The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-12-06

or. The PiumelcSs Knight would indeed
have shown an almost superhmnan for
hearance and SELL control, had he have
withheld an expression of his indigna-
ton, after being essentially shelved as
candidate for the chiefmagistracy, and
bad he have forborne to break
his gronades charged with wrath over
tho deience,eSs heads of our people.
Why have We today a solid south? We
answer: After the wars fierce tempest
OF shot and she'll had rolled and surged
IN al its fury, rs q heSom Of destruction
over our sunny southland, and charred
ruins stood TO mark IT'S dciloratiou, as
mute though impeaching Witnesses of
the vandalism of our invaders, and
peace was nOminally restored, there
Sprang from the lOius of the ascendant
party horde OF ravenous carpetbaggers
and scallawags more to be dreaded than
We're the plaques of Egypt, who came to
rule over us and devuur our substance.
aud who were seli-taught to be self
serving in tlagrant disregard OF every
sacred trust. 1t is not forgotten that
the most of these cheeky adventures
We're no better oil in this worlds goods
than was Sir Lemuel CULVER whose
! invent DRY of effects were scarcely of the
, value of six reals. Superadded to this
and to their uudying dlShOnor, ii must
I be said, our halls of legislation were
| garrisoned by armed soldiers; and
worse still, as if the acme of iutamy and
the elimination of military violence and
| tyranny had not been reached, the sa.
cred chambers and inyiolable Sanctity
of our courts of justice were invaded
with armed soldiery, all bristling with
bayOnets fixed.
Thus the soil was fallewed, and dragons
teeth east abroad, from which uproso in
u seasonable hour thousands OF resolutC
| OppOSerS to so relentless "a Toe. THESE
are fOw of the counts and facts which
make up the solid masonry of the in.
dictinent against Blaine and his coad
tutors, and which constituted the causes
which swept from the grasp OF his party
all control over the southern states.
THESE contagious and baleful inhu.
ences spread abroad and were the enter.
ing wedge which drove asunder the pha
lauX-like legions of the followers o.
their party in the states north of Ohio
Thus the Radical party grew in dis
favor and steadily marched 10 its doom
Foremost of our helpers to achieve thi,
result, is one without a superior and sur
passed 10y none in the affections of hi,
party, seli-poised, above the conflict o
passions and warning ambitions, agains
the horizon, resplendent with the aurO
raj dawn of golden era whose twilight
bears upon its every beam germ o
hope and rill of joy, to swell the pleas
e ures Of every patriots heart, is seen TIL
form OF Thomas \. Hendricks, who's
martyr-llke spirit and devotion to tn
. cause Of the people and OF Democracy
as the matchless hero of two campaign,
edshrnes him in the hearts OF his cOun
e trymen, and has won tor him the loft
est niche in the pantheon of fame.
Endeared as he must be TO the peopl
7 Of his state, tnoy should weave for hi,
D gorlands OF oak and wreathes of iVy,an
crown him prince OF all.
! Under the citizenship of men lik
), Cleveland and Hendricks, eminentl
u practical and sagacious as they are i
!. All that pertains To statecrait, this tal
u ric OF free government will not prove q
" experiment merely, and along with
,. and It's choicest blessings, the constiu
i ton Of our country viii he hundo
u down to future generations AZ precior
- legacy, unimpaircd and unimperiled.
+ II. NJ. PACE.