The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-03-16
POLITICAL .Aa,rs

New York Herald was 'iabling' knot. /.
ty point ~ politics. and consequently /
were not surprised when It's feeble pro-
iotype in Texas began the difficult task
Of copying them aud remodeling them
to suit the new field whereon they were
mad, TO do duty We regard all such
unirank methods as comparatively in
noSious, and passed them without note
or comment but the paper named pub
lished one on sunday last which We
shall publish and notice, and hereby
ssk the pardon OF our friends for the
infection
once upon time iamished zebra.
while bounding gaily over the prairies
an search Of proyender. came upon
wide and deep ditch, on the opposite
SIDE Of which were fresh fields and pas
lures new. from which, also, an inJis,
tInct view could De- obtained Of the
United states senate. A. the zebra
was not IN the habit Of jumping ditche,
Of that width. he went back mile or
So To Obtain the impetus requisite TO
carry the election But behold be-
fore he reached the chasm, the bottom
Of which wss lined with the bones Of
unsuccessful candidates, he grew short
Of wind and so weak in the TANKS that
he felt It a duty he owed the public to
sit down and write a letter 10 the pr.s-
regretting that the condition OF his own
private affairs, and a sense Of the mag
ultude OF the responsibility of the ga,
hernat0rial Office, compelled him to
withdraw from the canvass Moral
IL Is never too late to die for your coun-
try, even Il you don't get the nomi.
nation.
Now could anything possibly be more
unmanly than such covert. under,
handed back.lick rs this. When the
N1rs strikes such a lick as this a' Throck.
morton, 1t not only violates all the
proprieties OF the situation, but wanders
widely into the domain of romance in "A
picture inadmissible. even in the fields
Of fable. In the first place. Throck.
morton was not bounding along after
the goyernorship, with the senate in
sight on the other side Of the chasm,
filled by the bones fthe Macs murdered
candidates We propose 10 strip this
fable Of its cover, and call things by
their proper names. Well indeed Is It
Tor Governor Throckmorton and indeed
the state at large that the Macs did not
conclude to send him to the bottom Of
/ the Chasm, where rests every man and
every measure it ever championed. In.
{ deed no voice ever comes back from
the cavernous depths to which the Do,
litical friendship Of the Ns,ra invariably
consigns its victims By very benef.
Gent and special operation Of divine
care, he has been in this instance spared
IA repetition Of 1873, when the mild
advocacy Of his claims by the Nsirs was
quite sufficient to defeat him at the
Austin convention, ami nominate the
man the N1Us had specially and persist.
| emily opposed Men do survive the
enmity OF that paper and the majority
Of them seem to thrive on it. but the
Zebra mentioned above. Is the one
solitary instance where its friendsbip
has not proved fatal, and that at once.
We have a long list OF the troubled
ghosts Of its murdered friends whose
bones lie in the chasm mentioned and
they cry out increasingly for relief and
the Macs cruelty refuses to make war
on them, or even to fable at them, or
gloryiug in their le7pair it will not
furnish the relief whirh It. and 1t only
can Ito
II any lingering doubt remained that
the people 10 want Throckmorton for
governor for the next term thisuniriend.
ly attitude OF the N1-s will dispel il If
any lingering doubt remained that he
81 the pan best suited tor the time and
the place. TIN parable remove it aud
disoloses to the people that IN other
shades. nearing other bitches. lurk the
iackals posted 10y the N5.re to eat up the
innocents who really suppose it will
ever support man who is independent
aud honest enough to get the ria, rose
endorsement Of Texas.
We utterly refuse to permit the Nar,
TO use this untrank method with regard
To Governor Throckmorton without
rebuke We intend to strip the
cover from every fable Of the kind
it essays. and if possible force it TO
oppose, openly aud by fnir means. the
grand nomination made by the peo>
pie OF Texas in the case ct the eentle>
man who is struck at in the paragraph
which we give We cannot forbear ex.
pressing profound astonishment that
the many years Of almost unbroken
defeat experienced by the Ns,rs has
not operated to produce a change of
policy, in this respect, and induce it TO
try the luxury of ore frank and pro,
nounced fight either for or against a
man. 1t would have all the charm OF
novelty, and the Nelc5 ought to be com.
PEELED to furnish the enjoyment as the
rarest of all possible treats to its