The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-05-18
GENERAL psEss nlvIEw.

pro2rass IN all things OF ma'eriu ooheh''
pAys:
The shrek and bliss OF political msledic. |
Non against the south have been so LOUD rs |
10 rise above the assuring notes Of industrial |
aeyrlopnsn, aud educational expansion,
ths, are heard by dweilers in that section.
Probably in no other part of the country ia
there 80 little discussion Of politics NE AZ the
south, and it ia equally probable that no
where else are the psupe facing tho future
with more healthy or bottsr grounded hopes.
The Newspapers of the south ars titled. not
with revolutionary or even extreme political
views, but with discussions of railroad devel-
opment, of the opportunities for manutac-
turing that nre afforded, OF the relative
cost and eff iency of steam and
water power, of tina expositions they con.
template, and of the immigration they are
looking for and invitibg So utter 'stei aud
enthusiastic ara these renectors of pubic
OPTION, Ia regard to their commercial and
inlu,tlial progress that they almost forget
10 reply 10 the guerilla attacks of norher
demasogues. Thus feeling is not loc'l, but
general. 1t o. tends over every part, and II
less p lstive in ono state than Others. that
state is Virginia, where partisan fight, with
Reputation 10 tho wstchword, has been for
ced upon the people By tho republican party,
and until this peril to tho states honor aud
credit is forced bs by tho debt paying ele-
ment, there will not DO that sense OF security
that is favorable TO tho largest prosperity.
But in South Carolina tho manufacturing
question is being considered with direct ref
ercnce to speedy test of its inertia, and all
along the Atlantic states, from Virginia to
Georgia, there ara new movements in rail-
roads, which embrace not merely single lines
bu. systems. The cotton exposition that is
b DO held at Atlanta is designed to
give the great industry that it rep
rssents q prominence that it never
before enjoy cd, even when invested
with the title and romp and power OF roy
atty. Aside from its immediate object it
will serve good purpose in showing 10
those still predju1iced and skeptical the
resources of the great state and the greater
section where the exhibition will be held, and
proving it is industrial ambition and not
political intolerance that is anma,ing tho
southern people al the present time. Among
The commercial cities, Now Orleans once
more rises from her prostratOn and shows
larger Relative improvements for the last two
years than any other city in the country.
The spirit of the people il healthy and pro-
gressive. They have fixed their eyes upon n
great and bright tu.ure, and they will attsia
Il even though the political demagogues
snarl ~ their heels.
Among the many newspaper accounts Of
and reference to the star route postal frauds,
now and then stalwsrt republican paper
asserts or says that 1t is asserted that star
route contractors and ringsters furnished
m,ney TO aid in securing the nomination of
General Hancock by the Cincinnati conven-
tion. Otcourse this is false and tho follow
ing letter in the Philadelphia Times from
General Franklin clinches the falsehood:
TO the Editor of the Times:
have received from ex-senator Wallace
copy Of his note addressed to the Times,
dated C.enfed, Pennsylvania, May 6, 1881.
What Mr.. Wallace says concerning the
expenditure ut Cincinnati by General Han,
cocks friends who went there to advocate
his nomination by the democratic convention
in June last, ia absolutely true. The money
collected passed through my hands
and was paid BY personal friends of General
tors wa, less than h II dozen, and theLwhole
amount contributed WAS precisely Sl.250 OF
this amount $500 we're expended for rent of
headquarters, two small parlors in snail
hotel; $500 were paid for 10000 badges
absorbing nearly all of tho proper-s zed and
colored ribbon in Cincinnati making
corner in ribbon, and three hundred and
forty.hve dollsrs were paid for banners, por-
traits printing plscurds and telographing
The remainder, one hundred and five dollars.
was left In my hands, and was turned over by
mo to one of the democratic national com
mitlees during tho campaign. Only ono of
the contributors was in political life. and the
name Of no one of them has been connected
with the s'ar route or my other scandal.
Whom W. saw the brilliant parades and dis.
plays and the splendid qua, tiers of our rival
aspirants for tho nomination our hears sank
within us, but the very poverty of our sur
foundlngs was help to us, reminding the
delegates who visited US and heard what we
had to say OF the days when simplicity and
absence of show was a true sign of Pennsyl.
yania democracy. Respectfully yours,
W. B. FRANKLIN.
HARTFORD, May II, 1881.
Hon. Stanley Matthews has already been
confirmed as associate judge OF tho Uailed
S:at's supreme court, despite the hue and
cry and strenuous opposition urged against
him. Yet, as that opposition, IN tho main,
was ensenjered by what was declared he
would do on the bench, it is not amiss TO
give the causes in brief, that bis course may
DO watched. The New Orleans Picsyune
has this to say about IT,:
The principal opposition to Stanley Mat.
thews among the republican senators was due
10 h,s views relative to tho conf CT between
the Central and Union Pacific railroad com.
panies and tho United States government
When the Thurman act, which was designed
70 compel those corporations to set aside
aportion OF their earnings to repay the gov.
eminent the 60,000009 borrowed ON second
mortgage was under consideration in the
senate Mr.. Matthew vigorously opposed tho
measure. Should be rule as a Judge accord !.
ing 10 the views expressed at tho limo, II
would reverse the former decision estsb
lished by the conslitutionslity of that act.
Il does not follow, however, that he will as
judge take the same view of This question
that no did as politician. II no leans to
the side Of the railroad corporation, AZ Is
claimed. he can do the south but little harm,
and tie democrats had no particular reasons
10 object 10 him on other grounds.
y The following from the Arkansas Gazette
may truly be characterized as tho rotor.
courteous and III, also the rotor. bombshell.