The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-09-05
The Sixth Congressional Dist rict-Its
SOminee-SiustayeS SchIeicsIer.

To the Editor OF the Dallas Herald:
Yesterday we learned that, after fifty
odd ballots in the democratic conven
ton at Goliad, Messrs. Stockdale
Breckenridge, Ford and others were
dropped and Schleicher was unani.
mously nominated for congress in that
district. Divers friends yesterday ex'
pressed surprise, and one said "Who is
this man? | never heard of him be-
fore.n
While feeling kindly towards all the
prominent candidates for the nomina-
tion, as an old citizen of the district, !
preferred the selection of the Hon.
Fletcher S. Stockdale, man of talent,
experience and high moral courage.
He exhibited great strength in the con-
vention, but the two-thirds rule, which
has cut so many worthy throats
and caused the nomination of so many
third rate men, defeated both Stock
dale and Breckenridge, and new man
had to be found. These things being
so, undertake to say that, for once, the
nominating body fixed upon COM
petent, an honest and a patriotic man,
i'm the person of Colonel Gustave
Schleicher, and for the information
of the democrats of the state. | desire
to state something of him.
He is n native born German, of good
family and was thoroughly educated as
civil engineer in his native land.
Very young, perhaps not over twenty
tvs o, he landed at indianola, Texas, in
1915 as German emigrant, among one
or two thousand Others. He located
in San Antonio, sought and obtained
business, won the confidence of all,
Americans and MeXicans. He helped
survey the German colony lands on the
mountains, and soon became Il favor
ite with all classes of respectable peo-
pie. They speedily found he was tai
ented, honorable, brave and just. AS
soon as possible he returned to father
land and brought out two young and
accomplished sisters, fulfilling tn
province of both brother and father to
them. They arrived at Indianola about
December, lS4S, and there l made his
acquaintance, became his friend, and
for the twenty-siX intervening years
have remained so, time only strength
ening the bonds of respect and friend
ship.
The merits of such man, among the
people of Texas, have rarely been long
overlooked. Twenty-Five years ago
he was joined with the now celebrated
General Joseph T.. Johnson in explo-
rations for harbor on MatagOrda bay
and route for a railway to connect
San Antonio with the gulf
The people next sent HIM to the leg
islature as representative, and two
years later TO the senate, where he
served several sessions, enjoying
the fullest confidence of the first
men in the state.
The war came and the Germans of
the west were divided. But Schleicher
loved the people OF Texas, and being
state rights man on principle, he sided
with his own state.
In short, he was true and faithful
confederate from Alpha to Omega, and
has never sOiled his robes by apostacy
since.
Long ago he married in Galveston,
Il daughter of old Virginia, and of these
later years has been employed as Il rail
way engineer on the road between In
diunolu and San Antonio. He is Il
thorough scholar, an experienced leg
islator, good speaker, superb citi
zen aud has contempt for all phases of
demagoguery. He weighs about three
hundred pounds and is the personiilca-
yion of physical and mental vigOr.
such is the nominee of the GOliad
convention. b.