Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-14
TEXAS POLITICS.
The ElectiOn-Result-Ja Hamilton
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From an Occasional Correspondent
FORT WORTH, TARRANT COUNTY,
TEXAS, January Z, lS74.-Long before
the election 1 wrote you that Coke's ma
jOrity would reach forty thousand. It
will nearly reach these figures, but the
official result cannot be told till the
meeting Of the new legislature on the
thirteenth instant. But. pending this,
We are met with a case which will prob
ably cause some confusion as to who are
the proper State authorities. The cleo
ton was held under the clause in our
constitution which says that " the
election shall be held at the coun-
ty-seats until otherwise provided
by law, and it shall be held for four
days" Now, the last legislature pro-
vided that the election should there
after be held at the precincts instead of
at the cOunty-seats under the Radical
rule, and that it should be held for one
day. So Davis, our excTescency, the
governor, ordered the election to be held
one day, in accordance with this act of
the Legislature, and now, 10 and behold,
the supreme court declares it unconstitu-
tioDal, and that it should have been held
four days instead of one. 1t comes
up in this way: Jack Hamil-
ton, sometime known as "Colossai
jack" and who, four years ago,
was the pet of the Democracy,
or rather the dU7n you resort to beat
Davis for governor. Jack running as a
mild Radical against Davis, the red Rad !
ical run in the late canvass in the Austin |
district, as an independent Republican |
against a Democrat, and was beaten. |
And so he was not happy, but picked up
Mexican greaser by the name Of |
Radrlquez, and had him indicted for
voting twice, or at any rate he was so
indicted, and the testimony was strong
n the investigation, by one Of the su-
lreme courts toward dismissing the
;ase, because the prosecution had failed
o make out sufficient pTind tactd
,asF against him to enable the
'ol It to entertain it at all
n proceeding by hGbeaS corpus. But
lack Hamilton, so the papers have it,
vas so interested in having the election
ct aside that he turned against his eli
mt, and insisted that the case was suffi-
iently made out for them to entertain
in court; and the wires bring the news
low that they have declared the cleo
ion null and void, and hence that Rod
@1NNN1 NAAI SANooc41 N1A1O uOl nave Dee0
"repeater,n and thus could commit
10 crime at void election. Now, the
question is, where do we stand, and
any Legislature is to meet, which one
the new or the old? The old !
ave so far resigned as to
earcely leave quorum, and ,
they have one, can they act and
g the judge OF the qualification of their
lembers, under the constitution, and
hus vote themselves out, and the new
'gislatme, as being the proper body.
III this in the face of the judiciary and
lis decision. l believe it is the deter
of the new and old both to ]
leet in Austin on the thirteenth, and
se what they can do to be saved from ,
IOuisisna and Mississippi muddle. The !
.Ustin dispatches say that Coke will
roceed to be inaugurated on the thir- .
.enth, as If no such decision had been
But we will see what we will :
e. OCCASIONAL,