San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-04-03

4 ssS ssSs sSS~s"sy 49,
were IN position to know the feeling
aud policy of Gov. Roberts toward
our frontier and those living there
please give ID what information 20,
may have on this public matter
.. Sincerely.
ZERO. KYLE.
aat SEaUIs, Msrch 20. 1880.
CAPT. FERa. KYLE.
Htf DEAR SIR:-In your mote
Of the 18th inst, you call on me fol
such information as l may have witch
regard to public matter Of especial
interest to portion Of our people, and
that portion that demands our sympa.
thies. because they are dependent upon
US for that protection and assistance
that the weak have right to expect
from the strong, and the exposed and
imperiled from those who live 10 safe
~ and comfort; and while l am deli
cately situated with regard to Cover.
nor Roberts's administration, (having
been dismissed from office by him. and
my motives liable to be nisconstrued, l
do not feel that l would be doing strict
justice to withhold any information 1
might have on this or any other sub.
ject where the interest, safety or vel
fare Of any portion Of our citizens is
inyolvod.
For many years Governor Roberts
has resided in Eastern Texas. entirely
removed from the frontier, has seldom,
f ever, participated in expeditions
against the Indians or Mexicans in its
lcfence. has been very little. if at all,
'mong the frontier people, knows very
title personally of their habits or
'baracter, and like most of men who
'av SO little personal acquaintance with
hem, cannot place proper estimate
pom them, and is almost certain to
nderrate their intelligence and their
loral worth, and place them upon
'wer scale than they are entitled to
,cupy in point Of civilization and sub.
rdination to law. Having such IN
pinion Of them, and being an old ju.
Ist. used to the enforcement of aud
abordination to law, it is natural that
Q should not have that high regard
" the claims Of. and sympathy with
,at people that others have who know
lem better, and while he has no doubt
ad, and has sufficient regard for his
wn duty to carry out the provisions
any law enacted for their benefit, VIC
snnot expect Of him more than
rmal compliance with duty, and,
here moro than this has been done,
: may be done, It is probably to be ,
edited to bis practical Adjutant
eneral, who has rendered much ef.
'icnt service on our frontier.
The Governor seems to think that
cir (the frontier people, removal
ON the refinement and polished FASH {
nable society that We find in tho cities,
WINS and deusely populated portions E
the country, and the peculiar char
ter OF life many Of them live, begets :.
them q wild. reckless disregard for
o immunities and restraints of civi. l
led life, and restless. insubordiuate
spositiou that tends to lead them in- =
violations of law; and as he said to .
upon one occasion when discussing ?
. question of the protection of this
ople, that "Ctate troops (Raugers) {
re needed much more in the enforce a
mt of the law on the border than in
otecting the people against the In.
ms; that they were to considerable
tent lawless ard insubordinate, as =
1t class of men (herdsmen and hunt. =
J had always been from the days of G
'raham to the present time" These s
y not be his exact words, but as II
,r as can give them from memory. :,
The one hundred thousand dollar e.
urfian in snpronr;. t;on g.. cl