The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-01
rurruLL FACTS ABOUT IT.

The Waco Examiner, in an editorial cap
toned Scandal Mongering III Politics"
contains the following; The Dallas HEE-
AID of yesterday morning devotes lead
ing article TO the difficulty that occurred
at Austin week ago yesterday between Co
LIONEL &. w. JONES and NAT q. HENDERSON.
The HERALD assumes that the Independent
candidate for governor had given way to
al indulgence that is the fault OF too many
men, and that the difficulty was the result
OF his unfortunate condition. 1t seems that
somebody at Dallas took the HERALD to
task for Its lack of generosity to p'llt-
ical opponent and hence the article OF yes
terday morning, in which the HERALD, de-
Tending its previous illusions to the matter,
cites other papers (thc Examiner among
the number) as having published the same
dispatch that appeared in the HERALD. SO
far us the Examiner is concerned, 1t did
publish the fact Of the difficulty, Just AS it
does other items of news wired it--just as 1t
published, few days later, the difficulty
between ATTORNEY GENERAL MCLEARY and
Mr.. GgIgER, at San Antonio. But the E&-
aminer has never assumed that the diff
Guilty was the result of COLONEL JONES IN
diligence of his appetite, because 1t has
no evidence that such was the fact"
Now, will the Examiner show wherein the
HERALD did anything whatsoever that the
Examiner did not, in giving publication 10
an item that came to each paper from proba-
bly, the same Austin correspondent In
deed, it was not at all as fair ana generous,
inasmuch as the HERALD expressed doubts
as TO the correctness of the dispatch, and
the sincerest sorrow ia the event the case
should be AS stated whereas the Examiner
spoke not word in his favor. We
feel an equal share of surprise
at this one-sided way OF handling the mat
ter, especially whcA the very same issue
that contained the news item by telegraph,
contained also our doubts and our condi-
tional regrets. After the HERALD had
sounded the true keynote of how to treat
the case, the Examiner captures our thun-
der for some purpose and follows to u posi-
ton already set by us. That there may be
no mistake and no mislnterpretaton rs
to that position of ours we reproduce
what We then said, and, if it indeed trans
pircs that we were right after all, and that
there was error" rs Is now asserted, then
truly has the HERALD been right all the
way through, and is so on record, whereas
the Examiner is only wise after the fact,
and is guilty of a grieyous wrong in trying
to put the HERALD in false light when il
says: "Thc HERALD assumed that the in
dependent candidate Tor governor had
given way to an indulgence etc"
What was tho Examiner editor
thinking about when he pcnned that sen.
tencc2 No such assumption was made.
We merely remarked about the telegram
that We sincerely trusted there was some
cident." We neither affirmed nor denied,
nor assumed, but announced that if our
correspondent was correct, then We sor-
rowed for the luckless circumstance. But
wv hNiN nuhhlAN uAA tNllOIldl
verbatim for impartiality TO make the
assignment of II asa whole; "ltiS with feel |
ings of the deepest sorrow that we read in
our Austin special that Hon. G. W. JONES, !
the greenbacG candidate for the governor
ship, was guilty on yesterday of a uckless
indiscrction. However strongly and per
sisicntly we have opposed that gentleman's
political positions, especially on the iinan- !
cial and the tariff questions, rs involved in |
the canvass We have ~ steadily rofralncd |
from saying one word against him as gen
tleman doubtless possessing all the valued |
domestic and social virtues, for We have
known of him rs such. We sincerely /,
trust that there is some error IN the |
dispatch, or il there is not then |
that it will appear that he tell |
unawarcs, as so many OF our best citizens !
do through the conyiviality of their nature. |
Years ago, il We mistake not COLONEL |
JOKES, in the flower of his manhood, and !
personally beloved by all who knew him,
was not wholly free from the glass where
Turks the red.eycd demon, but he had fore.
sworn the habit, aud his native intellect |
was able to do better service for his people
until they placed him in congress, where,
though we differed from his ideas of gov.
eminent, We still respected the purity OF |
his motives. We, therefore, sincerely trust
either thatth item brought to us is in or
rnr, or that the net committed was an nc.
cldcnt We know how to fight political
opponents, but we know also how to re-.
spcct Gcntleman's intrmities.'
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