The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-09-10
Ilenl, "a nNlnrn Anon.,,

ana lnlfltllthulllNllullN VI lHHNlNl''
aud demagoguery cropping ont ~
every sentence. "AlOre Anon cOn-
mpnres, hy saying, ~ have been some
what amused, indeed, ! may say conluH'
ed, elp.n From lhpmnnncrnndH style OF
his article We would Judge that lac was
considerably oOHimOd or else very lR-
n0ralt of language aud Of .ldcfa For
he says, IN speaking Of the nelH OF lhe
fourteenth Legislature, "Iho fourteenth
snys, any aud every man, who holds
an audited claim against the county
register your claim, stand aside ANA
wait for special taxation. The county
holds lust claim against you aud l.
and we hold the same against the
county. The fourteenth says, stand
inside, Tom, Dick aud Hurry, wlthyOur
claim and fyou don't settle your taxes
by next Monday, etc., ctc,p
Now, Mr., Editor the man who At-
tcmpts 10 enllghtcn the people on any
subject, much less one of such Import
nnCe rs the Wholesale cOndemnlng of
the acts Of the fourteenth legislature,
should certainly ho well iWUMcd hiUl-
sdf. But ! presume that any man
who would use the pronoun "F inter
the proposition dgttdpSt ought to bo eN-
cusnblc for any false and Ignorant M
sertions he may make. There Is not II
word Of truth In his statement. The
fourteenth said no such thing, sup
pose the complNincr has reference
10 can net 10 authorize the several
counties OF this state 10 raise means to
nay their present indebtedness ap-
proved May !, 1874. If lac did, he GER
tainly exhibits II total ignorance Of the
law, or n willlul misrepresentation Of
IL, for II reads: "'rhat any county In
this state which may have an out
standing indebtedness Of five hundred
or more dollars, at the date Of the pass
age of this act, the county court of such
county mdB by an order" etc. Not
shall. (See laws, page $50, of the gem
crnl laws, passed by the fourteenth leg
isnture). SO, 1t ~ clearly percciv0blc
to any MicWgoM mind, that II Is op.
tionary with each county court In this
state whether they avail themselves Of
the law or not. The members
of each county court In this
state are the financial agents Of
their respective counties, aud are, by
the law itself made solely responsible
for It's adoption or rejection. VI 'More
Anon had read the law, or had he had
the capacity TO have understood 1t
when read, he might have saved HIM
self from his "cOHJUSi0R," aud the cX-
position of his ignorance. II Is not my
province to attack or defend the action
of our county court in making the
Oyrlor, but to correct the false impress
sion made by "More Anon" Know
ing our county court to be composed Of
honest and intelligent men, presume
they did what they thought TO be to
the best financial interests Of their
county.
"More Anon again says, "Again
the fourteenth says TO two district
judges, we can't convict you Of NAL
feasance or incompetency, but we will
take every county except one in each,
out of your district, and you two gen
tlemen can hold courts in your coun-
ties, and draw II salary of thirty-live
hundred dollars, and the two district
attorneys can get each twelve hundred
dollars annually Here again, "More
Anon" exhibits asplrit of ignorance
ana fault-llnding, which is too con-
temptible for a democratic paper TO
publish, or even for me to notice,
were ii not that many, who have read
"More Anon's' grumbings, do not UNI
derstand the facts of the case. pre-
sumo here again that "More Anon"
had reference to Judges Chambers and
Cooper, The first of these judges had
charges of impeachment preferred by
the thirteenth, but not tried by that
body. He was tried by the senate of
the "fourteenth,n and, for want of the
two-thirds vote, he was not convicted,
but all believed him to be corrupt
man; at least majority thought him
unit to be n Judge. The second, Judge
Cooper had charges of address pre-
ferred against him by the "iourteenth,"
but for the want of the constitutional
number of two-thirds of both houses
ofthe Legislature sustaining the charges,
he was not and could not then be de-
prived of his Office. The senate was
almost unanimous in sustaining the
charges against him, but in the house,
although very large majority voted
to remove him, we failed for want of
the constitutional number of two
thirds. The constitution provides but
two modes of removing a Judge from
Office, and they are by address or inn
parchment; and should these fail,
there is no other mode known to the
constitution of depriving him of his
Office and salary. Should the legisla-
tnre fail to relieve down-trodden and
an an outraged people of Judge
whom large majority of both
houses of the legislature believe to be
corrupt and incompetent partisan
Judges, by one or the other of these
modes, how, under the heavens, |
ask, can 1t grant relief to u people,
who on suppliant knees, with uplilted
hands ask for it, unless it is by taking
them from his district and placing
them in another to which they want
to go, and which is willing to receive
them? All the members from COoper's
district voted to sustain the charges
against him, except the member from
Orange county, who voted against sus-
tanning them, aud who was willing
tiiuJ CooptT IllSHt Ie1ldiii as Juuge Ill
his county. All the other members
from his judicial district asked, yea,
begged for relief. / don't think it
could be IN the heart of any honest
democrat to have seen and heard the
members from Houston and Angelina |
counties appeal for relief, and then re-
fuse to grant it. Now, as to these two |
Judges and their two district ATTORNEYS
drawing each. $500 aud 81 200 annu-
ally, Is very thin, to say the least of It.
Every intelligent lawyer, and might
add, man, knows that these Judges
would have remained Judges and been
entitled to their salaries, had we
taken all their counties from them
for, as l stated before, there are
but two constitutional modes
Of removing or depriving district
Judges of their Offices and salariss