The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-05-11
sovsRnos HUBBARD ON CRIME.

GOVERNOR HUBBARD ON CRIME.
According TO the Dallas HsRALD7
says the Philadelphia Times, -four
thousand murderersa re running around
loose in Texas This paper has never
made such an assertion, but now that
our attention has been called 10 il, 1t il
believed that ifthere was any way of OBJ
tanning reliable information as 20 the
number Of murderers at large in the
statc-those who have committed muir
der elsewhere, besides the home sup
Ply--the number would he in excess
OF four thousand And yet our present
executive thinks it matter of cons
graduation that we have so little crime
in Texas. Our contemporaries abroad may
rect assured, however, that at the present
time the worst form Of erime--murder
is on the increase throught the state.
We are greatly surprised that Governor
Hubbard should have made the asser>
ton above alluded to. But perhaps he
did il without thought, as it was uttered
at a railway station on Monday last, in
connection with a speech TO some fire.
men who called upon him, and we sup
pose he wanted to say something to
please them. The governors remarks
were made at the depot at Hearne, and
we're reported as follows
The governor responded in a speech
Of half an hour, congratulating the peo>
pie OF this valley upon the growth and
prospect OF the country. Touching
I upon his public services, he said he had
done all he could for the state. and
would not, in alluding TO what he had
accomplished, wish TO detract from
Others who had occupied the same posi-
/ ton. As 10 lawlessuess and crime, he
/ thought u matter of congratulation
that we have SO little in Texas The
vast stream of immigration to Texas
bears the riiiraH of cities, and to in.
crease our criminal population. Tie
would in future as in past, exhaust the
civil power and the military power al
his disposal, even the state treasury
within the limits of the law, TO suppress.
crime
As before intimated. we do
not believe the governor really
contemplated what he would say until
he said it, therefore the assertion should
be taken cum graa0 salis.
The governors assertion that "as L
lawlessness and crime, it was matte
of congratulation that we have so Iittl.
IN Texas does not consist with thi
report which comes from the state CAPT
tai, from parties in position to know
The general remark here is that tn,
lawless element Was never more ram
pant in Texas than now, and yet in TIA
last twelve months Halls command
the frontier troops and the peace officer
of the counties have made more arrest
and Gagged more bad men than was eve
! done IN the same time, and the court
and Juries, If the papers tell the truth
have convicted more desperate Grim
mails than ever before The pen itentia
ry, u Is reported, too, is receiving
great Increase of convicts. Some eS
plain that the result OF the influx O
; tramps is Just beginning TO be felt
something il the matter with Texas.
the adjutant general had an army of
thousand men he could hardly answe
the demands from different localities 70
squads and companies
Governor Hubbard, Of course, know
, better than almost any one else that tC
day there is fearful shown
Of crime of nearly all kinds il
the state, and that thieves and mur
+ derers are at large and within our Dor
, ders.
E Mr. Hubbard is a candidate for re
{ election TO the gubernatorial chair, an
10 make his canvass more effective W
should imagine he would be more car,
: iul in making assertions so hastily upo
a subject which almost every one in tn
! state is compelled to have some oogn
u lance, owing TO the unpleasant dut
which has been performed by the pre-:
in chronicleing the accounts of crime 5
, prevalent during the past few Dlonth
= / . ttoAAH' " ttile IL
q Texas, yet it is the truth. 7
r hope for remedy, and speedy remed
. too, is the best that can be done undo
the circumstances. The governor is nc
in whole responsible for the state {
a affairs that now exist, yet he is ea
I tremely lackidaisy in performing h
T part. II is useless to speak in detail {
5 the fresh murders that are being con
T mitted almost daily in Texas, and {
the fact that the kind of punishment I
be elective has been rare within tn
past year or two in dealing with III
criminals who have been brought I
trial The facts are plainly understoo
, here in Texas, but persons abroad al
10th to understand why these things al
permitted