The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-22

Total. sl,2SO,753 10 Sl,3S6si6 50
We SEQ that expenses under Gov
ernor Roberts, in all departments aggregate
$lG,0o9 10 more than under Governor Hub.
bard. When it is remembered that nearly
sll salaries were cut down by the Six
teenth Legislature under Governor Rob-
berts all of twenty five per cent, thus saving
naany thousands of dollars, and q. that
Governor Hubbard had many items OF ex'
pHnse to meet which Governor Roberts did
not i'll the way of paying the law codifying
commissioners, paying the expenses of prose-
cutting the land fraud CRIMINALS and paying
out ever fifty Thousand dollars for frontier
defence and Halls company of State police,
Governor Roberts did not have to pay, as
well as other items that will have been no.
ticed b. our readers in their examination of
the itemized account. The wonder is, to all
Intelligent minds, how can it be truthfully
said that Governor Roberts has saved anything
to TIE State? 1t is true that money has ac-
cumulstsd in the State Treasury, bat why {?
Simply because 1870 was good crop year.
Abundant crops were made throughout the
State, nigh prices were obtained for every
thiag, and the people had tue
money to pay their immediate
taxes and taxes due for two and three years
before. This is fact which every ntau
knows, and this fact alone accounts for the
surplus of money in the State Treasury.
Look at the items under the head of "Miscel-
Ianeous" under Hubbard and under Roberts
and il will be seen that Roberts far exceeds
10 expense Hubbard. This is an item where
genuine, true economy could have told, but
did ii tell under Governor Roberts? Some
people say that the motto pay as you co.
as enunciated by Governor Roberts, and the
fact that there is money in the treasury blind
the people at large; that they do not stop 10
consider the why's and wherefores of the cash
balance nor to compare expenses under Rob
erts with those under Hubbard, but that
in blind zeal, led astray by these
catch-penny expressions, they will not listen
to reason, cannot be made to believe thNt
Governor Roberts is not political Moses, a
saviour of his country, an exponent of ecoL0-
nay, 8 monument of wisdom and statesman
ship. We do not pay heed to any such
talk. We have an abiding faith in the istel-
iigence, good sense and discri nination Of TIE
people at large, and we feel just as well
assured as we do that we are penning these
lines, that every intelligent man who informs
hinselfa, to the facts in the case, and
GENES to understand all this demagogutry
about 'psy-as-you-go," and the. cash
balance in the State Treasury, COT
pied with Governor Roberts opposition to
free schools and to immigration and the ma
terial development of the State, will refuse
to support him 70 recollection. Texas, the
young and growing State tina. she is, with a.
her interests inchoate, cannot afford to stand
still in the battle for Advancement and de-.
.velopment. She cannot afford 10 be ham
p ,red and trammeled AM shackled with pol
icg that is in itself retrogressive, that does
not rise above the mists and letharges of
half q century ago. That Governor Roberts
means well, and is pure in all his motives and
thinks he Is serving Texas in her bes. inter-
essx, we sincerely believe, but he is mistaken.
Bis ideas and views and conclusions are all
an era behind the present one. He is in the
wsy Of the progress OF Texas. He doesn't
mean TO be; he doesn't think he is, but he is
ia the way nevertheless, because the policies
Q his administration of the affairs Of TIE
State are all Of nature to retard its growth
aud its advancement For these reasons we
oppose his reelection; for these reasons we
g.ve utNrancc to the faith that is in us,
.aal al true men may read and ponder fer
tbs good Of Texas.