The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-19
THE SPEAKING ON YESTERDAY.
Immense Enthusiasm for Governor
ThrOckmOrt0n.

In pursuance Of the call publlshe,
in THE HERALD, very large gather
ing Of the people Of the city and coun
ty Of Dallas assembled in the cour
house, on yesterday at eleven o'clock
TO hear Governor Throckmorton spenl
on the issues now before them.
Other duties prevented our being
there ut the opening Of his speech, ant
we Gun therefore not give any state
ment of the first fifteen minutes of his
remarks. When we entered he was
engaged In setting forth fully his COURSE
In regard to the internal improve
ments of the state. He showed thai
manyo OF the charters Of the most i'm
portant railroads of the state Were In
troduced into the legislature b,
him, and that in all his effort
to spread railroads over tho terri
tory of Texas he was but an humble
follower In the footsteps Of Isusk, on
of the greatest minds this country hat
over known, and of Houston and othe
great men, whom ali Texas delight Il
honor. That II his connection with
tho railroad enterprises Of the state
could be known to all tho people, and
the struggles which he, in common with
other members OF the legislature, en-
dured to secure this great measure,
that In place of the low, mean and con-
temptible falsifying of history that Is
now resorted to In some quarters, there
would be the universal acclaim OF
"Well done, thou good and faithful
servant.n
The governor showed how he had
been the friend Of the people IN the
matter of the sections of land donated
to the Memphis and El paso railroad
This road was granted by the legisla.
ture sixteen sections Of land to the
mile. Within thearea covered by this
grant were many settlers who had 10.
Gated there long before n railroad IN
that vicinity was ever dreamed of, ant
who had no title totheplaces on which
they had settled. In order to protect
these people from the hardship Of being
robbed of these lands, he secured the
adoption of an amendment to the
charter giving these settlers the right
to relocate the lands on which they
were. In connection with this subject
he rose to a burst of eloquence, and in
dlgnautly hurled the lie into the teeth
of any man who dared to say that he
had ever proved false or recreant to
the people. s
In reply to the statement of the
Sherman Courier, that he had only
been democrat since 1860, he referred
to the rolls of all the democratic con-
ventions that had been held both be-
fore and since the war, and said that,
while anything from such source was
unworthy of notice, such u bare faced
assertion as this did not rise even to
the dignity of being contemplate. He
appealed with just pride to his record
as the standard.bearer of the demo-
cratic party In 1866, when, in defiance
OF threats of arrest, Imprisonment and
trial by military commission, he bore
aloft the standard of the party, and
carried 1t unsullied and uncompro.
missed until stricken down by the hand
of federal power. He paid glo wing
tribute to the little band OF democrats
in the thirteenth legislature, and said
that through their efforts the people of
Texas had been enabled to regain pos
session of their state government.
The governor said he was present at
Austin In 1870, when the subject of
giving thesubsidy f$8, 900, 900 to theIn
ternational railroad was before the Leg
islature, and that he was offered a
large fee to advocate 1t before the legis-
lature and the people; that while there
was no man In Texas that needed a
fee more than he did, he indig nantly
rejected the proposition because he re-
garded the scheme as an outrage upon
the rights of the people. He was not
at Austin when the question of giving
subsidy to the Texas aud Pacific road
was before the legislature, but he was
written TO and consulted about it. He
replied to those consulting him by sug-
costing that the constitution should
be amended so as to allow the
Legislature to donate land in place of
money, that tax of two or three per
cent on the gross earnings of the road
for thirty years should be laid, and
that the power of the legislature to
control the road so far as the rates of
freight and passenger freight Were con-
cerned, should be rigidly provided for.
That the amendment to the consti-
tuition suggested by him was adopted
by the people at the same time that
the thirteenth Legislature was elected,
but that when the Legislature met there
were many opposed to the ratification,
and that he used all his influence to Sc. |
cure the ratification. He favored the
compromise of giving to the Texas and
Pacific railroad, twenty sections of land
tothe mile along It's whole route. The
representatives of north Texas
favored the adoption Of this compro-