The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-11-15
TIE SPEAKING

OF the candidates for the Legisla-
ture came of at the courthouse on
Thursday night. The crowd was about
two hundred, and would have been II
thousand but for the inclemency oil
the weather. 1t was strictly Demo
cratic appointment, but Captain Brad
shaw, our candidate for the Senate, in
keeping with the generosity of his ma
ture, agreed to divide time with his
Radical opponent, the late Radical DIS
trict Attorney, by appointmentof Gov
ernor Davis, who was dismissed rom
office last fall by the sovereign voice OF
the people of this district. Having,
however, tasted the sweets OF II iat
and potential Office for three years.
against the will of the people, he APP
pears like u child once spoiled WIN
sweetmeats and cannot rest without
sucking sugar plums. This individual,
the friend and companion of state
policemen, Freedmen's Bureau Agents,
DeGress, and his understrappers, ana
the apologist and defender of all the
Radical monstrosities of the last four
years--this gentleman, with such u
record, was the first to mount the stand
and, and - proved to the people,
that he was suffering with the same
malady that has carried many weak
minded man to his grave-politiccal
hydrophobia. Only once before, since
old John Nicely Bryan first unpacked
his ponies on Dallas Bluff in 1871, have
the people of this town seen such a
manifestation of little, small
potato, dog-fennel arrangement OF
the ordinary instincts bestowed by
nature upon human beings-that was
the day, in 1871, when little Eddie
Quirk addressed the darkies on the
rocks around the courthouse, ana
homeless Joe affectionately inquired
after the health, well-being and pres
ent avoirdupois of General Magruders
stirrup holder. Really we have too
much humanity in oHr composition to
treat his discourse as the emanations
of a sound and responsible intellect.
We would not kick drowning dom
key when he was sinking in the bog
and and only his ears visible. Rather
would we seize his ears and pull him
on dry ground. The intelligent, the
free born men present, we feel assured,
experienced no other feeling than the
emotions of pity for the manifestations
of this deIuded nan, who hopes, as
many think, by suffering martyrdom
now, to receive crumb from the
Mecca Of all broken down Radicals of
the government at Washington.
In stately contrast was the open,
manly speech of Captain Amzi Brad
shaw, of Ellis, Democratic candidate
for Senator, II was thorough ana
searching expositioa qf historical facts
and political principles-the out-pour-
ings of an enlightened, conscientious
and unpurchaseable heart.
DR.. Middleton, of Tarrant, modest,
well-inrormed gentleman, was too
unwell to speak.
Mr.. Joseph w. Kemble, of ELLIS, a
plain old farmer, sharp as briar, hon
est as honesty itself, made telling
speech by an appeal to facts and figures
which proved him (as we well knew
before), to be man well fitted FOR
Representative-observing, searching,
laborious, intelligent, honest and inde-
pendent.
John III. Cochran, of Dallas county,
closed with an excellent speech, in
which many saw they had underrated
his abilities. The whole was happy
reunion, and well calculated to bind
freemen closer than ever to Democ-
racy.