The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-30
ON JUDGE HESRY's LETTER DECLIN
ING THE GUBERNAToRIAL SOMI-
NATION

NATION.
The letter of JUDGE JoHg l.. HENRY pub
lished in Sundays issue of the HERALD,
declining TO be candidate for the nomina'
ton of governor before the Galveston con-
vention in July, is frank, manly and most
approvable document for the chaste and
eloquent and explicit declaration Of his po-
sition and the honest disclosure Of his SEN
timents, II is characteristic of the man
that has graced every position in life that
he has ever filled and honored every trust
he has assumed to discharge. Such men
upon the bench, in the executive
char, or in the legislative halls,
men who never seek Ciico, but
whom the office seeks, are those despite the
shrinking modesty Of their nature, that
most enviable kind. No one who knows
JUDGE HENRY but would not have respond
ell for him as against any of the limitations
he refers TO, in language similar to his own
happy words when he speaks them with
the following emphatic eloquence; AS
one of the local attorneys of the Texas II
Pacific railway company, to advise and aid
in its litigation which ! have done, and
for which ii has paid me, have never bar
gained away a single political conviction or
transferred one privilege of a citizen. II it
is believed by the managers Of rail
road corporations, or by any portion Of the
people of Texas that if elected governor |
would be the plant tool Of corporate power,
both have been deceived. If have lived all
the years of my manhood on the soil of
Texas, and have lived them to so little pur.
pose as TO make this avowal necessary to
influence the belief of any one who has
known me during these years, then my feel
ing is one of humiliation only" One Of the
nlisfortunes of our system of govern
ment is that so few really dcslra-
bic men can be found willing
to enter the contest for official position and
to wear its harrassing harness because OF
the charges of every hue and shape that
will be hurled against him by political ad-
versaries, not always the immediate oppo-
ncnt but by the latter's interested, over
Jealous and reckless friends. In this regard
JUDGE HENRY pays n deserved
tribute to the press in JUDGE MELANp's
section and stronghold, yet Just such as
one us the latter could hive spoken in re
spect to himself of JUDGE lTENRY's home.
JUDGE HENRY might have said something
stronger than he did when he states that
''no railroad official has in any form so
llcited, or even suggested, me TO become q
candidate" Indeed, he was not the ex
pressed choice of some Of the lead
ing railway interests of the state
for these were looking in another
direction, although the fullest confidence
in his strict sense Of fairness under all cir
cumstances was the general thought. 1t
would appear that developments thus far
made in the canvas indicate that the rail-
way question will figure prominently, and
the views onunciatcd by JupGE HENRY
are Of that just, equitable and con-
servatiye nature that are des.
tined TO win in the regulating of the
commercial and political affairs in the great
state OF Texas now pulsing onward in u
career of prosperity which will find its
boundary lines only on the same plane with
its legislation as rejecting the views of its
people. Northern and central Texas are in
accord on this great subject and he who
fails to recognize the fact, and in spirit OF
illibcraity would stay the hand Of pro-
gress, will find himself freighted with a
burden that will certainly sink him with
his hopes forever.