The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-08-14
SIIas Hare.

count, and vet the people of that rich |
and prosperous region have long since |
turned their attention to him as a
man who would fill every possible
as a candidate for gov
ernor, and as a governor actually if
he is nominated at Houston. His
name comes as a clap of thunder
from a clear sky, and it will
prove a bombshell in the Ire
land camp. He will come to
Houston with the full and
free backing of from fifteen to TWEEN
ty of the most populous and powerful
of the counties of north Texas, and
those who know the silent, self-con-
tanned force of Judge Silas Hare, the
grand nerve and true devotion to the
party, of the man, will expect lively
times indeed. Judge Hare is not fore
mally in the race self-announced or
otherwise, but it is well understood,
and has been for some time, that the
democrats of his section of the state
are resolved to place him in the con-
vention and urge him with all the
force they can, because they are
heartily sick and tired of the imbecil-
ity and almost childish weakness of
the present incumbent, and the feeble
administration he has given the state
and the people. North Texas really
has had no representation in the state
administration since Throckmorton
was displaced by the federal bayonets
and the feeling is general that it is
richly and fully entitled to it now.
Now more than at any previous time,
indeed. Fully sixty-fve, if not a
larger, per cent. of the progress in
Texas, has been made in that splendid
region of the state. 1t has been
grandly true to the party. Even
when it has had to bow to such imbe-
cility as that which placed the sage of
Seguin in the chair gubernatorial.
1t has always been ready and more
than willing to sacrifice itself for the
other sections of the state. 1t has
been unselfish and generous, and now
it very justly believes is the proper
time for the other sections of the state
to acknowledge and reward this unset
fish devotion to the interests of all the
state. The time is coming, and it is
near at hand, when the forbearance of
north Texas will cease, and when
she goes into conventions re-
solved to stand upon her numbers
and power, the other sections will feel
that it has been a sad mistake in poll
cy to allow feeling of hostility to
grow up there, which might have been
kept down if only the commonest and
best known rules of Typographical
fairness had been observed. North
Texas, the section of the state which
honors and loves the grand old demo-
cratic hero whose name we write as
the caption line of this article this
morning, is an empire in and of it.
self, and were it to withdraw from
the state, it would be superior to Hi
nois in extent of territory and would
exceed that favored country in
the mass of its productions
and in their value. 1t has now only
practically commenced the work of
settlement and development. A con-
tinuous, unbroken tide of immigration
is pouring in. Each day sees a prac-
tical and palpable increase of its pow
er as well as of its wealth and inte]li-
gence. 1t won't do to ignore it. 1t is
bad policy for the party to attempt
this move, and yet the denomination
Of Ireland at Houston will amount not
only to that, but to a positive insult
to the section which, if is not already
dominant, fails only because 1t
refuses to WELD the power it
possesses.
A better stroke of party policy than
the nomination of Judge Hare for
governor could not be conceived. 1t
would not only serve to bring the
severed and irrltated fragments to-
gether again in harmony, but it would
be doing a grand thing for the general
material interests of Texas. 1t would
be the giving of her governor who
would place her at once in the very
van of the newer and better progress
of the west. People who have with
drawn their respect for Texas because
of the weakness and wavering of
her policy would at once come
back again, and bring laurels and
crown anew their the state of their
enthusiastic choice with the laurels
of their honor ard devotion.
We do most sincerely trust that the
purpose now formed to place Judge
Hare in nomination at Houston will
not be abandoned; but that it will be
persisted in, and If he is nominated
or his name given to the convention,
the real weakness of the Ireland
column will be very promptly exhibit
ted. This matter is crammed full of
interesting possibilities, and it wou Id
be well to watch the development.