The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-21
00vFaNOR HUBBARD.

~ WIS hnld ny many ~ lle lllle 'nN'
ernor Hubbard succeeded Governor
Coke that lac had assumed task far
beyond his ability, This charge was a
gross injustice to both these eminent
gentlemen, Unjust to Coke, because II
presumed that his administration had
been faulty, TO the extent Of involving
the state In serious difficulties, from
which she could hardly be oxtriealed,
aud unjust because II assumed that
Governor Hubbard was lacking Ia the
atatosmanship 50 necessary, on In the
patriotism which would urge him 10 do
all things proper and right under the
circumstances,
Governor Coke succeeded to the gov"
eminent after the state, with the eXcep'
ton of Throckmortons brief but honor
able administration had been IN the
hands ofthe enemies Of Texas, and the
comorants of reconstruction for n long
series of years, They assumed power
after four years Of disOsterous war had
robbed tho people of their substance,
and had broken the spirit and per-
yerted the law-abiding and hopes
lul instincts of tho state, 10 unthrilt
waste, extravaganza and well nigh utter
hopclcssness. The situation required
the exhibition of the highest and pur'
eat qualities and types of stotesmanship,
forbeorance, patience and watchiulness,
The state was peculiarly fortunate that
all these great qualities were distin-
gushing traits in the character of her
chief magistrate, and he was peculiar
ly fortunate that his lieutenant was
his warm coadjutor and able sec
ond in all the arduOus labors entailed
on him by the trying and difficult posi-
ton he was called to ill by the united
voice of newly enIranchised and dis-
enthralled people During the years Of
Cokc's first administration much work
was done which will bear the test OF
the ages, In all this" through stormy
or pleasant weather" to use his own
eloquent words uttered in his speech
accepting the nomination for lieutenant
evornor--Hubbard stood shoulder to
shoulder with his llustrious chief
When tho misused power of the feds
eral government was invoked to
smother the reviving spirit OF the
Texan democracy, Coke and Hubbard
stood up as the two highest officers of
the state and opposed it porsistantly
and determinedly, while all the hith>
erto untameable elements of radical
power backed up by federal bayonets,
frowned, threatened and stormed This
was one of the finest exhibitions of
nerve ever made Governor Hubbard
then showed those qualities which ems
deared himself to the people of every
section of the state and procured his
unanimous denomination together with
his chief at Galveston. The same head
and the same high purposes control
him to-day, and which render him dear
to the better elements of our popula.
ton almost without reference to party
lines, We repeat that Governor Hubs
bard was the fit successor of Governor
Coke. No other man in Texas could
have Cotton better results out of the sits
uation than he has From the high est
and most important to the most trivial
interest has received his careful and
most assiduous attention.
Indeed it is this truly catholic and
unsectional spirit of Hubbard's which
has attracted the attention and won
the approval and confidence of the peor
pie of all parts of Texas, to that extent
that his denomination is now almost an
assured fact. Tho democracy might
search the state from centre to circumS
ference u thousand times over and not
find u man so we'll fitted either by ma
ture or experience, to guard her inter.
ests and push her forward in that mag.
niticent career which lies so plainly be.
fore her.
We are not given to the fulsome
praise of officials, but far be it from us
to withhold a fairly won plaudit, Be-
sides,we feel confident that we only ex.
press the sentiments of the united and
inyincible democracy OF the state, when
we, in our own feeble way, utter the
truthful sentiment that Richard Hub,
bard has thus far made q chief magis-
trate for the state, of which she is lust.
ly proud, and equal to the most Illus
trious of his predecessors.
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The Other side Of the Surrender.
An eastern radical paper, speakin of
the Grafton of Senator Ingalls, to the