The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-18

Orleans with ,nt the formers knowledge or
suspicion, sign a certain villsinous legislat-
i've enactment which even the white arch
speculator had refused 10 put the executive
seal 10. Yarmouth learned Al night OF
the abrupt departure In the afternoon, AID
forthwith this genius and enterprise rose
equal to the emergency. lie chartered, al
great cost, a special train OF locomotive and
tender and caboose, and bounded over
the rails at double speed TO oyertake bis
flying lieutenant. Finding II impossible
70 overtake him ere he reached Louisiana,
he tslcgraphed 20 some friends lac knew on
the Mississippi state side TO stop the train,
invite Pinchback To a near restaurant for a
lunch, and 10 brihe the engineer TO start
quickly away, accidentally, us IL were, and
thus leave the willy colOred gentleman be-
hind. The game was faithfully played out,
and a few hours later the latter, mortified
and batiled, had "tho pleasure" OF greeting
his chief with "well, Governor, you have
beat me again; let us finish the Journey
home together" Yarmouth often locked
horns even with Grant himself. who seemed
ever ayerse to the rising politician, who was
always a.thorn in his side. ! have seen him,
too, In the witness chair In the New Orleans
courts, undert he seyerest fire and cross,
the same bland, seli-poised, iniperiurbable,
observation-disclosures character,
that he was In the boudolr or IN the state
house.
So, too, II was with the energy OF Davis,
His determined stands as dlstrictattorney
when In The Rio Grande DISTRICT his EN-.
phatiC positions IN conventions, his stOlid
stonewall fxedness and Cromwell-like
severity Of style, rs governor of the state,
his sullen stubborness against Coke's de-
mands. his persistent resolution to prolong
to the very last the contest which required
his unconditional surrender, were all AKIN
OF character To Warm0uth's, though 80 dt
verse of methods But both have now
passed from the stage of political pr'mi'
nenoe, aud both have retired TO the shades
the one 10 those that enwrap the evsrlast
ing sleeper, the other 10 those that still are
brokon by some sunny rays, those OF pu-
yate life. Hut the Louisiana augar.planter
ON the lower Mississippi To rs dead, po
litically, as Is the once bead and front of
radical power, whose brain now hes 80 low
on the Colorado, The iron'maied
hand and the kid.g0yed are
NJ peace with the world they once so agl.
tated, aud both IN the prime of life, the one
In about hia 51th year, and the other not
vet turned 20. Aud thus It must ever be
When politicians seek to thwart the PEG.
pies will and welfare for self.aggrandige.
ment, their reign will always be brieier
than they suspect, and once cut of, their
fall Is like Wolseley' s-"never to hope
again" And 1t Ia immstcrial What be the
motive Tor that ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, whether
Tor powers sake, aa was the case Of Davis,
or for wealth, power, and social recognition,
rs IN Warmoulh's, who, IN less than sN
years, rose from poverty TO bank account
OF n half million dollars, but never secured
that coveted recognition. Yet, In all It's
shifting scenes Let no one say word against
the honesty, mt lcnst, of Edmund j, Davis.
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