The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-04

nj We poor Ihe greater reason why.
lusuce and humane government would
say thai they should come 10 Tyler, where
tbs courts are already located Hnis they
can We'll a.i0r1 90 do. as they, be''i than
their ess fo-tuuste neigh bOrS, ale able TO
witn ire coIyeuielce OF distance,
ami the pittancs Of the patronage OF the
courts. We will have 70 learn Tor the first
time that weath is the test % merit ami
in the administration OF our
state government, and lhaf the genius OF
this government aud tie policy OF our leg.
islaiion hereafter, is u make the rlCh richer,
anu the poor poorer.
Again, We protest against the iallacy,
that because Smith county may not
give as large 4 democratic majority a Dal.
las, therefore the courts should DC removed
The enforcement Of such doctrine as this
has been the chief cause Of many of our
national woes, since the time when the
true principles OF democratic government,
Justice alike TO every section, has been
buried beneath the rule OF party faction,
Even though the democratic majority OF
Smith county may not be 50 great rs thar
of Dallas, yet We most earnestly protest
against such u peryersion Of true demo
cratic principles. Ii weak now, do rot
make us and the party weaker still by add.
ing oppression ami injustice to this weak
ness. Are courts to be made and justice
dispensed in Texas for democrats alone,
and not republicans as wellG Should
the counties OF Washington, RrazOria
Wharton and others, which give large re-
publican ma critics, be, for this reason, de
prlyed Of the benefits OF the courts? II SO,
Is not the reverse of this doctrine true, and
can we OF the south consistently demand
that the party now in power at Washing
ton, should give us the benefits OF Federal
courts in Texas and IN other southern
states, which give large democratic maiori.
ties This argument would apply 20 Cal
weston as well, and remove the branch of
the supreme court located there because q
republican member was returned to con.
MeSs. Surely, also. this argument cannot
eyail.
A curSory glance at the map and the leg
lslatlon upon this subject will show, as is
wellknown TO every ObServant mimi, that
the needed reform IN THIS matter is not the
removal OF the courts from Tyler To Dali
las, but appropriate legislation
making those counties Ielurnable
u This branch OF the court
which naturally and properly belong here,
and which, including Dallas itself BY uu.
due preference, having IN view possibly the
very removal now sought, have been made
returnabe elsewhere. That u sufficient
number OF counties have not been made re,
turnable here is certainly not the fault o
Tyler. The Judges are as competent and rs
anle to worg when here rs they are at othel
points, and, with due respect 70 ia las, Is
they would he there; and If the bushes,
which legltimutely belongs here has beer
uniuS'ly diverted elsewhere, then let The
blame rest where it properly belongs.
IL has been vol demonstrated that III,
supreme court as now organized cannot
possibly dispose of the business of the state
All that any branch OF it could do would b,
to dispose of the business of Il partial mum
Der OF counties only. That Tyler is one o
the Judicial centres cf the state must b,
evident to every candid mind. Ii yol
change this center 10 Dallas you cUnuot il
Justice TO other parts Of the state stop there
Y on must make a corresponding chang
from Galveston to some point in the IN
terror, SCI as to accommodate a part OF tn
territory which will be left. Indeed If tn
change should he made at all, then tn
public good would demand that the cour
should be located not 90 Dallas. but NJ som
point further west.
Perhaps as fair test as could be made Il
10 the relative merits of Tyler and Dala
as TO judicial crnters, would be to rscertAi
the humber of counties accessible TO each
with given area sufficient to give "A prope
amount OF business. A fair test of this, an
to which it seems that Dallas could not oil
! jeot, would be tu make the estimate b.
surrounding counties. live take Comm,
sioner Spaighs's recent map and statistic
OF Texas, and draw two circles. one OF Yhicl
| Tyler shall be the center and Dallas upo
| It's circumference, and of the other of whic
Dallas shall be the center aud Tyler upoi
/ the circumference, We will find that, with
/ the counties wholly and partially embrace
! within them, the Tyler circuit VIII ipclad
| forty counties and the Dallas circuit onl
/ thirty-tire, thus giving five more distriC
courts aud five more county courts in fayo
/ al Tyler, from which appeals can DC taker
/ Ii will be further found that, with all Tia
hoaSted advantages and developments {
| D1!lIs-and in which we eel alike with he
u state pride--that she has, in these larg
number OF counties, an excess of p0pulatiO
OF only II sl2-less than that contained o
ten in single county only.
THIS Will be APPARENT from the iOllowin
facts and figures, showing the name,
number and population OF the above tw
circuits. As it will lessen the length Of tn
memorial aud not change the result u
population of those counties common I
both circuits will not be given;