The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-06

and NC WAS tnere 10 record his Nol6 ne SAT
bolt upright, colorless and motionless, for
nearly two hours, till the roll was called and
then when he answered he hurried away.
Meanwhile he had sent to bis wife the tele-
gram announcing the death of his Oldest
daughter in Texas. Each day he has been in
his seat and each morning he presided in his
committee room and each day he answers
letters from bankers and merchants and
statesmen interested in commercial and rail-
way legislation. He is pale and careworS
and ten years older than when Congress met.
THE REPRESENTATIVES, or DALLAS,
Mr.. Wellborn, of your city, is one
of the most active and personally most
popular members Of the House. He speaks
with great taency and facility, and always
has an audience. He has been especially
active and successful in causing proper
code 10 be enacted affecting the conduct of
Indians on reservations, and the people OF
| Texas will hardly forget the debt Of graft
tude they owe the special representative OF
Dallas He has co-operated with Senator
Maxey, and Western Texas is indebted
TO these men for the perfection OF
the mail service, about the costumes
OF which, because the money is not spent
| down East, much twaddle has been written
aud spoken. Senator Maxey's defence of
his action Ms Chairman of the Senate Post
office committee and of the conduct of the
Postotiice department is simply unanswera-
BILE But then it needs no defence and all
{ the noise, some time ago, by the New York
Sun, Is now inaudible even by telephone.
UNEAsINEss OF PARTY LEADERS.
| Politicians are not little uncertain as to
the possible future conduct of Texas. 1t is
known that any triile may produce revolt.
/ There is more political than religious free
thinking, and then the party leaders have no
special birthstone arrangement in which the
| rebellious fellows may be stewed
and friccasseed through all the ages.
If the Cincinnati convention nominate
an unworthy candidate, there is no mere
force of partisan organization or violence OF
anunciation by the Organs or hired stump
speakers that may keep all the inocent peo-
/ pie in solid row, obedient to the lash of
whippers.n who lounge about the corner
groceries, and stand and swear and drink
around voting places, to "honey fuggle" me-
groes on election day. There are dreadful
signs of revolt in the newspapers and people
will talk with degree of freedom never
!
each has his followers and independent can
didates are not impossible, and therefore,
the profound earnestness of orators nj Gal
weston, They remember the hell'punch
and Sunday and school law of the Democrat
ic Legislature, and have not forgotten
events of ls60.6l, ahen Sam Houston was de-
posed and when the present Governor was
the foremost of Seeessionsts. All these
forces of unfortunate preiudices and convlc.
tons of right are potent but will be repres'ed
by the bloody.shirt when upifIed nj
Chicago and put upon the back
of, some high priest of radicalsm
who bows reverently at the halowed shrine
of Eliza Pinkston apotheonized by Johr
Sherman. Such is talk about Texas in Wash
ington
THE JOLLY NEWSPAPERS.
Here in Washington city the DALLAS
HERALD is deemed the Bob lngersoll u
Texas politics-the choicest, the ablest anC
! most dangerous of free thnkers-and tn,
party leaders are silent and watohful, anC
each intent upon discovering first show tina
cat is going to Jump What will
Lang do and Savers if Roberts leads
If these two submit and let Roberts have 1
walk over or any substitute for Roberts
|, will not Wash Jones, OF Bentley, or som'
other revolted Democrat have word to SAY
about his own Independent candldature
There are troublous times ahead that will b.
: infinitely dangerous to the present masters o
. Texas if Chicago omits the bloody-shlIt anC
= nominate wise aud conservative candidate
, and Cincinnati then give us Tilden or I'll
:, den's choice.
4 A DtsGRACEFUL CONTEST.
:. What a disgraceful contest and how II
, infinitely corrup. this now at hand wi
:, surely be Logan returned Yesterday fror
= Chicago. Interviewer" sought him, an
# the story went abroad everywhere that Lc
!. gan said that Grant was defunct, and that Il
Il whole West had abandoned him. Th
Vt statement, ascribed to Logan, WAS sent abros
It everywhere. On the contrary, Logan insist
n that Grant alone can surely win,and therefor
= must be nominated But see Harper
If Weekly, which gives portrait of Blnin
s. one of the figures in Credit Mobiler slus
10 He il thus set up in the Young Men
ID Christian Association business with Cola
J. Another Republican paper intimates tn
It, John Sherman has made too much mons
D. for modest Senator and Federal Treasure
and his character is to be blackened before Il
convention sits in Chicago. Ny impress,'
is that Sherman and Blaine will be deteat
at Chicago, not because they will steal, b
because, unlike Grant, they are too acute
he suffer others than themselves 10 rob the pc
ple. But. do not believe either. to be d
honest, and only advert to the facts to she
how brutal the campaign must become whe
even within the pale of Ra1icaism, these
famous stories are told of Republican AS
rants TOR the Presidency by Republic
newspapers, If this evil be not rtmeei'
the party will be disrupted, and it only