The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-05-18

the choice of name TO offer TO the
convention, indeed, differences may yet
exist to a trifing degree, but our best
IL TO the effect that the
county stands toNday very nearly unit
in favor of the candidacy OF the gentle
man whose name graces this articles,
and we are perfectly assured that by
tho time the convention sits these divi-
sions, slight as they now are, will all
have been perfectly healed and old
Dallas will come up to the convention
with solid front for one Of her own
sons, and he the gentleman we have
chosen M the subject Of brief article
this morning, In Dallas, county and
city, there is no need TO tell our
readers about him, but for the
benefit of those in other parts Of
the district who have not the pleasure Of
an intimate acquaintance, we propose
to give brief sketch of him.
Colonel Wellborn is worthy son of
Old Georgia, receiving in early youth II
liberal and careful education in the best
schools of that grand old common
wealth In early manhood his attention
was directed to the law which profession
he has followed ever since, with oil the
earnestness of devotee, and with n
measure of success indicative of the
very highest order Of talent and the
closest application and severest work in
an exacting and arduous profession, He
is now in the very prime of vigorous
manhood, with every quality, both inN
tellectual and physical, at it's very best.
Notwithstanding his arduous profess
sional labors, Colonel Wellborn has
found time to study extensively and
carefully the great problems of state
and national policy. His mind is of
that keen incisive order which grasps
and digests simultaneously the knots
test problems of politics az well as of
law, and there is not to-day in all
the third district man more thor>
oughly informed on all matters pertain.
ing to national policy, or the needs and
wants Of Texas, and the rich and popul.
GUS district he aspires to represent in
congress, or more in sympathy with
the spirit of enlightened progress
which is tosday one of its chief charac,
teristics. There is no man in the dis
triot better fitted by nature, experience
and observation to take the place of
Throckmorton on the floor of congress.
That position will try the highest and
best qualities of any successor, but we
have no fears of the result should Col.
onel Olin Wellborn prove to be the
popular choice.
Colonel Wellborn's oratory is of the
highest order. Before jury or the
people he is well-nigh invincible, as
many of his admiring brethren at the
bar can testify. In this respect he is
able to serve the people in congress
very efficiently We all understand the
advantage of clear. ready and strong
speech on the floor of congress. Colonel
Wellborns style is pure, classic and
graceful, and would attract favorable
attention among the best political
speakers of any country and of any age.
There is one thing to be considered
in selecting candidate for congress
from the third district. A man to per,
fectly represent it must be fully up to
the highest requirements in any district
in any of the states. We have here in
the third district population fully
equal in intelligence and patriotism
to any people in the nation, and he
must be real man who aspires to serve
them in congress. No worn out and
obsolete prejudice, no old time issue
which moved the people before the war;
or fed their prejudices since it closed
will be tolerated in this race. We only
ask that our standard bearer be dem,
ocrat, sound and safe, but in all else
he must be man who will drive for
ward our section toward the splendid
destiny laying 80 plainly before her, and
not one to set down on her progress
with the warped prejudices of the past,
and refuse to partake of the new and
better life in store for the south, Texas
and this her gem congressional district. |
Such q man is Wellborn, and having an
implicit faith in all we have said about |
him, we propose to urge his nomina>
ton by all fair means at our command
but in doing so, we have no warfare to
make upon other honorable gentlemen
who will dispute the selection with
linl.