The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-31
THE REASON WHY.

candidate for office or not we cannot say, bu
the argument Of the poem was parable
with the administration of Governor Robert!
except that there are no sublime passages i
the governors administration, nothing ar
preaching to poetry, although the idea
abounds to an extravagant extent. Now
the HERALD, ever since the development o
the policy of Governor Roberts, has opposed
that policy. For eighteen months he ha
been governor, and for nearly eighteeI
months the HERALD has been opposing tn,
views he has advanced and urged ant
carried out. 1t has not done this in aDN
spirit of captiousness The HERALD j
perfectly independent in its view
and opinions, espousing, defending
and maintaining that which it believes
to be right, end in the interest of Texas, ant
this section of it in particular, and opposing
and battling with vigorous earnestness against
that which is conceived to be wrong, without
regard to the source whence either comes
We are able at any and all times to give -ea'
sons for the faith that is in us. While We
have invariably accorded to Governor Rob
erts honesty of purpose genuine conscien-
tiousness in oil his acts, and, if you please,
purity of motive, yet we believe that the
views he entertains and that he has attempted
to carry into practical effect are
detrimental to the best interests OF
Texas are Of a nature to
retard her progress, growth and develop
ment. We know, for it is matter of
record, that he vetoed the bill appropristing
ono fourth of the general revenue for the
public free schools, which bill, being the
general appropriation bill, also, provided the
funds Cor paying the interest on the bonded
debt of the state. We know that this We to
necessitated an extra session of the legsla-
ture, which cost the state between 10000
and 100000. We know that this veto i'm
paired the credit Of the state, caused decline
in Texas securities and made capitalists du-
bious of the good faith of the state. We know
that he opposes free schools, for in one of his
messages to the extra session of the sixteenth
legislature, he said on the subject of free
schools, that the best system of free schools
for Texas was the one which obtained before
the war when only INDECENT psuper children
were educated at the public expense, there
fore from his own words we can say that his
policy has been against free schools. We
know that he is opposed to immigration be-
cause the proof has been made time and
again that during his canvass for
governor he said number of
times and notably at Paris, Lamar
county, that Texas wanted no more immi-
grants from the north, and he also told
General Gano, who wanted to bring colony
of Kentuckians to the state, people with
means, that he would not give 81 so piece
for all the families he could bring to Texas.
We know that he is opposed to immigr alton
from other sources besi!es these, which his
policy and his administration make manifest.
We know that he is wrong in his policy as
to the disposal Of the public domain. He may
not so have intended it, and we do not believe
that he did, but the recommendation tn at he
made to the legislature, and which was en-
bodied in a bill and which is now law,
throws the public lands into the hands of the
spectators, keeps it out of the possession of
actual settlers and brings no money adequate
to such sacrifice, into the public treasury.
he recommended and urged both the Sunday
and the bell-puch laws, two laws that are
dead letters on the statute books; that are |
calculated to lose the Democratic party forty
thousand votes in the state He has raised |
the cry, however, of "pay -as-you.go." 1t is
bis catch word, the purest demago sical cry
of his campaign. He knows there is moth
in it; the intelligent, thinking, business por-
ton of the people know there is nothing in it
and all oppose him. On July first there
were $4,000 in the state treasury, and on
this cash balance he harps and lays his
claims in part for reelection. 1t was no
policy of his, no recommendation of his, that
brought this money into the treasury. Two
thirds of 1t is money that was due for taxes
under Coke and Hubbard, which the people
could not pay, but in 1879 there were i'm.
mense crops in the state, short crops in Eu-
'ope, and all field products brought the
highest prices, and the people were able to
pay their taxes for that year and for the years
preceding, due under Coke and Hubbard.
This money goes into the treasury and Gov
'rnor Roberts says II did it," wien be knows
hat he did not do it. He hoodwinks, mis-
eads and deceives the people in
he country because they are away
rom the centres Of info rmation, and, not
eeing all the papers, do not keep posted.
20 into every town and city in Texas and
SIX tho leading business men of each place,
he men who read every day and keep them.
elves informed, who understand the true
latura of things, and those not self interested
lone are opposed to the reelection of Gov
rnor Roberts. We mean no disrespect
when we say that it il the ignorance Of the
tate and the politicians who are supporting
Governor Roberts. The people in the
ountry, with Just as much intelligence as the
,eoplo in the towns, have not the sources
( inform alton that the town people have. /
Nhev do not take or see tho daily mana.