The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-17
THRoCKMORTON's CLAIMS.


nd plants coming up from bosomS
,oreft by tho loss Of fathers aud broth'
'rs at the hands Of the dread savage,
impelled by the almost
yomanly tenderness aud sympathy |
which Is his characteristic, went to work |
% not only apply balm, but TO find
safeguard against repetition OF the
oss Every measure, brought up IN
congress since he has occupied q seat
there, which has had for ts present or
remote object the security and develop
mcnt Of our peerless frontier, has had
His support, Not mere lip service, but
hard unremitting work, and the eharac'
ter no has won in congress Tor problty,
devotion and sterling honesty has been
such as TO render his support OF meas
ure very valuable indeed, His recent
great effort in opposition TO the bill
providing for reduction Of the army
will meet hearty approval all over the
frontier and indeed in every part OF
Texas, SO IL is, and ever has been, no
measure ever came up in congress hays
ing for its object tho protection OF the
frontier or the advantage Of the state,
but has had his warmest support, and
his advocacy has always had respectful
attention by the best men in congress,
and great weight, both with the governs
ment and the people at large, The
Texas and Pacific railroad is az much n
measure of defense M it is of develop
ment, when once it is completed
TO El Paso, we will have
heard the last of Indian incursions, IT,
starting from the very bosom of the
immense pineries in east Texas, puts
down nj the door of the settler on The
verge of civilization the best and cheap
est lumber, and in this the road and it,
great moving spirit, Throckmorton
have served the newer aud the Older
settlers best interests and in the best
way. The thousands of mills and theil
tens Of thousands Of operatives in cas-
Texas would have been ~ silent to-day
as their pine forests were mn hundred
years since, had it not been for the de-
mand created by the completion of thu
road to Tie prairie districts hcreabout
and still further on toward sunset
The frontier will estimate this immens,
advantage at its proper worth, and no
all the detraction of vituperative polti
sanship can rob him Of his well earneC
mead Of praise. Neither will eastern
Texas forget it, No man has ever servec
that noble section of the state well anC
arduously, but has been amply rewarded
The general activity consequent upol
the completion of these railroads ha
served well all sections of Texas. /
has attracted attention from all part
of the country, and II wonderful flood
tide of Immigration to south, centra
and west Texas has been the logica
result TO Throckmorton more than
any other single individual in all broaC
Texas is this result due. No enterprise
which has had for its object the progress
Of Texas, but has had his warm, heart,
and unsellish support. He is an arden
supporter of the free school idea, be-
lieving that the largest measure of pub
lie intelligence is necessary to secur,
the largest success for u popular gov
eminent,
There is no partisanship about him
Tolerant, broad.viewed and liberal h,
naturally attracts to him progressiv,
men from every section Of the state
and from all the states. The Fort Worth
Democrat and its correspondents woulC
have us believe that Throckmorton has
whole counties of land on the frontier
when hesimple truths after twenty-five
years of arduous and unremitting pub
lie service, mostly in positions of great
trust, as well as great opportunities
Throckmorton is to-day a very poor
man-poor to such an extent that the
calumny itself ought to close its mouth
and hang its head in shame. Throck>
morton may have tract of land some.
where on the frontier but we speak
whereof we know when we say that
twenty-five hundred dollars would buy
all that he has, and twice as much more.
The democracy Of Texas will on the
18th of July administer whitening re.
buked to these defamers of pure and
cleanshanded man. No amount of mis,
representation has as yet been able to
attract the smallest notice from him
and while some of the people at home
are bending all their energies to de.
fame him, he is manfully battling, like
Bayard, for Texas and these same de,
tractors, apparently unconscious of even
their existence.