The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-09
p0LlTloAL FABLES.

New YORK Hefgfd WAS lapllhb N"'F
~ point IT, politics, and consequently
we're not surprised when Us feeble pro-
totype in Texas began the difficult task
of copying them and remodellns them
TO suit the new field Wherein they we're
made 10 do duty We regard oil such
unfank methods ~ comparatively IN
noKioua and passed them without note
or comment, but Tho paper named pub
lshed one on sunday last which wa
shall publish and notice, and hereby
ask the pardon Of our friends iOr the
Innlotlon
once upon time ianished zebra
while bounding gaily over tho prairlei
IN search 81 proyender came upon q
Wide aud deep ditch, on the opposite
side of which we're fresh fields and pas
lures new, from which, also, an lndls'
tlnct view could he obtained of the
United States senate, A. the zebra
was not In the habit Of jumping dlloheu
of that width, he went back mile OF
80 10 obtain the impetus requisite Ia
carry tho election, But, behold be'
fore he reached the chasm, tho bottom
Of which was lined with the bones Of
unsuccessful candidates, he grew short
Of wind aud no weak In the Hanks That
he lelt II u duty he owed the public "a
sll down aud write u letter 10 the press
regrettng that the condition Of his own
private affairs, aud sense OF the mag
niludo of the responsibility Of the Rn'
barnatorial office, compelled him Il
withdraw from the canvass, Moral
II IL never too late TO die for your coun'
try, even II you don't pct Tho nomi
nation,
Now, could anything possibly bcmore
nnmauly than such n covert, UNDER
handed, back.lick M this, When the
Nfps striIhBsuc lick IN this Al Thiock
morton, II not only violates all the
proprietios of tho situation, but wanderf
widely into the domain of romance In n
picture inadmissible, even In tho zelda
of fable, In the frat place, rhrook.
morton was not bounding along after
tho goyernorship, with tho senate in
sight on the other side of the chasm,
filed by the bones of the Ncws' murdered
candidates, We propose TO strip this
fable Of lis cover, and call things by
their proper names, We'll, indeed, is II
for Governor fhrockmorton, and indeed
the state at large, that the News did not
conclude TO send him TO the bottom OF
the chasm, where rests every man and
every measure II ever championed, In.
deed, no voice ever comes back from
the caycrnous depths to which the pos
litical friendship of the NcOs invariably
consigns its victims, By "a very beneli.
cient and special operation of divine
care, he has been IN this instance spared
II repetition of 1873, when the mild
advocacy of his claims by the NNcS was
quite sufficient TO defeat him AT the
Austin convention, and nominate the
man the Ncws had specially and persist.
emily opposed, Men do survive the
enmity OF that paper and the majority
of them seem to thrive on il but the
zebra mentioned above, IN the one
solitary instance where ts FRIENDSHIP,
has not proved fatal, and that ut once
We have long list OF the troubled
ghosts Of It's murdered friends, whose
bones lie in the chasm mentioned, and
they cry out increasingly for relief, and
the Neps cruelty refuses to make war
on them, or even to fable at them, OF
glorying in their despair; it will not
furnish the relief which it, and it only
can do.
any lingering doubt remained That
the people do want rhrockmorton fol
governor for the next term thisuniriend.
ly attitude of the Ne,Os will dispel it, il
any lingering doubt remained that he
ia the man best suited for the time and
the place, this parable removes it, aud
discloses to the people that in other
shades, nearing other bitches, lurk the
jackals posted by the Ne'os to eat up the
innocents who really suppose il will
ever support man who is Independent
and honest enough to get the 0i0d aoc,
endorsement Of Texas.
We utterly refuse to permit the Ne,c,
to use this untranli method with regard
to Governor Throckmorton without
rebuke We intend to strip the
cover from every fable of the kind
it essays, and il possible force il ia
oppose, openly and by fair means, the
grand nomination made by the PEG,
pie OF Texas in the case of the gentle>
man who Is struck at in the paragraph
which we give, We cannot iorbear ex.
pressing n profound astonishment that
the many years Of almost unbrollen
defeat experienced by the Mccs, has
not operated to produce change OF
policy, in this respect, and induce it to
try the luxury of one frank and pros
nounced fight either for or against q
man. 1t would have all the charm OF
novelty, and the Ne,os ought to be com.
PEELED to furnish the enjoyment as the
rarest of all possible treats to its
readers.
Cotton Seed and science.
One of the most practical proofs of