The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 44, July 1940 - April, 1941 Page: 438
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us, we cheerfully forgive, and in the contest which is
now left for the people in their sovereign power to
decide, we do not want a single vote that justly be-
longs to another. We would rather suffer defeat a
thousand times and be consigned to oblivion where
glory never comes than to be elevated by unjust
means."
R. T. Milner was elected. L. E. Daniell commented on the
victorious race thus: "In the primary elections his nomination
was hotly contested, but, having got the nomination by the
Democrats of his district, he was elected by a handsome ma-
jority .. ."88 The editor had won his first political race.
SERVICES AS A LEGISLATOR AND OTHER
ACTIVITIES : 1887-1904
When Editor Milner took his leave of Henderson for Austin
and legislative duties, he left capable printers in charge of pub-
lishing his paper. But far from relinquishing editorial responsi-
bilities, he sent home each week an account of the capitol's
happenings which were published under the captions "Our
Editor's Letters" or "Our Austin Letters." These informal
journals are especially interesting today because of the per-
sonalities the editor reveals in his recountings of episodes
arising out of the legislative routine and for the informal pic-
tures of Austin's institutions, into which he gives unofficial
glimpses.
Many political novices besides Robert Teague Milner were
present when the House convened January 11, 1887. In fact, more
than half of those who answered to the roll call that day never
before had served in the Legislature. "The people cried out
against the politicians and filled the lower house with hayseed,"
the Fort Worth Gazette commented.87 Milner wrote about the
same group:
From what I have been able to gather from the out-
siders and lookers-on, the present legislature is con-
sidered a very creditable one.
What is termed the Granger element is doubtless in
the majority, and it seems to be the determination of
85"The Bitter Contest," undated clipping from Mrs. Milner's Scrapbook,
p. 57.
S6L. E. Daniell, Personnel of the Texas State Government, (1887), 156.
87Quoted in Newton and Gambrell, A Social and Political History of
Texas, 380.438
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