Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-01
ELECTION NOTES.
Glimpses at the Woes Of the oandi-
date - The Great Influence
Man Getting In His
Work.
The Prohibi6onists Determined to be
Heard From Methods of Max
ing Voters,

near and the candidates will soon
know their impending doom. The
courthouse and square are filled every
day with honest, intelligent free-born
American citizens who will tell you
that one man Is going TO be
elected sure and that another
man Is going to be defeated
sure. Mingling among these honest,
intelligent. free-born American citi-
zens are an equal number Of honest,
intelligent free.born American citi-
zens who will tell you that one man Is
going to be defeated and that another
man IL going to be elected. This Is
the only difference perceptible be- |
tween the two divisions of honest, in
telligent, free-born American citizens,
and this Is 30 slight that you could |
hardly tell itother from which. 1t Is |
singular what peculiar sensation |
creeps over an Intelligent voter as
come "workern who Is reported to
have "great influence" pOurs into
his ear the story of the campaign. For
some offices, the candidates have had
each a term, IL is "horse and horse and
they are playing the rubber--or the
sugar" game. Others want TO get
there ELI and others want to stay there.
There are certain candidates who are
entitled to your vote. The man OF
great influence tells you who they
are and In confidential whisper why
this Is thus. IL Is the story told you
by another man of great influence"
an hour previously, turned inside out.
II is the same play with new charac-
ters. The ballot II the bulwark Of our
liberties; by 1t we select our own rulers
and then make servants of them; by IL
we express our choice-the choice of
free men-the choice of the people,
which is said to be the voice Of the
god of the ballOt-box; 10y its intlu-
ence we make friends, renew
old acquaintance with men whom we
never heard Of before, get free drinks,
shake hands cordially with the man
who pulled up our green corn and OBJ
tain promises from candidates that are
never performed The ballot In a great
blessing, but in these piping times Of
peace tile demand of the great un-
washed American voter Is for u spot in
some dense contlguity of shade where
rumors of the blithesome candidate
could never reach him.
The Prohibitionists are working ON
the quiet in the free county of
Tarrant and It ia said that
they wllr surprise the world
by their support of the electors
Of the cold-water candidate. A gentle
man who Is not running 0n the cold
water ticket, hut who has been over
the county, said TO a GAZETTE scribe
that Turrant county lacked very little
OF being able 10 carry Prohibition. He
was not "A temperance man, either; the
scribe could tell this 10y the way the
candidate had of wiping his lips on
his coat sleeve.
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One OF the many schemes TO obtain
voters resorted TO by the friends OF the
candidates is to have foreigners take
out naturalization papers. This is all
well enough, but II can be overdone.
1t was overdone in more than one in
stance yesterday where an oflicioua
gentleman tried to get foreigner Ia
take out papers,n telling him that II
he failed or refused to do 10 he would
have to leave the state. This is not
only questionable, but utterly con-
temptible. One of the gentlemen app
preached in this manner was unac'
qusinted with the laws of the country
and was much exercised over the mat
ter. He did not desire 10 become 8
citizen and thought he would have t.
get out of the state.
az
"If / ever get out of this business, ,
said a candidate TO a GAZETTE reporter
~ assure you will be cured most of
! fectually OF all oflice-holding ambi
ton. am into 1t now and / believ
l will get through all right, but let nj
get clear this once, then goodbye OF
,, flee, / have worked harder, spen
I more money, Lost more time, mad
= more enemies, lost more sleep, suffere,
more anxiety and wear and tear, anI
learned more meanness in this can
vass than thought / was able (,
survive. l am sure almost tina
! | am going TO win the race, but fri
. umph In the present condition OF pol
= tiles Ia a greater loss than Is defeat
think | will be elected, and II 80
: will serve my sentence out honestl,
, and as efficiently IA / can, but afte
) that no more office for me. woul,
: sooner swing "a spike maui on rail
road all my life than make anothe
2 canvass, No man who has neye
9 tried II can conceive how unpleasant
4 IL really Ia. From the momen
you announce you are considered pull
: lie property TO be pulled at aud 'hled
: by people who make election time
{ their harvest III you don't heliev
< me, just try it.n He meant what h
4 said and the scribe flshed down anon
= his assortment of earthly aspiration
I. and pulling out thriving ambition I
y become an alderman, throltled Il an
trampled II under his number min
: shoe.