The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
Necessary to choice, fifty eight

Necessary to q choice, fifty eight-so
Maxey was elected by one vote.
Now, what seems stranger to us Is
this: On the first ballot our senator,
Bradshaw, and two of our representa-
tiyes-Kemble of Ellis, and Middle
ton of Tarrant-voted in accordance
with the undoubted will of this dis
trict, for Throckmorton, who received
the largest vote in each house, while
Reagan was next, and MaXcy got not
a single vote in the senate, and only
seventeen, or less than one-fiith, in the
house. Yet OH the next day, Reagan
being Withdrawn, Messrs. Bradshaw,
Kemble and Ellis dropped the strong
est man, the unquestioned choice
of at least u respectable majority of
the men who elected them to the
Legislature, and gave their three
votes to the hindmost man Oh the pre-
vious day-a man who received not
vote in the Senate and only seventeen
out of thirty-three in the House. 10
common sense the facts are strangely
inconsistent, and to parliamentary
practices equally so. Their three
votes would have made change of six
against Maxey, and in favor of Throck-
morton, in which case Maxey would
not have been elected. We are not
writing against General Maxey, but
in favor of Legislators truly represent
ing their people. The reported night
caucus between the two ballots ought
to be ventilated. Democracy has no
secrets.
We are well aware that some men,
two years ago, raised cry against
ThrOckmorton on the pretence that he
was too much in favor of railroads;
but much greater cry prevailed since
then against Judge Reagan. SO the
man who opposed Throckmorton on
the railroad question and yet voted for
Reagan was simply inconsistent.
But the truth is that Governor
a true representative
man of North Texas, for twenty years
labored, by all honorable means, TO get
railroads in this immense and produc-
tive ortion of Texas, where nature
had withheld all facilities of naviga-
ton. But for his long and steadfast
labor, we venture the assertion that to-
day, there would be no railroad from
to Dallas-nonc from Mar
shall via jefferson to TeXarkana--none
from Sherman to Paris--none from
Dallas to Red river, and no prospect,
as we now have, OF uniting the beauti-
full towns of Fort Worth, Weatherford
and the whole west with the rail-
road system of the Union.
For over twenty years Throckmorton
has devoted his life to the good of this
country-spent his own money and
paid his own expenses i'll repeated
visits abroad to induce capitalists to
invest their money in developing this
country. He passed the fiery ordeal OF
the first reconstruction, with the glare
of wealth, high position for himself
and damnation to his people before
him, and came out as pure as gold. lie
scorned the tempter, stood steadtast
by the people, and came out poor.
Passion may often ride over justice, but
when these things come to be recorded
as Il part of the history of the State,
the name of Throckmorton will be in-
scribed in letters of gold on the hearts
of the people.
We say, in all frankness, while re-
ioicing in nearly all that has been
done, that in this act of the Legisla-
ture they have disappointed the hopes
and the will of majority of the peo-
pie of Texas. They have trampled
under foot principles that should never
be violated. The people expected
either Throckmorton or Reagan to
succeed the old ignoramus Flanagan
in the senate, and they are justly dis
appointed. Our senator and represen-
tatives, Kemble and Middleton, have
sorely disappointed us.