The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-05

nothing since have been incongresse And
right here | should also say tina, Ia tue 46th
as in the iIth congress I voted with Mr.
Reagan always 10 try aud get up for action
Q his interstate commerce bill.
/ Again, in the
REArroRrIoNNEAr RuL,
/ ! saw provisions that were shocking To- all
sense OF Justice. These | assalicd with all
Z my ability, AS did other true democrats.
/ and thanks TO God, the country was saved
( from gross inlractiou OF right ana hon-
, esty
Again, as TO
FRONTIER PROTECTION,
/ ! said Il was the duty Of the Federal gov
ernmcnt to protect the borders OF a state.
urged this with all my power. This from
| tier protection bill was passed and you will
recoleCt that Governor Roberts said that it
has saved to Texas at least $50 eco annually.
| Aud yet it has been asserted that | have
done nothing, My friends, you see how I'M
| Just is this, And here let me ask what have
| your other representative done, and who
| m their devotion to their constituents, in
| their patriotism and in their intellectual
abilities are the peers of any in the halls
of congress What has Randall done
What has Bayard done / put these qucs-
tons only to show how unfair have been
the charges against me, of having done
nothing as representative,
But have done
ANYTHING rOR DALLAS
You have n beautiful postoiiice delivery
system 1t was secured by my efforts,
aided by Mr. Cochran, your former post
master, Dallas was the first city TO have
this system, ahead of any other place
in Texas, Again wos IL nothing
to have secured $4,000 for public
building in this city? Recollect, too, that
Dallas and Galveston are the only two
cities in the state that have secured any of
these appropriations Tyler San Antonio,
Waco, Houston and other cities through
the almost super-human efforts of their de
voted representatives, have utterly failed
to secure one dollar. claim merit for only
what have done, and IN justice to my sin
core efforts, Why should not be
FAITHFUL TO NORTH TEXAs
and to you2 | came here eleven years ago
with nothing except wife and two
children. Have you not given to
me whatever | now have, living
pOlital honOrs, and all such? Does net the
little grave out yonder contains dear one
of mine. too frau for time and longer stay
ON earth? To you owe all have. | con
iese tnat | am weak and liable to errors
and full OF sores and dellnquencics, -who
Is there that has them not, anu winch
among YOU is without SIN Forgive these
personal illusions, but the time and the oc-
caSiOn has scemoi 20 call for them.
And now, II YOU will indulge me for n few
moments will say II few words on
NATIONAL POLITICS
We have two great parties in this coun-
try, the democratic and the republican,
and two others in the nature of
sde.shows The republican party has two
leading principles, viz: LIST, The gross ylo- |
lation of the constitution whenever It OBJ
structcd the party progress or prospects,
ID Its devotion to a few favored and priv. |
legged interests. These latter consist of, Isl |
the tariff people, I'd, the national banks;
81 large Understanding debt Now, in |
regard TO the tariff, we all know that the |
power to tax is harsh one, and can be |
used for only the necessary pur. |
poses of government. The Morrill, tariff |
under which we now live, is one OF the most |
iniquitous systems that ever was devised |
by the ingenuity of man or submitted to |
by free people Our annual imports foot |
up $lj9, 0d0 00O, the duties whercon amount |
to 5000 mOOoo, or about % per cent. For
every 81 that goes into the United States |
treasury under this system SO goes into the |