Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-28


It self, not in the mere badinage of words
i, which seems to constitute the only
+ weapon of his adversaries, but by In
n dubitablc evidence in deed and in
Il fluence to check in so far as the power
II of government may be effect.
= ual tie career of popular
/ crime. The GAZETTE ia moved
= by no feelings of personal friendship
to say that he has done all that
e could be done-the highest need OF
9 praise that personal excellence may
claim.
1t is unnecessary here, however, to
enter into a defense of the policy of
Gov. Ireland, to which no greater
tribute could be paid than the shifting
} of the line of assault by his enemies,
particularly the Galveston News.
Commencing with the denunciation of
criminal inertness," it not only
maintained a discreet silence to the
challenge to test its attitude by the
measure OF the constitution, but has
early in the attack made an implied
confession of the incorrectness
of its charges. Convicted of
misrepresentation, not to use "A
harsher but perhaps more correct
term, of the executive, with the brazen
effrontry which marks peculiarly the
trafllckers in public SANDER, as final
recourse it seeks by direct and will
full perversion of the truth to wreak
the injury which honest warfare
! failed TO accomplish. The G >zErTE is
not given to invective and recrimina-
ton, but when the Galveston News in
sists that "in the prevalent official the
DRY of the hour they the fence own
ersl are invited to participate
in organized lawlessness" and labors
heavily to substantiate that theory, we
know no other fitting term by which to |
designate it than actual, absolute. and |
malicious misrepresentation. Not only |
is the declaration made without the !
slightest basis in fact, but it is uttered |
in the face of a directly opposite att-
tude by the governor, of which the |
News is fully cognizant. His voice |
has been foremost in an APP
peal for conservative and
legal adjudication of the troubles he
has endeavored with all the influences
OF the executive to restrain those
whom continued Injustice mad so en-
uttered that they were on the point of
seeking retaliation instead of Justice:
IN the deep anxiety of conscientious
mind he has personally appealed to
the civil authorities to restore
law and order and suppress
lawlessness at any cost; he prohered,
the assistance of the state in
putting down the evil; ii he erred at
all 1t was in exceeding his iurisdic.
ton IN endeavoring TO quiet the agi-
tation and soothe an aggravated
public sentiment. knowing all this.
and yet Wiley attempting to detracl
from the fair fame of the
governor by varying its unholy =
assaults, alone by multiplying UNI /
truths, the News merits the scorn and
contempt ofevery honest Texan. In I
'ndeavoring to hamper the executive :,
n his efforts to stay the devastation, .
n obstructing the policy of concilia-
ION and peace, the News not only de-
erves severest condemnation, but il
invites the charge of co-opera- .
ion with those whose in- Fl
erests are best subserved by perpet- II
lating the troubles. The GAZETTE "
you'd not be unjust, though to the D
Views it would be but netting out ms it y
las measured. We merely indicate St
which are entirely reason
bic, and in fact cannot be avoided. .
10 complete the pyramid of hollow "
and make them trans re
aren't as the ill-concealed intent of m
hwarted ambition, it only re- ~,
uired the latest allegations OF the q,
'ews. Forgetting the cunning which nc
as so long enabled it to maintain its m
lany-sided phases, in moment of ~
pasmodic rage it withdraws the mask in
nd betrays the spirit OF It's utterances. la
n assaulting Gov. ireland there re-
lained semblance of individual war
ire but in coupling that with reiec oc
ons upon the Democratic party in SIP
eXas, the purpose is made obvious to eS
Their rule or ruin that party. Finding 10 10
lat Governor Ireland is neither to he en- en-
nor inundated into ac- in
'pting it rs his political guide, the tn
eXt step was to seek to injure him with Gu
Is party. Fooled again, the an I'll
'uncement is made in terms not to 10
'misconstrued, of hostility to theDem- he
ratio party. Already the line of at
OK is mapped out. The public is told 90,
atthe present state of affairs Is dam tra
'ing to the Democratic party.u The to