The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-01
Harmony and Ro.s.

* party nhriHonN MS IL was ihht war | ri
nd probably will next year be Affect h
d by the candidature OF our illustri- J
nus iownsman and friend l. S. noss
{ is new thing to sec the News ex-
rcised in the cause of democratic
We were no less gratifed
han surprised when we read the ar
iclc in question. The News makes
he apartment inquiry: of Ross
from the race last year or
'ather his rcfraining from entering II
was necessary to harmony then, why
3 IL not necessary now, or how does
i come that he can enter now without
npsetting the harmonious sentiment
Dt the party" It is plain and easy
Then the illustrious
who is now at the head Of
the state government had just com
pleted or was just completing his first
term as governor. His administration
had been perfectly satisfactory to the
the party and the state, and according
to the custom long prevailing here he
was to have the second term. To have |
taken IL away from him or to have re-
fused to rcnominate him would have
constituted a reproof that the people
ofTexas did not give to John Ireland.
Now while they always give man n
sar xtrl.n hax all
they never give him third
term except under extraordinary
circumstances. lie has had his sec
ond term and that Is enough, And as
the keeping of Ross out of the race
last year conduced to harmony, his
injection IL into this year will act to
preserve harmony. We trust the
News and all other democrats can see
1t in this, its true light. Last year, IN
the interests of harmony, Sui Ross
stayed out of the race. This year he
enters in the same spirit, because he is
personally the strongest man with
both the party and the people within
| tnt WlsIt bbfuttH Vi icAho.
But tho News may calm its appre-
tensions as to his ability to I'LL the
. position or any other the people may
3 see fit to place him in-they
are not likely to overlook the fact thai
. he has filed every position which he
. consented to accept with ability
: faithfulness and dignity. After Texas
: had spent millions of dollars in ,
fruitless effort to protect the recedinl
frontier from Indian incursions, tina
:. grand old hero, Sam Houston, sen
= Ross, when but mere boy, with bu
a single company, to try his hand, an,
y in less than six months he had driver
10 every Indian from the borders o
Texas. Not satisfied with this he fol
: lowed them to their homes, acros
the desert plains, where they had gon
In fancied security, and so quickly an
eilectually destroyed them and thei
property that they were glad to su
tor peace, which lasted until til
Ia war between the states was over. On
k OF the most signal fruits of his effort
was the recapture of Cynthia An
~ Parker and one other white girl who's
OF people have never been discovere,
In tbe late war be shouldered bis mn
/, ket and Joined the ranks, and whe
A. his oallantrv had elevated him /,
nc command his career won for bimse
NJ Tho confidence of b;s superiors
rsnl and Tor his hr;oode Tho enc,
On m;ums of confederates and fedora
er ,nka
IA. Asa member of the constitution,
convention of 1876. the bar of Tex,
remember how fully he demonstrate
en- his wisdom and foresight when
oil pronounced the judicial article, {
'se the floor, "As wholly inadequate
meet the wants of the great state
m Texas, and that ms system IL mu
~ prove In the end more expensive thu
q the one sought TO be displaced"
Not only this, but predicted the o,
effects of the stringent limitation
lly which have been so generally pr
he nounced inconsi stent with the pro-
M policy and practice, saying wisel
be that the reason, upon which law
based.may change the circuuistanc
yary-the necessities of the case IN
-. render new aud very different pr
!. ceedings necessary, and hence I