The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-09-04
HARD BRICK.
HE WRITES 10 WASH. JONES
a Melancholy >iIain ovrrn hurst"d Eui-
bic-Er. Grass Politics Failed to
Matrriaiise, anh Hence These
Tears a Gold Day.

PNNHANpLE, Aug. 2l.-D',G WASH
In our political experience, which | con
f.sS has been as 'udS an yappriEn H.
the glass of Il naS en- Oiled ITSELF an,
we must give IL atlrn AMI a.atu patri
officially enter tho phlitIcnl arena tina
the country may r'crivc the benefit %
our eminent scrNi. 'cS and its wild caree
to the dcihIi ioi bpw-wpwS h" stopped
There are u store or more of the ap
parcnily ms .rmointahle obstacles il
oar way, ch,.ef among which j. John Ire
land. Oi course this Is sub rosa, what
ever the mischief t!lat Is. Certain IL IL
% N | knO john is Immensely
popular everywhere imthe State, aud /
| regnembar correctly, You discovered
this 10 he more than true some tw,
years ago.
lt.is expected, Wash, that Won max,
the race Tor Governor, nut noone, is vet
Expects me to u for any office, and
presume | must content myself with tn,
Cinolunrnts / receive from the free
grass syndicates to trumpet loud ano
long their wishes and desires. If
had Il past record how diilcren.
things might be. Alas, Wash, ii you
hud n past record mean Il record you
and | could hOld up before the people
To he sure, You were accidentally sent
To Congress several years 2 bat I've
heard oi nothing you did there except tC
vote with the "lttdS" 81 all important
subjects, and this we must he careful Il
cover up during tho present campaign.
We must draw attention from the pas,
by scouting free grass, reckless cNtrav'
I-auues, and ca!iInltOuS deficiencies
Tine free grass fellows Will pay TX well,
and it may have the effect of keeping
,ur past gccoatIicitieS comfortably
showed under. In my county | shouted
free grass most Justify and seemingly
was II very Triton among The lease law
, minuowS and small fry. In fact, | ear
! ried overyVhing ~. storm, mo VERY
atmosphere was tuii of free gra"s. The
Gazette, published at Fort Worth-pls-
Sibly YOU ave heard OF the paper, II
not, III try and send you II c~upy-'ook
up the refrain 80 v~ehemcntlN t,ht l
really began To believe the county Dem
ocratic convention would instruct for
free grass first, last and all the time,
but the blame thing went square bach
ON the whole business and endorsed the
lease law, and to add to my sorrow act
ually had the impudence 10 endorse Ire
land ri Int before my face. How j did
long for u tirst-claSS cyclone to strike
that convention. On! Wash, how | did
" ish for some Of the foreign syndicate
fellows to be there so we could wipe ont
the thing, but they were off superin-
tending the fencing Of tho school lands.
These foreign fellows who don't ~ az
acre of land, yet have thousands fenced.
and who drive their vast herds tut New
Mexico aud the Indian Territory to pre-
vent their assessinent, are going to give
rs trouble WASH. 1t will be impossible
for us to gull the people of Texas with
rec grass as Ion" q, insO!vent ana
wealthy foreign barons are at the bottom
of it. OF course The baronS don't know
Lhis. They know nothing OF the charac-
ter of the American people and still less
OF the people of ieXas. Why they nc
be driven or led just as they are in Eu-
rope, and we must be careful 70 keep
up the belief. 1t is the open
sesame to their purses the contents
of which we are af,er, at least it is wnat
myself II the Gazette have an eye on.
| will write you again in Il few days II
give you some pointers. BY the way,
I'm short of funds, and if you al send
me 500 will refund it sometine dur
ing th" NJ Xt month. Nearly all the big
free-grass men are Mt home in Europe
and | cannot get my political assess
mems. rhry paid. it is said, the Ga
zettc somc $4,000 before leaving, and the
blessed managers of the cOncern, ! pre-
sumo, fell ,ut among themselves over
the division and nearly busted the en-
tire business. l suppose you heard the
l~ree-grasS barons held a meeting III
Glasgow, Scotland, some weeks ago, in
which they freely commented IN the
laws Of Texas. Funny, isn't it, to have
a lot Of foreigners, on foreign sol. a tell
ing Of us what to do and 10Y to run this
State? But on this We must be as, san
Weller says, Gas dumb AZ II drum with
Il hole IN it," Should this letter fail into
the hands of tho papers, you swear it's a
forgery. Ever yours,
HARD BR TX.
y, B,-Eeep an eve on Gibbs.