The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-04-16
Tho Proposition 10 Make GOV. Rob
erta His own Successor,
10 ths Editor Of lhc Hornld,

The Proposition 10 Make GOV. Rob.
cris His own Successor,
To tho Editor Of the Herald
Two years ago tho Democratic party OF
Texas, embracing as II did then and does
now, over two-tbifds of tho voting popula.
ton of tho State, sent delegates TO the Aus
tin Convention either peremptorily or vir.
tualy instructed 10 nominate j, w, Throck-
morton or Il. Il. Hubbard for Governor The
people did not care n great deal which was
chosen and would have cheerfully supported
either at tho polls. That convention was
composed in tho main Of rank
partsans--men who would concodc
nothing and 80 bent upon car
rying their personal preferences, they
were determined 10 nominate II third man or
break up tho convention. After participating
for nearly week In the most disgraceful
wranglo recorded in tho history of politics in
Texas, they kicked aside the great men
elected by their constituents and nominated
a candidate whose name had never before
been mentioned, whom nobody wanted, and
who has since proven himself utterly incom-
potent TO discharge the duties Of tho office in
that enlightened, progressive manner 80 in
oxorably demanded by tho present spirit
abroad in Texas
The nomination Of 0. NJ. Roberts was
everywhere received with disgust on the lip
or in the heart. The people had been m ost
sbameiully cheated and unblushingly swim
died and tricked out of their wishes, and in
stead Of tho name of II statesman of modern
ideas, and imbued with the principles of to-
day. being submitted, that convention took
an old man of the supreme Bench, who has
learned nothing since 1896. lilo was selected
to lead civilization in its efforts to develop
the already great and rising giant
of States. In tho campaign he
inspired no enthusiasm. He has
aroused none since. 1t was plainly
shown by tho GOODNESS in which he was re-
ceived that no was not tho man wanted AS
Supreme Judge he was not popular, for, as
Supreme Judge, he often thwarted JUST CO.
There wero few who took consola-
ton at his nomination, from the fact that il
took him of the Supreme Bench, and they
therefore hoped that lower courts, rid of this
stumbling block, would hayo better
success in their efforts 10 check the almost
unbridled career ofcriminals and place Texas
alongside of States which maintained law
and preserved order. How these few have
been grevously disappointed let his oft re-
peated pardons and combinations of con.
demued felons and arch-dcvils.. who have
preyed upon the weak, the innocent, and
the sober and Industrious citizens of Texas
for years, answer. In this respect the Gov.
ernor is perhaps more weak than wicked.
1t is well remembered that before Roberts
became Governor Texas was annually recev
ing nearly quarter of million of imm
grants. She encouraged tkem to come ant
help to develop the land, and had agents n
work North and South, armed with sample,
of crops, soils and minerals, and to who's,
exertions we are indebted for thousands of thu
best citizens among u.s. Her,
in Dallas not aday passed not celebrated by
the arrival of several dozen wagons loaded
with them and their effects, and every trair
arriving brought more of them, ten to one
than any other kind of passengers. How |,
ii now? Not a day passes scarcely but w
sec wagons filing through our streets LOADED
with negro exodusters, while not a single on,
can be called TO mind coming from another
State to us within the last year. Gov. Rob
erts is not actually responsible for the Negro
hegira, but no sooner had no taken his seat
than he began to throw cold water upon m,
and all efforts to induce immigration
Whilst the cold sterile and iuhospitabl,
States and Territories OF the West and the
Northwest are bending every nerve and OK.
pending money, literally returned to them b,
the weekly receipts of thousands Of men and
women inducedto toll, thc.withered and mani
mate old relic of an ante-deluyian epoch
whom God in His inscrutablt
wisdom allowed the politi
clans to inaict upon us, is doing all he can tc
keep them from coming to the rich, beauti.
ful and sunny plains Of Texas, ten acres OF
which are worth i've hundred Of those now
receiving them in an unbroken stream.
And when these mastodonlan bones frs,
ratified in the Governors office, the common
school system of Texas had just began to go,
under way and to give promise Of bearing
good fruit Itdid not eomport with his ideas
ideas inculcated sixty years ago
They had no such nonsense Their
and forsooth should have none now. Jus,
here the Constitution of Texas stood directly
confronting him. He made desperate ei.
fort TO ride over it, and expended 500 900 in
an extra aession of the Legislature to defeat
the appropriation which the Constitution
preremptorily demands shall be made by the
Legislature 10 support popular education
That he did not quite succeed was no fault
Of his. He did succeed, however, in cutting
off enough of the revenues of the
common schools TO so cramp and Grip
pie them that they now languisb
in a condition of decay. His policy. il sue.
cessful. will result in the present youth OF
Texas growing to manhood ignorant of even
the rudiments Of education, fitted only for
draymen, field hands and railroad lsborers.
or as food for jais and the gallows.
That such man as this should hold the
important office he now does, longer than
the expiration Of the term is preposterous.
The proposition is an insult to our intelli-
gence. 1t Is tsntamount to ask
mg US 10 extract sustenance from