The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-07-28
TEXAS AND HER OFFICIALS.


once popularity branded as the "Home
OF Refuge" for criminals, should come
to the 'front.' In an age that is more
than liberal with the purest and
cleaneHt public record of any of hel
sister sStates,I be they younger OF
older in the sisterhood. Her credit is
so great that she cannot, without
heavy sacrifice, buy up her her own
small bonded indebtedness, while
the bonds even of her cities and
counties are readily sold in the New
York Stock market at par. This
might be accounted for by her vast re.
sources and magnificent future, but
there is another underlying idea that
facts sustain when advanced. 1t ia
true that among her officials there is nc
fraud, no defalcation, no crooked
ness. With the single exception
that Galveston twice presents
there is no instance whero even the
small functionaries of ministerial ad-
ministration have failed to redeem
their trusts as reposad In them by the
people at electing or by appointive
power. This may be partially ac-
counted for in the fact that 1t was
deemed necessary for State vindica-
ton that such strict probity should bo
manifested. Be that as it may, there
Is no treasury in the United States of
America that has been more invlolate
than that Of our State since the re-
naissance Of true Texas, nor has there
been State In the Union where, in
counties and municipal corporations,
there has been so slight an effort s.
deiaulting robbery.
This should be matter Of Just aud
honorable graduation among our citi-
zens, and will doubtless be so &C.
cepted. One Of the prime causes of
this healthy condition may be traced
to tho fact. that our people arc worry
yigilant and require their puolic SER
wants to make constant expose of their
official action. Whilst this may be
true, it is also true that oflice-holders
have never required demand made
upon them for public airing Of their
books, but have ever demanded open
investigation and courted an OK.
animation Of their exhibits.
But whilst vigilance is commendable
Is not suspicion to BIO deprecated?
After the fair record of our State, both
from capital point of view, and even
down to its minor details of interior
government, Is it not little strange
that any should be 80 far carried away
by the spirit of opposition as to inslnu-
ate that three of the leading officers OF
the State government should have
boon actuatod by motives other than
strictly imporsonal in their action on
the question of tho material of which
the new capitol is to be constructed?
Can anyone imagine that on queg.
ton whore there. has been room for
doubt such men ss TEMPLEToN, |
or SWAIN, could DO swerved !
by monetary or other ignoble cousid-
erations? No considerable mention
has been made OF such silly suspicion,
yet a worry iow exchanges hsye iuu-
mated under cover of such exples.
aions as "negro in the woodpile" and
"Oug under the chip" that these eli
c,als were acuated In thor decision by
motives not entirely honorable. Now
The HERALD has cyor boon opposed
to tho building Of tho capitol ont of
any material save that imbadded iu
Texas soil. Yet knowing that JOHN
d. TEMpLEToN is thevery soul Orhon-
or, chat WILLIAM WALSH was bluntly
honest, and w. j. SWAIN deli.
cate as a female I'm his
Ideas of duty's discharge, it has
been startled into an expression Of It's
bewildermont that such ugly and NM
founded hints should DO made i'm
upon the purity Of mon, who, |
II they err at all, are always wong
from too close en- adherence 10 the |
Of conscious rectitude. It !
Is sad to think that a difference of
opinion cannot be honestly entertained |
without some such discreditsblo nc
tons creeping into the minds of
people, but THE HER
AID is assured that the irroligions and |
untoundod aspersions of the few who
have allowed themselves to DO de-
luded into such vagaries will soon give
place to the general sentiment OF trus,
and confidence roposed In our chief Of
floors, and in mono more than the dis
tinGuished trio we have mentioned.