The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-06-27
The Times and Gov. rhroeLmoron.

l"ealherford Times
IN The DALLAS HERALD of the lls
instant we find column devoted 10
criticism of the Times course relative =,
Governor Throokmorton and the Teyn,
and Pacific Railroad. Ve
We are charged in that article win
illustrating the principle of intemnsrat.
zeSI. dogmatlsm, and injustice.
We think the mputations ot
triouted to us are erroneous:and uniust
II We have said anything about Goy.
ernor Throckmorton which WAS calcr.
lated to excite the supposition that ~,
desIgnedly intended to do him nm IN.
jury and injustice, we are sorry that
such and impression has been creatsJ
we spoke and acted from what we
conceived to be our duty not beconse
we thought it would be pleasing IN onr
readers or that public sentiment wonlJ
DC IN harmony and consonancc with /,
we are familiar with the record of Gov.
erhor Throckmorton in war and in
peace we knew him as a soldier and a
cllllen, We knew him as apatriot and
statesman, We know that his mama bos
been synonymous with truth, honor
ana integrity, with special sympo.
my Tor the people of the frontier
and II comprehensive affection fnr
the whole State Of Texas. All this we
knew, and 1t grieved us to cherish a
sentiment in opposition to the most
profound confidence which we had
learned to repose him.
Now to an explanation of the reasons
which prompted the publication of the
article referred so by TuE HERALD
: We lind in the act introduced by
Governor Throckmorton that the road
between Fort Worth and Eagle Ford
might be completed in one wear after
the passage of the bill, which, of
course, would be more than a wear from
the time we wrote as the bill had lust
then been introduced Then twelve
months after this the road might be
bnllt from Sherman towards Fort
Woth, fifty miles, and twelve months
afterwards fifty miles farther. which
after the expiration of three years and
a fraction would bring the road within
fourteen miles OF Three years and
more, according to this, would elapsc
before the road would be within four.
teen miles Of us. But, according to this
bill, 1t might not be within fourteen
miles of us until the twelfth month of
the year, remaining, as il might
at Fort Worth, and probably would
until it was imperatiyely ne
necessary to move onward within four
teen miles of Weatheriord, which
might be accomplished in month
The Herald says little over two years
would have TO expire, and the road ac-
cording to this bill, would be at Wealth
ertord, We think we have clearly
demonstrated that after lapse of more
than three years, the railroad accord
ing to this bill, would not be nearer
than fourteen miles. Sometime in the
fourth year then according to this bill,
probably the twelfth month Of the
fourth year. the road might be here
Understanding as we did, and do yet,
that the road from Sherman to Fort
Worth is the Transcontinental Road,
and that the terminus Of this road is
at Fort Worth, we could not compre-
bend bow, under this construc-
ton, that the road, under this
act would get to Weatherford at all, ex-
cept by the astounding acceleration of
twenty miles eastward annually from
San Diego Putting it, however, upon
the most favorable hypothesis, that this
bill means that the road shall come on
fifty miles yearly even after it reaches
Fort Worth, it might be four years, as
we orr ginally said, before We have the
road here.
After saying that we have made
grave mistake in asserting four years
instead Of little more than two, as it
says, The HERALD proceeds;
But that is not the only misconcep-
ton Of the subject on the part of our
contemporary, The gravest of them all
grows of the idea that Congress, by this
bill, assumes the right of multiplying or
modifying the contract between the
State of Texas and the Texas and Pa
cifc Company, by which the latter is
bound to build certain number of
miles of railroad, within a certain time
whereas, it is merely intended and
could have no other effect than to de-
fine the future relations Of the corpora
tions of the government Of the United
States"
Our conceptions Jurisprudence may
not be as comprehensive and colossal as
they might be, we admit. We thought
that Governor Throckmortons billmeant
something. fit didn't, itmeant moth
ing, and the opinion we entertained of
the intellectual ability of Governor
Throckmorton would not permit us to
hold to the latter proposition. We
thought it would have been as easy, and
more in accordance with the fitness OF
things for this bill to have said fifty
miles from Fort Worth westward than
from Sherman to Fort Worth. We
further thoagnt that it was the object OF
the company to have law passed by
the Legislature of this State III conso-
nance with the provisions of Governor
| ThroclSmortons bill, aa .-.A. .--.
If we were in error in our suppose
lions we regret it immeasurably. II we
have Injured Governor Throckmorton,
we are sorry for it. We revoke and re-
tract all we have said IN opposition to
him. We would make the same opolo-
yy TO the huinblest citizen Of The land,
4 Il we had wronged him, and certainly
we could not do less towards man
whose name fame and chyalry shall
! long be commemorated in the history
Of the county he has served so we'll We
hone TuE HERALD will give the same
conspicuity to our explanation that II