The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-10-03

Reply 10 More Anon Of the Goth Ultimo.


To the Editor OF the Dallas Herald:
With your Indulgence, will again
trouble you with reply to "More
Anon" in your daily of the 10th ult.
Sir, had it not been for an omission
of mine, in copying my last reply, and
for some typographical errors of your
compassion, more Anon" would have
had nothing to have tapped his wings
and crOwed over, nor would l have
been put to the necessity of troubling
you with Il third reply, and "More
Anon" would haveyet been confused"
and in darkness, for l perceive that
truth does not enlighten his benighted
and confused" mind, but, on
the contrary, the omissions and sup
posed errors of his adversaries cause
him to see truth coming up" (wonder
II he is the truth he alludes to for he
certainly did come up little). In my
last reply to "More Anon" l said:
"Again, the cost of the judiciary is
greater than in 1866. We have two
additional supreme judges, made by
the last constitutional amendments,
with salary of $4,000 EACH" This
sentence is part of two seperate SEN
tenees in my original notes, and was a
blunder, of mine, made in copying. 1t
should have read thus: again, the
cost Of the judiciary is greater than in
1866. We have seventeen more dis
trict judges, with three more criminal
judges, and eighteen more district at
tOrneys, than we had in 1866, with an
annual cost of $SS,000 more than in
1866. But sir, is the democratic party,
or the fourteenth legislature RESPONSE
BILE for this? Again, the cost of the
Judiciary for the present fiscal year is
greater than for any year since the
adoption of the present constitution.
We have two additional supreme
judges, made by the last constitutional
amendments, with salary of 81, 500
each" The first OF these was intended
for one of the reasons given In my
second reply to "More Anon" why the
appropriations of the fourteenth legis-
lature were greater than IN 1856, and
not that find fault with the adminii-
tration of 1866, for approve it and in
dorse it. 1t was the only democratic
administration under constitution
made by the people since the close of
the war; hence it was the cheapest
and the best. l say hurrah for the
governor of 1866! and may he receive
the largest vote for congress in the
coming election that has ever been
polled for any one man before In this
congressional district for any Office.
The second was intended as one rea-
son why the appropriations in the judi
cial department for the present year
were larger than for any previous years
under the present constitution. But
"hlore Anon" elated by this omission
of mine in copying, is guilty of mis-
representations and attempts to mis-
lead the public mind from his former
by positively denying
prations of the "foul twelfth" Hear
him In his communication of the Goth
ult. He says: 81 have never said
word about the wild, extravagant and
reckless appropriations of the foul
twelfth" No, you did not call them
wild, extravaganza and reckless appro- |
priatiOns, but you attempted TO make
it appear that they were honest and
just compared with those made by the |
fourteenth Legislature, until | had ex-
posed the "wild, extravagant and reck |
less appropriations and creation of
dahts by the foul twelfth" Read
your communication Of the 9th ult |
You ask, "Why did the fourteenth leg
islature make an appropriation larger
than was made to run the state gov
eminent one year by the foul twelfth
in 1870, etc ~ l ask the honest reader
what is the Inference to be drawn |
from this question? And for reply
and reason why "More Anon lodges
this question, / refer you to my second
reply to "More Anon"
If he had said no more than he now
claims to have said, after finding him
self exposed, and after finding that he
could not gainsay my answers 10 his
his questions, his groan-
ings and his false insinuations made
IN categorical style, ] never would
have cppdeScended to have noticed
aim. But on finding himself in deep
water with milestone hanged about
Ms neck, he begs the entire question
by saying: "What | have said is that
he fourteenth made heavy appropri-
stion for the current expenses of the
government for one year, beginning
he first of this MONTH" / submit to
he honest reader again If he has not
n the above sentence totally misrepre-
rented the truth as to what he has said
N his complaints of the 9Th ult., and
n his questions OF the 9Th pit. in each
,f these he conveys the Idea that the
party and the fourteenth
legislature are responsible for high tax
stion, that they have ignored retrench-
nent and reform, and that the appro.
)riations Of the fourteenth" were
greater than those of the "foul twelfth"
,r any other legislature. No one ever
lenied thRt the appropriations for the
current expenses of the present fiscal
'ear were heavy. But do assert and
AN prove that they are thousands Of
dollars less than the expenses of any
iscal year since the adoption of the
present constitution. This assertion,
hough true, may CONFUSE" and con-
ound "More Anon" again. We will
rove this by contrasting the appropri-
tions made by the present legislature
or this fiscal wear, commencing with