The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-03
SECTIONAL CANDIDATES.
An exchange says of Tyler:


1t is the honored home of our pres
ent Governor, the home of the Chief
Justice, the home of the next Cover
nor, the home of the Speaker of the
House. The place is again honored as
the home of one of the Supreme Judges,
and perhaps will be called upon to fill
other important vacancies. In former
days due respect and courtesy was ex-
tended to all the different sections of
the State in the distribution of State
officials, provided men of ability and
worth could be found to fill the respec-
tive stations. Not so now. Men most
gifted in the art of moving upon the
political checkerboard generally sue
ceed.
1t is simply luck. Tyler is high,
beautiful and healthful. 1t is the
chosen seat of Federal, State and dis
trict courts. 1t therefore has happened
that able and learned lawyers were at
tracted to this delightful abiding place.
Must we prefer Rutabaga johnson,
when choosing an United States Sena-
tor, because Old Rooty dwells in
Northern Texas and the statesman and
scholar in Tyler2 His intellect Is as
narrow as the horizon that shuts in the
hills and valleys about him who asserts
that the eligibility or fitness of men for
high office depends upon the domicil.
1t is enough to know that Senator or
Governor has his home -TaH~~.
Either would be unfit for exalted of
fec if he ascribed his right to enjoy
public honors to the location of his
residence, and therefore the folly of
that nondescript editorial ranter at
Dallas who would carve out of Texas
new commonwealth. If measured by
his capacity for tasks of statecraft it
should not, in area, outrival Rhode Is
land, and all men of brains should move
out to give the tlighty journalist an un
obstructed career of measureless glory.
There are not more delightful homes
or more intellectual people in Texas
than are to be found at Tyler. II
then many of the most learned citi-
zens of Texas were attracted to the
spot, if they have illustrated there
genius and lear ming at the bar, at the
hustings aud in civil and Judicial sta.
tions if they have done even more
wonderful deeds when they con-
structed, even during these days of
financial distress, narrow gauge rail-
way to maintain the commercial lnde-
pendence of the place; if they have
won fame for themselves and for their
State, should the State refuse to accept
their services because so many of them
have been gathered in Tyler9
We have no special preference for
Judge Bonner, but when sectional
reasons are assigned for hostility to
Bonner or Roberts, we cannot respect
the argument, even If we must its
author. II any doubt the justice of
our reasoning, let them imagine the ef-
feet upon sensible people if Judge
Roberts, in addressing a multitude in
Dallas, should apologize for his folly
In having selected dwelling place in
Tyler, when he might have chosen the
spot in Dallas, redolent of the
blessed genius of him of the Herald,
famed by winds, burdened with the
dying groans OF Calder and with cease
less oaths and oNecrations, insulting
Heaven as they ascend among
clouds borne aloft on vapors of the
river of alcohol and death on whose
banks Dallas reposes in blissful splen-
dor