The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31


You are aware that cannot use Gov
eminent money for the purposes ex-
pressed, nor do | suppose that you de-
sire it; and of what little can man
age to save out of my salary, | shall as
is customary with me, bestow it for
the establishment and maintenance Of
sound Republican principles, even
though not for the adornment of the
martyred excellence Of a Davis or u
Flanagan. y MS
So far as known, your personal con-
triLutions tothe Republican party have
to be heard from, while the tens and
tens of thousands of dollars you have
received from it seem to have gone to
that "boune from whence no traveller
returns,n indeed, to some unknown
place from whence there is not even
so much as q spiritual manifestation,
much less the appearance OF any5ma-
terialized shadow of a dollar rejecting
back the thin semblance of itself upon
its former path. No, my dear Edmund,
as frosty dollar nears your pocket,
otis like the snow flake ON the river
A moment white, then vanishes forever
| have felt very anxious for a long
time past to resurrect the Republican
party in this State, but whenever there
was an opportunity for so doing, some
Camp, Boyle, Plumly,or other like kid
ney folks, would set you up as its terri
BILE dynamite, and thus frighten every
one OIL; and it is likely that the grand
explosive principle will continue to be
tried as long as there is any hope of
blowing anybody up.
We can stand all of this well
enough at home, but | must confess
thasd hope that the shameless effort
to auction off the votes of the eight
Texas delegates will fail. Put on any
amount of explosive force, but do not
go to hawking of the party for con-
siderltion to the various ambitious
presidential aspirants at Washington,
with the commonplace formula OF
GLOW much am ] offered ~ "How
much an L offered p, y01R
Your manager here Colonel Camp,
late of the internal revenue service,
advertised you largely, assisted by the
Hon. John G. Boyle, prior to your late
trip to Washington, and as prelimina-
wthereto. They both labored on the
Galveston Argus, and spared no pains
to praise you and abuse General
Shields, Judge Evans and myself.
Colonel Sinclair also contributed for
one issue OF your organ eighty dollars
eighty beautiful dollars, and the adj
ulating incense rose like the fumes OF
myrrh before your altar. | refer you
10 the columns of that paper-your
own organ, published with money OBJ
FAMED of General Shields and Judge
Evans-not only for the abuse of them,
ne we'll AS myself, but for the advertise
ment of sale of the votes of the Texas
delegates. 1t claimed that you alone
rould control them or dispose ofthem!
why did not you rebull this thing, in
stead of being flattered by 1t? lfyou
have the honor or the good of the Re-
nublican party at heart, why, my dear
sir. do you allow these men to vaunt
Won forth as the only man who can
control the votes of the Texas delega-
tinn in the next National Republican
For shame that you should feel
ilattered at the humiliation and de-
basement of your party.
Has the Republican party indeed
fallen go low that any one man can
carry il in his pocket? .atsi t1y',lg
II seems long since to have worn
vo,lr pocket through, and to have
fallen out; but even now il these pre-
tentions are true, it would not seem to
have recovered from the cold and
sbivering sensations of having once
been thus engulfed.
! think that there can be found men
enough in Texas who are willing 70
noy their own expenses, and WOULD
feel feel proud of the honor OF attending a
National Republican Convention.
Il so happens that we are all very
noor. with the exception of several I'M
moculate survivors of the Twelfth Leg
stature. and we can not spend money
Inv the hundreds Of dollars to journey
18Th IN cut off the heads OF Federal