Year: 1878

The Virginia Enfe,Prne Is perfectly
crazy in its abuse OF Governor Bradley; {;
20 much 20. in fact. that II pays not the
slightest attention to reason, common
sense or decency. It is much better for
Bradley, however. that the Republican
papers are 80 enragcd against him that
instead OF getting up reasonable lies
about him, such as there would be some
probability Of their being true. they
manufacture stories that no reasonable
man on earth can think Of believing.
Such is the character Of the recent
charge made by the ButelPrise that the
Governor. without any proyocation Of
cred an insult to a gentleman who
invited him to dinner in Austin, in
1871; and also the other charge that he
agreed positively with the artist, Nc.
Clellan to assist him in selling some
paintings to the State. and then vetoed
the bill in which it was proposed for the
State to buy them. That he did veto
the bill in which it was proposed to pay
Mcclellan an exhorbitant price for n
couple Of pictures which che latter said
he was going to paint, is not denied,
but that the Governor ever agreed posi-.
lively to the purchase OF the pictures
without knowing what they were going
to be, or what price was to be placed on
them, is so unreasonable that denial is
on act Of supereIogatiou.


As an Instance of the wilful misrep-
reservations which the Entnprise is con.
stantly making. it says: The Gov
ernor could not have made any objec-
tion to the pictures on the score of merit
because ho could not tell one of Michael
Angeles angels from a whitewash
sketch Of ballet girl"


The representation here made, is that
the pictures had already been painted
and were being presented to the Gov
ernor for his inspection, whereas the
EaierPri'e knows perfectly we'll that the
pictures had not been painteu, and have
not been to this day. but for the pur-
pose of getting in low fling at the
Governor, it deliberately makes til At
kind Of q misrepresenta ion.


As I'm instance Of the absurd sophis
tries resorted to by the Enferpriss. we
will give An instance from an article in
a late number of that paper. In that
article attention is called to the agree
ment that was entered into by the rep
resentatives Of the Bonanza owners and
the State authorities, wherein it was
agreed that there should be a stay OF
proceedings in the suits then pending,
in reference to the penalties incurred by
reason Of the failure to pay the bullion
tax as required by law. The reason
this agreement was made, was, rs We
understand il. to wait until IA decision
was made by the Supreme Court on
points OF similar nature to some Of
those involved in the suits in which the
stay Of proceeding was agreed to.


In. regard to this the Enterprise says.
"If Governor Brudley's veto of the Tax
bill was altogether noble then his com.
promise Gmeaning the agreement for n
stay Of procee lings above referred tot
was infamous; il his compromise was
just then his veto was the work Of an
old ass


Now, we would ask what possible
ground there is for any such conclusion.
There is no snnc person who will say
that admitting The q Ivernor to be righ,
in refusing to sign the Bullion tax bill
that therefore it was nm infamous act
for him to consent - a stay OF proceed
| ings for the reason above explained.
There is not the slightest danger OF any
person being influenced by such reason
ing MS the rage, and malice Of the En-
toprise and other Republican papers il
leading them to make use Of.