The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-04-07
SILVFRY SENTIMENTS.
DIR. HUGHES ON THE CAMPAIGN
The Dirt-slinging Features Deplored ana
Language with the True JiDgIs Sub n
mitted 10 the Reader--Joln,
Henry Brown the Man.

TO My FELLow-CITI zENs:--It was
my purpose to address You last night,
but was prevented doing so from she
effects of severe cold, contracted last
Satur day night, which has continued to
grow worse and worse, until l found
myself, late last evening, confined to
my bed. In this letter, however, allow
re to say to those of you who expect
mo- to throw dirt at either of the oppos-
ing candidates of my friend, John
Henry Brown,you Will be mistaken, for
no sne can regret the degeneracy of the
present times more than l dor when IL
seelAs necessary, in order to advocate
the claims of one gentleman to Office,
that speakers must engage in Billings
gate and dirt flmging ut their oppo-
nents. The iriendsot Mai. Brown do
grounds of the total unfitness OF his
opponents, but his superior merit
which we think has been manifested
in the node in which his side has con-
Quoted the canvass, and whilst his OPP
ponents have tracked his public and
| private career from the time when he
was a type setter at Indianola, Texas;
now nearly half century--as editor,
AS mayor of Galveston, 40 the leading
spirit in the Legislative halls OF our |
sUate, a. a member ofour constitutional |
convention, as q warrior in defense OF
what he considered right, as an Indian
fighter upon our frontier, digging up
the dirt along his entire path, yet they
have sigually failed to exhume one
single act of his lie which, even when
distorted by stump orators, has brought
tinge to the cheek OF one of his
/ many lady acquaintance. Failing in
this their dernier resort, has been TO
say: ale is too old and honest" o,
temporal o, moresl and has our lives
! been spared to see the time when pow
j erty and integrity Ia sought TO DO made
!, disqualification for office? AS to his
t age, he has perhaps lived too long, as
many of us old mon have, III such l. the
q case. Yet is it not well that some such
II have been spared to check this evil ten
y dency which bad men are attempting to
J. set up? AS to his age disqualifying him
J. for the position of mayor, admit that
% he Is pastthe meridian OF life, and that
his shadow is falling somewhat to the
T., east, yet /, who have known him init
At mately from my boyhood, have not dis
ts covered the slightest change in his Wig
W orous intellect, his sound judgment and
is quick perception Of right and wrong, re-
o tanning his physical strength in degret
at that is remarkable in most o
RS tho pioneers who spe, t thei
IS early life upon the frontier. IL has beer
If said by one of the speakers opposed Y
he him that he has not the word "No" In hi
re vocabulary. He has known him TO poo
be purpose who says this. We grant yol
IS, that when a favor is asked of him per
Sc sonally, when only his own interest
re concerned, the word eyes" will be up
Tor permost Yet he knows when, and dare
ID 10 say "NO" in au official capacity whe
in any wrong is attempted upon the i've
Sc liberty or prosperity of the people whol
ull he has been selected to serve. Anotht
ire objection that / came near forgettin
has been Haunted in his face, povert
This, too, we admit, but has it, too, b
n come crime. We nave peen Taught
Is regard ~ rs "a misfortune and TO comm
y a crate the grOyelng spirit of Il
lay man who, by hard eNaotiOns fro
IA has fellow man, has acquired veal
ard and turned upon his hone
)pt- and sympathetic neighhor who has {
lew ylded his loaf with the needy and wv
II him with his poverty.
kes / know some men of wealth, W
ing were they to see a ship at sea HOundI
to ing amid tho breakers, the passongt
this falling overheard and yet were th
cur. owners Of lumber yard in full vi,
d 10 would not send n plank adriit To 81
the the lives of the drowning. Brown I
nal der such circumstances would l
bill. only throw every plank and eve
stick, but would plunge IN hlmsbll
the rescue yet alter he had lost his lu
tiers Der these same men me VINO haa nag. REUSED
'"y' his poverty. His opponents, have be
driven from each and every false &C
sation against him until they are n
rowed down to his age, his honesty, q
civ his. poverty as disqualilying Il
for office as 70 whether these causes {
ard quality Him we leave to the voters
~ Dallas upon tomorrow, confidently
lieying that the overwhelming major
d, to thet ne WIZ recelve wili ioT t, Pu
enry qule.us 70 oi,,,imsssJte "at I LIZ n5
tho the better class OF our people and lie
such I'm future alone Tor buifoons
q Of poltroons to whom 1t Justly belongs
Il. IL. HuaHE