Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-12
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and to give this section the influence
aud voice it is by right entitled to in
legislation.
Delta Banner: The Fort Worth GA
ZErTE suggests a decennial census of
the state of Texas to be taken alter
nately with the United States census.
The advantages of this innovation
THE GAZETTE predicts would manifest
themselves in advertising every five
years the rapid increase of our popula-
ton and internal wealth and enable
us the earlier to determine when the
number of inhabitants would justify
sn increase of our congressional dele
CATION.
Bonham News: In fact it has be-
come so much SO that it has driven
the Fort Worth GAZETTE, with its
general bigheartedness, to devote much
of its space to local interests. 1t even
wants q new census taken and new
superintendent made so as to give Fort
Worth few more representatives in
the Legislature. The city has grown
SO much in the last two years that she
begins to feel like she needs about ten
members in the legislature and
couple of congressman, besides u gov
ernor, attorney general, treasurer and
a commissioner of the land Office, as
its share of the spoils, and lift keeps on
increasing in size, and every man that
travels over the road registers at Fort
Worth, until the Chicago convention
meets, she will then ask for president
to be selected from its people. But
who blames THE GAZETTE? There is
not much else for it to talk about.
Why not work for its city? 1t has
done so faithfully and we will can
didly say successfully and has done
Fort Worth ten times more good than
the people there are aware of.
Gainesville Register: The question of
state census next year is being dis
cussed by the Texas press. There is
certainly great need of census, and
for more than one reason. North and
West Texas have grown since the
national census and are still growing
much more rapidly in population than
other sections of state, and so have not
even now their proportiOnate number
of senators and representatives in the
legislature. by 1890, when the next
census is taken by the national govern
| ment, Ii no census Is taken by the state
anda respportionment made before that
ti'iCf WIS Will DC very
unfair indeed. Besides this would be
a paying advertisement to Texas to
have her rapid growth made known to
the world. A census will be expen-
tive but we believe it will be profit
able investment to the state in gen.
eral, and trust there will be none SO
short-sighted as to oppose a census
with the cry of economy. The Fort
Worth GAZETTE first agitated this
| question and Is following the matter
up with an enthusiasm aud determi.
nation that We believe will ultimately
accomplish the object desired If 1t is
seconded by the press of the interested
sections. This paper concludes q very
sensible article on the subject by say
ing that, "the ncOntrovertible fact is,
that certain parts of the state have far
outstripped others In the growth of
population, so much that tue appor-
tionment of legislative representative
which was fair enough four years ago
Ia now unequal aud oppressive and de-
mands readjustment on a new basis.
This basis must lac q state census.u