The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-14
"wHo WILL BE TO BLAAE'o

inc the vote on the location o. No p'''e
University. and the count thereof 1t ad-
vanca, the idea that somebody is to blame
about something but who that somebody or
what that something Is, Is not at oil clear
We infer from tho general tenor Of The Arli-
Gle tina. the governor ia accused OF
having made q blunder in tho word
ing of his proclamation ordering INA
election,snd we also infer that the Post thinks
the majority Of tho people who voted did
so wlthou. any comprehension OF what they
were doing. 1t is easy enough TO accuse the
governor with making mistakes, with COM
milliog egregious errors, and with be'ug
altogether uuloyely generally, but unless
these accusations arc demonstrated and
made msniiest, Il s we'll enough to tpke
thom cum granum sale, A good many
people and good many news
papers have gotten into the
hauit oGdoiug thl. .hiog ard after bowling
until thoy got tired, discovered IN the oad
that ibo governor wa ia the right sud they
In the wrong. But then We are not taking
up tho cudgels Tor the governor on this oe"
cason--ihat is to say, the object Of this
article il not 20 defend him specially We
have differed with him in some Of bis views
aud measures and We have plainly said 20
aad given our reasons therefor, and In each
case It has resulted that the governor thought
exactly as we did, only he was taking
u moaue for the accomplishment OF his pur'
pose or pclicy, not clear TO US. The Post ad-
vauces the opinion that the s,io for tho state
university has not been settled in the late
election--in othor words, that no place hiss
been legally chosen. The returns received
and published 30 far arc hardly full enough
70 Justify au opinion one way or tho other
on this point, still We can hardly agree with
the Post. In our judgment, from the
vote aa published up to this date,
Austin IL elected. The law liking
a s,ection for the university reads, section
4: "rhe locality receiving the largeat num-
Der of votes shall DO declared selected, and
tho university shall be established at such
locality, provided, thai tho vote for such To-
cality shall smount 10 ono-third of tho vote
ca,t" 1t is evident tns! Austin has received
q majority of the votes cast for the main or
literary part Of tho university, but whether
that majority Is ono-th!rd OF the votes cast
foriho main OF literary portion of tho uni'
vorsity or not romans to BIO seen. We
opine that II is. The Post, assuming that there
will have TO DO another election, declares 1t
ian intolerable nuisance" and charges that
this il tho result Of blunder by the
governor, AS it says: Had IL been caused by
n puro accident, or by the natural result of
an Indispensable ordering of the question,
Il would have been met with philosophy
and monded as soon As possible. But in the
present case the connection of division and
tho location was abluudCr; the Instructions Of
tho governors proclamation were blundcIs,
and the action Of large number OF voters
was blunder" The governor in his pro-.
clamstlon would vote upon the question Of q
division of tho medical department from the
main branch of tho university or not. Was
this in accordance with the lawl We will
SEQ. Section |. Of the act to establish
tho university, say: ''Tho medical
department Of the university shall DO located,
II so determined by vote of tho people, at
a different point from tho university proper,
and Us branch thereof" This being tho
reading of the law the governor did not
blunder in this order in his proclamation,
more especially MS the same section a little
further on provides tina! the question of sep>
ars,,on is to be "votod on separately from
tho propositions for the location Of tho main
university" The governor also ordered in
his proclamation that tho people should
vote on n location for the
medical branch ard for location
for the university proper, for in section of
the.act in question, threads that "tho location
ofihomedical department sSsll DO subject TO
the other provisions of this act with respect
to tho time and manner Of determining the
location of tho university" And section
of tho act provides that ian election shall be
hold on the first Tuesday of September,
1881, for the purpose Of locating the univer-
ally of Texas, and tho governor 10 hereby
authorized and instructed to issue his procle-
nation on said day fOrsaid purpose" These
being tho facts Ia tho case wherein has tho
governor blunderedi He has done no more
than tho provisions of tho act prescribed
that he should do, and he dared not do loss;
thon wherein has no Numbered aud how is
ho blamable II no locality DO selected for the
university at this election Just passed. Tho
Post then proceeds 10. SGT up a man OF
straw and 10 shoot strsws AT tho miserable
e0igy 10 argue at, around and about nothing
In way admirably suited 20 It's subject.
The law says the place receiving tho largest
number oCvo,es shall be declared selected,
and tho university shalt DO established d,
such locality, provided that the vote
cas-, for said locality shall DO ono third of ,ho
vote cast. This Ia plain, explicit, simple
enough for comprehension, II seems 10 10.
Yet tho Post makea A mountain of a "A