The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-05
They Make NOiHInntiOns-Thc Color
Line Drawn nnd tlIe Issue Forced.
A pinin Proposition for Democrats
unpIedged Democrats or The
Nominees 81 the Loyal
League,

Nominees 81 the Loyal
League,
In his perambulations through the
city last evening to gather that men
tai pabulum which acknowledgements
ers of THE HERALD are daily accns.
toned, the reporter happened upon n
scene which, happily, is as unfrequent
rs it is novel, The said perambulations
carried him beyond the branch, into
The classic regions of Stringtown. OBJ
serving lone line of pedestrians
vending their way toward the
schoolhouse, the reporter modestly
followed in the wake, and was per-
mitted to be silent, but by no means
unobservant or uninterested spectator
of convention of what is left in Dallas
of the once powerful, though now hated
and despised Loyal Union League.
The League was called to order by
Melvin Wade, its time-honored sable
President, and white man, whose
face the reporter was unable to see,
was chosen Secretary. Among the
white delegates present, notably were
DR.. A. NJ. Cochran, George WASH
ingLon Baird and William IL.
Young, u jim crow" attorney,
whose chief boast heretofore-as if
that would be an "open sesame to re-
spectacle society-has been that he
was a Copperhead In the North during
the war. After the preliminaries had
been settled, Colonel Young arose and
in that creaky, rasping, exasperating
voice which has more than once caus-
cd u presiding judge to flee his seat
with teeth on edge, and which has
extorted writings of agony from the
unfortunate jurors who could not es-
cape the infection, proceeded to bio
viate to the League. He reused their
dormant martial ardor by recounting
the deeds of valor achieved by colored
heroes, dwelling with especial empha-
sis on the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ed charge made by them at Petersburg;
narrowed up their feelings by recital
of the blood-curdling atr ocities and
inhuman practices OF the bad old buck
skin tines to his own undying love
and devotion for the stars and stripes
and the colored brother and sister, and
wound up with brilliant pereoration
of Jerry Brown, r.. II. West, John
Cochran and A. s. Clark, neither DR.
Cochran nor Mr.. George Washington.
Baird took any active part in the pro-
ceedings of the meeting, further than
to seemingly heartily acquiesce. AT
the conclusion of the distinguished
eX.Copperhead's remarks, nominations
We're declared in order, and, amidst
the widest excitement and enthu
sasm the following ticket was unan.
imously chosen:
Sheriit'-Jerry NJ. Brown.
County Judge-Robert II. West.
Representatives john II, Cochran
and A. S. Clarke.
This was sufficient. Without wait.
ing for the denouemeut, the reporter
slowly and sadly plodded his way office
ward, meditating upon the weakness
of human nature, and the untrust-
worthiness Of the white man gen.
orally.
Such is n plain, unvarnished report OF
the meeting of the Loyal League last
evening. "Nothing extenuated MOI
aught set down in malice" But the
reporter may be pardoned for indulg.
ing in few brief remarks. He had
hoped that in this great Empire oil
Texas, where true merit alone was the
guerdon of success, that all the bane.
full effects of bad and vicious precepts
had disappeared. The oit-repeated and
reiterated pledges of Republicans, who
declared that they would support only
the best men for office, regardless OF
past or present party affiliations, has
been totally and utterly disregarded in
this direct and unequivocal nominal
ton for county officers. The Radical
Loyal League has seen fit to draw the
line; now let the untrammeled, free
and independent Democrats of Dallas
county choose between the candidates.
THE HERALD has no comments to
make.