The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-05
Galveston Journal,

w nav 10 Lub ululbcE WIN lSAuS puIitlSS
The Roberts boom has swept over the state
like cyclone, and sensible men stand APP
pslled at its progress, Demageguery has
seized hold of the tail of Roberts kite with
the hope of sweeping into office on the food
tide, while statesmen like Throckmorton
Reagan and Hubbard sit upon the back seats,
with but an occasional mention of their
names. The vicious custom OF making the
governors office rallying point and head.
quarters for sending out political foresters
and raiders on public sentiment has been the
destruction and ruin OF the great ind good
Jeifersonian theories and practices of ante
belum days, when such men as Silas Wright,
Jefferson Davis, Preston and Hayne, quilted
the senatorial halls to become governors OF
states.
What il there should be glttcring pile
of three,q quarters of million of money in
the treasury collected from people who
have paid out more for bread in the year
1879 80 than for dozen years before? 1t is
poor consolation to the taxpayer from
whose depleted pocket comes this immen,
sum, to witness the triumph of the pay ~
you 60 policy" in order to boost its author
into temporary fame.
In every element of statesmanship- that
craftsmanship which builds up the local in
terests of tho people, Governor Roberts has
been an obstructionist and an obstacle. He
cost the public treasury thirty thousand dol,
lars by his insane veto of the interest on the
public debt. He cost the state forty-fve
thousand dollars the expenses Of the
extra SESSION., in his veto Of the school
appropriation. He has starved the public
schools He has brought into disrepute the
criminal laws and courts Of the state by the
indlscrminate use of the pardoning power,
and his refusal to follow and hunt down
criminals fleeing to other states, He has
withered and blasted the immigration to
Texas by his policy and drivoling mouthings
about pauper immigration, 50 that our state
has become by-word and text for other
states in turning immigration from our bor-
ders. He has recommended the disorganizs-
ton of counties on the frontier, and il no is
re-nominated he will cost us one congress
man and thousands of voters who can
not be whipped into the support of
Gillette doctrines of state policy, which must
drag US to more bitter fortunes. But the
strangest policy of all is, tina. whilst his OPP
ponents in the egislature-Sayers, Stewart,
Houston, Shannon, McComb, Upton, Dam
iels, Finlay, Cochran, Linn, Cause and 9th.
ers-have challenged his supporters to dis
cuss the issues which he has made, and clam.
orel for some champion 10 defend his
policy, not one has responded with argu.
iment or hnd the courage to meet the
issues in manly, statesmanlike way.
Maxey, Reagan, ThrockmorLon, Wellborn,
Mills, all, are dumb rs oysters Oh state policy,
waiting to be struck with the lightning OF
gubernatorial or senatorial houors, densely
stupid or abnormally torpid of the living is
sues which concern the people, What do
the people care for the financial "wll.ofthe.
wisp" which these great leading lights are
constantly Haunting from stump and
rostrum The people want no
theories and vagaries Of financial re-.
form ami adjustment of the currency;
they want free schools, immigration, enforce
ment OF the criminal laws; they want more
shirt and less rulile; more bread and less
money in the treasury and more in their
pocket; less parade of large cash balance,
and more disposition to better the condition
of the people, and they want, and that
supremely, less burdensome,tsxation When
the Dallas convention shall have done
its work, whether wisely or not, the
Roberts storm will subside, the sober
second judgment will return and the people
will calmly sit in judgment upon all of these
vital questions of public interest in the SO.
lection of members of the legislature, and
then the fearful time will come when the par
isites of power will have to face the music OF
popular clamor, and the whole pestilen,
brood of obstructionists and anti.free school
valetudinarians will be consigned to that OBJ
security which will afford them a safe and ST.
lent retrest where they can muse undis'
turbed on their own insignifcance
There is still hope for deliverance, and it vii
come in laundering tones, when the people
eau their representatives once more in coun
Gil. Discussion will not be slenced by the
nomination OF Governor Roberts, and they
who would raise a lance in the political con.
test in defense Of his policy are commended
TO go into training at once, put on the
armor and clear the decks for action. Boom
and buncomb will play out, and iudgmen
and reason will no longer bow before
played-out storm.