The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-12
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.


Mr.. Dudley G. Wooton, formerly of Paris,
Lamar county. nova citizen and lawyer Of
Austin, was then introduced and spoke in
substance as follows:
The capital of Texas sends greeting to
Dallas, the metropolis or North Texas,
whose enterprise and resistless business ener-
gy have built up the resources of this vast
and growing section and done so much to
make the name of Texas the synonym OF
pluck and progress. The location and estab-
lishment OF u great institution Of learning,
whose aims and capacities shall be commen-
surate with tho demands and worthy the
support of this grand commonwealth, whose
pride and possession it will become, are top
les that ought to enlist the earnest delibers-
ton of every man and woman, who claims
10 have any abiding interest in the prosper.
ity and happiness OF Texas.
AUSTIN IS A CANDIDATE
for your votes in this race, not as represen-
tative town of western or central Texas, or
OF any other section of the state, but
rs tho representative and common property
of all Texas, and she asks your support be-
cause il is believed that the state university
of Texas should be located at the capital OF
Texas. We are not, however, disposed 10
rest our GLAZING merely upon this ground,
but we insist that tho intrinsic and actual
advantages OF the place are superior to those
Of any other, aside from It's Inducements as
the seat OF government.
The sanitary statistics of Austin demon
strste 1t to be the heslthiest town in the
south. Situated among the cedsr-crowned
hills OF tho Colorado, In an atmosphere as
pure and bracing rs that of fny town in
America; surrounded by scenery that i, IN
surpassed for loneliness and entirely re-
moved from the influences of malaria or tho
ravages OF epidemics, safer or more cults
able spot for educational work cannot be
found, not in Texas only, bat throughout the
southern states. Its altitude above the sea
and it's surroundings, render tho climate Of
Austin more similar to that of northern la,i
tudes than any city in the state,
thereby avoiding the general chjec-
ton urged by some OF the people
of this portion of the state to sending their
children to southern location.
The society Of Austin, TO those who know
1t, needs no enconium, but the interested
and malignant ISLANDERS of her enemies rem
der 1t proper that something should BIS said
in its behalf Her population Is composed
Of representative men and women from every
nuOtOu vi tuo btutOpahu lLOut VIC ShOlNosI OlI-
Giles of southern culture and refinement
There 10 no art known to cultivated christen-
dom that finds not there as many and as de-
voted patrons as dwell elsewhere 10 other
cities of Texas. The spires of her score or
more of churches, browning almost every hill
top, attest the religious, God fearing temper
of her people. Her costly and extensive
system Of public schoos proclaim her love
oflearning and her devotion TO the cause of
education; while the universal tone of re-
fnement, and the practice of every higher
and nobler virtue that prevails among the
great msjority of her citizens demon
slrates the living, lbellous falsity of all
the calumnious assaults that her desperate
detraotors may level against her. l care
not who may deny it, l proclaim and main
tainagainst every basele.s assertion 10 the
contrary that no more
REFINED, vIRTUoUs, INTELLIGENT,
chvslrous and noble minded mon and wo-
men reside within the limits of Texas than
are those who live in Austin and do honor
to Its name. With the attacks that have
been made upon Austin on the score of the
incompetence and proflgscy of state officers
and legislators there congregated, we have
nothing TO do. They are sent there by the
people of Texas and are no permanent part
of Austin society; but this much may be
said, that such Wholesale charges upon the
good name and character Of those whom the
people have chosen 10 represent and do their
will ARE IN insult 10 the intelligence and virtue
OF the whole people of Texas-a shame
and disgrace TO the authors Of these vile
ISLANDERS. and will require something
more than mere reckless assertion to sustain
and Justify than. The attempt TO villify |
and blacken tho fsir name Of the capital OF |
the state, besides being founded on false |
hoods, indicates the miserable subterfuges 10 |
which the opponents of Austin are reduced. |
To hear and read these scurriloua misrepre@
sensations, one would imagine that the heads |
ofthe state departments and the members of
the legislature were men OF tho vilest in
stincts chosen and sent to Austin by the
people for the special purpose OF corrupting
and degrading the youth and virtue Of the
country.
Passing now to the consideration OF
another strong argument for locating the
university at Austin, we maintain that the
necessary buildings for the university can be
more permanently, elegantly and chesply
erected at Austin than at any other point IN
Texas. The commissioners, whose duty
IL recently became to investigate
tho matter of the building of the new
state capitol, after IN exhaustive examination
Of the building material and resources Of the
state, have pronounced the Austin marble,
granite, brick and lime 10 DO the cheapest
and beat 10 bo had In Texas or elsewhere,
and one eminent foreign architect stnies
that tho stono there quarried has no SUI
perior anywhere. The bills Of lading on
ille In the railroad offices IT Austin show
that limo and stone sre being constantly
shipped to almost every railrosd town in
the state.
AUSTIN STONE
Is being regularly uSod for oil classes of
building and 10 vast quantities, at Galveston,
Houston and Waco, aud wo are now ships
ping stone TO Marshall to be used in erecting
the college there; lime, stone and brick are
being shipped and used for tho construction
Of public and private buildings a. Rusk,
Franklin, Corsicana Henderson, Palestine,
Longview, Groesbeck, Mckinney aud Paris,
and the freight on those shipments
has added from 25 to 40 per cent TO the COS,
Of the buildings thus erected. This she ~
that Austin Is In a situation to build the
university cheaper and better and 10 get q
larger return for money expended than any
other town n the state. Furthermore, tho
erection Of Vie now capital building, which
10 now bel r contracted for, will bring TO
Au,,,n ,,oro and hottor workmen than can be