The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-10-19
TEXAS PRESS OPINIONS.


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o TEXAS PRESS OPINIONS.
a IYDIcA TIoNs.
G The democrats of this country Will
Camp" with the opposition until alter the
7th of November. After that date the fu
sionists will all have business at the head
waters of Salt river.
TAKEN ABACK.
The news from Georgia does not make
| good reading for Texas independents.
/ Another setback like the one in Georgia
and the wind will all be taken out OF the
sails of the independents in the south
[Tyler Courier.
sELAH
The world is suffering from an overdose
of incompetency. More than one-half OF
the worlds inhabitants are engaged in cali
ings which by nature they are unsllted,
and for which they haye no acquired ability.
1 Henrietta Shield.
WOULDN'T STAND IT.
The Pilot Point Post wants a democratic
negro in congress just TO keep the republic
cans silent on the color question. il we
have to have q negro, We have 70 objection
to his being q democrat. Bat the republic
cans would object to this seriously
Gainesville Register.
MUST BOX THE COMPASS.
The angel Gabriel would get lett II he ran
like Wash Jones as independent, candidate
for governor of Texas, Our people VIII sup
port no man for governor who aVowS no
| political principles and stands on no plat
form. 1t is too big a risk 10 put man in
high office with q right to 90 as he pleasta
on all questions of public policy LMinecla
Hawkeye.
ABOUT TICKETS.
To talk, then, of tickets distinguished by
| this or the other mark, seems to- us 10 be
impertinent and unconstitutional. 1t is a
direct interference with the freedom OF the
ballot and the local law has 10 right to
designate how the citizens shall write or
print his licket-whether with tlourishes
| and in high colors, with illustrations, or in
naked simplicity, with nothing upon the
| blank surface but the names. 1be true
| idea is that the ticket shall truthtally con-
| yey the intention of the voter Any legal
| interference except to prevent the practice
of downright fraud. is, we repeat, lmperti-
nent-it has nothing to do with the point
at issue Houston Post.
POLITICS AND THE STAGE.
The Dallas HEKALD, in its issue OF tho
18th inst, devotes an editorial to Uncle
Toms Cabin, in which 1t condemns the
play as being Misrepresentation OF slave
life in the south, and when produced on
northern boards is calculated 20 create a
wrong impression of the people Of the
south. The HERALD concludes thus:
"Whether this troupe came amongst rs as
a part of the selections made ior the Texas
theatrical circait or is travelling on us re-
sponsibility, we do not know, bnt in either
event certainly more Instructive, more
pleasant and more truthful pieces can be
put upon the stage to call for our invest
ments."
RADICALLY WRONG.
Edmund j. Davis, James 2. Newcomb,
| Jack Evans, Still Russell, Dick Allen and
| Wright Cuney, are all earnestly working TO
lielect Wash Jones governor: Not because
! he can do more than John Ireland to pro-
mote the prosperity OF tEe state. Not be-
cause he is SO likely as John Ireland TO
| Tighten the burden Of taxation. Not be-
cause he will take 50 much care as John
Ireland to make citizens secure in their
prouerty, their homes and their persons;
but because he is their candidate; because
| he is on the track with their endorsement,
| because they know that il be should DC
elected he would be bound 10 feel that he
owed his election to radical endorsement,
radical influence, radical exe-tions and rod'
ical votes.-[ Houston Age.
DAVIS DEFENSE.
Governor Davis is not ashamed Of bis adj
ministration, and we lind his defense OF it
| in the Evening Light, from which we make
| the following extract: u hold myselt re-
sponsible for everything | have ever done,
and you should hold me responsible; but
you should, in order TO taiT, fully under
stand what was done, and the motives un-
aerlying the act. When the whole matter
is presented to you ifyou decide against me,
well and good but there is one thing you
never can decide against me, that is
whether did, even though il might not
have been wise, was not done with the pur-
pose OF iniuring the people Of the state CT
Texas or any one of them" (Applauee.) y
| TGalveston Mail.
NEW NINE.
A company has been formed and a con-
tract into between said company and the
city of Mineral Wells, TO sink shalt Gas
| feet TO the depth of IS OF 100 feet on Mes
quite street at the public well. The papers
have been signed and work will commence
at once. The company Is of the opinion
that the ledge viii Oe reached nom ueptn
of sixty feet, but il is their intention 10 70
farther If they fail TO strike il in that depth.
! We hope also TO be able 10 announce in our
next issue that work upon the Russell
mine has begun. They certainly under
! stand the situation and realize thai the dis
coyery of mines are worthless unless devol-
oped So IL they do not propose 10 sell,
they should prepare themselves 10 develop
| il in some way Mineral Wells St@.
THE YEAR OF ARyAGEnpoE.
The coming will be the only true demo
cratic test we have had in Texas for years.
II is nothing for democrat 20 follow his
party and adhere TO his principles until his
! personal interest may be effected thereby.
! We are not afraid the result Any man
! who is a democrat, who has been a demo
crat for years, or whose democracy IS a
principle with him, even Of short iounda-
| tion, will not show any watering from the
/ line Of his belief. He will not iollew the
selfinterest crowd and pocket legislators,
but show that his belief is a matter OF
honor and principle, and that be is true
American patriot, who considers that the
theory Of equal rights for all is not myth.
-rSan Antonio Times.
TO YOUR TENTS, o. lsRATL.
Only little over three weeks until the
election. We hope that the people will
rally TO the polls on that dag, and that Ire
land may get the largest Democratic vote
that ever old Fannin ever poled. We are
now the banner county in this congressional
district We have a weight and Influence
IN district and state conventions that IS
worth something to rs. We don't want TO
/ lose that weight. We want o be respected,
I and II we are entitled % a large delegation
I in the democratic conventions, il Is then
/ that our wishes are 20 some extent con-
suited. and we can have some Hay-so in the
I selection Of the fittesi men for state officers.
I Now. II we wish 70 oarry this weight and
/ influence, Jet ms give a.big vote for govern
or. and We can have large standing on
account of being entitled 70 a large dtlrca-
tion.-lBonham News.
f A Mo-tana man, Who is vouthsd Tor by
the Helena papers as .'Of vsilknowa We
I racity" has discovered in The Yellowstone
phere is absolutely a non-conductor of
! sound. The genteman's first intimHficn cf
3 tins very singular condition Of fhinrs
z was received on his attempting 70 call