The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-02
HON. OLIN wELLBORH, THEN AND
NOW.

Toe Waco Examiner OF yesterday con
tains the following in its editorial brevit'
column. "OLIN WELLsoRS, II tho dis
patches tell the truth, acquitted himsel
well In the opening speech On the tarii
question. He was on the right side Of th
question. He ought to hav
spread himselt" -tExchapge. Yes
but IL took an awful sight o
pummeliug to get him there. The Exami'
ner knows. Tor IL contributed lion,
share OF the pummtling." In reply to the
above, justice demands that 1t BIO stated In
the most explicit and emphatic language
possible, that neither any "pummSling''
by The Waco Examiner, or any other paper
or person ever caused Mr.. WELLboBH to
swerye one hairs breadth from record on
this tariff question, that his every act, vote
and voice in private and in public, in con.
gressionsl halls aud on the stump, had
most feerless!y, most fully and most
acseptably made. II any one conn re.
heading the grand underlying princi.
pies Of political economy, seriatim,
or in their interdepsnient relations will
take up the congressmsn's speech On our
sh'ppi-r interests msde a couple OF wears
ago in the house Of representatives, or his
fpeeches during the last and the preceding
campaigns, he will perceive and concede
by comparing his'positions that his speech
OF the 22d nltimo was OF piece, was OF
the warp and wool, OF the great character.
izing bnsis from which all his arguments
4. L.o fn~
lvsg time been fully familiar with the tariff
subject phases. By diligent investigations
FREQUENT conference with those best posted
and by the deductions OF his own logical
intelsct the views recently proclaimed are
merely the expression OF long ago con.
ylotions. The alluson which the Exsm liner
thus makes is 10 tho supposed pcai-
ton OF the congressman last fall
in the possible RANDALL candidacy.
Conscious of his responsibility to his con-
to himself and to his past, deter.
mined In bis own mind what course IL was
his to pursue, he did not see proper TO be
eternslly airing his ideas in obedience to
ths call OF every interviewer, when he had
already so frequently publicly announced
himself to any who might read; although
he never besitsted privately to frankly and
freely, and fully converse or correspond on
any public subject with any friend or &C.
And when the hour for action
zane, in the line oGstrictest consistency,
oLrs wxLIBons appeared whero all who
knew him, knew indeed he would appsar.
ADM iring Mr.. RANDALL for his brilliant
abilitiee. attracted to him because Of his
genuine gepislity Of disposition, and
Ieeling especially kindly toward
him tor important aid In the
nterest/of Texas. be he'd indeed hoped
hat. xhe great Pennsylvania statesman
~ould 90 align himself on the tariff issue
hat the democratic tariff reiormers might
20 operate with him, but when it was dis
covered that such could not be, Mr.. WELL
BORN subordinatsd all 10 the dictates oil
iuty, even in the face Of probable defeat
!. the time, and 10 20 acting not only re.
iscted credit on himself, but retained the
especs Of the man he personally loved, but
rom whom he politically differed. Such
vss the broad standard and such the high
tatesmanship considerations that infu-
need Mn- WELLBoRs, and not any awful
light Of pummslins,' By paper pellets