The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-10-25
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| 1t may not be Carlisle, but it must not be
Randall. Democratic congressman have
number of capable revenue, reformers t6
| choose FROM and the selection OF man
| who is opposed TO the only live issue OF the
| party would be suicidal. Cox or Morrison,
or Hancock OF Texas, all are representative
democrats and worthy of any office in the
gift of congress. Carlisle is apparently the
| strongest candidate, and therefore mary
| democrats support him to prevent divis
| ion of forces, not that he Is the best man.
| Tyler Courier.
sHAMELE.sI
| Hon. d. B. Culberson, congressman from
| the Fourth district, denies the genuineness
Of an interview between him and reporter
of the Houston Post, published in that pa
per Friday morning. AS the News pub
! iished extracts from the alleged interview,
and as Mr.. Culberson deLies In totothat he
| gave expression to the views therein con-
| tanned, suspension OF public Judgment is
requested until he is properly beard from.
AS will be seen in the dispatch from Jetfer-
son, elsewhere published, Mr.. Culberson
promises to comm unicate his views to the
people of Texas through the News at an
early day. The congressman is evidently
the victim of the too-previous young man.
|-[Galveston News.
GETTING NERVOUS.
the good people OF Galveston are getting
decidedly nervous about the means en-
pioyed to obtain deep water on the bar. 1t
is freely said that Colonel Mansfisld's last
declarations are contradictory to the state
ments made IN his reports, since in the lat
ter he admitted that no substantial i'm
provement had been made, while now he
contends that two feet have been gained.
We observe that he has been assailed ter
this discrepancy. and that ex-Mayor Fisher
is back on the subject with sharp pen.
The Post felt what bewldered be-
tween the contradictory statements OF the
chief engineer, and cannot say that IL feels
any great amount of relief when the expla-
nation has been given by a friendly
engineer which explanation Gov
ers the technical points with a
rather thin mantle of charity. In other
words, say, the Galveston channel gave o
depth of 10 feet inches, when the Bolivar
channel gave only IL feet 6 inches; allowing
that two feet has been gained for the latter
he fact only brings up Bolivar channel
to depth equal to that OF the other chan.
mel. Thus 1t is seen that while the gain OF
two feet on the bar is technical truth, it is
tantamount to play on words, and is no
truth at all when viewed as positive fact
having refei ence to the bar as a bar Thir-
teen feet it was, as Captain Fisher says
and thirteen feet it is, and there is the sta
tus of bar work in nutshell, 1t is no won
der that GalvestonAns are troubled, and
even indignant. Their one hundred thous-
and dollars have been thrown into very
shallow plsc,, but deep enough to wash
them away from their pockets s.cula secu-
lorum. They have merely followed the
other hundreds of thousands that Uncle
Sam was generous enough to give to Texas
to make ducks aud brakes Of. But what is
Galveston going TO do? Is 1t not as plain as
the hand before he face that the system
pursued can never cut channel four miles
long under the circumstances? With no
decided isll Of tide, with no steady boring
OF long de'cending stream, but with a
wide spread hay behind, sluggish tide
with its equal rtfux, with a wide open
Jaw, . gradually shelving bottom and a
pile of sand four miles across, the engineer
Ing work or Galveston bar is one OF unpre'
cedented difficulty, and the best engineers
regard its successful termination as ex-
tre,nely doubtful under any circumstance.
The present method hsviog failed TO show
one inch gaioed within three years, is
plainly incompetent u produce the desired
result, and is really only an experimental
way OF spending money sfter the fashion of
throwing salt on ths BIRDS l.-[Houston
Post.