The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-27
A LETTER FROM AUSTIN.
WAiLlNos oNWATERAN STONE
The Capitol Boards Action Bad Re
oommendation for rexas-What
the Natural Political Eff
feet Must be, Etc.

AUSTIN. June 8.-[Corresp0ndence.l
--"Water, water, everywhere, nut not
q drop to drink" cries the thirsty,
msGdened, shipwrecked mariner As he
clings 70 floating spar. The winds
take up tho mournful cry and carry 1t
far over the remorseless waste OF
waters. The crashing pillows heave
and TALL and down many fsthom goes
the mariner. "Stone, stone, every
where, but not one in Texas 10 grace
the exterior walls of the new capitol, :"
blandly chirped the contractor. Far
out upon the political sea the willy poll
ticisn takes up the refrain, and SO IL
goes echoinR among the people indig-
nation Is aroused, and instead Uf a de-
nghtful summers calm and q quie;
submission there is storm,
and the place seeker, drift.
ing hopeless upon the grizzly
darkled waters secs his mistake and
aries out:
"The wrathlul sizes ga.low the very wan
d'rers ofthe dark,
And make them keep their caves; since
Twas man,
such sheets of fire, such bursts of norrId
thunder,
Such creams Of roaring wind and rain, l
never
Remember TO have heard,
And when the storm Is over, per-
chance down many fathOm will be
buried the unctiuOs politicians Whc,
pand6ring TO the commune, defentea
the granite bill in the nineteenth legis.
lature and forced a foreign stone upon
the people.
Ths action Of the capitol board, OBJ
noXlous to the people, as 1t certainly
is, pTOclalms 10 the world that In all
she vast area Of Texas there no stone
suitable Tor great and magnificent
building 1t reflects in the most uufa-
vorable manner on the honesty OF the
State III the representation made at the
Worlds Fair and TO the capitol con
tractors themselves, who were inform
cd that an abundance OF suitable stone
could be bad within easy reach OF the
building. Upon this Representation
they accepted the work. The design.
ing architect, too, mad the same infor
nation impaired 10 him, and the esti.
mated cost Of the building is based up
on The cost Of stone easily accessible
to Austin. Now, however, by somt
magical, mysterious process--a process
which like the leaVen hid IN the three
measures of meal, mas leAven5d the
whole and worked change-the rep
reservations are found to be false. Blu
are theyS builders say not; Governor
Ireland says not; the people believ,
the stone can be had; they believe thu
representations made TO the world q
New Orleans and 70 The contractor
were and are true to-day, and be-
lieving TINS they viii be heard from
IL no uncertain tone of voice,
IL has been an unfortunate step TO
certain wOuld-be leaders. 1t has beer
unfortunate Tor the Democratic party
as now organized, and will hasten tn,
disintegration threatened for years
This latter, perhaps, is cousumma
ton deyoutly to be wished. The PEG
pie have been sorely tried for thes
many years and are rife FOR open 70
belliun against party hacks and pOllti
Cal ringsters They want the State Z
draw It's inspiration from the prlnCi
pies rather than the willy "bOsses' O
the Democratic party. They wan
men who believe legislation is for th
good Of the people, not the party a
Represented by the "bOsses." The
want men at the head of the State GOV
eminent who are thoroughly alive
The great truth that the best way
take care of the party is to take care {
the interests of me State. In ShOr
they want men whose thoughts an
actions arc NGiL- moulded by the SUI
rouudings and necessities Of TO-DAY
and not by the musiy crseda oE th
mas.