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

ganlZatl0n IN WnlCn our WnOie INC
will showl we have performed as
much sincere and devoted service
as we were capable of rendering.
Although the General has declared
us a traitor to true Democracy,
we aro..disposed to appeal TO the
people, who compose that grand
old party, and on tho Generals
own proofs ask them whether or
not we have been recrcant to any OF
the obligations which every true
Democrat owes to his party.
Before we attempt to defend our
self against the charges of abandon
mont of Democratic principles,
which the General makes against us
in his communication, wo desire to
first ascertain what those prin-
ciples are, and then ask our read
ers whether or not wo have been
guilty of any dereliction in our ad-
vocacy Of the measures upon which
the success of Democratic govern
ment depends.
Worcester defines Democracy to
be "form of government in which
the sovereign power is lodged in
the body of the people"-and just
such q government 1t shall ever be
our highest aim and endeavor as a
Democrat not only to maintain
but to vindicate. 1t is the absence
of this vital, fundamental principle
in our national affairs that has en-
tailed upon tho people all of the OPP
pressions, burdens and disadvan-
tages under which we arc now la
boring. and which has brought up
on us q confusion that threatens
not only the prosperity, but the
pcrpesuity of our republican form
of government.
AS we are now regulated in our
public concerns, the people have
nothing whatever to say, while
officeholders are not only all-im-
portant but all potent in disposing
the influence and powers Of the
government touching those ques-
tions which affect most vitality the
best interests of the whole country.
We are for the people and against
tho ofiiceholdcrs, unless they be
men true to the trusts imposed in
them by the people. The history
of politics, since the war, has been
ono replete with contradictions, so
far as the fidelity Of political lead
ers is concerned, and we believe
that It will require no lengthy re-
view of past events to convince
even General Good that this decla-
ration is truo, because results have
shown that professional politicians
promise one thing before election
and act tho reverse role after the
honors Of official prcferment have
been entwined about their brows.
Illustrative of this fact, we beg to
call the Generals attention to the
course and conduct of his cham
pion, and by right Of undisputed
and undoniable evidence, his i'm
personation of true democracy, the
Hon. John G. Conner, whom Gen
cral Good chaperoned through this
district as his first love for Con-
gressional glory, and who, as a
Democratic leader, landed the whole
party, as far as he could effect the
anchorage, substantially in the
bosom of Radicalism, and that of
the Grant and Davis order, which,
unfortunately, is not tho sort of
Democracy which is appreciated
by tho PEOPLE of this State, whose
interests and wishes is our won't
to subserve, because their wishes
and their interests are ours.
The General supported Conner,
nor has he yet abandoned him by
any official edict, Notwithstanding
that illustrious Congressman fought
against the treasury department
in the ranks of the back
pay grabbers; but SO soon as we
tell the people of. Texas that the
West has experienced the most det-
rimental consequences from the ad-
ministrative policies of professional
politicians, and advise them not to
trust any man in office who is de-
pendent upon official fodder for sus-
tenance, lest they be similarly op-
pressed in their public affairs, the
General shoots us a centre shot
from the parapet of his authority
as Congressional Committeeman,
ard declares us traitor to the
Democratic party. Hopposing the
Mobilierites, the back pay grabbers
and the official spectators in po-
litical stocks is treason to the par
ty, we are guilty but if, as we be-
lievc, such opposition is a duty
which every true Democrat should
render both to his country and his
party. We are unwilling to accept
the Generals decision rs final, and
forever hang orr heads in shame
and sorrow because Of our course.
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