The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-09-22


help, as the mob fsr outnumber the
sherifi's posse.
fse Eyenrs ef Tuesday Narrated by a
Aeraid Reported Dispatch 90 the
Sceae.
At $40 yesterday morning the
Stonewaii Grays took the Texas gna
Paeilie train east at the foot of Lamar
street, and few minutes after wards
the i.snlars boarded the coach near
their u nony. Three hours speeding
drought the boys IN grey at Wills
Point, the objective military point,
@hsre the questionable result of an
eieatien changing the county seat OF
Van Zandt had eventuated In wars
aiaruaa- The militia was received
ed with tnat consideration aud osten-
tation that belongs by right to those
vino abaDdon business and jeopardise
lie f0s public safely. The welcome
Was spoken in beittiug periods by
Major kearey, aud replied 10 in long,
fiowing sentences by Colouei T.. q.
| Bower, commanding, who empha-
sized the aisa ana purpose of the
troops. They came, though clad in
modern panopIy, 10 enforce the law,
preserve the peace aud preveut the
shedding of precious oloo.i He knew
10 section Of the c,unty-the troops
| only the citizens of Van Zaudi as a
snit
MiDgling with the people, the re-
porter of The HERALD found them
restless over a night of anxious watch.
ing, bat disposed to sustain the au-
thorities Ia preserving the archives
of the county at all hazards,
and willing, in the interest of paclfi-
cation, To remand the question at issue
paek TO vote OF the people, though
satisfied that legally the question had
been finally passed upon by the COM
| alissioneEs aud district court. Busi-
ness WAS almost totally suspended.
the farmer staying away ..for cause y
The situation eau best be explained by
atterances OF the friends OF both par
ties, which we give as given to our repor-
Ter, disclaining all bias in the matter
aud leaving the reader TO make his
| own deductiona.
STATUS OF THE CASE FROM Wills
| POINT or VIEW.
In. April last a majority Of the iegal
voters of Van Zandt county petitioued
the proper authority TO order an
election for the purpose OF taking the
sense Of the peupie on the question OF
| removing the county seat from the
town OF Canton to the town of Wiils
Point. An election was ordered, held
on the i6Eh of May and returns made
TO &. NJ. Rsiin, county Judge. Tas
iudga. for alleged informsiities in tss
| the return, refu-esi to eonnt the votes
of certain pr-ciEets aud decIsred that
Willis Point, having received the re.
qaired two third vote, was the Iegal
county seat OF Van Zandt, and iseued
his certificate to this effect. There.
upon y protes. was filed by the friend:
| Of Canton with the clerk of the county
aud within thirty days thereafter the
result fss announced by the county
judge Was contested in the eouaty
commissioners court, in which thesie.
eisien OF the county Judge was afiir M.
ed and The county records ordered q
Abe carried from Canton to Willis Point
An appeal was talsen from this judg
menf to the district court, pendiDf
which the records We're removed t.
Wills Point. In the district cour,
Judge II. II. Bonner, presiding
held want OF both AppeIlst.
aud original Jurisdiction in this
that under our separate depart
ments Of government, the courts
having neither expressed or i'm
i piled power. cAnnat take ccgnfxanc,
OF strictly political questions tha
contested election cases beinl
political In their character, pertains /,
Eshe legislative rather than the judic.s
I IdepAftsnent, and that the county com
mlsaioness court bsing : quazi>iesisls
Etiss tsdy, rrpresenting ihe coanty, /
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