The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-05
STATE PRESS REVIEW.


the nomination Of Horatio Seymour by III,
Democrats for President and for the faith
that 10 In II gives thTfollowing reasons NV,
do not authoritatiP undertake 10 say that
Horatio Seymour" iSeIiccept tho candidacy
Of tho Democratic party In the approaching
presidential campaign, oven II II be offered
10 him with practical unanimity, but that he
" tho only man who can surely conduct that
campaign 10 successful conclusion we have
not 80 much rs the shadow Of doubt
As events have shaped themselves
the duty OF the Democratic party Ia clearly
deaed. 1t should nominate Mr.. Seymour
and Mr.. Hendricks and adjourn, leaving with
them the responsibility of imperilIng not
only the life Of the party, but the existence Of
the republic, by refusing to accept the
great charge thus committed 10 them. In
saying this We disclaim all personal prefer
encef. We look only 10 the good of the
country, With loratio Seymour In tho chief
executive Office peace between the sections and
prosperity throughout the length and breadth
Of tho land would be assured. There would
DO q cessation of angry political strife, a
breathing spoil and recovery, During the
last twenty years we have wandered u long
way from the republican simplicity which
characterized the frat half Of our National
existence. There has been sad decadence
Of tho patriotic spirit of tho masses. Tho
election Of Horatio Seymour would
restore tho one and revive tho other.
His is, in our humble opinion, tho only
name now loft 10 us whereby tho
Democratic party can DO surely saved.
Tho Fort Worth Christian Advocate seems
TO be rather severe on church festivals. 1t
says What Ia tho difference between
church gambling and church lotteries, and
PLAYING keno, seven-up fighting the tiger or
diyines will show the sinfulness Of a game Of
cards, etc. This Is right, but why not turn
their attention to their own violation of the
State laws, in allowing gambling at their
church festivalsf What Is the difference be-
tween buying n Louisiana State lottery ticket
for ono dollar, in expectation of drawing a
prize, and paying dollar for slice of cake
in the hope of realizing gold ring? Judg-
ment must begin at the house of God.
The Denison News favors the licensing of
gambling houses. 1t says: 1.-THE Austin
Review advocates the licensing Of gambling,
at which few papers in the State affect to
be greatly shocked. We are are inclined 10
favor the suggestion. We know from OK
perience that prohibitory laws do not &C.
compsh the object sought. Anyone who
wants to gamble has no trouble in finding q
game and the very fact that it is prohb-
tied creates desire to indulge in tho pastime.
For the same reason persons drink
cAndestinely when the sale of spirits is pro-
hibited. And speaking Of drinking, we be-
lieve the exorbitant tax placed upon the
manufacture and sale of ardent spirits has
greatly increased ntsAication. We have
very serious doubts about the ACCESSIBILITY of
forbidding by law either gambling or the
sale of intoxicating drinks, with the hope of
lessening the evil effects of such practices.
The remedy, to our mind, is in n firm,
healthy public opinion. Society must ac-
complish the reformation.
We know that the editor of the Gaines
vile Hesperian is not sentimental, though,
Judging from the following, he must be rath-
or presentimental "a young friend of ours
a day or two since, and just after severe and
unexpected misfortune, assured us that for q
month past he had lived in dread of some
great misfortune; that his feelings bore upon
him premonitions of a great calamity, and
while he felt morally sure 1t was coming, he
had lived in dread. Such feelings are very
common to those of highly nervous organiza-
tions and forobode nothing of the future
General Houston, one of Texas greatest
statesmen, had his presentiments, but they
were not always realized. 1t is said that
while he was an orphan boy, tiling the little
field of his widowed mother, he was seized
with the presentiment that he was to be Gov
ernor of Tennessee. At that day Governor
was a very great dignitary, and the humble
widow sent him back to the field
with q mild reproof But in
space of few years his PRESENT.
ment was realized as fact. When quite a
young man he was made Governor of that
gallant State, but his eccentricties or some
other cause had led him to resign his office
and flee from the face Of civilized man, and
to bury himself in the forest with the Chero-
kee Indians. Here he was prince and chief
amongst these rude children of the forest |
Again, while rambling in the forest
with his adopted people, he had |
a presentiment that he was destined |
to be the president of two republics, and |
discarding the red men with the same sudden |
ness as he abandoned his own race, he APP
peared before the sturdy pioneers who were
striking for freedom from Mexico and became
a leader and President of the Republic of |
Texas, but the whole of his presentiment was
never realized. His presentiments were all
the otfsprngs Of an ambition that was in
nate, and he was too rational to be unreason-
able, yet his genius was not equal to the
of his own conceptions; otherwise
his presentiments had been fulfilled to q
letter.
The Waco Telephone hurls the following
solid shot at the Waco Examiner and it
strikes that paper in the diaphragm, if the
quotations are correct: "In 1878 the Waco
Examiner dinned this advice in the ears of
its constituents in the Fifth Congressional
district: 'Greenbackers, Republicans, colored
men, Independents, boilers, malcontents,
Of every sort, rally to the common
task spare no pains nor votes to defeat John
Hancock the regular Democratic nominee,
and elect Wash. Jones, so he can help
out the stalwarts in Congress- In
1880 it hurls this defiance at
those Democrats who remained true to the
Democratic cause in lS7S-who would not
vote for Jones-who did vote for Hancock,
and who are wearied of the Roberts policy
now:. The present administration is the law
and the gospel and we 1.-THE Examiner) its
prophet If you do not support it; if you do
not fall into line as the faction whip cracks,
vou are boilers. Organize your bolt In
he light of history and the facts, what right
has the Examiner to hurl the epithet of
bolter' at Democrats, whose only treason
consists in the desire of seeing another DEM
)crat than O. nj. Roberts nominated and cleo