The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-06-24

cratic party means the people
In no far ~ the patrols OF huslnndry
can aid In securing cheap lfelglls,
cheap goods and implements, good
markets. honest olilcNls, low taxation,
prompt execution Of the laws the sup
preston of crime, rigid control Of cor
poratlons, security TO person ana prop
orty, economical administration, more
distant SESSIONS Of the legislature, u
good constitution, the proper education
Of our youth and thesound aud healthy
development0f our state, we Wish them
tho most abundant success, because
these are good objects aud every one
Of them part Of the democratic creed
But some say farmers should make
the laws, We shy they should by all
means aid In making the laws--so
ought mechanics, aud men of all lead
Ing and respectable Interests Ia the
country, ought TO have II share In the
law-mnking power. But there ARE
plenty Of lawyers and even Judges, ana
sometimes able ones too, who would bo
poor law makers. They are 50 scarce
that few have ever existed In our leg
lslutIve bodies who ranked head ANA
shoulders above their fellows In legls-
lativo practicabllIlyi one 80 slrlklngly
so, that being dead, We will venture to
speak his name--M. NJ. Potter, of Gal
veston--yct he might have hiled ~
Judge, and was not superior to many Of
his associates nj the bar.
An unlcttcred man cannot be II use
ful law-maker though he might he n
valued citizen, an excellent juror II
good captain or sheriff a farmer
like lawyer or doctor, may be splcn
didly educated, and yet be very In
efficient MS II legislator. Yet it, in nd
diton to acquired capacity, he possesses
the other needful traits, we would nj
ways vote for him, as one of the pro-
duclng class, IN preference to n profess
sional man of equal fitness; and this,
II occurs TO Us, Is as far rs the rule
should go,
Texas has found in farmers some of
her hest and wscst legislators. We
can count them by scores on our fin
gers as we write, running back to the
days of Grimes, Menolee, Caldwell,
Kerr, Maverick, Oliver, Jones, Barnett,
and others of the early fathers, and
coming on down, passing Stapp, Frank
White, Dick Runnels, CASTOR, Reeves,
Throckmorton (even boloreho studied
law, Hooker, Bee, Latham and scores
of others, to say nothing of lawyers
and doctors who were also farmers,
among whom shine the names of Will
liam IL. Wharton, Robert Nj. William
son, Sam Houston, H. A. Palmer G.
b. and j. III, Shepard, ID. G. Giddings
(among the lawyers, and Drs. Ashbcll
Smith, Robertson, Kittrell, Everett,
| ate and II host of others.
From all which we conclude that
the way TO guarantee perpetually
full representation of farmers and
mechanics In our legislative bod
les Is for farmers and mechanics
tC fulfill sacred duty to the best of
their ability, by educating their sons as
farmers or rs mechanics, as the case
may BIZ, and stop making every seventh
son doctor, and probably the third
or fifth one II lawyer, and then crying
out against sending lawyers and doc
tors to the legislature. Do not expect,
by sending your sons to h0lf-breed
schools, for two or three months in the
year, letting them forget between
times all previously learned, and gen
orally quitting MS they get to the rule
of three, to make them useful law
makers. You could not learn them
trades in that way. On this platform
we will join hands with you, and are
better friends to the farmer boys than
the previous old daddy who will stint
the wind of his child in order to lay
up wealth. We have known, rarely it
is true, but we have known the sons of
rich farmers, who could neither read
nor write, and yet were loud against
sending lawyers to the legislature. We
call such stuff rs that humbuggery.