The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-02-23
rnE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

inoutH OF TWO since, HE HERAl.D
aad the honor to mention the name Of
Major Joseph D. Sayers, of Bastrop, the
present capable chairman of the demo
cratic executive committee of the state.
in this connection,
The suggestion has been favorably re-
ceived by the press and people in every
section of the state We now propose
to give our readers some of the reasons
which induced US to thus put forward |
his name. Pephaps We could not do |
better than to give some of the more
prominent points in his personal his.
tory.
At the beginning of the war, when
but sixteen Years Of age, he entered the
army Us a private, enlisting in the Fifth
Texas cavalry and was soon after ap-
pointed adjutant of Colonel Tom
Green's regiment He accompanied
the expedition under the gallant Sibley
to New Mexico. He won his spurs at
the hotly contested fight at yalverde.
and was promoted to be captain of the
famous Valverde battery, which won
proud distinction on many bloody fields
| in the later years of the war, in Louis
lana aud at Camp Bisisnd in 1868, the
steadiness Of Captain Sayers and hi. adj
Iniraole battery saved the command to
] which they were attached Capt Savers
received q musket ball in the ankle
which put him an crutches for years,
andt incapacitated him for field
service, den. Tom Groen then rendered
him the position of chief of staff, which
he accepted, and while still on crutches
Was again dangerously wounded at
Mansfield. However, he did not retire
from the field, and on the next day was
again severely wounded in the action al
Pleasant Hill His gallantry in these
actions attracted the attention of Gen
efai Dick Taylor, and won for him the
promotion to be chief of artillery or
the staff of that distinguished officer
where he was serving when peace bad,
the passions of war be still. As q sol
der Major Sayers was no less kind anC
? considerable for others, humane alike t.
friend and foe. though brave and de
8 voted
t lsAfters.::the war he commenced tn
{ study of law, and in 1866 formed
l partnership with Governor Wash
: Jones. His success in this new feel,
i was as rapid and as fairly won as tn
a other in the army was. He is to-da,
! considered one of the most promisin
e young lawyers in the state. In ls7
he was the democratic nominee for tn
state senate, and though the ticket wa
: partially defeated. yet his popularit
J. with the Germans of Fayette and Bias
e trop counties was so great that he wa
e elected by very large majority, thus r,
deening the district which had hithert
been hopelessly republican His intiu
j., ence in the thirteenth legislature wa
4 very great, and as chairman of the con
4, mlttee on education, conducted tn
a celebrated DeGress investigation. Her.
;, as elsewhere. his decided eonservatiy
y, tendencies were valuable to the cause c
!, returning reason and federation. II
. declined nomination to the senate i
. the fourteenth legislature, and has sine
. devoted himself to his profession, and
!, also running one of the most extensiv
stock farms in the interior, in which h
d takes great pride. When Judge Han
> cock was defeated at the Austin con
r vention for congress, the nomination
was rendered to Major Ssyers, but wa
declined He was grand-master OF tn
G grand-lodge Ancient. Free and Accepte
u Masons, of Texas. in 1875, and for tn
g past two years. has been chairman G
E the democratic executive committee. a
stated above
: Major Sayers is man ofeasy fortune
: and has both the ability and disposition
J. | To render the state good service. Hi
''S fHA'AiANo A. q psSSietib 3 oHfScf, NDuk'
| fit him admirably to be president OF tn
5 senate. We have been at some troubl
+ to get up these particulars of his his
. tory, because, whenever the people pre-
= pose to do man such honor as thi
nomination contemplates, they have tn
right to know his history. This, il
2 briei, we have furnished them, and W,
think it is such an one as will do M
tiiseredit to any honest man, ever
though he becomes the nominee for Tia,
second place in the state government o
Texas
The nomination of Major Savers vii
be but just recognition of his section
Nhile it will give to the state sound
conservative, able and patriotic officer
All this We say without the slightest
disparagement to the claims of other
gentlemen who are aspirants for the
same position; but this much we will
say Major Sayers will, if nominated. dc
no discredit TO the party or the state.
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lr is related that at a recent Chicago