The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-07-12
STATE CONVENTION AGAIN.


TuE sTATE CONVENTION AGAIN.
Ia this article we purpose TO make
u final, acknowledgement 10 the good
sense and sound Judgment of those
rcprcsontativcmcn who havcin charge
the authority to nainc the time and
plucc OF holding the State Convention,
and In II, to again rcltcratc what we
have heretofore declared, TO wit: That
Dallas l. the bcst suited of any place
in the state for entertaining and ac-
commandments delegates who should
assemble on the occasion. Jefferson
has virtually abandoned her claims to
this distinction. Austin don't want 1t.
Galveston Is so situated that country
delegates will moi attend should the
time for holding it he fixed during the
period in which yellow fever prevails,
which il also true of Houston. Wax
ahatcl,ic stands of snarling and snap
ping mt every city that aspires To the
renown Of so great prominence, fully
conscious of its owl inability to enter
tain or accommodate one-fourth of the
gentlemen who will attend the Con-
vention, and now the whole question
of place is certainly and surely mar
rowed down to one of two places
either Waco or Dallas. We are for
Dallas, of course. Our reasons for
urging our claims are better, perhaps,
than any city in the State. we are
fully authorized and guaranteed in
saving that fifteen hundred men can
be fed luXuriantly and slept comforta-
bly, in this city, while Odd Fellows
Hall, Fields Hall, Puts Pavilion, on
Masterhaus' new and elegant structure
on Brewery street, can seat, with per-
feet comfort, from eight hundred tc
one thousand men each. Wehaveh ad
The pleasure of discussing this qucs-
lion at length with our old and cs-
tecmcd friend, Judge A. G. Cantley,
who knows Texas ''lilc q book
after having studied its people
and geography for nearly thirty
years, and we give it as hi:
maturcd opinion, that Dallas can come
nearer doingtlie "clcn thing" towards
accommodating the Convention than
any city in the State. We Will have
an all rail communication with Shfeve
port by the first of August, and alread,
have grand highways opened from thu
Gulf, from the Capitol, from Waco
from the North and from the might,
East, by which we are rendered &C
cessible to all parts of the State by cas-,
routes. We have no epidemics, ar
situated in one of the healthicst local.
ties in the State, and by far the riches
section of Texas, and so far as being
desirable place for holding the Conven
ton, ut least fifty good and sutficien
reasons a be given if they be neccs
sary-, or are demanded, by those having
this matter in charge. Whether Dial
las is named as the place Or not, W
certainly think that the Executiv
Committee are very slow in fixing tn
time and place for holding this impol
tant meeting. The people are growing
G of waiting upon their supinc in
difference, and now we ask them tina
AZ they intend to name any place o
any time for holding the Convention
to do so at once. We wuntn 'jumpe'
upp contest, no cut and dried" Stat
submitted TO the good people of thi
...aState, with instructions TO adopt an
support its I'M There are countie
in the northwestern portion of tn
State which mails do not reach daily
but where tax-gathcrcrs are just as MI
mcrOus rs in any part of the common
wealth, aud whose honest, hard-iiste'
and industrious people are as mucll en-
titled to a voice in shaping tn
political concerns and in naming
the political leaders of TN
state as the most refined and best dc
veloped sections in it. These region
require time TO become acquainted
with what is going on in the outsid'
world. Give the good men of thes
counties time TO learn something q
what is intended to be done, and ALLOW
them a few days to aid in doing tn
great work which every true man II
the State is ready to perform. Tn
eyes of all the 'dear people, have BEEF
turned to CorAicana in anxious eYpec
tation, daily anticipating Colone
Winklcr's dos ipr, and we now dc
clare that the time has arrived for thi
important fuiIct.nry to speak, n lie
us know when ard where the thing
to be done, w.,crc the mighty develop
ment of the peoples strength is to b
forshadowed SDy the Convention TO