats besides Blackburn be lieve the same thinu. The anarchists die hard. the good work extend to Texas. 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In addition to being kicked by his horse Sunday, Mr. John Street received an ugly cut on the arm yesterday by fall ing glass from a door in his store, which was suddenly blown to by the wind. HUrKLEV! AltXICA S.VLVE. The best salve in the world for cuts, brnises, sores, ulcers, saltrheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, nnd post tively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Trice 25 cents per box. t or gale by Morley bros. THURSDAY. AUGUST 26 THE MAJOR TRIES AGAIN. THH TIME IIe"es"sATS TO TEACH DICK 1AIVX TENNIS. New Turk Times. Catskxll, N. Y., August ll.-At the major's suggestion we took up lawn ten nis and have played every morning and afternoon this week. The major said last Sunday that he thought we ought to take more exercise in the forenoon, so that our scientific studies at hearts and poker in the evening would be less inju rious. To engage constantly in brain work, he said, would ruin the finest con stitution in the world, and unless Dick wanted to get more like a porpoise than he is now, lose his intellect, and com pletely wreck his liver, he'd better brace up and join us at lawn tennis. But Dick said if he couldn't keep out of an asylum except bv spending four hours a day knocking a ball over a fish net, he d send and get a straitjacket at once. Besides, Dick said he never saw a man that played a good game of tennis who was worth at anything else the powder it would take to blow him to hades, and he would rather himself plunge into insanity at once,and be locked up in the violent ward, than associate with feeble-minded experts at tennis and become an idiot by easy stages. This retort nettled the major a little, for he had just laid out $27 in white flannel and other necessaries of the game, but after a while he came to the subject again, and said that if we would come down to the court he would show us that tennis, while perhaps not strictly an intellectual recreation, had its good points. This invitation was not leveled at Dick, but Dick followed us down and appeared to take an interest, at which the major was, of course, delighted. First the major showed us the para phernalia, which were a smooth square of ground, divided by a herring net three feet high and about twenty feet long. There were two balls used. These were covered with buckskin aHd very sof t.which Dick said was a blessed providence, for if a hard ball ever collided with a dude there'd have to be an inquest, and that would break up the game. The smooth square is called a oourt, and it is marked in large checkers with whitewash, and the Major explained that these were boundaries, and as the ball fell within or without them the players scored. The gume itself, the Major said, consisted in driving the ball back and forth over the net, and whenever it fell within the lines and was not returned it counted. Then he asked Dick if that wasn't beautifully simple, and Dick said it was simplest thine he ever saw just the thing for in cipient maniacs and convalescents from brain fever, and he was not surprised at its popularity. The Major didn't see any fun in this, but showed us the apparatus used in knocking the ball an arrange ment of wood and fiddlestrings shaped like a cross between a snow shoe and a fryinar pan, and which the Major said was a racquet, the best made, and cost him $10, but Dick said thot was wonderfully cheap; the lost racket hod cost him $400 and lasted only three days. Fa -ing explained all this the major proposed a game, and said that to show Dick that skill was required he would play alone against two of us, and that it wasn't necessary for us to put on knickerbockers, for they had gone out of fashion, ana so he needn't fear he had to show up like a barrel poised on a pair of Indian clubs. Dick replied to this by saying he'd rather look like the barrel and clubs than like a consumptive broomstick on a hairpin, and then the major cot mad and said Dick couldn't tell a good pair of legs when he sow them, and Dick admitted'he couldn't tell anything about the major's legs in knickerbockers, unless he had a micro scope, and we hod Quite a flow of bondi- noge, but after a while the mojor said he'd knock some of Dick's conceit out os him at tennis, and so he went up to the house and borrowed two more racquet,s and the game began. The major said he'd "serve" first, to show us the way, and that when he sent the ball to Dick, Dick's business was to send it where he couldn't eet it. Dick said that seemed ensy enough, but the major laughed and ani-l ...zi'il "..111 Kn iACQOfl ftlA Knll TCI snid we'd see. So he tossed the ball to Dick. Dick grabbed the racquet with both hands, braced himself, and whacked the ball clear over the cowyard and into the high grass, where it took the major ten minutes to find it, and we all Binoked cigarettes in the shade and congratulated Dick on his superior play. Th6 major found the ball at last, and came back mad and said that counted fifteen for hiin. He then tossed the ball to me and I missed it, and he said that was 30. Then Dick got a ball and this time sent it over the barn. The major watched the trajectory come to a drop, and then asked Dick what in Philadelphia he meant by -knocking the ball in that infernal way, and Dick said he simply obeyed instructions and sent it where he didn't think the major could get it; and then the major expressed his feelings in a violent manner, and went off to find the ball, while we had a pleasant rest under the trees. When the major came back he looked like a lobster just out of a Turkish bath. He sat down in the last stages of apopleptic emotion and explained that brute strength was not available in tennis; that no Christian ever knocked the ball outside the court if he could help it, and that if Disk did that again it would be a lovj game. Dick wanted to know if "love game" meant a tree hht. mid, if so, whether the mnj ir preferred red granite or white marble fur a he idstone, nnd the major was so mnd lie couldn't see. Finally Dick said ho was sorry if there had been a mistake, but he couldn't see any fun in the game unless he could keep the major chasing sky-scrapers, and if physical strength, intellect and knickerbockers were nil barred he didn't see what was left but two fools and a fish net, and that hereafter, if he had the choice, he would rather go off in a corner nnd suck a stick of molasses c uidy. 1 he major sold his racqcet last night for :?.()). nnd savs that tennis is good enough for theological students and chuckle-headed girls, but a man ought to have more sense in hot weather than to drop into any employment which inevita bly leads to a row. H. (j. V. AX KXDTO UOXE SCRAPING. Edward Shepherd, of Harrisbur, 111 says: "Hiving received so much benefit from Electric Bitters, I feel it my duty to let suffering humanitv know it. 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