Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-12
special % the Gazette.

sell IN tne tOllOWlnR letter. winch hp-
pears In the Bastrop Advertiser, and
with which the editor was kind
enough to furnish your reporter. The
Advertiser, though published at the
home of Col. Jones, Is a strong Demo-
cratic paper and supporter Of Ireland
and the Democratic ticket:
TO THE PEOPLE or TEXAS.
On the first Tuesday In November
the people Of the United States vote
for president and vlce-president and
the people OF Texas for state, district
and precinct officers. Wisely and well
our patriotic fathers organized our
polity into general and local cOrre'a-
lions, committing TO the national gov
eminent interstate and International
affairs, and 10 states local affairs. The
pride and boast Of "A state-rights man
are both lost in the partisan who
surrenders state to national politics.
To illustrate, what have national
banks and tariff adjustment to do with
our school and public land systems?
Any candid man must needs respond,
nothing, and yet while Texas will
doubtless give Cleveland a large ma
iority for president, IL il due to candor
10 affirm that not one.lfth Of her vot-
Ing population support the herd-law
policy or
THE SO.CALLED DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
In their late convention ut Houston
they declared for the lease law but
against the herd law, the two things
being really one and the same thing,
inseparable in principle and cohesive
In sympathy. That the Democratic
party, sO-called, in Texas in 1873,
alarmed by the Greenback party, has
tened TO express In its platform adopt
ed at Houston ultra Greenback senti-
ments, but was careful TO dominate ul-
ira national bank men, who avowed
they were not i'm favor of national
banks, but who from that day TO this
have done all I'm their power 10 sub
serve the interests OF their national
bank masteTs-ailords an example of
factions sincerity. To illustrate, the
present governor of Texas who was
the Greeubsck candidate for congress
in 1875 against Schleycher is by acqui-
escence. II not by positive declaration,
champion of the national banks and
so you have
THE LESSON BY EXPERIENCE.
AS to the confidence that may be
rep0sed in faction, in further ilustTa-
ton, the governor In his MESSAGE TO
the legislature at it's extra session
recommended the herd law In the fol-
lowing words;
81 recommend a law making IL a
high penal oilense for any one 10 drive
their stock on TO any lands private or
public for the purposes of grazing with
out express authority from the proper
source TO do so or to herd stock
on any public or private lands without
express authority from the proper
source TO do so.
III recommend q law giving a land
owner lien on stock that may tres
pass on lands with the knowledge or
consent of the owner and against the
will OF the landowner for all damages
done by said stock aud value Of grass
and property destroyed 10y Them
In these two paragraphs of the gov
ernor's message you have unequivocal
option in favor of the herd law and
yet the Houston convention indo,ses
his administration, but seeks 20 dodge
as In 1878, the real issue, and IL per,
talns 10 the election OF 1854 to prove
whether the masses are as
uuLLIBI.E NOW AS THEN.
Whoever votes the so.called Demo
cratic ticket votes for the herd Law
and just as surely as that ticke
triumphs In Texas. follows tn,
consolidated power OF landowner
as followed the triumph of nationa
banks In the election of Roberts owe
Hamman In 1878. The fool that vote
the Democratic ticket under the pre-
tense that the party faction as such |
opposed To the herd law wins our pit,
IL he does not excite our contempi
Our public lands were given away o
Ostensibly sold Mt fty cents per acre
and are now worth five dollars ne
acre, Democracy means govern
ment by the people and for the people
aud
AN INFANT IN PoLITICs
knows that ownership in land 10y tn
voter bottoms Democratic government
Vet In the presence Of a history so RI
cent, not TO say monstrous, with char
acteristic brass, faction asserts its deVt
ton 10 free government. IL is for tn
people in the election now approach
ing To say whether the policy of clas
TO mass lands In the bands of th
few shall be reversed o
perpetuated in Texas. Whoever vote
the Democratic ticket votes for n lane
lord system, not less malevolent tina
that dominant In Ireland. Whoev,
advocates lease law antagonizes III
fundamental principles of free institI
tions. To sell or lease public lands o
tends the primal laws of nature an
commends itself alone to the fool who.
selfconceit assumes that he Is bette
than other men. Believing that tn
great question lies Mt the foundation
stable government aud being I'm sent
ment with the masses of humanity,
accept the issue rendered by the Hou
ton convention aud Announce myse
A CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR,
and though do not regard the sta
and federal policies IN sympathy
have no concealments TO make. III
government should raise It's reyenl
by n tariff so adjusted AS 10 foster an
encourage American industries. IN
credits OF nation, instead of beir
formed 10 class. should be utilized
the interest Of the whole people. Pu