Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-31
POLITICAL OPINIONS.
How Different Men Think and Talk.
ray Your Money aud Take Your
Choice.
Ex-Governor Hubbard as an Epicurian.
Special Correspondence Of lhe Gazette,

special CORRESPONDENCE of the Gazette.
Austin, March 29.-"I would like I,
see good Democrat take the field hi,
year as an Independent. He would h,
1od-send to the state and thepeaple.i
i, DO you want the party orvsniga
ton broken up in Teyas?,i
NO, but it sadly needs n shakino
up. mere has not been opposition
enough to make IL attentive TO public
necessities. A nomination by the par
~ oeing equivalent to an election mol.
iicians have sought to gain the favor
n,itheir kind rather than OF the people,
me party is getting in comatose
CONDITION. Like individuals, parties
are at their best when under fire. De.
mocracy in Texas will decay within
itselt unless II Is forced into struggle
for existence
But do you think n man would
stand any chance of being elected,
VINO would come out against the regu.
lar nominee of the parts?'
II tell you that II a
good, honest, old-time Democrat,
man whom everybody hunors and
has coniidencein, would make the race
ON his own merits, abjuring caucuses
ana conventions, and standing up for
the right without regard to party die.
tation, IL Is my honest con viction that
he would be the next governor of
Texas.n
This man is prominent Democrat,
whose political faith has never
been questioned, who has
often been honored with posi-.
lions of political preferment, and who
has more than once stood close to the
goVernorship. What are we coming
To, anyway" 1t is evident that n
change is fast being wroughiin public
sentiment. Democracy, while il re-
tains its hold, is not impregnable.
There was II time when 1t might rule
alone by the virtue of name. That
time has gone. In the future
it must mean something more
or fall victim to its own caprice. The
people have adjusted their thinking
cap, and when the people get to think.
ing there is no telling what is going TO
happen.~>
THE OTHER SIDE
II was sorry to zee those kilograms
in the News from Waco. Now ] don't
care d-n for the Post, and
think both papers are making asses of
themselves; but what we want Just
now is harmony in the party. don
know anything to be lighting about
The convention was harmoniuus?n
"Oh, yes; we got along very nicely.
Fort Worth and Houston came to-
sether and settled their little differ
nnppG ptlH Tho
convention settled one thug. | live in
East Texas, but there is mt
use denying that
THE SCEPTRE HAS DEPARTED FROM
JUDAH =
North Texas will claim and North
Texas will get the major part of the
offices hereafter"
If should name the speaker no
one could deny that he is good au-
.hority.
AND STILL ANOTHER.
- am Northern man, and was a
when ii meant
to he a Republican, but
ince have mingled with the South
,rn people, ] know that its mission is
Dast. Hereafter ! propose to vote for
he best man without regard to what |
he calls himself. Politics Is becoming |
farce anyway, amere hGlwark of pref |
dice, affecting all social organizat ions. |
Vow, what has municipal govern
nent got to do with it, and
'et you see the most bitter fights made
or party control of cities. 1t is de-
,asing and demoralizing. 1t gives
ascals the power to plunder municipal
reasuries at will, and is prolific of bad
government and the growth of politi-
al machinery. 1t is high time that |
God people should abandon party |
in matters of this |
.iud, at least where their bus
ness interests alone are involved, and
hut the door against politics in city
ffairs.h
Here was an individual whose every
ntonation and gesture betrayed his
,ankee birth. His remarks are sug-
eslive. Put them with those of the
cad of this article and ask yourself
he question, Are not the people COM
lg together in the interests of good
But passing from politics to people,
far more interesting subject, ] am
eminded of an anecdote related ut a
ountry hotel recently By n drummer
, pass away the monotony of the
vening shadows. 1t shows the
overs of
DICK HUBBARD AS AN EPicUREAN.
The boys had all been swapping lies
retty freely, when a big, tat Dutch
IAN scratched his nose significantly
nd commenced:
| vas going to New York with ,
db'ner Dick (he vas shust the same
me as mine brudder)a AM shnst before
e got to Danville, Virginia, he got n
i'd ease of the cholera. Oh, mine ,
otl! mine Colt! but he vas sick. He ,
rs 50 bad Off we had to stop off al
awhile and take rest. The CUB i
er rolled and tumbled that
ght. and swole shust q
etle to express his veelings. /
ell, the next morning he seemed TO
getting some easier, and | went h
ei to his bedside and said q
"Cuvner, don't you think you could a
{ a little sumthin this mornin'? Il
He looked at me sort OF grateful o
re. rubbed his stomach and replied; 4
'Ntll, don't know. might take Il
Few yIesh oysters
''Und | vent down and told the q
ok to fry the guvner a dozen e,
sters and they had such nice q,
sters, too; they took 'en out of that q,
'er, just behiud the town-yat
u call Itch? Veil. r.,
TX ien up to the gunner, und he ~,
ned over on his side, shn'iled