Year: 1878

North Texas is profoundly interested
just at this time in two grand enter
prises, and in both the most satisfying
prospects of ultimate success 10 had.
They are the passage of the Texas and
Pacific bill, and the election Of Governor
Throckmorton to the executive chair OF
our state government next November.
We have closely scanned every phase of
the proceedings had IN congress this
session with reference 20 this mos inl-
portant bill, and from clear know ledge
gained by this close watch and careful
interest, we arrive at the conv iction
that upon its final call the bill will pass
and receive the signature OF the presi
dent The strength of the friends of
the bill in the senate is great, aud in
creasing every day THIS eirsumstanee
is having a decided influence il the
house. That this influence is seen and
felt by the Huntington people, and
dreaded by them, is evinced in their
frantic efforts 10 buy, intimidate and
wheedle the members. Fortunately for
us the disastrous experiences by which
Ames and Brooks were put under the
sod. and Colfax sent smiling into OBJ
scurity, the money of the Union
and Central Pacific roads is shorn
of much OF its old time prestige on the
floor Then too, We have a square, old
fashioned democratic majority Oh that
floor, and hence the chances are in
favor of honest work, as well a. fair,
square and legitimate progress. We
say this road is peculiarly pet enters
prise of our section of the state: so
indeed 1t is because, while of vast inn
the nation. its inititory benefits are to
be felt here first. For the srst five or
six years, immense sums must be dis
bursed in north Texas 60 cover the
heavy expenses of construction, the
preparation of local facilities, such as
depots. machine shops. etc There is
then little wonder that the Galveston
Nelcs sits down upon the bill with
all of it's ponderous weight and as
little wonder that its prospects
are now SO fair. Eternal defeat has al,
ways attended both the political and
material enterprises of that confessedly
great newspaper. In everything except
money is this true, and in the instance
of its advocacy OF Huntington. the
rule holds good The Texas and
Pacific road has no corruption fund
has no means by which the allegiance
of local influences in Texas may be
bought, and it only relies upon the ius~
tice of its cause. and the plainly seen
benefits to arise from the passage of its
bill. For once since the war, truth and
justice are in the ascendant. and are
proving themselves, thanks TO a COM
| msnding democratic influence, with
every present and future chance ofulti-
mate and complete success.


| In the matter of the candidacy of
Governor Throekmorton, Our section is
deeply interested; because BY his
election Texas will has e an able clears
headed, broad.viewed chief magistrate,
whose policy will embrace every good
to every section of our state because
n" has been the moving spirit OF the
great enterprise Of which we have been
| speaking and which is to confer upon
| our state, nation and the age in which


We live, the grandest boon in the power
OF man 10 bestow; because be is abor,
ing to secure the passage of the Federal
Court bill, another boon Of scarcely less
Importance to us; because he is labor


ingto protect and foster our infant


frontier settlements, and TO attract uni
versal attention to the rich fields whose
virgin soil and balmy climate invite the


home>seeker to its lovely and peaceful
glens--pesceful, only since the policy


OF protection was so nanfuliy urged by


Governor Throckmorten and his col>


leagues on the floor of the house.


! With the glorious prospect of an


early fruition in the case OF all these


great interests, may we not truly say


our section Is on rising ground2 Who


can dispute the conclusion when he


knows that the near approach of these
advantages is attracting one hundred


thousand excellent settlers to our see


ton alone every year, and who can dis


pute the other easy and natural conclu
sion that the paper named looks upon


all this with an evil eye, because newt
! ably the increasing trade consequent


upon this improvement must by natu.
. raj laws, and the unfriendiiness Of Gal.
weston, go out of the state by another


gateway