The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-08
The sIuniciDaI Convoss


Tested. Last night both candidates for the
oGlce--Judge Good and Judge Thurmond-
addressed the voters, the former at the Union
depot, in the third ward, and the latter at the
corner of Main and Lamar stree 5, in the frs
ward
JUDGE TuURNOND.
A half last seven O'clock Judge Thur,
mond began speaking to large
crowd. He began by Crticisug
! the speech Of Judge Good delivered the pre-,
| effect that If he.was elected he would har
monizo the council and bring order out Of
chaos In his opinoa this was Il very thin
argument. As for himself he was runmngon
principle and for what conceived to be his
rights He conceived that u mayor, Ms well
ms Other municipal officers, should be GOV.
erned by his oath, and he had ever eudcsv
ored IN do what he thought to be right. Il
was tho duty of an officer to su serve the in
tcrests of the people. He had tried to nd.
vance the best Interests of the people. The
people we're witnesses that he had never been
guilty Of or caught in my Dallas Il Wichita
railroad bond scheme, nor had the City ever
l'ob ullN mug uuIlHS hl0 NlIlNlslIAFiDu.
Judge Good was very clever gentleman
but he was egotistic and when his friends
told him that the entire city was for him, he
could not resist the pressure and 50 he de-
clared himself candidate Reference was
made to the numerous petitions circulated by
Judge Goods friends calling upon him to
becomes candidate and he alluded to peti.
lions Of this character as unreliable, saying
that st,.D.l to a.;
or being importuned to death. Such
petitions, so far as the popular
will WAS concerned. were frauds. dis oppo- |
nent in his speech the night previous, had
asserted that he had not held office for twenty |
five years, yet ha failed to state how many
Offices he had sought, but that in the face Of .
this he had aspired to most every office
within the gift of people. Leaving bis I'D.
versary the speaker said that he would omit
and skip over the slime that Mr.. Cow rt had
endeavored to pour upon him, he would pass
tho rubbish and slanderous remarks by, for
they fell in the dust ut his feet, and he did
not deem them worthy of notice.
If be was reelected he would apply his ener-
gies to the office rs Q had already done, and
instead of venting his spleen, would counsel
moderation towards those who had sought to
injure him, for the Lord knew that they did
not know what they were doing. The
speaker remarked upon the salaries of the
officers, and alleged that he had agreed to
the city council fixing his salary. This
Marshal Morton and City Attorney Gibbs
refused to do, yet ho did not blame them, as
they wete elected on one pledge and he
on another They carried out their
pledges and he had endeavored to carry out [
his, when the council tied his hands and sat s
down on him. He submitted, and his salary {
was fixed ut $1,000 per annum. The council t
had batlled him in removing tho ewd houses
outside the city limits. As the head of the .
government, he had counsalrd |
and had opposed the purchase of ,
such an expensive engine house, as we'll rs
the issuing OF $4,000 worth Of bonds
Tor sewerage, saving the city in
the latter instance that sum Of
money which members of the council
were attempting to scheme out Of the city.
Reference was made to the Red Light lewd
house, and be young man Goldsby, whom T
the speaker claimed was prosecuted by both
the proprietor and the police. Marshal
Morton, he said, had been of late given to
getting drunk and was working against bis ,
election. The action of the council in nd
dressing him out of office was mentioned at
length, aud the legality of their action dis
,ussed. The reason he had fined the gamblers :
81 and cost was because he could only
lne them under the vsgrant law.
Every hour his enemies were manufacturing !
SANDERS against him What would the
voters of Dallas think if he went to the low
'inks of iniquity and hunted up evidence
against them, as Judge Coos had done ? lie
would not be guilty Of doing such low,
thing. They had gone and
AIKEN the alhdsvlts of two lewd colored
women in order to SANDER him. No such
llrty work could drive him from the field.
The speaker said that he would not deign to
answer any one but his opponent in TIE
ace, Judge Good, and closed by stating that
ne would speak next at the Union depot.
Colonel Stemmons was to have spoken in
Judge Thurmond's behalf but stated that ,
.he hour being late no would defer it until
some other Ii ne. lie wanted to present the
ssue, as the law understood it, TO the peo-
pie, as it was their ISSUE 1t was for them to
say whether their voice OF the will of couu-
ell should be obeyed. He understood the
law in tho case, and he wanted to give it to
Ihcm plain and unadulterated.
JUDGE GOOD.
Judge Good spoke at the Union depotto a
large gathering Of voters, all eager to hear the
questions of the hour discussed. Judge Good
opened up by saving that he deplorod the
difference that existed between Judge Thur
mond and the city council. Such difference
had never occurred before in the municipal
government of this city, and it was to be
regretted, though that body, in his opiAon,
had ected wisely and legally ia the action
it had taken in addressing the mayor out of
office, as the proof sustained the facts. The
Office was vacant, and having been called
upon by u Ia 90 and hattering number of the
voters of Dallas, to become their candidate
for mayor, he had entered the race. He had
been asked by people of all classes and
political faiths to make the race and he had
not felt at liberty to decline TO run. He
quoted law extensively from Dillon and
Cooley to show the authority of the council
to remove, and stated that there was no
doubt rs to the legality of the action of the
council. During the Investigation Judge
Thurmord had not only sworn in his own
behalf but his attorneys had been introduced
to testify in his favor, and yet, notwithstand.
ing this fact the council, the choice of the
people of the respective wards had seen
fit 10 address him out of Office In
his removal the law was fully com.
piled with. He quoted also from
the city council to prove tho truth of his
assertion. There was not the least doubt
but that they had the power to remove an