The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-02-24
THE SUPREME COuRT-TyLER OR
DALLAS.


How II Is that the Legislature can
think Of locating the eastern branch OF
the Supreme court ut Dallas, Is Strange
to our minds. Every one knows, or
can know, by looking at map OF
Texas, that Dallas Is not IN Eastern
Texas; but hasalways been considered
as being Ia Northern Texas, until the
subject Of locating the Supreme courl
came up, when Immediately changed
its place on the map, and Is now con-
sidered, by some NJ least, as being
very central point In EAST Texas.
There are many strong reasons why
Tyler Is II more suitable point for hold
ing the Supreme court than Dallas,
which were given IN our columns re-
Gently. Wcmerelywa I" KNOW whnt
reason can he given for prelerring l,al-
las. Not II single plausible one has
been gwen rs yet, and II there are
any, we would like 10 see them. We
know that Tyler Is entitled to It, for
many reasons, and we want to see II
lobbyists aud brlbers can take 1t to
Dallas, II, they do, and no more reas
enable excuse given than we have
seen, our conclusion will be there Is
money or its equivalent In the bust
hess; yet we hope not. Il Tyler Reporter
We copy the above entire, so that the
Tyler Reporter can charge us with no
unfalrness. The first thought i'm
pressed by it is that the editor OF that
paper is helogged by the ideas OF thirty
five years ago, when this part of Texas
was wilderness, and the then settled
part was Known ~ East and West
Texas, confined, however, to what Is
now really Northeast and South
west Texas. Some twenty years
ago, when all this mighty white
mans region of Texas was n virtual
wilderness, the Supreme court was
located atAustin, Galveston andTyler.
Since then, 10y railroads and coastwise
Navigation, all of Southeast Texas has
become In close and daily intercourse
with Galveston. In the meantime, all
of Northeast, Northwest and North
Texas have come to be In intimate in
tercourse with Dallas, leaving our an
cient piney woods, red clay sister, the old
but modest little villa of Tyler out IN the
cold, with trade limited by Trodpe
on the south, Gar len Valley on the
northwest, Jordan's Saline on the
north, BelzOria on the northeast, and
old brother Wimberly's eight miles on
the west-brother Dewberry thrown in
on the south, and Dick Hubbard, of
circumferential notoriety, in the center.
Taken all in ALL, the whole trade OF
Tyler--taken latitudinally, loneitu-
daily, circumferentlally and horizon
tally--is about equal Qiberlly speak.
ing) to that of the Republic
of Slapfoot, State of Dallas,
county of Texas-nolens volens, by
and large-east, west, north and south,
-coraio! moldita! carambo! chile
Colorado! paniento loco! povre
otto negrol .rindios barbaros
yegnos! cavallos nulas! diablos! Y to-
das las calamitas que destorben el razC
himbre ell sos deseas. pora Ia, sal vas
sion de todos hombres, mojeres y mi
nos del mundo.
Tyler is mighty place, famous for its
productions of slick, vulgarly called
sand, the emblem of poverty. II is
famed favorably but for desirat lie things
under the sun blessed mothers and
charming daughters. On that score
we tip our beaver aud stand immoved.
But the place is like Kit Billiards.
nineteenth mile on the Cumberland
isolated from the balance of mankind
and approachable only through the heel
of Il horseshoe bend olpiney woods and
send, midway between the Rio Weches,
Iknow river and the Bio Sabine,
iSpeckled river,l at Bezora or the wi
dow Jones ferry, tother of Starrville,
where the boodhuunds chawcd up the
niger Ammo Donioni lists! Tyler
where the church had to dig a
holein the grouhd to get water enough
to immerse repentent men. Tyler
having a way station on one railroad
beginning on White Oak bayou ut Tia,
head of mosquito navigation, and end
ing up by Jonathan Russell's in Wood
county, who got awiully beaten for the
senate last fall because he lacked sand
in his gizzard aud had too much in hi,
eyes. Tyler, whose only claims to life
after its good mothers and lovely
daughters, are that it has fol
citizens Chief Justice Roberts
Lieutenant Governor Dick Hub.
bard, Congressman Herndon voted
for back salary and the
Federal court-modest place, now
wanting the Supreme court of the
State, and tile next thing 1t will he
sending a writ over here to remove
divers and sundries of our Dallas
saloons, and doubtless will claimHarm
less Joe, and -, aud -.
or course tue Reporter cannot see.
He cannot see that within fifteen years
the center of population has changed
from the sand hills of Tyler to the rich
wales fthe Trinity. Thatwould hurt
bisdiaphragm and superinduce cholera
morbus. II might do Justice tothings
as they are, instead of loultlcing the
decrepid, old, grapdmas of long time
ago, The, Reporter needs a blister
plaster to draw the sap from its head,
Indeed It doee, eaa g faa fs'.' a