Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-05-25

better tltnn success, and awo0tor %
Tho heart than success.
a great man had said n was bet.
ter 70 bo right thun 10 bu President
aud ~ ho inid IL WIS better TO be-
right than ~ succeed, lie entered
his protest ngninst the atlompt 10
transfer the Democrats of the c0un.
try to II camp whore there WIS moth.
ing belonging to them,
Mr. Roosevelt asked Mr., Voorhees,
whether ho would support the can
didalc oflhc Democratic Convention
ut Baltimore, whoever that candi.
date might he?
Mr. Voorhees, replied that he was
not in the habit of voting against
Democratic nominations. llo DO.
licvrd that the gentleman himself
would have some difficulty in an.
sworing his own question. Laugh
ter Iu' he did not despair Of sue
cess, His position was ia favor of
standing by the principles of his
party, and ho would vote for the
man who represented those princi.
pies, lie had no fears, however, OF
what tho Baltimore Convention
would do; but hc could not vote for
n man who spoke ofthe Democratic
party rs that to which al the haunts
of dcbauchory gave nine tcnths Of
their support.
1t had been sometimes said that
this nominee had given bail for JEFF.
lcrson Davis when he was in prison,
but that was too narrow platform
forany party to stand upon. laugh
to-. 1T would be most dangerous
to raise an issue as between the
man who put Mr.. Davis in Jail and
the men who baiIod him out. 1t
would not be n safe issue, and he
impIorcd his Southern friends not
20 make it. 1t might provoke II
comparison which would not be
favorable to the nominee of the Gin.
cinnati Convention. Mr.. Davis had
not been Il helpless man, II hundred
million Of property at the South
had been ready to bail him, and it
sometimes seemed to hint Voorhees,
that it was mcroly Il piece Of impcr-
tinenco on the part Of the homineo
oltho Cincinnati Convention to offer
himself as bail for Mr. Davis. When
Andrew johnson and Edwin NJ.
Sla;ton, Secretary Of War, Desired
and proposed, "ns he knew to be
The fact, to arrest Robert Il. Ice,
Joseph Il. Johnson, and other prom
inont Confederate officers, there was
but one man who could prevent that
thing being done and that was the
present incumbent oflhc Prcsidential
Office Gen. Grant had stepped for
ward and told them that these men
had given him their parole as sol
dicrs and that that parole should be
Applause from the Re
publican side Of tho House If he
should be driven to take the stump
and press the claims of Mr.. Greeley |
he could find candidate opposing
him who had done more and kinder
things for the South than his nomi
nee bad done. Roosevelt suggested |
that Mr.. Y oorhccs had been recently |
in conference with President Grant |
Mr. Voorhees,. said he had not
House for three years, and whoever
made such u statement had uttered
a vile calumny.
Mr.. Roosevelt said no made the
statement on the information given
10 him; he had heard two or three
lays ago that such an interview
had taken place. :
Mr.. Voorhees, -Thrn the gentle
nan associates with men who do
not tell tho truth.
Mr. Randall asked Mr. VOORHEES,
whether he would have voted for
Judge Davis, and advocated Iris cleo
ion if he had received the nomina-
ion at CINCINNATI
Mr. NOTWITHSTANDING Davis repre-
ients many things in common with
ny own views
Mr. Rondoll-U,is n Renublico,
Mr. Vooihies-Tbnt is not tbo
10 Mt I cannot ioin combinotion
which ronrosopts notb,n,, IA ~,
or On rrcot constitutional nuos
ions JudGc Davis stood in trnnh
ous timos wbere stood in hoh,If
# tbc citiycns-wbiIo sncb mon nc
;rocI.v wero hurry;nn thom ;nto
he coy,bounke
Tho strono probabilities oro IN
ny Indictment ,bat If Jndoe D,v;s
nd been presented NV Cincinnati
10 whould nave hcon scccntcd hr =
ooi,rity of the Dcmocroiic nor,~ y
f The country In hat 7 NAV h,
mistaken. am only Stain ~,
wn individual oninion. 7 s1omI33
ave rewarded him WITH vcry nroat
,vor IL is ouitn n d;Fnrcnt H.
rbc,her should votc or Ronn5
can who has So much in common