Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-06-14

tho people, who arc tho Democracy
Of the country, against each other,
but wo have warned thom Of tho
syrcn songs which political played.
outs are constantly singing In their
ears, and we have told them what
fruits have como from tho Aolc.
sale confidence they have hereto.
fore placed in party political lead
ers, and have urged them to shelve
such gentry and take for their rep-
rcsentative men those who are In
dependent of official spoils, and
whose interests are identified with
their own. We have endcavored
to divide none of our people OK
cept the true from the false, and we
have done so in pursuance of tho
accepted maxim, that "virtue and
vice, when mated produce question
able fruits"
We think, as the General does,
that now is the time when tho
Democratic press should be boldest
in avowing Democratic principles ;
aye, we think as the Romans did
in regard to the integrity of public
men, when their country was 30
corrupt and corrupted by bad men
that further endurance would have
been folly, and whom they went to
honest Cincinnatus, whom they
found blowing in his fields, and
asked him to lead them from the
troubles by which they were sur
rounded, and we believe the Amer
lean people will yet fall back on
honest men who will deliver them
when chronic office seekers and
professional politicians become less
numerous and seductive than they
now are.
But the General says that, as
San old citizen of this place, an old
Democrat, and one of the Oldest
subscribers of the HERALD" he feels
it a duty he owes to himself and to
tho Democracy of Northern Texas
to express his unqualified disap-
proval of the reasons assigned in
support of our recent choice for
Governor Of this State. If the mere
fact of his long residence in Dallas,
and Of his being an ancient sub
scriber of the HERALD, is any rea-
son, and they are all he gives, in
expressing his disapproval of
our choice for Governor, we
do not know how to repair
our error, unless we take down
Captain Adams name and hoist
some told citizen, old Democrat, and
one of the oldest subscribers of the
HERALD, when it was published in
q cedar log cabin, in his stead, in
which event it is possible that
peace might again reign in our
midst.
We did not think it an act of
treason for us to express our choice
of Captain Adams AS capable
man to administer the affairs of
this State, nor do we think SO yet.
Notwithstanding General Good feels
it his duty TO express his unqual-
flied disapproval of our reasons for
naming him, nor do we think that
we are a Democratic exile at this
time because Of the official pronun-
ciamento which he has issued
against us /; but we believe that, as
a citizen, we have just as much
right to say to our readers that
Captain Adams would make as good
Governor as, General Good, or
any other man in the State. In
all candor, we think that the Con-
,eral could do us moro good in Con-
gress than as Governor, and, not
withstanding the fact that he has
banished us from the Democratic
brotherhood, tits quite likcly that
we may be heard "tooting our lit
tie horn" in his interest for that
position, when the proper time
comes for us to do SO, for certainly
no one in this community appre-
ciates more highly than we do the
high character, both civil and mil.
itary, which General Good enjoys,
and certain tits that he is the only
man on the face Of the earth COM
petent to judge of the orthodoxy
of the Democracy of the Second
Congressional District fthis State,
which is the liberal inference we
draw from his letter.
THE CONVENTION.