The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-06

BenalOrsnlp NJ HarrisDurg, wherein tno ma
chine" was vigorously fought, the machine
and Cameronism won the day, if Colonel
Alexander X. Mcclure. editor of the Phila-
delphia Times, has penetrated the true in
wardness of things Writing from Wash
ington City TO his paper he says:
No one in Washington who has eye. to see
or ears to hear Ia now in doubt as to who ana
what triumphed at Harrisburg in the election
OF Mitchell to the senate All disguise is
thrown off to-day, and Governor IIoyl,
Senator Cameron and tho lesser lights who
worship or iear the ''machine" avow the
Strategy that made the boilers accept one
who viii be Of all tho men named the most
heartily and submssvely in accord with
CemeIM. Governor Hoyt declared Mitchell
to DC All out-and out Cameron man. and di3
not conceal his qualification at tho waking
up Charley Wolfe viii have
in few weeks when he gsls
to understand AIilehel'7 position and
the Cameron strategy that made him senator
II is now declared by OAmer5n's friends that
tho nominslion of Mitchell was Oameron's
first eif5rt 70 make the senator himself, and
there is some truth in the claim, as both
Oliver and Ben or were accepted rather than
dictated or oven suggested by Cameron.
Inc whole Mitchell campaign was most eau.
tlously md completely planned at Cameron's
house in bis city, and WAS perfected on Sun.
day evening, under the leutenancy of Colo
mel Dick. 1t was known to the Cameron
leaders at Harrisburg on Monday and to
Miles, Lawrence, Davies and few other
boilers, who had been Cameron's men in
spirit all the time, although forced to be
bolters in thu flesh, and the programme was
played out without q hitch in any of the
several important parts. How such men IA
Stewart Lee, Wolfe and Emery vera made
to boar the Cameron cross without knowing
1t is tho unsolved problem. In the disas-
irons surrender OF the boilers they not oniy
surrendered the demand for tho attributes of
stsLesmanship in the new senator, BY accept
ing tho weakest In both Intellectual and
positive Qualities of all the many men named j..
but they practically made Cameron a double
senator by accepting Cameron's own msn.
chosen because he would beat challenge
C.meron's supremacy in the distribution o..
party favors.
The Chicago Inter OCEAN has pretty clear
views as TO the Importance of the west and
saye:
The west has been tainted, within the las.
few years, with a ton lency TO extreme views
on fllanciai questions, but in the present
CRISIS, whom there 10 certainly strong de-
mand for well-consilered action, /. is not the
west tina. Is running TO extremes bu. thu east.
II this continues, IS il not possible that w all
street may lose prestige, and the east ose
inf Al Ia,
west gains in prestige aud absolute power
Atspch time as this, or in any crisis, any
comparison between the Two sections is favor.
able TO the west This cannot escape the OBJ
servati N Of thinking men at Washington OF
elsewhere, and tho ultimate result Will be
that the influence of the republican state,
which have SO rapidly increased their ca
paclly TO produce the great trade staples will
neu,raize, II not overshaiow, tho iniluencC
Of tho east. Whether tho funding bill be
comes law or not, tho agitation has al
ready turned public thought in the west il
tho channel above indicated 1t is scarcely
necessary tosay that tho ground gained b,
the west through the Observation-Disclosures o
wall street will not be surrendered wilhou
struggle, and It may afford base for flu
turs operations in which the states t.ibutsr,
70 Chicago will sustain now relations /,
the mjneyed interests of the country
The New York World has a proper con
ception of what railroads arc doing for th
southern territories, but it is little mixe
when 1t speaks Of North Texas as a territory
What NO know Ia This section US north Texo
Is tho livcst section OF the Invest state in III
union, state already in the union, and th.
intends to stay there jus, as long rs it please
despite tho efforts Of tho World to make it
territory. The World says:
Inc oil Tor setting of from Dakota ~
other northern territory TO DO called Pen
Dlna-atler the name Of well-known tribl
tary OF tho He'd river of the north--wll soon
or later become law. Tho attention ,
puolic mon, capitalists ind settlers will, hoy
ever, continue for some time to come to b
uirecIed rather to the development Of o,
more sou'herly territories in which 9th,
industries are practical besides whca
growing and mining, and in which the china
and The rapid development of railway centr
md communications Offer enterprising me
agreatcr variety Of advantages. Long befu
Dakota, Pembina, Wyoming, Idaho Al
washington knock AT the door Of the emit
Tor admission as states. Northern Ten
Arizona and Now Mexico will be heard fro,
Passengers who travel on tho iranscnn,
mental railroad highway which connects d
oceans look southwark rather than mort
ward. Only dozen years ago when w,
street saw the words Santa Fe in connect,
with the name of u li,tlo local railway
Kansas many financial magnates smiled Al
shrugged their shoulders. Mex. su,
mer any Of these mnyna
who were thon immer.ed IN Hast,
Water Power, Canton or the Grand Tn
for opening up Canadian wilds can lon
Atchison, from which the little local rniw
started, and sklrtlng the extreme northw
q q,,i Mexico reach the Pacific ocean by {,
Within tho last four years all the NAB D,
lahers have been obliged continually
modify their maps In order TO keep pace W
she increasing network Of the rAiiways VIII
are now crossing each othcr--ifve In Ark
aes aud twelve In Toxas--and which.
Rether With tho transcontinentnl and int
national railways, are pushing tow
the Acihc ocean, with many branc
"a surveyed and under contract. Dal,
ana Pembina may require cong
elonsl hutsing but the oomitg states OF
eoutnWe.t VIII care for themselves and
N. poShSne but the commercial suporyI,
I ~ Ninv!led BY the multifArious An
~ 9ase ~ capital, A
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