The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-08-29
HARD BRICK.
HE WRITES TO WASH. JONES.
a Melancholy Strain over Bursted Buh-
blc-Free Grass Politics Failed to
MatcriaIize, and Hence These
Tears Cold Day.

PANHANpLE, Aug. g.-DEAR WASH:
In our political experience, which | con-
iess has been gaseous and vaporizahle,
the glass of time has emptiod itself aud
we must give it n turn and again patri-
otlcally enter the political aroma that
the country may receive the benefit of
our eminent services and its wild career
to the demnilion bow-wows be stopped
There are a score or more of the APP
parently insurmountablC obstacles in
our wav, chief among which is John Ire
land. OF course this is sub rosa, what
ever the mischief that is. Certain IL is
YOU and | know John is immensely
popular everywhere in the state, and If
/ remember correctly, you discovered
| this to be more than true some two
| years ago.
1t is expected, Wash, that you make
| the race for Governor, but no one, as yet,
expects me 10 lun for any office, and
! presume must content myself with the
emolumonts ! receive from the iree-
grass syndicaleS to trumpet loud aud
| long their wishes aud desires. If !
! had past record how different
! things might be. Alas, Wash, If YOU
| had past record i mean Il record you
and could hold up before the people.
| 70 be sure, you wero accidentally sent
| to Congress several Years ago, but I'VE
| heard Of nothing YOU did there except to
! vote with the "Rads' on all iupurtafit
subjects, aud this we must be careful to
cover up duiiug the present campaign.
| We must draw attention from che past
| by shouting free grass, reclI - eNraV-
lgauccs, and caidmitous deficiencies.
| The free grass fellows Will pay us wei ,
] Il . Inns ,i "a 90
lur past Cccen,ricitios comfortably
showed under. In my county | shouted
| free grass most Justify and seemingly
| was very Triton among the lease law
minnOws and small fry. In fact, car
rcd everything by storm. The very
atmosphere was full of free grass. Tie
Gazette, published at Fort Worth pcs
! Sibly yuu have hoard Of tho paper, ii
not, I'll try aud send you II copy took
up the refrain so Vehemently that !
really began to believe the county Dem
ocratic convention would instruct for
free grass first, last and all the time
but the blame thing went square back
on the whole business and endorsed the
lease law, and to add to my sorrow act
ually had the impudGnce TO endorse Ire
land ri hit before my face. How | die
long fOra lirst-Class cyclone to strike
that convention. Oh! Wash, how ! die
wish for some of the foreign syndicat,
, fellows to be there so we could wipe on
the thing, but they were off Snperin
tending the fencing Of the school lands
These foreign fellows who don't own al
acre Of land, yet have thousands fenced
and who drive their vast herds into New
Mexico and the Indian Territory to pre-
vent their assessment, arc going to gly'
us trouble Wash. 1t will be impossible,
for US to gull-tho people of Texas will
> rec grass as long as insOVent ant
wealthy foreign barons are at the bottom
b of it. OF course the bdrOuS don't know
q this. They know nothing of tho charac
ter Of the American people and still les
, of the people of Texas. Why they &c
81 tually believe the people over here ca
be driven or led Just ~ they are in Eu
rope, and we must be careful to koe
\ up the belief. II is the ope
sesame TO their purses the content
of which We are after, ut least 1t Is WhA
myself and the Gazette have an eye OF
will write YOU again in a few days an
give YOU some pointers. by the wa,
Pm short of funds, and if you can sen
me 500 will refund it sometime du
- ing the nCXt month. Nearly all the b
:, lrpc grass men are ut homo In EWol
m and cannot ret my political asses
meuts. They paid, it IS said, the &,
NJ. Zctfe some -, 200 before leaving, aud Il
~ blessed managers of the concern, ! pr
D., sumo, fell uut among themselves oN
IL the division ami nearly busted the q
tire business. suppose You heard Il
m trce-grass hlruus hold "A meeting
Glasgow, Scotland, some weeks ago,
ns which they freely commented GA Il
lr laws Of Texas. Funny, isn't IT, to hn
a lot Of foreigners, on foreign soil, a IT,
ing of Us what to do and how toIun III
y state? But ON this We must be as, Na
~ Weller says, "nS dumb as IA drum wi
"A holumit." Should this letter fall IN
be the hands of the papers, YOU swear ~
'Il forgery Ever yours,
HARD lNHjCK
SO X, H. Keen an eye on Gibbs.