The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-03-27
ON RISING GROUND.

North Texas is profoundly Interested
Just NJ this time In two grand enter
prises, and in both the most satisfying
Of ultimate success Is had
They are the passage Of the Texas and
Pacific bill, aud tho election Of Governor
Throokmorton to tho executive chair OF
our state government next November
We have closely scanned every phase Of
the proceedings had in congress this
session with reference 10 this most lmN
porlant bill, aud from clear knowledge
gaiped by this close watch aud careful
interest, We arrive At the conviction
that upon It's final call the bill viii pass
and receive the signature Of tho presl'
dent The strength Of the friends OF
tho hill Ia the senate IL great, and IN
creasing every day THIS circumstance
IL having u decided influence In the
house That this influence IL seen aud
felt by the Huntington people, and
dreaded by thom, Ia evineed in their
frantic elloria to buy intmidato and
wheedle tho members, Fortunately far
IN tho disastrous experiences by which
Ames and Brooks were put under tho
sod, and CollaS sent smiling into ob'
security, the money Of the Union
aud Central Pacific roads Is shorn
of much Of its old time prestige on the
floor Then too, we have square, old
fashioned democratic majority on that
floor and hence tho chances are IN
favor of honest work, ~ well M fair,
square and legitimate progress We
say this road Is peculiarly apet enters
prize Of our section of the states 40
indeed II is, because, while Of vast im-
port TO tho whole state, the south and
the nation, It's inititory benefits are TO
be felt here first For tho first five or
six years, immense sums must be dis
bursed in north Texas TO cover the
heavy expenses OF construction the
preparation of local facilities such rs
depots, machine shops, etc, Thore Is
then little wonder that the Galveston
NcwS ats down upon the bill with
all of its pondorous weight and ~
little wonder that its prospects
are now 80 fair. Eternal defeat has al, !!
ways attended both the political and
material enterprises of that conlossedly |
great newspaper. In everything except
is this true, and in the instance
of its advocacy OF Huntingdon the
rule holds good, The Texas and
Pacific road has no corruption fund
has no means by which the allegiance
Of local influences in Texas may be
bought, and il only relies upon the jusS
tice of its cause, and the plainly seen
benefits to arise from the passage of its
bill. For once since the war, truth and
ustce are in the ascendant, and are
proving themselves, thanks to CONS
democratic influence, with
very present and future chance of ulti-
nate and complete success.
In the matter of the candidacy of
Governor Throckmorton, our section is
leeply Interested; because by his
election Texas will hay IN able clears
leaded broad.viewed chief magistrate,
whose policy will embrace every good
o every section of our state; because
10 has been the moving spirit of the
reat enterprise of which we have been
peaking, and which is to confer upon
'ur state, nation and the age in which
We live, the grandest boon in the power
II man to bestow; because he is laborS
ng to secure the passage of the Federal
jourU bill, another boon of scarcely less
to us; because he is labor.
ng to protect and foster our infant
rontier settlements, and to attract uni.
,ersal attention to the rich fields whose
'irgin soil and balmy climate invite the
,ome~seeker to its lovely and peaceful
slens-peaceful, only since the policy
,i protection was so manfully urged by
Governor Throckmorton and his col,
leagues on the floor Of the house.
With the glorious prospect of an
early fruition in the case of all these
great interests, may we not truly say
our section is on rising ground2 Who
can dispute the conclusion when he
knows that the near approach of these
advantages is attracting one hundred
thousand excellent settlers to our sec.
ton alone every year. and who can dis
pute the other easy and natural conclu.
SION that the paper named looks upon
all this with an evil eye because newt.
ably the increasing trade consequent
upon this Improvement must by natu-
raj laws, and the unfriendliness of Gal.
weston, go out of the state by another
gateway,
THE STATE OVER