Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-20
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One hundred and two million dol
lars was now owed by these corpora
tions TO the government, but nothing
was ever received except the amounts
of transporting the mails and troops
which had been withheld Greater
penalties had been passed In the
house, but they hung fire in the SEN
ate-house OF lords. These bonds
would be due in fourteen years and
were bearing per cent. interest but
the senate proposed extending the
time to sixty years and reducing the
interest to 3 per cent. II could be
seen that the Democrats were
on the side Of the people
and that the Republicans were on the
side Of the monOpollsts. Vanderbilt
and Gould each paid in 500 900 10 the
Republican campaign fund to promote
their own interests. But Vanderbilt,
with $l00,000,000 in United States
bonds, pays less to the support of the
New York state and city government
than the man who owns 500 worth Of
property there. fit was desirable to
have this continued, vote for Blaine or
Hutler. The government was OF the
people, for the people and by the peo-
pie, The time had come when the
bloody-ahirt could not ne waved to
effect.
The state government under Demo-
cratic rule was parallel to the general
government under the same rule.
When he was governor of Texas the
tax was % cents on the 500. He had
paid SOS 900 of the state debt and left
NaaatA an1 4
ministTation the tax went up to 50 50
on the 500 and the state debt from
800 600 To So, 100000. When the Dem-
oerats got In power again the tax was
reduced so that altogether over
the state 1t will not average
more than sixty cents on the 500
When Coke was elected governor our
bonds were being hawked about in
New York and kept in soak at less
tLan sixty cents on the dollar. Now
they could not he had for less than
! forty cents premium, the result OF
! Democratic administration. 1t was
nonsense 10 vote for Wash Jones on
| account Of his free-grass policy. The
question would have to be settled In
side the Democratic party. No man
should be read out of tie party on ac-
count of local issues. A Democratic
legislature, he was confident,
would redress the lease-law
grievance If presented TO 1t.
The Democratic legislatures had al
ways heard the appeals of the frontier
and had always answered them and
would continue To do so. He urged
everyone 10 stand by the Democratic
party in Texas and in the Union.
Texas had prospered under that rule.
The party had stood by the interests of
the people and would yet do the same.
Texas was prominent among the states
Of the Union. She had nearly doubled
In the last decade and would d uble In
the next No man could depict what
sine would be in twenty-five years il
we would work IN harmony aud settle
our differences inside OF the party.
When 1900 rolled around she would
be the peer OF New York or PennsTl-
vania.
SOME OF EVERY ORDER.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
TuoRP SPRINGS, Tx, oct. IS
Politics is becoming fashionable here.
We have Cleveland badges thick.
A 81. John elector has spoken.
\ Mulhatton man is trying to raise
a club
A Belva man now and then "fetches
a whoop.n
A few win raise their brlsiles II you
say spoons" In their hearing, and so
IL goes.
County candidates spoke in the
Commercial college building the
other night. Judge Howell for county
Judge made the echo ring in a style
that brought us wildly 1.-THE good old
al at Nylr Ia faIl H..
strsng and eloquent,
WILL VOTE FOR THE BEST MAN.
special TO the Gazette.
PILOT POINT, TEX, Oct. 10-Post-
master j. B. Nicholas of Denton was
here yesterday. The principal object
of his visit was 10 consult with the
Republicans in this vicinity In regard
10 candidates for representative and
county Offices. IL Is not intended to
place Republican ticket in the field,
but TO vote as unit for the best man,
and with this object in view the chair
man, MIR. kinagy, has issued a call for
a meeting at Denton next Friday.
Yesterday, for the first time since the
opening. OF the en- upaign, groups
gathered on the sidewalks at times
making II almost impossible for pc
destfians. The crowd was discussing
the merits of their favorites. The
candidates for sheriff. Dallas Clask,
the present incumbent, and w. II.
Egan, who many years ago held the
Office for some length OF time, were
the main subjects Of discussion. The
fight will be a hard one aud holly con-
tested, as Si0n0 Is deposited la the
bank by two parties well known here.
70 be carried OIL by the election Of
their man.
Visitor; "Tell me Why you omit
that part Of your text about the rich
man and the eve of the needlfpU