The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-01-30

n banner with this strange device,
"rhe International railway or n divis-
ion of the state" And that too In
sight of the Alamo, the Thermopylae
of Texas. The irrascibility ofour name
sake il pardonable when you consider
that the peoples ticket, which 1t OPP
posed, was elected in San Antonio.
Hence this bilious, gouty outburst.
ALREADY the political cauldron be-
gins to boil municipality. Candidates
for the various city offices promise to
be too numerous to mention. A mar
shaling of the clans and a general
counting of noses progresses, and a
lively contest is expected. Who the
lucky ones will be, it is, Of course, inn
possible to say, but there is no doubt
that the canvass has begun and the
braves are on the war path.
A SPECIAL to the st. Louis Republi-
can Of the 2lst, from Washington,
says: The Texas and Atlantic and Pa.
cific bill was considered at a meeting
of the senate committee on railroads
this evening, and it is believed that IL
nal action was taken upon 1t. The
house committee have meeting to
consider the same bill tomorrow. Mr..
Wells will offer an am mendment provid-
ing for government commissioners ana
controlling the issue of bonds, so that
the government guarantee can only he
used to the extent of the actual expen-
ditures for construction.
OUR frontier must not be again left
defenseless. Even the small force
kept ia the field by the state has done
wonders in keeping the Indians at bay,
and assisting the United States troops
in the work of stopping their maraud-
ing. So far from reducing or disband'
ing the battalion of rangers, it should
he increased to a regiment. and kept
up to maximum strength of say fif-
teen hundred men, properly of1icered,
armed, equipped and disciplined. The
frontier has claims upon the state that
must not be ignored. The protection
of the wives and children of our citi-
zens from the barbarous cruelties and
captivity of the thieving, murderous
red wretches should be the states par
tcular pride.
The self sufliciency Of Galveston is
apparent in her lack of enterprise in
the matter of seeking to get share of
the trade of north Texas. She will not
exchange her principal paper with its
press nor will her merchants adver-
tisc. The result is yoI hear Galveston
mentioned here about as often as you
do Pensacola, BY her selfish, illiberal
policy she has simply cast herself of
from all sympathy and interest with
north Texas. One of her principal
grievances is that the Texas and Pa
citic railway has not NAL Galveston
its seaborl terminus. The idea of any
road going anywhere bpt to Galveston
il resented as audacious in the eX-
trcme, and like the dog in tie manager,
If she cart get the terminus herself
she don't want New Orleans to have it.
In regard to to statement that Col
onel Sam. Pike, of Ohio, has started no
less than forty-tw0 papers during his
evcntful career, the Brooklyn Argus
says:
Colonel Sam. Bard, Of Georgia, has
started about the same number, but In
each case the sheriff started so soon for
Sam that he never could tell whether
he was meant for a journalist or fly
ing machine.
High Private is still to hear FROM
lGalveston News.
"IIigh Private" won't he heard from,
but IL is safc to say be ia the champion
paper starter, having started one at
every terminus town on the Houston
and Texas Central railroad, and all its
branches, and after exliausting the
Central he comes the dodge of Il lazy
old hound that don't want to catch the
wolf, or bs caught, and opens vigor-
uusly on the back track. We expect
to hear his melodious note from tie
narrow guage, or e., II. and $. a. rail-
road, or some terminus town. not yet
named.
SPEAKING of General Cockrell, the
newly elected United States senator
from Missouri. tLR st. Louis Republic
can says: ave venture to predict now
ut the very outset of his career that If
he ever arrives at II point where he
finds party fealty and conscientious
duty in conflict it will not take him an
instant 10 decide in favor of the latter.
II is not trap tilat he vas elected be-
cause he served In the confederate
army, and it, IL not true that his eiec-
tiom ly democratic votes Indicates any
tendency in the party ~ the ideas Of
secession. He was eiectef irrespective
of the fact that he WAS confederate
general and, perhaps, partly because
the democratic party is the only exist
ing political organization which has
the courage and sagacity TO declare
that that fact 10 no longer a living
principle, no longer criterion 10y
which men are to he judged and their
claims On public confidence dctermin-
ed.
WHAT TEXAS SAYS ABOUT GRANT.
The resolutions OF the leg stature of
this state upon tie flagrnnt outrages
upon civil liberty Recently perpctraied
L.. Illl laresi.l-lt In LIN -i.na .lin