The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-03-07
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While we are never disposed w drag
local matters into otlf columns nnd 49, /
peclally while the grcatpoliilcal fo'uld.
tionsof society are being reformed ana
trnnsplanted back into better sou, we
.till realize the fact that II neighbour
hood, town, precinct aud county All
mlnlslralions are not pure, II Is idlo 10
expect state matters TO he so' Inc
foundation and grand cornerstone Oh
all GOOD government among civilized
men Is In the government oil inc i'in',
~. Fathers and mothers ire churgou
by the DEGREES of nature nm" %
heaven, to so govern their children ns
TO make them good men and women
If they fail il is utterly impossible Tor
the aggregated children of any state OF
country to form a good government
The thing cannot be done.
So, enlarging the field, all local ana
municipal governments must be pure,
or else become eating ulcers on the
body polite. The poison of a cancer,
touched on the cheeks of the purest
maiden, will become II corroding SORE
Dallas is now the most prominent
and growing town in the southwest
II is an inland, infant little city
of ten thousand souls, i'll the
midst of virgin soil unsurpassed
in fertility. 1t is dependent for lie
and prosperity on the good Will ana
industry of the surrounding country.
The simple law of seli-preserVatioh
demands that our city government
shall be honest and economical, that
the farmer, on coming into town, shall
be treated as friend and benefactor,
and not as an interloper.
About fifteen months ago, under the
laws and regulations of Dallas, scores
of farmers coming in with loaded
wagons were arrested, taken before
Mayor Long and fined, because they
did not unhitch their tired horses, OF
sometimes because they did hitch them
to posts or trees on the sidewalks. We
denounced the proceedings at the time
as an outrage on freedom, and as Il
mere pretext to put money i'll the
pockets of town officials and their sub
ordinates. We went to Austin as Il
SWORN REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEG
PIE of this district, resolved ut all haz-
ards to take from the town authorities
the power thus to maltrcat the farmers
of the country, and we did it by getting
amendments to the city charter to
protect the farmer from such abuses.
But while doing this, the rings inter-
ested in the wrong were busy
in disappearing our acts, insomuch
that for time they deceived many
good men. A few men, protesting to
be Democrats, but by nature inclined
to breathe among the cliques, secretly
Joined in the cry, in order to keep all
men out of Office who had the honor
and manhood to oppose wrong where
ever it might show its head. We
know them by their acts.
The same principle is insiduously at
work now. Sly whispers are passed
around to injure the Democratic noml-
nee for mayor, General William l.. Ca
bell, man whose entire manhood, up
to the close of the war in 1860, was
piycn to the service of his country
who handled and disbursed millions OF
public money, before the war, and ac-
counted for the last farthing to the
United States before he would resign his
commission in The old army to join the
army of his native state. He passed
through the four years war-the first
as chief quartermaster in Nirginia-the
last three as brigadier general, and
though he got the name of "O!d Tige'
as q fighting general, no man ever
questioned his integrity or his indie
pendent love of justice. 1t is clandes-
tingly whispered by II certain few that
he is not eligible; that he has not
been in Dallas twelve months,
etc. We happen personally to
know to the contrary. Last fall
a wear ago General Cabell came
here, opened an Office, bought property
for a home-was our guest part of the
time-and returned to Fort Smith TO
bring his family here. The illness OF
Mrs. Cabelrs mother delayed their inn
mediate reninvai, l,ut Dallas was in
law and equity !l,"ir home, and his
business was then being conducted iii
Dallas. In strictiirS. of law, as laid
down by our Supreme court for thirty
years, he has ie"Ha citizen Of Dallas
since December, 1912.
But, aside from this, look at the
spirit, intent and meaning of law,
and then it will be found that Cabell
was battling for Texas, as young OIL
Ger of the United States army OH our
frontier, before some who are now
voters in this city were born, and
twenty years before Others ever set
foot on our soil. Furthermore, while
the battle ragged and our fate stood sus-
pended in chance, his family were liv-
ing in Dallas, and spent goodly part
of the war in our town. For decency's
sake let no more be said on that score.
Last winter James P. Newcomb, edi-
tor of the Radical State Journal, and
ecretary of state under the late Mr..
Davis, took the ground that John
Henry Brown, representative from
Dallas, was not eligible because he had
lived in Mexico, and that, as Next
can citizen, he should be knownas Don
Juan Emigul Morero-in plain English
as Sir John Henry Brown. Newcomh
,yae strange to say the grand SifCracle