Year: 1874

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cause not by showing the especial fit
ness of Judge Hare for the position,
but by attempting to show that Gov
ernor Throckmorton is not entitled to
the confidence either of the people or
the party. 1t seems to take it for
granted that if Governor Throckmor-
ton could be got out of the way, there
would be no further difficulty in secur-
ing the coveted prize for its favorite.


One of its charges against Governor
Throckmorton is that he has only been
n democrat since lSG0-since he and the
Mckinney Register, radical sheet OF
the worst type, failed to elect one Joshua
Johnson to congress. That he discov-
cred through the result of that election
that the democratic party was largely
in the ascendancy, and at once became
q democrat This needs no reply at all ;
but if it did, we could rest the case on
the following sentence from Judge
Hare's recent speech at Sherman, as
reported by the Register: "He did not
believe Governor Throckmorton had
ever betrayed a trust, and that his re-
cord ,cas satisfactory to him and to the
cOuat,y.n


The second charge is that Governor
Throckmorton's "principal object" in
going to congress is to secure the en-
dolsement by the government of the
bonds of the Texas and Pacific railroad
company; that if he goes to congress
at all he will so there as the salaried
attorney of the said road, and that the
interests of the people of Texas will be
secondary with him to the interests OF
that corporation.


To such charge as this no other re-
ply can be interposed than the record
of blameless life. The people of Tex
as know, as Judge Hare says, that
Governor Throckmorton has never be-
trayed any trust in the past. In that
fact they find sufficient warrant for
trusting him in the future.


We have always deprecated that
style of journalism that sought to Sc
cure its objects by groundless attacks
upon public men. We have always
sought rather to set forth the virtues of
the candidate we sustained than to
impute imaginary vices to his oppo-
nent. five deemed it either necessary
or proper we could retort OH the Courier
by going into Judge Hare's record and
asking how it was that he secured an
appointment from Governor Davis;
how it was that he secured an appoint
ment at the military academy for his
son. Or if the question were one OF
comparative professional integrity be-
tween Judge Hare and Governor
Throckmorton, we might citeth Cour-
ier to the case of Austin vs.. Talk, 26
Texas reports. page l27.


rhe third charge against Governor
Throckmorton is that he is q director
and stakeholder in the Texas and Pa
cilic railroad company that he is the
friend of monopolies, and therefore
hostile to the people. On this point
we proposet let Governor Throckmor-
ton answer for himself by publishing
the following lengthy extract from his
Sherman speech. We commend it to
the careful perusal of our readers as a
plain, straightforward and unvarnish-
ed statement of his whole connection
with railroads in Texas:


But it is said, fellow-citizens, that
while my record cannot be impeached,
l cannot now be trusted because l am
the attorney, Il stakeholder and direc-
tor in a railroad company. Now, fell
low-citizens, as to my acts as railroad
man | invite The closest scrutiny. L
propose to explain myself fully upon
this point. There is nothing in my
connection with railroads that l am,
in any way, ashamed of. In the ses-
sions of 1872 of the Legislature, bill
was introduced amending the charter
of the Texas Central railroad, provid-
ing that, instead of running by Clarks-
vile, Red River county, the road
should run to Preston, on Red river, or
within fifteen miles of Preston. BY
pointing out to Mr.. Allen, the origina-
tor of that measure, that this route
would carry the road through the rich
est portion of the state, and avoid the
immense body of poor land on the
other route, L induced him to accept
this as the route of the road.


Again, in 1861, when this road asked
for relief, | had retained in the body of
the charter the provision that they
were to run to Preston, or within fif-
teen miles of that place, and had a fur
ther provision inserted that they were
to run by Dallas. Again, in 1870, this
road came be fore the Legislature asking
relief, and bill was so framed that
the road could have been built out to
Paris before the branch was built to
run to or near Preston. / called the
attention of members to the provisions
of the bill, anu it was so changed that
this branch of the road was to be built
first. After this, l used my influence
with the company to have the road
built ~ Mckinney and Sherman, and
in this know that did good service
to the people of Collin and Grayson
counties.


/ ask nothing from you on this ac-
count, feliOw-citizeps, and only 60 over
these facts that you may fully under
stand all my acts in connection with
railroads, and that have done my
whole duty to my people. So much
for my connection with the Houston
and Texas Central railroad.


come now to discuss my connec-
tion with the Texas and Pacific rail-
road. In 1923, after the national con-
gress had chartered the road from
Vicksburg to Shreveport, 1 foresaw
| that there was bound to be an outlet
for this road across our state to the Pa
cific coast. was then i'm the legisla-
ture, and 1 introduced a charter for
that road to run directly through the
northern portion of the state. About
this time, General Sam Houston and
Thomas J. Husk came home from
Washington, and went before your
legislature and insisted upon the char
ter for this road with a magnificent
donation of land. The charter passed,