Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-08
Lost, Strayed or Stolen-A Bin Lost
and Found Again.
Ex-Gov. Roberts Disclaimer - The
Farewell Love Feast.
What Fort Worth Must DO TO Get the
Big Convention.
How Fort Worth and the Gazette are
Regarded by the Solons.
Correspondents Of The Gazette.

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) ing the night, been enrolled, but gray,
and fatal errors were at once detected
by the enrolling committee
and the original bill was called for. II
soon leaked out that the bill was mis-
laid lost or stolen, and a panic became
imminent. Inquiries for the bill were
earnest and vigorous, and when old
Harry was about To be elevated and
enthroned as police detective, some
body else had just beard that some one
else had found the bill somew here up
stairs. Just where its hiding place. or
who placed it there, has not TRANSFERRED
the enrolling committee were con-
tent to get the bill, and the stampede
was prevented 4 pew enrolment
was ordered, the bill went 10 the gov
ernor and is now law. During the
excitement one gentleman said GER
tain senator, who had opposed the
bill was the last man seen in possess
| sion OF it," which statement reaching
that senator's ears was pronounced "a
! id lie.n The matter ended with the
discovery of the bill, but there are
more so silly as to believe the little
break in official integrity was the re-
suit of accident. That 1t was design
no man in his senses doubts, and that
the purpose was either TO send false
bill to the country or to compel the
call of an extra session will be as little
questioned by those who watched the
progress of the measure and the dis
creditable efforts 10 defeat it.
The legislation for the suppression
of fence-cuttiHg and the protection of
property falls far short of Governor
lreiand's recommendations and just |
aAy~t NFgatt
mas and increased facilities for en-
forcing the civil and penal statutes in
the unorgani2ed and sparsely populat-
ed organized counties, but they have
given him the machinery, very gooa
in itself, without the mot i've power to
put 1t in motion and keep 10 run
Mug. The power to remove dere-
lict or recusant sherifls would
have been sufficient, probably, but
even that has not been conferred, and
only the petty authority given TO pay
deputies whom the sherifls NAV
choose, or not, TO engage for special
Under this state of
things it is apprehended that the most
important measure of the senate will
be rendered practically 'nugatOry.
Prominent Western and Northw ESTER, .
men laugh at the anti.land Enclosure :
DilI, ana openly declare that it cannot
~ enforced men, too, who ought to ,
et their faces in the other direction q
md throw the weight of their moral n
influence in favor OF enforcement. Il
SO far as known the governor has a
vetoed no bill, and probably will not, j
out IL Is a fact that many of them con- /
ain provisions not in accord with his :
Judgment. All that has been done is
Ia the line OF his recommendations,
but much of 1t stops short of his sug-
gestions, or fails To fill the measure of
the emergency. He makes no quarrel
with the peoples representatives,
however, but will take what they have
given him and do the best he can
with it,
Ex-Governor Roberts disclaims an
tagonism to the administration, and
denies saying anything against Ire
land, but he incidentally remarked:
81 don't SEE that the legislature is
passing any laws in accord with Gov.
lreland's recommendation Thus
he spoke Monday evening, and at that
hour there was some little shadow of
Justification for the disparaging utter
ance. for II was meant as a reflection,
but to- day the good, honest
old professor would hardly
hazard his reputation for
truth and fairness by repeating the
statement. Every act stretches along
the line OF the governors suggestions
and his policy, and though they do
not plumb the track he marked out.
or go To the extent of his expectations,
they are in the main satisfactory. and
with the peoples active sympathy
and hearty cooperation he Will doubt
less be able to restore tranquility, pro.
tect property and reillume the state
with the bow of prosperity.
The members and senators held
sort of love feast during the death
throes OF the session, and their last
words were, "peace on earth-good will
to men, Brotherly love prevail I'd and
all the social and moral virtues charac-
terized their parting. They disp rsed
IN good humorw tn themselves and
kindly disposed to all the world and
the rest OF mankind, including John
Ireland, whom they nearly all favor
ior denomination at the Fort Worth
BY the way. the final canvass of the
chances give your city the bulge for
the big mobocratic assemblure. and
you will only have to make assurance
doubly sure rs to hall and hotel room
10 secure the prize. The enthusiasm
Tor lie movement is thoroughly kim
died, and the Democracy of Southern
and Southwest Texas, that has never
visited your section, is keen for trim
10 the giant young queen of
the prairies. You have a colossal
reputation for enterprise, hospitality
ana do, land thousands want to see
now you do II and catch your Meth
ODDS of achieving. / suggest that your
Peter Smiths, Brittons. HuiTmans
foungs, VanZandts, Loyds, Boazs,
Loving, Browns, Evans, Caseys aud
Tue rest Of your great, big-hearted, ,
public-spirited capitalists of the CITY
get together at once aud resolve TO
onlld wigwam large enough to seat
o,ooo persons, with ample hooks aud
ahte-roonis for cigar stands aud beer 5
saloohs and other essential
Democracies. The great unwashed
wlil De there In tremendous force, and
! need not tell you that the cost of
wigwam Will be a mere bagutelle 10 A
the droppings of the element that will
possess your city for three or four davs O
Inc GAZETTE has advanced steadily
IN popular favor since the extra session
Opened, aud to-day occupies q HIGHER !,
piace IN Texas journalism than MI any '
per,ou OF its existence. 1t IL universal. y
" conceded the foremost Mace in =
noftn Texas, and but few are as
olihuly welded To other io,,rnais |
rs to assign II u station second m anw 8
has al N