The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-30

advocates one.third of the representation in
the delegation. We do not quarrel with the
principle in itself. We think, on the contra
ry, that it ia fair and equitable. BY this
arrangement the veritable will of the consti-
tuency will be expressed in the stnte conven-
ton. But Whist shall be said of the Demo-
cratic consistency of this act? Is this the
common law of the party? Why, then, did
not the opposition, in the hundred and odd
cases where the delegations we're instructed
to vote for Roberts, have the same rule of
justice melted out to them? Why, then, did not
the delegation 60 up to the nominating body
composed in Just ratio of administration and
anti-administration fractions! In some cases
the difference was exceedingly small, but it
never occurred TO the Roberts majority to
grant an eqitable representation of the Say
ers or opposition element; such proceeding
would have been against Democratic prece"
dent, and the minority, even if by one only,
must submit. or forswear Thomas Jefferson
forever. But no sooner than the tables are
turned, as at Dallas, and the opposition comes
out in the majority, the minority, though
only of one-third strength, pulls off its coat,
splits in it's hands, and proposes to fight for
its inalienable rights. Yes, rights, truly;
rights that are grown on the manly soil Of
Dallas, but die out, or are trampled under
foot every where else. This is the direct
working of caucuses, of primary conventions
of party. Men and opinions are taken In by
the wholesale, weighed, counted and valued
imperiously. by party whips; every manly
voice raised in remonstrance is stiaed in the
throat every Independent claim of right is
denounced as treason; the stiff uniform is
forced on every back, and every man receives
his number as il he were convict. These
Democratic rebels al, Dallas are heroes of in
dependency. They have stamped upon the
holy principles Of their feudel tenure and
have proclaimed themselves men before the
world. They will have none of your back
seats. They will suffer no dictation. They
| will not allow themselves to be packed, like
| behring's in box, and to be sent up with the
county brand, to the wholesale market o.
August 10. Those men have true grit and
we admire them hugely. But imagine the
| feelings of their amiable and submissive
cousins all over the state, who have allowed
themselves to be bulldozed into silence ant
forced acquiescence. How happy must they
feel in comparing their meek and quiet spiri
with the bold and heady action of these VIC
INT men! Probably we will see some effect!
of this comparison on the floor of the STATE
convention. We certainly think that there
will be some room for comment when the
many minorities will hear their votes cas-
contrary to their inclination, and see the re
doubtable Dallas "one-third" giving an or
thodox vote for the man of their choice
Will men suffer themselves forever to be tiet
by the dictum of a dead man? Will they
submit to coercion at the hands of Fraction
because that fraction happens to be four
sevenths and they are only three-sevenths
This is what instruction and the unit rule
means, and we may add this is what the two
thirds majority rule means and the whole
machinery of the dominant party.