The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-21
FROM GALVESTON.
Political ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dark
Horse Roberts strength - Tho
Lang Intercst-GeneraI Can.
aIes and the nto
Rio Grande.

0ALyEBrON, April l0 lWo'
Galveston is all agog over the convention,
10 meet tomorrow. As yet only about ihir-
~ delegates have arrived, but on tho trains
to arrive duringt the day and tonight fully
Eve hundred will DO here. II 10 impossible
10 yet prognostcato what tho convention
will bring forth, or what the log-roylng on
the outside between members may ihcubate
In tho way of states for State officers. There
Is one thing sure, this convention Is sort of
primary meeting at which many
things will be cut and dried
for the State campaign.
Feeling OF the delegates | have met, am
satisfied that Governor Roberts
IL sToEg
In the sections of tho State from which
these delegates come, but no is not without
opposition, which opposition Is very deter
mined and uncompromising. 1t seems TO
me from what gather that there is dispo-
sition on the pnrt of the people in the coun-
try to array themselves against the people OF
the towns and cities and that class Of gentle
men they are pleased to term politicians.
Tho Roberts managers are sharp enough to
play on this, the quintessonce though
Il be of demagoguery. II ia thought by
some that Lang and his friends will be able
TO turn this hostile sentiment into grange
boom, and thus fetch from Governor Rob.
erts his thundor-b bolts TO make the Grand
interest is not without It's friends here, and
tn1l u,a1l Cav tkni, aapl,1at,
whose fealty to the Democracy cannot be
doubted, and whose able speech Mt the last
State convention and his withdrawal from
the contest for the sake of harmony IL
the party, are still remembered. Lieu.
tenant Governor Sayers has his warm
supporters here and many friends who would
like to SEQ him the next Governor.
That Governor Roberts administration
is VERY VULNERABLE
There Is no question, and the only way to
save Texas from his reelection is by vigor-
Gus canvass Of the State, making the reports
of the various State departments for the first
year of his administration the basis of attack
The figures and the facts must DO plainly laid
before the people, and their rea-
son and judgments appealed to
from this standpoint. The mare
harping on his opposition to free-schools and
immigration will not win. Not that the peo-
pie agree with him on these points, for nine
fenths ofthem do not, but they contend that
under the Constitution he could do nothing
in behalf Of immigration and that he vetoed
the one-fourth school appropriation from q
mistaken idea that the income of revenue
would not justify it. The opinion prevails
h. bn. 4l,.4 .Lnu g
these gentlemen now prominent for Governor
can DO nominated, as neither of them can
get two-thirds majority, in which event
A DARK HORSE
Will have o walk-over. In the pools now
the dark horse is largely the favorite. Who
this mysterious equine Of the hue Of night
will be, is one Of those things no fellow can
find out Several prominent gentlemen of
the State, who are here as delegates, say he
is staked out, and that he will be named at
the proper time, and that when he is named
there will be wave Of enthusiasm t at will
sweep from one extremity the State to the
other. Whether it is Culberson or Reagan,
or Mills, or some one never yet mentioned.
10 the mystery. There seems to DO the
unanimous sentiment that Hon. ID. b. Cut
berson could get the nomination without the
least difficulty were he to attemnt IL. 40 IL
NAV be that no Is the dark tbprou,bbred
now in training. Judge Gustave Cook. of
Houston. Is mentioned by some and n viyor.
Qua effort on the mart Of his friends woS,d
make him yery prominent. But enough Of
surmises. for until all the delegates set hare
and unbosom themselves. correct r CON Christians
can scarcely be arrived at. althoneb tbs tb;r.
~ here are from every section and a;rec,ion
Of the State. ' "' N'''''V
At the invitation of Juase
Russell, Of Brownsville, " '''S IN