The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-24
NrrElp 8rrald
u. McCALEH. Editor,
ME4IfiNATINN.

ThelIon. Hardin Hart, Judge of this,
the Fourteenth District Of Texas, has
transmitted to Austin his resignation,
to take effect on the 18th Of next
month, February. We are glad to
record the fact, and would be doubly |
glad if every Judge in the state would
do the same. Judge Hart has done
gracious act in an ungracious manner,
for which we are sorry. He has ad-
dressed his resignation to Mr. Edmund
J. Davis, who is now n private citizen
of Corpus Christi, Texas, instead OF
sending il to His EXcellency 1--WE de-
spise the title) Richard Coke, Gov
ernor dc ,fdcto and dc j,re of the State.
The object of Judge Hart is praise
worthy. He desires, as we are led to
infer, to yield to the voice of the peo-
pie, as overwhelmingly expressed at
the ballot box, on the second day OF
December last. But he has committed
q serious error in an honest effort to
do right. His resignation should have
been addressed to the Governor of
Texas, Richard Coke, and not Mr.. Da-
Wis, who was Governor in times past,
but is now simply private citizen OF
Corpus Christi, county of Nueces, State
of Texas. ~,
On the fifteenth day of January,
Ammo Domini 1874, by the grace of
God and the voice of the free born peo-
pie of Texas, Mr.. Edmund j. Davis
ceased to he Governor of the State,
and citizen of Waco, by name Rich
ard Coke, born and reared in old Nir-
ginia, but for twenty-four years an
honorable and honest citizen of Texas,
became Governor of the free, sover-
eign and independent State of Texas
Therefore Judge Hardin Hart, whom
we respect as an old Texas pioneer
and whose attempted assassination sew
eral years ago, by which he lost an
arm, we regard as most villainous
and murderous outrage, should, for his
own sake and reputation, have adj
dressed his resignation to Governor
Coke, and not to the former Governor
Davis. Davis is simply a man, claim
ing Corpus Christi as his home. Coke,
by the grace of God and the sovereign
voice of u brave and chivalrous peo-
ple-by the constitution and laws Of a
great Statc-is the Governor and only
Governor known to the people.
Honestly, we do not believe Judge
Hart to be Intentionally corrupt man.
He loves the old pioneers of Texas.
He is by nature brave man. He is a
good citizen as neighbor. He has
many good qualities, all of which we
respect. But he has given pain beyond
language to express to hundreds of his
old comrades, by permitting it to be
believed that he even sympathized
with the desperate band of conspira-
tors against the liberties of Texas at
Austin. His old comrades and brothers
in pioneer life in North Texas expect
ed him to rise up as Judge on the
bench in defense of their rights and
liberties. They thought he would
spurn the infamous decision of Ogden,
Walker and McAdoo as a vile carica-
ture on the judicial Interpretation of
constitutional law. They did not
dream that, in the remotest degree, he
could or would give counten-
ance to that Ubiquitous deci-
sion of these self-interested and,
therefore, perjured Judges. On the
contrary, they expected him to recog-
nize the voice of the people, legally,
constitutionally and fairly expressed,
as binding on him as a Judge on the
bench. The people are, therefore, dis
appointed in Judge Hart. They are
disappointed because he sent his resig-
nation to the former Governor, Mr.. f.
]. Davis, now of Corpus Christi, in
stead of addressing it 70 Richard Coke,
Governor in fact, Austin, Texas.
The result will be all the same.
Though a strict constructionist in gen
era!, Governor Coke will be latitudina-
rian enough in this and all similar
cases, to infer that the resignation was
in fact intended for him. Richard,
though modest man, is not fool
mark that! He will accept the resig-
nation, and in due time will nominate
to the Senate some bona fide citizen of
this District to be Judge in place of the
Hon. Hardin Hart, resigned.