The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-02-05

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haf,fa lha aenHle. Those ~
the committee with the minority
the chairman, Senators a. w, Houston,
Terrell, Davis, klgoTo aud Camp the
minority klobufg, Woods, aud u i TO.
lleved, Senator Peacock, who WAS nbsOnt
on another committee when the vi u was
minority also. The senators In the ma
jority prefer for the assignment law Ia
remain ~ II now In.
uOOD JoKH.
They have good Joke, on Mr.; 70 y
member Of tho house, aud no tells "
himself with much gusto, His opponent
m tho canvass for the legislature was
Mr.. ~, who was n candidate for re-eloc-
ton, he having been member OF the
Eighteenth legislature, Botll gentle
men being Democrats thore could be no
political issue between them, 80 MIR. T..
sprung nm issue, IL being tho .pur-
chase by tho state of the Alamo
building at san Antonio, Mr.. l.. Ia
Vored tho purchase, and that no might
strengthen himself on the issues he
made an active canvass, taking around
with him an old man named NJ, an oc
tagenarian, feeble and decropit, who
was one of the first settlers IN Is&nsi
and u veteran of the wars of the Repub-
about the Alamo, the chiValry and de
votion OF It's intrepid defenders, and the
glory and renOwn of their immortal
deeds, aud pointing 10 his old friend
would Tell of his acts OF prowess ana
daring, and speak of his grs7 hairs and
his trembling stops, lettering Ms he was,
on the verge of eternity, mem6nto OF
tho days OF tho Republic, the days
when mon periiled their lives, staked
hn "A
war and famine that We OF our day and
time might enjoy tho rich inheritance
now our own. He appealed 10 tho pa
triotism, TO the gratitude and To the
generosity of the people and put in tho
balances with these sentiments and
emotions the dross of few pallry dol
lars, the cost of the Alamo, and asked
them Ii pride, If reverence Tor the mem-
cries Of the illustrious dead did not
prompt and urge them 70 give win y
good will and cordially this pittapce Ia
preserve this hallowed spot cOnsecrated
by tho blood of heroes, martyrs to the
cause of liberty. His opponent would
oppose on the ground OF economy, bui
Mr.. Z. won tho hearts of tho voters ana
at the polls they relegated Mr.. > 10
private life there to study the problem
of dollars and cents versus state prlue
patriotism and gratitude. When he
rDucneu austlu MT. W uN w
learn that Texas had already purchased
the Alamo, the bill being enacted by the
eighteenth legislature, OF which Mr.. 81,
his opponent, was Il member. lie even
brought his aged and venerable friend,
the veteran of tho republic, TO Austin
with him, TO point 10 as one OF the last
lingering links between tho past and
the present, when he introduced his bill
and advocated it in the house for the
purchase OF the Alamo. This incident,
this fact suggests the query If the
people when legislators were sending
out daily some 5000 newspapers
giving an account of the proceedings,
knew so little about what laws
the eighteenth legislature enacted, what
will they know Of the doings OF the
nineteenth, which sends out no papers
AT all? 1t was Draco, was it not, who
wrote his law in such small characters
and hung them so high up on the walls
that his subjects could not read them,
yet he punished them for all breaches
thereof.
MAI. JOHN HENRY BROWN
is suggested as most eminently suited
and fitted in all respects for appoint
ment as one of the commissioners or
the art of Texas to settle the Greer
county question. If the people OF Dal'
las do not demand that he shall serve
them as mayor, he will be urged by
friends for a place on this commission