The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-23
TEXAS SLANDERID.


ment WAS that political prejudice existed in
TEXAS, and republicans were not only politi'
cslly but socially ostracised that free
ballot and q fair count could not be obtained,
and that at the election in November last
mob violence and intimidation were carried
on in the state, especially in Harrison county.
This statement was only detailed at second
hand by the senator of course, he bssing his
remarks upon information he had obtained,
but unless he knew these charges
to be true, or had indubitsbe, I'M
deniable evidence of their truth, it
YVES unbecoming in him, senator from
great state, and speaking upon the moor of
the United States senate to make them. Made
as they were, they were digniaed with the
ofiicislness of his exalted position and be
coming a part of the record. became part
and parcel of the archives of the country.
1t was uni ust to the people ofthis great state
republicans as we'll rs democrats, northern
men as well as southern men, TO invest with
the sanctity of an official utterance, charges SO
untrueso base,so slanderous, obtained at mere
haphazard, from partisan and Irresponsible
source. The republican senators haye taken
turns in pouring on. the bitterness of their
gall upon the southern states, not collective
ly, but one by one, naming them by state aud
hurting accusations against them as inbound
cd in fact as they are preposterous and TN
reasonable Senator Coke was quick to
respond in behalf of Texas, and not only
promptly taking up the gauntlet thrown at
his feet by the senator from Maine, met him
in the mids! of the fray with undaunted
front and with his keen lance of sarcasm,
satire and polished invectvo against the
author Of the SANDER and its retailer, and
with his terrible ba,tle.axe oflogic and truth,
pierced tho points of tho doughty Maine
senator's armor, and beating down hi: buck
Ter smote him hip and thigh, as did the
knights of old the heathen on the plains of
Syria. There was charge made shortly
after the election in Harrison county that
the democrats had carried that
county by fraud and intimidation. Several
cases were made out on this charge in the
United States district court, sitting at Jetler-
son. and tho persons accused were arraigned
before the court. The result was that when
the testimony came TO be heard, and there
were near thirteen hundred witnesses sum
moned by the government, about ninety nine
one hundredhs of whom were negroes, the
cases were dismissed, thrown out of cour
because tho charges were groundless. IL Is
true that Harrison county has fully fifteen
hundred republican majority, the negroes
mostly being republicans, but In the contes,
for district and county officers the democrat:
had no tickets in the field, and the republi
cans, especially tho colored republicans
supported tho peoples ticket, made Of
men they knew to be honest and honorable
and fair and just regardless of their politics
sgainst-whom? Why against, so far as the
county officers were mostly concerned, re-
publicans nomina cd by q little iunta OF
office seekers, men who had ruled the repub
lcan party in that county and dictated to il
for years, and of whose rule and dictatioI
they were tired. In the congressional race
democrat and greanbacker were candidates
and as between the two a. republican Ger
tanly was FREQ from party behesls in hi
choice; and for district Judge, democratic
nominee and an independent democrat wert
, the candidates, and if tho republicans N
between two democrats preferred to support
the democratic nominee, who had for several
years boen on the district bench, anc
whom they knew to be efficient
just, impartial and worthy of the position.
who is there to say them nay? win tn,
: senator from Maine or any other republica,
: senator, who talks 80 much about FREE
ballot, pretend to say that these republican:
: had not the right to vote that ways Must tho,
L DO inundated by the grandiose and verbos
eloqueLce of republican senators and leader
" who never were in Texas and know no,hin,
. of its moral, social or political affairs saw
upon tho ipse dixit of some man VINO can
y not support his words by scintilla of evi
" dcnce! AS Senator Coke says, "the sur
u of heaven shines not upon land wherein
thought snd utterance and action O
the people of all classes, condition.
: and eolors, are freer than in Texas" Why
', of tho 100000 inhabitants of this state, no,
u less than 800 900 are from the northern An,
western states, immigrants hero since tn
late civil war ended. These people hsv
,r homes here, have made and are makin
y property here, they go in the best circle
j. of society, are mot cordially and welcome
N everywhere; express and practice their politi
5. cal and religious faith at will, hold office,
l. 8 ONE of them, and no ono ever asks ,her
10 where they come from or has thought or
Is care for IL, 1t has been but little over tw
J. weeks since Dallas, a democratic city electe,
,r arepublican and the nominee of his party a
le mayor. Elected him with democra,i
10 vo,es,snd other cities in the state on the sam
h day elected republican mayors and other OF
ID ticers, cities that arc democratic. A repub