National Republican., 1882-01-14
Texas.

Representative men from the State of
Texas like Governor Davis and Colonel
OChiltree encourage the belief that Bour-
bonism has not the absolute gripupon that
Commonwealth which it has had for
years past. The task-masters of the
Bourbon pariahs there as elsewhere
have wearied the patience of thousands
and excited in them a spirit of revolt
against the pig-headed folly of trying TO
crowd the chickens of Change back into
the eggs of Events. There is not moro
upright man in the South than eX-Gov-
ernor Davis, of Texas. lie is q man Of
stern and inilexible character, and when
he is found favoring a union of the anti
Bourbon elements of Texas we may be
sure it is not because he would gain n
temporary personal advantage, but be.
cause he sees in the elements around
him material for successful crusade
against tyranny, outrage, and wrong.
In 1880 Governor Davis received as the
Republican candidate $1,000 votes for
Governor. Two years before Norton, the
Republican candidate, had received but
$4,000. This shows the great strength of
the former. He is leader, and good
one he is a patriot, and n generous one.
He advocates liberal policy on the part
of Republicans similar to that pursued
in Virginia. There are some who desire
to stand at the back Of the regular Re-
publican organization until its breast
bone is broken by its enemies. These
will never, never desert the dear old
regular party so long as it has an Office to
bcstow. If the sole mission of Republic
canism was to bcstow Federal offices on
its adhcrents, there would be no object
in contcnding for jts principles in more
than barely enough States to control the
Government at Washington. In that
case it would be all right for Marshal
Norton, of the Northern District
of Texas, to scoff, as he does in his news
paper at Dallas, at any idea of harmon
izing all the elements opposed to Bour-
bon misrule. But as the world must
move, even mt the inconvenience of some
who lose thereby, Mr.. Norton's snars
against uniting the anti-Bourbons of
Texas are as much out of place in this
generation as were his flowing locks in
the last, which he then wore uncut, as he
continues to do, because he had vowed in
1914 not to cut them off until Henry Clay
should be elected President. Mr. Norton
managed, with all his intense devotionto
Republican principles, to he such favor
ite with President Hayes that he was one
of the monuments of that good mans
love erected in the great desert of Demo-
cratic oiiice-holding through which the
Southern Republicans wandered during
the four years he allowed the Bourbons
to rule. Mr.. Norton's counsels are hate
full and out of joint with these times.
We find among the Texas Republicans
we meet a broad and patriotic spirit.
They feel that the Republican party has
for twenty years had no creed but
obedience to the laws of the Nation, and
that under whatever name or leadership
patriotism, law and order, free education,
and National allegiance will best rally
they will answer the call. Not upon the
condition that present success is certain,
but upon the high ground that their
party has no right to lose any chance to
recruit the National couse.
There sits in the House of Representa-
tives from the State of Texas G. w.
Jones, very plain-appearing man, but a
man of great power and sterling qualities.
He is rs Independent in Texas as William
Tell was in Switzerland. He is as patri
otic rs was Abraham Lincoln. lie is not
q Republican, but in all that goes to
maintain the laws, support the education
of the people, stamp out secession senti-
ments, suppress bull-dozing and fraud in
elections, and put the South shoulder to
shoulder with the North in thrift and
progress he is as honest worker as Gov
ernor Davis or any other Republican.
The Republican party was organized in
1856 to oppose the extension of
slavery into the Territories. In
1861 it gave way to the great
Union party, and Union party it has
been ever since. And if in Texas Republi-
cans like +. j. Davis and Independents
like c. w. Jones can find any common
ground on which the entire anti-Bour.
bon strength of the State can be united
it will be but a repetition of the Union
party of 1861. There is not n confederate
who cannot best exhibit his manhood
and magnanimity by being Union man
now. And there is not n Union man
who can better exhibit his insincerty
than by acting with the Bourbon Demo.
cratic party, which is merely body oi
protestants against the preservation oi
the Union by armed resistance to rebel,
lion, and the emancipation and enfran.
chisement of the blacks rs conse.
quence.