The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-05-18
THRocxsoRroN,s CLAIMS

has been household word for quar-
ter Of ceutuary. No opportunity to
serve the frontier has he ever suffered |
to pass by unimproved When Others
ignored IL. or turned deaf ear to the |
sad plants coming up ir
bcreft by the loss OF iathers eau D.y... !
ers at the hands of the dread savage, |
Throckmorton impelled by the almost |
womsuly tenderness and sympathy |
which is his characteristic. went to..work
to not only apply balm, but to find
safeguard against repetition of the
loss. Every measure. brought up in
congress since he has occupied seat
there, which has had for its present or
remote object the security and develop
ment OF our peerless frontier, has had
his support Not mere lip service. but
hard unremitting work, and the charsc-
ter he has won in congress for probity.
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 II is, and ever has been, no
measure ever came up in congress hav>
ing for its object the protection of the
frontier or the advantage of the state,
but has had his wsrmest support, and
his advocacy has always had respectful
attention by the best men in congress,
and great weight, both with the govern
ment and the people at large. The
Texas and Pacific railroad is as much a
measure of defense as it is of develop.
ment when once it is completed
! to FL Paso, we will have
heard the last of Indian incursions 1t,
starting from the very bosom of the
immense pineries in east Texas. puts
down at the door of the settler on the
verge Of civilization the best and cheap
est lumber. and in this the road and its
great moving spirit, Throckmorton,
have served the newer aud the older
| settlers best interests and in the best
way. The thousands of mills and their
Texas would have been as silent to-day,
A. their pine forests were an hundred
years since, had it not been for the de-
msnd created by the completion of the
road to the prairie districts hereabouts
aud still further on toward sunset.
The frontier will estimate this immense
advantage at its proper worth and not
all the detraction of vituperative parti-
sanship can rob him of his well earned
mead of praise. Neither will eastern
Texas forget it, No man has ever served
that noble section of the state well and
arduously but has been amply rewarded
The general activity consequent upon
the completion of these railroads, has
served well all sections Of Texas. Ii
has attracted attention from all parts
of the country, and wonderful food
tide Of immigration to south, centra
and west Texas has been the logica
result. To Throckmorton more thar
any other single individual in all broad
Texas is this result due. No enterpris,
which has had for its object the progress
Of Texas, but has had his warm heart,
and unseliish 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 popular gov
eminent
Thore is no partisanship about him
Tolerant, broad.yiewed and liberal, h,
naturally attracts to him progressive
men from every section of the state
and from all the states The Fort Wortl
Dsmoers, and its correspondents woulc
have US believe that Throckmorton ha
whole counties of land on the frontier
when the simple truth Is, after twenty>fiv.
years of arduous and unremitting pub
lie service, mostly in positions of grea
trust, as well as great opportunities
Throckmortou is to-day very poo
man--poor TO such an extent that tn,
calumny itself ought to close its mouti
and hang its head in shame. Throck
morton may have tract of land some
where on the frontier, but we speal
, whereof we know when we say thA
twenty-five hundred dollars would bu,
all that he has and twice as MUCH more
The democracy of Texas will on tn
18th Of July administer a whitening re
buked'to these defamers of pure an,
eleanShsbded man. No amount of mis
representation has as yet been able t,
. attract the smallest notice from him
and while some of'the people at hom
are bending all their energies TO de
fame him. he is msnfully battling, lik
Bsyard. for Texas and these same de
tractors. apparently unconscious of eyel
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