Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-29
A Kindly Suggestion to Distressed
Neighbors.

The measure Of Dallas ambition IS
filling up. The yearning aspiration OF
the Dallas male citizen, of legal age
and sound mind, is to hold an office OF
have something to do with an office.
1t doesn't matter much what the office
is. The scramble for scavengership
was as eager as If the prize had been
the governorship, and there was much
heart-burning and bitterness Of spirit
when Republican carried of the
fragrant prize, bestowed by a Demo-
cratic council. 1t was an office, any
how; and the mere name carried dig
nifty with 1t and commanded respect
among the villagers there. To be sn
ofIice-holder, and move in that orbit of
glory not accessible to the vulgar
many, is and has been the day-dream
and the hope of the Dallas commoner.
Unfortunately the defect Of our gov
eminent limits the number Of official
stations, and there are not enough
places provided to admit all the Dallas
aspirants to the charmed circle; not,
indeed, that this implies any great
population in that city, but rather
sOrrowful dearth of official stations.
Next to holding an Office, the ambi-
ton of the Dallas citizen is largely de-
voted to getting as close to one as he
can. a nomination usually precedes
an election to office, though it does not
inevitably lead TO one, more's the pity,
and the Dallas man is measurably
happy il he can but just get nomina-
ton. Now, while the offices may be
limited in number, the nominations are
not. Any man may have one who can
hire hall and persuade few of his
friends to meet him there and thrust
nomination upon him, which he
accepts reluctantly and only through
sense of public duty and party
policy. So the Dallas man, when he
can't get an office, contents himself
with nomination, which makes it
easy to imagine that he might be
elected to An office.
But the Dallas man can afford to be
generous. AS long as nominations
cost so little he can well divide
with his neighbors. He is out
nothing and 1t looks we'll to have a
reputation for open-handedness. He
would hardly be so liberal with the
offices themselves, if they were to be
divided up, but with nomination
which doesn't promise a nearer ap-
proach to office than merely to talk
about 1t, he readily admits few out
siders to share his Joy. That is the
reason the Republican state conven-
tlon held at that place lately allowed
other parts of the state to have two or
three of the places on the ticket put
up. In a burst of prodigality that
must be astonishing to them
selves, since they have viewed
the matter at leisure, the Dial.
las members of that convention
reserved only one place on tho ticket.
though of course that one was at the
head and gave to the candidate posi-
ton of special eminence of which he
was not undeserving. This action was
all the more praiseworthy when It Is
remembered that Dallas had some
thirty or more of the forty delegates
who composed the convention, and
easily could have taken all the noml-
nations. That she did not do so il a
concession that will be rightly appre-
ciated by those portions of the state
which were honored with the sub
ordinate positions, especially since
there Is not the slightest possibility of
the candidate being called upon to
perform any duties of statecraft.
THE GAZETTE charges nothing for
the suggestion that there are other
resources for bestowing nominations
which will make it possible for the
humblest citizen of Dallas to have one
There ought to be Butler ticket I'm
the field, and st. John ticket and a
Belva Lockwood ticket. II the male
material is all exhausted in supplying
the first two, drafts may be made pom |
their wives and daughters for the last
as II is presumed the ardor for office |
holding is not confined to one sex.
Then Dallas cup OF joy will be full.
With congressman, Judge Of the
supreme court, state senator, NOM |
inee for governor and one for lieu
tenant-governor, with others too nu-
merous to mention, the conditions of
supreme joy will be fulfilled. Then
there VIII be ne need OF churches in
Dallas. IT would be an idle waste of
time to preach the gospel of happier
life In Paradise, when to the Dallas
mind all the elements of perfect han. |
piness are already in his possession
Talk not Of heavenly bliss to him when !
be Is already treading the Elvsisn
fields. All that he aake ali az