The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-15
DECEIT AND TnEACHERY,

The Neios Of the l3th publishes let
ter under tho above caption, signed
"Cartridgo Box" which Is NJ full OF
empty shells M ever u war receptacle
was in this world The Neps evidently
ID half ashamed ofpublishing II, because
no man in Texas knows tho utter
lalsehood ofboth promise and eonolu'
sion, than does the editor Of the News.
The correspondent pronJss Cooke and
Ireland were two leaders of the Texas
democracy" Not word OF truth IN
tho assumption, 10 far rs Judge Ireland
IL concerned, Judge Ireland led u
brave, devoted, but poworless faction OF
personal admirers and dependents con-
fined to his own neigbborhood and Ike
master, like man. neither ability, deterN
mination or perseverance distinguished
them, hence the candidacy of the 70.
cluse Of seguln, hardly made oripple on
the surface, during that eyentlul strug'
gle for Morgan IIamilton's vacant
chair IN the senate chamber,
John Hancock was the man who dies
veloped formidable strength, and in
lighting him, Governor Coke lost sight
of the man who reserves his bottled
thunder for use in covering upa cloudy
raid ON the public domain after the
laurels of the senatorial battle had
grown green ON the brow Of his success
ful competitor,
Before the Galveston convention AS
sembled every means was rcsorted to
by the friends of both the other oandl-
dates for the senate to extort pledges
from Governor Coke, that he would not
offer for the senate. They labored hard
TO make this condition of their sups
port at the time, for denomination.
They understood well, that it was i'm
possible to beat him either at Calves
ton for the nomination, or at Austin
for the senate, unless his strength
had first been fettered 10y pledges,
These pledges Governor Coke abso-
lutely refused to make, and for the sim.
pie reason no doubt that no one had the
right to ask them. Coke conscious that
he had rendered the State grand ser
vice in his first administration, con-
scious of being able to serve her in the
senate equally well, had no right Ito bar
ter away his ability and the peoples
confidence, simply to secure u renomi
nation, and more especially as there
was no combination at Galveston strong
enough to defeat him. lie would have
been both weak and unGuthful had he
doneso His first letter to John lreN
land cannot be distorted into pledge
not to run, by any sort of jugglery, and
there is no necessity to make defence
for HIM on that count. All that he did
or all that his best friends urged, taken
together with the letter, and we are
forced irresistably to the conclusion
that he did not entertain the purpose
until his name was brought forward in
the legislature. But even if he had,
whore is the sin? We fail to sec that
that fact would mako him either
treacherous or unfaithtul, or establish
the charge of deceittulness.
No, no. Governor Coke has been al
along only too frank, if that were pos
sible. When John Ireland schemed
and planned, Coke simply went by the
shortest routes directly to his object
and none can say that they were either
dishonest or unmanly, disreputable OIL
disgraceful in any way, They certainly
never contemplated enriohing any o.
his friends at the expense of the public
ldomain of Texas,
Since John Ireland failed to arraigr
Thin when the race was up, and since il
| is only now dragged up to make people
4 forget the Caney-Barnard matter, peo
| pie will only laugh at the childish rage
and impotent spleen of a disappointed
and soured place-hunter,