The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-07
Waco Examiner.

The state convention meets at Dallas on
Tuesday next with Il probability that Gov
ernor Roberts will be rc.nominsted. As this
paper is practically out of the fight, owing to
the withdrawal of Colonel Lang, we are en-
abled to give an accurate summary Of the
situation, untempered by any partizan heat.
1t is due to our readers that We point out GER
tain peculiarities of this campaign, and GER
tain dangers which menace the party. The
beginning of this administration split the
Democratic party of this state, and every
month of this administration has widened the
split till at this present moment the party Is
divided into two parts with an irrepressble
conflict between them, since the division is
not on person, but on principles. The split
admits ofno compromise being on principle,
and the Roberts men have before them only
enc resource in preserving the ascendency of
their party, and that ID by crushing the
minority. We are not advising but relating,
If Governor Roberts, to whose support
this paper is in measure pledged, is
to be nominated, let it be done with
eye, open. The minority must be treat
ed AS . faction, and whipped in to the traces
or turned out of the party. There Is no
room for two Democratic parties in one
state. This minority cannot be whipped
unless they are recreauts and times servers,
because they object to Roberts on principle,
and principles are not to be put on and of
at pleasure. Now mark what dilemma the
party is in. The Roberts party is represented
by the county conventions and all the politi-
clans Of the state. Every politician is Rob-
erts man, How many Of the people are, no
man can tell. That Roberts party is the
machine majority, at least. Now what is the
minority. 1t consists of u large number Of
persons in all parts of the state, number UNI.
known, and nearly every daily paper in the
late, with come of the weekles. These per-
sons and those papers, the Houston Tsle.
gram, the Galveston News, the San Antonio
Express, the BRENNAN Banner and Sentinel,
the Dallas HERALD, the Fort Worth Ad.
vsRc-, the Sherman Chronicle, the Denison
News, the Tri Weekly Marshall Herald with
other weeklies, oppose Governor Roberts par
ty policy because they sayit is undemocratic,
and because it is an injury to the state. Now
let the convention re-nominate Governor
Roberts, and what must be the RESULT These
men, it they support Governor Roberts, must
stultty themselves, and urge the election of
III administration which is not Democratic,
and an injury to the state. viii they do it ?
Can they do it, and thus consent to self
qualification? If we insist on the nomina-
ton Of Roberts they must be forced TO do
this, or they must be read out Of the party.
IL the Roberts party is the Texas Demoo-
racy, these men aud papers are not, and no
party can harbor with safety faction in its
midst. Some of the Roberts papers are al
ready, in the arrogance and contemp. of
their assumed machine majority, OK
ulting over the crow these men
and papers will be called upon to eat. They
are but smatterers, This position in which
the minority is placed i, one that will test the
strength Of the party machine to bring these
men into ranks. Can the machine do it :?
VIII those papers and men bolt? These are
the questions staring the party in the face.
Colonel Bower, chairman of the state execu-
tive committee, declares that the re-nomina-
ton of Roberts will cos, the party forty
thousand votes. The Dallas Herald de-
clares it will cost the party forty thousand
votes. The HERALD is the most cautious
paper in the state. Such is the situation The
denomination of Governor Roberts will be
made at the hazard of the party. Let us
fairly understand that so that if it prove
DISASTROUS the responsibility may be placed
where it belongs.