The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-25
THE TEXAS DELEGATION AND THE
PRESIDENT.

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PRESIDENT.
A few days since the Texas congress
sional delegation in body called upon
Mr.. Hayes, The interview is represent
ted as very pleasant one, and from
the presidents standpoint, very sotis
factory. Governor Coke was spokes'
man and assured the president that in
his efforts to purify the government
and to bring together the two recently
widely separated sections Of the coun,
try, he had and would have TO the end
the sympathy and active support Of the
delegation, rs well rs the moral strength
of this great state, and the delegation
did not transcend the line in this and
did not do anything but what the
people Of the state will ratiy and en-
dorse. We are willing TO work with
any influence and in any way to serve
these two great purposes
The delegation took the opportunity
to urge Judge Ballinger's name
for the vacant place on the supreme
bench made by the resignation of Judge
Davis, In this we think they were
wrong, not but what Judge Ballinger
is, rs lawyer fully the equal Of Judge
Davis, and as n man and patriot the
peer of the proudest and best but
because Mr. Hayes, with the solitary ex
ception of Judge Key, has appointed
no single democrat to Office, and in this
instance, we suspect he would hardly
have violated the rule; indeed, that,
since the late presidential progress,
would be the verdict Of the whole coun.
try, nor indeed in Judge Ballinger's case
would he have violated it to any consid-
cradle extent. But the Texas delega-
ton are to man democrats, and they
represent democratic majority of one
hundred and twenty thousand, and Mr..
Hayes is not strong enough to carry the
odium which would attach to the act
among the republicans. Mr.. Hayes has
not made up his mind to throw himself
into the arms Of the democrats, nor to
declare himself the champion Of either
wing Of the republican party. Blaine
and Conkling are foes against whom
the president hesitates to level his lance,
although they have flung him the
gauntlet in unequivocal and positive
action, The Ohio election is new and
by no means re-assuring revelation.
The president has triangular dilemma
before him, either horn of which will
give him trouble enough, without put
ting the representative lawyer of Texas
on the supreme bench,
This we reg nd as a calamity to the
country because BOllinger is immeas-
urably the superior man of the two,
and Harlan will never do the quantity
nor the quality of work which Ballin>
ger would have done.
1t would perhaps be well, il in the
future our delegation would resolve to
be charry of commencing any demo-
crot for official position, combining
themselves to Il simple choice between
republicans, until Mr.. Hayes learns
that the breach between himself and
the ultra republicans is for all time to
come impossible. "A rebuke from such
a quarter, following pledge of service
is no pleasant incident and we are not
surprised that our delegation feel sore
on the subject. Yet one cannot but
wonder that under all the circum-
stances, they should have urged any
name from the south, and Texas more
especially. Let it console them that if
Mr. Hayes can afford to do without
their support, they themselves and the
state can get on very we'll without Mr..
Hayes.