The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-02-26
LETTER FROM AUSTIN.
THE PENlTENTlARY MIDDLE.
How Some fthe Features Present Them.
selves-Senator Maxey's Successor
Already Talked About-The
Political Situation,

for two members of the penitentiary
board, Messrs. Isham G. Searcy and
Walter Tipps, have rendered their res
ignation, and the remaining members
OF the board, Gov. Ireland being so ex-
oflicio, liking very much to do the sama
| thing, i think and believe, IL he could.
Messrs. II. J. Goree, the superintendent,
and Haywood Brahan, the financial and
purchasing agent of the penitentiaries,
| have not rendered their designations,
but they have expressed themselves
in pretty strong terms of indignation in
their Joint communication to the gov
erner, which, as yolfknow, he transmit
ted with letter of resignation of Messrs.
Searcy and Tipps to the legislature, be-
cause of the tone and reflections and
subject matter generally of the report of
the visiting committee to the penitentia-
ries. There is
A MIDDLE,
and there is no use trying TO find any
other name for it, for none other is MS
expressive. ! cannot discover any SEN
| timent, cel Valnly no Crystalized senti-
ment in favor OF a return to the lease
system. do find, however, two seuti-
monts, each one with strong following,
one for retaining the two
penltentaries under one managewsr
and the other Of separating the manage
meDt of the Rusk prison from that of
the Huntsville prison. This is one cause
OF the growing trouble, the cloud over
head, which at first was not larger than
a mans hand but which has now spread
out into black and threatoring
shadow and still growing. Flu hrr-
more, there is a heaven of political
ambition and unrest mixed up in the
| dough.
The next legislature electsa
UNITED STATES sENAToE,
and there are more aspirau :, some of
whom IL would be the Verig stroke OF
lightning if they got there, than you
or all the state would dream
of. There are IL congressional districts
in this state now. 1t may be that sew
eral representatives in congress may
have a senatorial bee humming in his
bonnet, and if one Of them should reach
the goal, there would be a vacancy in
his district. There is more than one or
two or three members OF each house of
the Legislature, and other officials, who
have the congressional bee in their bon
nets. Mr.MaXey has signiGed to friend
he will not be Il
CANDIDATE FOR REFLECTION
unless the people distinctly and posi-
lively demand it. There arc too
many politicians, cross roads
statesmen and stem winding
geniuses in tho land > permit the Office
in this day and generation, as with Que
mighty voice, seek the man,
Then there are gubernatorial aspir-
ants, seekers after various other places,
so that out of much stir and confusion,
and elimination and recTiminatiOn, and
charges, and recharges, and investiga-
tions and reinVestigatiOns, somebody
might be benefited. Hundreds of men
here say, and IL is voiced throughout
the state, that Gov. Ireland will be a
strong competitor In to senatorial race
\ two years hence. The governor has not
said anything about it that | am aware
Of, but | tell you things | hear.
suppose some one aspiring TO
congress and seeking TO send the
| incumbent of his district to the senate
that he might have clear, or at least a
clearer field should have conceived the
idea of penitentary middle so AZ 10
reflect upon Gov. Ireland, ex-oflicio
member of tho peniteutiary board
would it be anything more than the pol.
iticiau's trick? IfGov. Ireland can be
successfully attacked in any quarter
aud made unpopular with the people, il
would lesson mis- chances for the United
States senate, would IL not, provided, of
course, he has any special aspirations
that way? ! don't say this is so, but /
believe there is some sculduggery going
on somewhere, and by some
body, and ] know the MaChiaVelli who
is not too tender-foOtod or tender.
hearted, or exalted in his ideas of ways
and means; In fact | know several.
think the visiting committee took ex.
parte statements for evidence, not with
any wrong motive or Intentions, but IL
as Messrs Goree and Brahau say, In
their reply to the committees report
they did not Ngmine the Rusk prison
records; did not lot them know of the
charges made by convicts at that priser
against them; that they might have til,
committee take the testimony of othel
conVicts and by the records of char
actor kept of the daily conduct o
each convict judge as whom of then
, were worthy OF most credence, then wa
IL not an impartial Investigation? VIVA
do the courts send murdorers an,
thieves and burglars and hlghwaymeI
70 states prison tor? To lounge ava,
their time on silken cOuches ITO TIL
lascivious music of Lutte" the swee
songs OF bulbuls, with porfumed water
making the air delicious, whilst the,
slipped nectar, ate Rmbrosia and fondl'
: toyod with .hOurii and sweet-lipped
! graceful HoheSg Or is TO toll and sui
, Ter the penalties of their crimes
An abundance of strong, nutrition
. food, warm and cOmfortnbl
, clothing, plenty Of hard labor, punish
meui, when vicious, with the lash or b
some other means, tempered accord
ingly, 10 the grade OF the offence. an
, the Spencer rifle aud siN.shoo,or whel
they are uumanagable, or seeking tn
lives Of their guards and keepers.
| do not wish So ho understood as 4,
, ilecting upon the honesty and purity @
{ purpose OF the visiting committed q
any member OF 10.
think there will he strong fight
divide the management of the tW
o prisons. G. l.. NJ.
"For nine years | have suffered To-
; lures with terrible female complaint
4 Three bottles of English Female Bil
: ters cured me-" ELLA THORNTON.
Z Bandera, Texas.
5 The headache of students, clerk.
!, merchants aud others are cured wit
Bailey's Saline Aperient,
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, The TeAa, Trunk.
!, The following petition, circulated We
y terdRy and numerously signed, Q!
plains itself.
Dallas, Feb. $40 tho Hon. j. u. rerre
Senate Chamber, Austin, Texas:
d DEAR Strive, the undersigned cit
l. zens of Dallas, respectfully call yor
, attention to tho bill before the hou,
10 far thn pNtpnSion aud renewal .Nr "a