The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-13

issues, has contained articles from the pen of
Hon. w. s. Colema 40. on the question of the
subsidy compromise. These articles are
quite lengthy, and eursory perusal Of them
may delude some people into voting against
the proposed settlement of the railroad sub
sidy difficulty. 1t strikes US, as it does the
honorable County Commissioners court and
many other Taxpayers, that this compro-
mise is the very best that can be had, pro-
yided the bondholders accept it. If they
do not accept it we have lost nothing, save
the time lost in going to and returning from
the polls. We believe the taxpayers of the
county are under no obligations to pay
these bonds; and that if they had employed
GOOD lawyers at the proper time, the
collection of taxes for their payment
could have been defeated. But this was
not done, and the bonds fell into the
hands of innocent purchasers. The case has
been decided by the United States court,
which says the bonds must be paid; and this
being the case, right or wrong, they will
have to be paid, unless the Taxpayers Of Har-
rison county can whip the United States
which we are not fully prepared to believe
they can do. Our Commissioners court has
already been told that if the tax WAS not lev
led for the payment Of these bonds on which
Judgment has been obtained, they would be
imprisoned. 1.-THE holders of the Harrison
county railroad subsidy bonds, to protect
themselves, bid off our property when it is
offered for sale by the tsx-collector, will Mr.
Coleman tell us what we are to do! Can we
expect to keep it by resisting the State and
United States officers? Our tax rolls will
show that Mr.. Coleman need have no
apprehension of any difficulty IN
keeping his property safe, as the tax to
be levied will be an ad valorem tax.
Hence, he can, without running any risk
himself, write long articles advising the peo-
pie to vote against the compromse-advise
them to oppose compromising 3 debt which
no is we'll aware the United States court has
decreed they shall pay, by paying hall, and
paving that in small sums. We are reliably
informed that after the judgment was OBJ
tanned against the county in the United States
court, Mr.. Coleman was anxious for COM
promise-at fifteen cents on the dollar if we
could-but, by all means, compromise, Why
thus great change in his opinion? Is it not
simply because the parties he was represent |
ing were not chosen to make the compromise |
and he did not got to make u handsome fee ? |
II is the opinion of the Messenger, and we
believe of most white men in this comfy, |
that these articles from Mr.. Coleman are |
nothing more nor less than electoneering |
documents, intending to delude the farmers |
into the belief that the Honorable w. S.
Coleman is their Moses to lead them out |
of the wilderness, and by that means
control their support in his candidacy
for the Legislature and the Lieutenant
Governors office. 1--WE believe he is trying
to get both). But the eyes of the farmers of
this county have been opened since the last
election. They cannot see wherein they
have received any benefit from Mr.. Cole.
mans championship, but they every plain
ly that he was working for the Hon. w. Sid
Coleman, in'which he succeeded, being elected
to the 10Th and 10th Legislatures, where, by
his numerous and lengthy speeches he cost
the State of Texas more money in a single
day than he could earn at his profession in a
month. We believe he also received money
from divers persons TO defeat the payment Of
the railroad subsidy. The taxpayers of Har-
rison county want representatives like Gees
ar's wile-abovc suspicion--men who have
some interest in the country; men who are
not professional office seekers--who have
proven themselves competent to earn an
honest living at something besides office
holding-men who pay all their honest debts.
The taxpayers of Harrison county need rep
resentatives in the Legislature who are not
demagogues. They are tired of just such
men as w. Sid Coleman, who have no
objection TO their homesteads, and,
if need be, their beds from
under them, being sold for taxes to
feed and clothe the army of office holders;
but at the same time make no end of laws :,
enable the dishonest man to defraud his |
creditor, even though the debt be for bread
and meat to sustain the lives of the debtor
and his family; thereby forcing every mer-
chant who sells to our farmers on time to sell
at an enormous profit to make up for the
losses he must sustain on account of such
laws. OF course the honest man pays for his
own supplies and those purchased by his
dishonest neighbor, or the merchant is bank
rupted. We have withheld from arraying
ourselves against Mr.. Coleman until now,
and would not do so now did we not consider
it to the interest of our subscribers that we
should expose his electioneering scheme, and,
Notwithstanding his offer to bet four to one
that he ceives the nomination for Repre-
sentative from the Seventy-ninth district, we
think he will come out mistaken. The peo
pie are tired of demagogues and are deter
mined to elect TO all offices men whose inter
ests are Identical with their own. We shall