Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 8, Number 141, 22 August 1879 — TERRY, HERE AND THERE. [ARTICLE]

TERRY, HERE AND THERE.

The nomination of David S. Terry fur office oh the Democratic ticket has served for two very different kinds of commentary. The Bilk organ, doubtless acting on the theory that it was wisest to brazen out a a specially objectionable candidature, slobbered the man all over with nauseous and grotesquely extravagant eulogy, as not capable of perceiving that to compare such small things as Terry with the great figures of history is to render Terry's insignificance the more apparent. On the other hand, the- New York Times, which remembered Terry's political record with sharp distinctthat he has acquired such prominence as he possesses in two ways ; first, as the man who killed Broderick ; and second, as a man who rebelled against and sought to destroy the Union. The Times thinks, and rightly, that these will always be the main landmarks in Terry's history, and it also thinks that . neither of them recommend him to the suffrages of an intelligent, loyal and civilized people. Terry resigned his position as Justice of the Supreme Court for the purpose of fighting a duel. His subsequent, excuse is alleged to have been that he was cowed by his party- associates. That kind of apology has never yet been held to shift such a responsibility from the head of the ' principal, and it ; cannot have that effect here.' As to Terry's capacity, it is decidedly not first rate. •He is not an orator. ; He is merely a fairly good stump speaker. There are at least a dozen men in this State •who beat him hollow at speaking, and he is no more to be compared with our 'best speakers than Emperor Norton is. There was no - need iof . Terry's . services, and his record ought to have kept him in ; private life. -When' a man has done what he has done, his public career should be con • sidered closed, and .if he himself has th bad taste and the absence of sense to forget this, he must be remanded !to ? the ob j scurity he has earned by j an emphatic popular rebuke, delivered at the polls.'