Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-12
OCnILTREE ARRAIGNED.
The Seaboard Congressman as Gay
Party Deceiver-A Ringing Re.
publican Indictment.

by iar 1he ihoSt interesting proceed
ing begun in this county In long
while is the political indictment ipsti-
tuted and procured by Republicans, as
prosecutors. against Thos. p. Ochil-
tree as defendant. The indictment
has various counts. One of the counts,
after charging many misdemeanors,
alleges u gross abuse of power, for
which be has incurred the gravest dis
appreciation. Others charge reckless
ness, incapacity, misconduct and NAL
administration, such as render him
liable to impeachment, the great theo.
ry Of our government, it is alleged, be-
ing that the purity of the COMPRESSION.
al office is matter which concerns
every individual; that whenever,
therefore, guilt. recklessness or inca.
pacity shield themselves in the con-
gressional office. by technical shifts
and evasions, against direct collision
with the law of the Republican
party it is meant that the re-
serve power of the party
shall intervene and save the district
from harm. The indictment against
Ochiltree is ably and artistically
drawn, and Republicans claim that
any one of the counts will be sufficient
upon which to base a verdict of
guilty. The tribunal before
which Defendant Ochiltree will
be formally arraigned and COM
PEELED TO plead guilty or not guilty
VIII be the high court of political err
ror5, to he begun and held next No
vember, in which the people of the
Seventh congressional district will be
| duly empaneled rs his trial judges.
A specific and separate count in the
indictment (Which is Endorsed a true
bill charges that just prior to the de-
PENDANT Ocbiltree's departure for
Washington he avowed TO the Repub.
licsn authorities here and TO the deiega-
ton from BraZoria county, who were
sent down to interview him, that the
names of persons, whom he afterwards
supported and who were afterwards
appointed, would not he urged by him
for appointment; and one of them, he
| averred, was not in the race; that he
fraudulentiy represented that he was
impersonal and could not interfere in
the matter of the appointment of
federal judge and United States attor-
ney; that he had suit pending against
him in the federal court at Galveston
civil litigation growing out of a
shortage in his accounts while United
States marshal-upon which the new
judge and new attorney would have to
pass, and that his position was most
delicate one, and that he could not in
terfere; that this declaration was both
ofat ~ well as written; that this
speclous preteNt for neutrality
IN the matter of federal appointments
was consciously chung to, and was
fraudulently put forward upon all oc-
casiohs by Defendant Ochiltree, dur
ing the time the appointments were in
abeyance, with the one sedate and
criminal intention and purpose on the
part of him, said defendant, of deceiy-
ing his friends and the best people
in the district who were their indoors
ers; that during all the season, prior to
the nominations by the executive.
Ochiltree was sedulously mysterious;
that intimate friends who had "borna
the brunt of battle in his behalf, and
contributed money to elect him, could
not divine whom he would support for
any position. He was enveloped i'm a
cloud OF mystery during all this time;
ana Notwithstanding his neutrality he
claimed to have assumed, Defendant
Ochlltree was continuously to-wit,
from the day of his said false and
fraudulent representations up to the
date of the said nominations by the
executive, enwrapt in the grandeur of
MS own Importance, and like a poten-
tial ana mysterious monitor he hung
for awhile on the declivlties of the
political horizon; he moved like an
autocrat of all the Russias:
he lorded it around promiscuously.
AT the hotel he remained closeted in
MS apartments. and his foremost and
hrmest friends had to dance attend
ance upon the sweet pleasure of the
great political chieftain, as in the
retlnue OF his conquest. A five-minutes
conversation with him was esteemed,
Oh necessity, great victory, achieved
only by favored few. Colored Repub.
iicans could not get even in gunshot
range OF the bright political meteor, so
Gazzllngly did he confront their vision.
lie departed suddenly with Bonanza
Mackey for Washington, after publish
ing iaise reports that he would honor
Tie city OF Galveston with his august
presence ior ten days longer. When
J ton, his inflated political ambition
reached fever heat. He set about using
the renowned Lasker as yeritable
tool, showing him about and Inspiring
kilograms about it to the GaIveston
news To- make impressions, as he con-
crived, IN this district and catch votes
, nom the Jews, whom he faIlaciouslv
assumed, relied upon and believed to
ne people who were To be easily
, elated by an idle show OF flattery and
, ceremony. And when Lasker sick.
} enea ana died, Ochiltree hailed
with delight his great fortune. He
hung himself vauitingIy upon the
,nunder-steed of opportunity and de-
lvered most grandiloquent eulogy.
! Win the crimi1al intention To disgrace
the memory and all that was TO BE re-
Vered OF good man, to catch Jewish
votes, ana In short while his ridieu-
,ous speeches, detracting from both
i,ssRer and bismarck, were drifting
Ihelr miserable way through the pub
nc mans on the cheap ranking privl.
iege to the desks and tables of every
Jew aud Democrat in the district.
inquiry made Of him at Washington
w 70 whom he would support for fed.
eIai appointments were answered terse-
~ 70 The effect that his position was a
,nost ueiicate one, and that he could
moi, as he had intimated tn the attor.
uey-geheral, take hand In the selec.
s,on ior reasons stated before he left
ualyeston. This letter, In the nos.
session OF one Of the prominent prose-