The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-06-02
General sui. Ross.

years oil age he was commissioned
brigadier-general in the confederate
army. Those who served under his
gallant leadership can aud do testify
to his cool daring and undaunted
bravery. He was as gallant SOL
der as ever drew blade tor the
'Iost Cause" and was the idol of his
men.
His was the true brave soul, while
fearing no danger, was kind and gen.
erous to fallen foe, and many fed
eral prisoner who fell into his hands
loves and honors his name for his
many kind acts. lie was knightly
soldier, without reproach or STAN.
His heart went out to the humblest
in his command, and every federal
soldier knew he was the soul of
honor.
When the war was over, and our
flag laid away to rest forever, he did
not whine or complain, but with n
true "Reminiscences, born of as noble
a.nature as ever throbbed in human
breast, he accepted the situation"
aud like the true lover of his country
everyday affairs of life, and tried to
repair the waste places made by the
war.
lie is as triumphant in peace "a he
was in war. His people, recognizing
his great abilities a. citizen, and rs
statesman, sent him to the councils
of the state. He served with distinc-
tionin the constitutional convention OF
of 1873, and again in the senate OF
Texas. Ills quiet demeanor, good
sense and sonnd Judgment on all pub.
lie questions, as his strict integrity
and social qualities endeared him tc
every member of those bodies.
No brighter name gilds the pages ol
Texan history; no truer, more usefu
man in our great state than the gal
liant, ehivalrous Ross; and when he Is
made Governor of the Lone Stal
state as he will be, history and til,
verdict of tire people will proclaim
that Texas never had better or gran
der executive. At the close of his
term, he will hand b ick the banner
1 entrusted to him. to his successor,
without one strain or blot on its fair
folds, but with increased brightness
and grandeur and glory! Sui. Ross,
for governor ! Georgetown Record.
The above from the Georgetown
Record speaks but an oft told tale to
tho people of Texas. 1t hath not 9
strange or discordant note in il. II
is the voice of the friendship of a grea
state speaking to its most honore'
chief aud in no doubtful tones. Tn
sentiment is n common one. Iol
find it as well in the northeast corne
rs in the southwest. In the southeast
a. in the northwest. Indeed fror
center TO circumference there is bu
one voice on the subject. II does Ii o
dctract from his standing that las
year he stood back for the sake O
harmony and refused to contest tn
prize of the chief magistracy with tn
distinguished gentleman who at pres
ent fills the high office of gov
Y ernor OF Texas. Ross has in this
Way times without number stoot
bAck and suffered the fairest chance
which ever beckoned the ambitious
forward on the way to fame. TIT
time has now come for his friends Il
listen no longer to these things-tt
consult only the good of the state ant
their devotion to the gallant Ross
and push him for the place for which
he is by nature, by long residence, ex
perience and deathless devotion s,
peculiarly well fitted in every way
Ross steps upon the political corns o
no honest or fair-minded man. Hi
veteran and well-known modesty
holds him back, and even now II be
consulted his own views and interests
he would again sey nay to his friends
But these will no longer listen. The!
demand the sacrifice at his hands
He will be compelled to honor II
From the standpoint of the peo
pie there will be but one verdict
Ross is the man for the place and pc
culiarly the mal for the times. Hi
cool, far-seeing statesman-like, bearing
his strict integrity, his pure and un
spotted life, the glorious past, tn,
dignified, useful, and honorable pres
ent point to him as the Texan who
has work before him, work for thu
people, for the state which fosterec
his young manhood and which
he served so nobly whel
her day OF fierce AMI
fiery trial came. The old citizens dc
not forget the days when his youthful
bosom was barred TO the shafts of il
savage foes; others remember when
wild wars bloody work was TO be
dOne on other fields Ross sprang TO
the breach. When 1t became neces-
sary to take stand for good policy
ii the civil administration, the prom
ise of his manly military career was
grandly redeemed by his manly and
brave bearing as a statesman, as an
honest, faithful citizen, asking nothing
for himself but demanding everything
for the state he loves with deathless
affection, and which returns his pas
sion in a feeling ~ strong as ever was
exhibited by free, generous, patri-
otic and intelligent people.
Ills a source of the keenest satisfac-
ton to the EXAMINER TO note the
unalimity OF the people as they speak
out ON this subject. The EXAMINER
has know Ross all through his event
full and glorious career, from boyhood