The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-07-30


ihors IL another underlying ldes that
facts sustain when advanced. ~ IL
truo that among her officials thero IL no
fraud, no defalcatlnn, no crook ed
moss. With tho single exception
that Galveston twlo0 presents
there Ia no instance whore oven tho
small nnctlOnarlos OF ministerial adj
mluistration have failed to redeem
thplr trusts M ropossd In them by the
people at ol0cting or by appointiyo
power This may bo partially no.
counted for In the fact that IL was
doomed necessary for state yindica'
t!on that such strict pIoblty should be
manifested. Rs that ~ 1t may, there
Is no treasury in tho United SIatos OF
America tina. has boon more inviolato
than that OF our State since the re-
nalssance OF true Texas, nor mas there
beon State In the Union where, IN
counties and municipal corporations,
there has been so slight an effort at
deiaulting robbery.
This should be matter OF Just ana
honorable graduation among our cit-
zens, and will doubtless DO so &C
ceptod. Ono OF tho primo oauses OF
this healthy condition may DO traced
TO the fact, that our people are very
vigilant and require their puzzle SER
wants to make constant expose OF their
official action. Whilst this may be
true, IL is also true that oflice-holders
have neyor required n demand made
upon them for public airing OF their
books, but have ever demanded open
investigation and courted an OK
animation of their exhibits.
But whilst vigilance ia oommendable
Ia not suspicion to be deprecated?
After tho fair record of our State, both
from q capital point of Wow, and even
down to its minor details OF interior
government, Is it not little strange
that any should be so far carried away
by the spiri. OF opposition as to insinu-
alto that thrae of the leading officers OF
the state government should have
boon actust5u by motives other than
strictly impersonal in their action on
the question of tho material of which
the new capitol is TO be constructed?
Can anyone imagine that on ques.
ton where there has been room for
doubt such mon as TEMPLEToNi
WALSH, or SWAIN, could be swerved
by monetary or other ignoble consid-
eratiousP No considerable mention
has been made of such silly suspicion
yet very few exchanges have init
mated under cover of such expires
sions as "negro in the woodpile" and
"bug under the chip" that these chi-
cials were actuated in their decision by
motives not entirely honorable. Now
THE HERALD has ever been opposed
to the building of the capitol out OF
any material save that imbedded in
Texas soil. Yet knowing that JOHN
d. TEMPLEToN is the very soul ofhon-
or, that WILLIAM WALsR was bluntly
honest, md w. j. SWAIN deli
cate as female in his
ideas Of duty's discharge, it has
been startled into an expression OF its
bewildecment chat such ugly and I'M
founded bints should be made i'm
piuginc upon The purity Of mon, who,
if thsy err at all, are siways wrong
from too close an adherence TO the
promptings of conscious ractitude. 1t
is sad to think that q difference of
opinion cannot bs honestly entertained
without some such diacreditable no
ticns croeping into the minds of
wrong-minded people, but The HER
AID is assured that the irroligious and
uufounded asporsions of the few who
have allowed themselves to DO de-
luded into such vagsries will soon give
place to tue general sentiment OF trust
and confidence reposed in our chief Of
fcers, and in mono more than the dis
tinguished trio we have mentioned.