The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-14
GOVERNOR TnRoOE MORTON.


congregational district. II advocates III
cause nW IN alipwlndtbe especial llt
nePs OF Jpdgp Hare fqr tlle portion
but ~ attempting showlthat Gov
ernor Throckmorton Is not entitled IL
the confidence either of the people Of
the party II seems 10 take II fol
granted that II Governor 'rlirockmor
ton could be got outof thoway, there
would bo no llrtbey difficulty In secur
Ing the coveted prize for It's favorile,
One of its charges against Goycrnol
Throokmorton Is that he has only beer
II democrat since IS00--slnce heand th,
McIiinneyERegisier , radical sheet o
thoworsttype, fhiied to elect one Joshni
Johnson 10 congress That he dlscov
cred through tho result OF that election
that the democratic party was largely
In the ascendancy, and at once became
a democrat. This needs no reply nj MI
but II II did, we could rest the case on
the following sentence from Judg,
Harc's recent speech AZ sherman, ai
reported by the Registers Gle dlclllol
believe Governor 1hrockmorton had
over betrayed trust, and that hiS no
cord was satisfactory to him and 10 tie
country"
The second charge Is that Governor
Thr6ckmorton's "principnl obiecD in
: going TO congress IL TO secure the en-
dolsement by the government Of the
bonds ofthe 'rexas and Paclllcralroad
company; that II he goes to congress
atau how'll 70 there .as the salaried
attorney ofthe said road, and that the
interests Of the people Of Texas will be
secondary with him TO the interests of
that corporation.
10 such alcharge asthis no. other re-
ply can be interposed than the record
ofa blameless life. The people Of Tex
MS know, as Judge Hare says, that
GoyerpQETmoclimorton hnsIneyer be,
trayed any trust In the past. In that
fact they find Sufficient warrant for
trusting him IN the future,
Weehive always deprecated that
style of journalism that sought to se-
cure Its objectsby groandlets attacks
upon public men. We have always
sought rather to set forth the virtues of
the candidate we sustained than 10
impute imaginary VICES 10 his oppo-.
nent VI wedetmed itelthtr necessary
or proper we could retorto thnC Courier
by going into Judge Hare's record and
asldng how 1t was that he secured m
appointment from Governor Davis;
how 1t was that he secured an appoint
ment at the military academy for his
son. Or If the question We're one of
comparative professional Qntegrty be-
tween judge Hare and Governor
Throckmorton, we might citeth Copr-
Ter TO the case Of Austin vs.. Talk, %
Texas reports, page l27. @
The third charge against Governor
Throctmorton is that he is director
and stakeholder In the Texas and Pa
cihc RAILROAD company that he is the
friend Of monopolies, md therefore
hostile TO the people. On this point
wepropose TO let Governor ThrOckmor-
tonanswer for himself by publishing
the following lengthy extract from his
sherman speech. We commend it, TO
the careful perusal Of our leaders MS Il
plain, straightforward gantl unvarnish-
cd statement of his whole connection
with railroads in Texas; ,ssr
hut ~ " ssaidr .fellowreitizens, that
While my record cannot be'impeached,
canuot now be trusted because I am
the attorney u stakeholder and dircc-
tor In u railroad company. Now, fell
low-citizens, as to my acts as a railroad
man | invite the closest scrutiny. / !
propose to explain myself fully upon
this point. There is nothing in my
connection with railroads that | am,
inany way, ashamed OF. In the SEES
sions of lS5l-2 of the legislature u bill
was introduced amending the charter
OF the Texas Central railroad, provid-
ing that, instead drumming by ClarSs-
vile, Red River county, the road
sho0ldrun to Preston, On Red river, or
within fifteen miles Of Preston. BY
pointing QUITO Mr.. Allen, the orlgina-
tor Of that measure, that this route
would carry the road through the rich
est portion of the state, and avoid the
immense body of poor land on the
other Route, induced him to accept
this as the route OF the road.
Again, In 1861, when this road asked |
for relief, 1 had retained in the body of
the charter the provision that they
We're torun to Preston, or within iii. |
teen miles of that place, and had u fur
ther provision Inserted that they were
to run by Dallas Again, IN, 1870, this
road came before theleglslature asking
relief, and bill was 10 framed that
the road could lave been built out TO
Paris before the branch was built to
run to or near Preston. | called the
attention of members to the provisions
of the bill, ana 1t was so changed that |
this branch of the road was TO be built
first. After this, | used my influence
with the company TO have the road |
built ~ mckinney and sherman, and |
In this know that l did good service
to the people Of Collin aud Grayson
ask nothing from you ON this ac-
count, fellow-citizens, and only so over
these facts that you may fully under
stand all my actS I'm connection with |
railroads, and that have done my |
whole duty to my people. SO much |
for my connection with the Houston
and Texas Central railroad.
come now to discuss my connec-
ton with the Texas aud, Pacific rail-
road. In 1923, after the Rational con-
gress had chartered the road from
Vicksburg to Shrevenorf. | fnresaN,.l