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

1t is an old saying that everything is
fair in love and war, and now, it seems,
the proverb is sought to be applied TO
politics. All sorts of tricks are resorted
to by politicians TO effect their ends, holy
or unholy. The conccalment Of important
facts, or the ingeniusperverson of them
the white washing of characters, too black
for the public gaze-the suppression Of
the honest truth or, if deemed necessary,
downright, open, barefaced lying-all
these are practiced with as much coolness
and equanmity as if the actors thereof
were being governed by the purest and
radica lism, this has been done within its
folds TO an extent marvellous to think of
or record. With them, every thing has
been subordinate to the retention of pow
er, and the very best of them have acted
upon the ,jesuitical assumption, that "the
end iustfes the means" They have open
ly and avowedly violated the Constitution
upon the plea of necessity, to keep out and
keep down the men whom THEY are pleas
ed to consider disloyai and enemies of the
country.
We had hoped this looseness and rotten
ness of political morals were confined to
the radicals almost exclusively, but from
some late demonstrations, we fear the
deadly taint has reached in some degree,
the democratic politicians, and that they,
too, have not escaped the widespread
general corruption.
The late Cincinnati Convention and its
immediate fsllowings have developed an
amount of political unfairness, not to say
depravity, which we have been shocked
and grieved to discover. No sooner did
the Blair Brown intrigue and wire pull
ling at that Convention result in the
nomination of Greeley and Brown,
wretched combination of High Tariff and
Free Trade, as unmixable as oil and wa
ter, than the participators in this mcn-
grel movement commenced their work of
deception and invention TO manufacture q
public opinion favorable to it. Letters
were written and dispatches sent off in
every direction to deceive and nislead
the honest democracy of the country. 1t
was boldly asserted that the nom ination
was taking like wild fire. That the most
trusted leaders of the democracy approved
it. That Hendricks and Pendleton had de.
clared for Greeley, and would take the stump
for his benefit. That all the great leading
democratic newspapers were for the homi-
nations, or soon would be. There would
be no Democratic National Convention CALI
e1-there was no need of one, so universal
and overpowering was the sentiment for
the Cincinnati ticket, made up by the
Blair Brothers, and their double cousin,
Gratz Brown. The N. o. Times, favorable
from the first to the movement, was loaded
with these concocted dispatches. Then
again the tools of the ring at distant points
sent back dispatches of ratification and
glorifcation. One Elias Smith, at New
Orleans, answered for Texas in advance
of the Galveston News. Texas was "prac-
tically" for Greeley. What the "practical-
ly" meant, it would be hard TO say. Forth
with, the Galveston News, which in fact
has never pretended TO be a real demo-
cratic organ, but which many of our hon.
es. democratic country newspapers are in
the habit of looking up to for political
light and wisdom, pronounced at once for
Greeley, and the Houston Times, but lately
''red hot" democratic, put up the Cincin-
natl nominations, and both commenced
foriiiying their positions by publishing
everything they could find, favorable TO
their own views, and scarcely nothing
against them. Was this fair7 Copious
extracts have been in their columns from
newspapers, led astray by their unfounded
statements, but not word from the Dali
las HERALD, the jefferson Times, and a
dozen otser newspapers. disapproving
the Greeley nomination and calling on the
democratic party of Texas TO stand firm to
their colors. Even "13Ois dare letter.
writer 10 the News from this city, tries TO
convey the impression that the HERALD is
not fairly representing democratic senti-
ment in this vicinity, and that "nine-
tenths" Of our people are opposed TO run
ming democrat for President Against
the ncalm views ofthis q year" democrat,
we simply put our own, which can claim
an experience Of 40 years Of democratic
We dislike 10 a1luIe 70 tbe=e