The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-14
THE ELECTION TODAY.

To day the election for mayor comes OIL
Tho canvass has bean an exceedingly exciting
one, aud let US hope that to-day the ex-
citement and whatever bitterness, pro and
con that may have bern engendOred will DO
permitted to subsde and to slumbsr. Let
the hard work of the cslvass eliminate to-
day in quiet, orderly election, every
man going calmly to the POLLS and
depositing his ballot according to the dictates
of his judgement and of his conscience
Dallas, growing, prosperous young city ha'
the eyes of the world, so to speak, upon her.
She is the young thriving metropolis OF all
north Texas, section Of the state that IS
populous, Is rich in all material resources
that is yearly growing and developing. A
section of the state that great tTanscohll'
mental railroad limo passes through the very
midst Of, line of railroad that will bring
countless thousands of people to settle along
its line and bring into cultivation
the rich. valleys and fertile prairies, and to
make the whole country bloom like a garden,
and smile und the fostering hand Of in
dustry. As the country grows aud nd
vances,a aud WAKES great, for Dallas..is the COM
mercial centre Of all this section, the great
entrepot for all north Texas Can Dallas
then afford to do anything unworthy of her
self, Dallas the cynosure ofal eyes, Dallas
tho proud city of the prairie'? We think
not, and we have an abiding faith in the
good judgment, in the prudence, in tho con-
servatism of the people of the city. In this
land of freedom the ballot-boX is the
palladium of the peoples liberties. 1t is the
altar of their freedom. 1t is the mouth
piece, tho oracle more powerful, mole truth
full than Delphi, through which tho people
express their will. BY it they redress their
wrongs, they establish their rights. In the
name OF civil liberty then; in
the name of freedom let not the grandeur
the majesty, the sacrelness Of tho bsllot-boX
be outraged be insulted by any Interference
in any way, by any one, with the right OF
another to vote as his convictions may prompt
him. It'll the right of the citia9n to reason
with his neighbor, to discuss whatever ques-
tions there may be at issue in peaceable,
quiet way, and 70 win votes to his side by
moral suasion, but thus far and no
farther has any citizen the right
to 20. 1t is the right of the
citizen, too, TO protect tho purity
of the ballot'bor by invoking the aid of the
Jaw against any person who may seek ille'
,ally to vote, but this far can he 60 and no
urther. There is no politics Involved in
his election to-day The people are simply
allied upon to select. a mayor aud in that
election tho issue is not one of political
principles. Dallas wants goo1 government,
onest government economical government,
nd let tho citizen cast his vote to-day so RS
est to attain these ends according to his
ldgement and his convictions. Once
lore we raise our voice in behalf OF quiet,
nd orderly election to.day,that no stain may
,st upon tho escutcheon of our young city,
nat no tale of violence, of wrong doing may
g heralded broadcast throughout the land
, put shame upon US, to mar our good
smc abroad to injure U, everywhere. Let
very man vote his sentiments and may a
,und Judgment enable him to think Alright
arriving at his conclusions.