The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-06-26
FORT WORRIES NOMINEE.

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at its next session.
FORT WORRIES NOMINEE.
When it became generally known
in this district that n Convention
had been called to form n now Con-
situation for Texas, the general feel
ing among Democrats was that as
their party stood as ten to one
against the Radicals, and as some Of
our latest nominating Conventions
had been unfortunate, it would be
wiscst and safest to make no nomin-
ations, but to leave the people free
to select whom they would to repre-
sent them. The election of n Rad
zeal, in any event, was regarded, and
is still regarded, as simply impos-
sible. 1t would simply give the peo-
pie the chance of q choice among
several Democrats.
But this did not suit certain sa-
pent individuals in Fort Worth,
whose chief occupation is to excite
jealousy towards Dallas and Dallas
county-small potato men, who lack
the capacity to understand the laws
Of material growth, and to realize
that the interests of Fort Worth and
Dallas are identical. These small
potato men are mad because, as
things stand ut present, the people
of Mansfield on the South, and
Grapevine on the North, find it TO
their interest to trade ut Dallas in
stead of Fort Worth. Such is to
their interest now; it may be wholly
changed in six or twelve months.
Enterprise and wise improvements
control such Things; dogs in the
manger never do.
Fort Worth, which for four years
has had an undue and dispropor-
Tomato power in all OF our public
affairs, is not satisfied, but wants to
dictate to and control not only Tar
rant county, north and south, east
west, and center, but this whole
district. She forgets that, with one
fifth Of the population, she hau for
four years both a local representa-
tative and the Senator for the whole
district. The other counties never
complained, but the potato men of
Fort Worth were not satisfied. They
snap and snarI at Dallas county,
the largest in population in the dis
trict, and now strive to dictate what
she shall do. Probe it to the bot
tom, and It will be found that it is
not Tarrant county, but few busy
bodies in Fort Worth. They lash
ed the people of Tarrant into q
nominating convention, when they
did not want it, and what is the re-
suit 4? Why, simply this, that they
have nominated nice, worthy old
gentleman in his dotage-probably |
eighty-fivc, and physically worn
out-once proper man, but now
as incapable of going through the
hard ordeal required to secure the
liberties of Texas in the Constitu-
tional Convention as Napoleon was
of stilling the storm at st. Helena's
rock the night his soul took its.
fight for the great hereafter. This
old man, in the honesty
of his second childhood, in his two
hours speech at Lancaster, present
ed the following anomalies
He denounced the present Consti-
tuition with much Indignation, yet
later said he had never seen 1T but
to glance over it eight days before,
and considered it, in some respects,
m improvement on the old Consti-
luton. Let the intelligent voter
lnalyze this heterodox position.
lie declared that to this day he
iad never seen a single law passed
~ any Legislature in Texas since
reconstruction, six years ago. How
loes this prove his capacity TO re-
ieve the evils under which we la
)or ?
He declared himself in favor of
educing the number of our Repre-
cntatives from ninety to forty-one, ,
nd ofour Senators from thirty TO
ighteen, the numbers we had when
ur population was fifty thousand, !
nd our settled territory about one j
fth what it is now. Is this De- {
locracy, Republication or the q
Dirit of representative govern
ient? Shall we in Texas establish n
political aristocraey, and remove
ON the people a representative in : :
lie Legislature as far as a member g
Congress 2 Shall we frame such u u
as to make the repre-