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# From Our Democratic Contributor. The Surprise, a weak attempt at a campaign paper, some time ago suggested, or said it was suggested, that the receiver of the defunct Maverick bank ought to pay another dividend. As it is a Democratic maxim, that the greatest good to the greatest number, should be considered, and as the withholding of the Maverick money can only possibly do good to the holders of same, while the thousands of poor, misled depositors are so much in the majority and clamorous for their own money, it will only be charitable to say that the Surprise might not have been burlesquing when it made the suggestion to turn loose a little more money, particularly since it is a well known fact that in some states, parties who were persuaded and induced by interested parties to make deposits in a bank that was to them known to be insolvent, could be handled by the courts in a different manner than Bexar county has ever done. This reminds me of another case, where the greatest good to the greatest number showed its efficacy. Some years ago one man Mr. Christian Riel asked the law to appoint a receiver for the Aransas Pass railroad-the attorneys for that road made such a splendid showing, that more people than Christ Kiel ought to be consulted, that one man should not seek for his rights when so many more willing to sleep on theirs, that his petition was denied only to let him learn later that what he could not get as a lone individual this same firm of attorneys under no opposition to afterwards to grant to a firm of claimants, and instead of the road being thrown under the management of one receiver, it got two and a score of attorneys to see to the expenditures of the earnings of that road that was then properlay named the Sap line, and that is now again better known by its original name, the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad of the Huntington lines, of which the firm of Houston Bros. are legal advisers, of whom one is a candidate for Congress, while the other, besides being the receiver of the bank herein first referred to, is also the secretary of the same railroad. I have always had my doubts of the Democracy of Huntington et al. reaching to that broad catholicy that demands the greatest good to the greatest number, and have a lurking idea that they would favor a little class legislation, both in National and State governments, and if I am right, it behooves the yeomanry of this country to resist their efforts to further entrench themselves in our legislative halls, against the welfare of the country, by sending there any more of their paid attorneys. I am, and will always be, a great friend to railroads, but will have my own views about the Huntington syndicate doing any good to Democracy.