The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-13

OF oats was from forty to eighty bushels per
acre IN many sections Of the State. In
northern Texas the barley crop has been
equally good. The wheat crop has been
from fifteen to thirty bushels per acre. The
corn crop, already mat,ired or beyond acci-
dent, Is from forty to fifty bushels to the
acre. The cotton crop is very advanced and
promises the very heaviest yield. II ia esti
mated Texas viii market million bales of
cotton this year."
"How do the people of Texas like the can
didstes nominated at Cincinnati?"
Il was at Cincinnati, delegate from INV
state, urging the nomination of General
hancock, aud from the beginning to the close
Oh .De convention received kilograms from
various portions of the State showing the
greatest enthusiasm for General Hancock,
AFTER ms nomination was known cannons
were nred In every town where u cannon
cJuld beProcured, in honor of his nomina-
ton. No nomln ton has been made since
the war which has been received with such
evident manifestations of enthusiasm as this
Inc general impression, from all the sources
OF information | have, 90 to show that he
VIII nave the largest majority that any per-
son, either in state or federal canvass,
ever received in the state. We can fairly
calculate on 10000 majority"
From what you say, Judge that General
Hancock was personally your choice 7"
General Hancock was my choice in 1868.
went to st, Louis for him in 1876. / have
worked for his nomination from that time
until the present. He is the choice of the
people of my state, and has BEEN"
=" Were you not the governor of Texas
when Gen. Hancock was in command of the
department Of Louisiana and Texas?"
u was removed by order Of Gen. Sheridan,
through Gen. Griffin, a few days before Gen.
Hancock was appointed to the command Of
that department."
"Then you know something OF the condi-
ton OF Texas prior to his taking command of
that department"
=" ! do had been ordered by the military
authorities to deface the records of courts in
my state in criminal cases, which | refused
to do. Prisoners were turned loose; the
records OF the court were defaced; indict-
ments were destroyed by the military authori-
ties, and was removed as an impediment in
the way OF reconstruction, because | refused
to carry out these orders of the military
authorities"
Was that CONDITION of affairs changed or
modified after the appointment of General
Hancock to the command of that depart
mentW
Seen. Hancock was appealed TO BY the
provisional governor appointed to succeed
me to create military commissions or courts
martial for the trial of citizens charged with
otienses against the laws of the state, which
he refused to comply with. His orders, and
his letters TO Governor Pease upon this
subject, speak more decisively than anything
/ can say. 1t was his recognition Of he
constitutional rights of the citizen, which
has made him the popular idol Of the
people OF my state. II is a notorious fact
that under the reconstruction laws many of
our people were imprisoned, tried by militia
~ commissions, and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary. More than that, under these law
less efforts of the Republican party to secure
power in the south the Ell deay0r was made
while enfranchising the blacks, to disfranchise
the whites, and General Hancock's manly
course towards the people of the south en-
deared him to everybody wholoved the con-
sttution and was devoted to q free govern
ment." m
"The population Of your state is made up
largely of emigrsnts from the various states
of the union, is it notF' as
"Of emigrants from every state in the
union, and a very large proportion Of our
population is from the north and northwest"
"Wss it your impression when you left
Cincinnati that entire harmony prevailed
among all the elements represented in the
convention" Ill
"Most assuredly; l have never seen such
unanimity. The truth is that the followers
of every other candidate whose name was
presented can support General Hancock
without any feeling of bitterness whatever.
In my judgment, he will gain great victo-
ry--one unsurpassed in magnitude, and in its
importance greater than any work ever ac-
compished BY the party. Not only will it
be Waterloo, but il will disintegrate the
Republcan.party.'