Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-09
AUSTIN LETTER.
A City Full, and "still They Gomez
Indignation at the Course of the Daily
"What Is 1t. }"
Emphatic aud Free Expression OF
Opinion.
special Correspondence OF the Gazette.

Special Corresp ondence OF the Gazette.
| Austin, January This morning
the city is u stirring, active, anxious
hive of quick and vigorous humanity.
| Legislators ARE about all in, and from
the show they make IL may be inferred
that enough stockmen are IN the
ground for all practicable purposes.
The land bidders are still here in force,
and the newspaper men are bobbling
around like the locust of Egypt on u
| hunt for green pastu.age. There IL, in
fact, "a whole city full of people here,
and the cry is still they
boarding aud private houses are all
| taken and filed with pairs, triplets and
quartettes.
There was some little stir among the
cattlemen last evening after reading
the statement in the Galveston News
| that "mauy members think the stock
mems convention was called ut this
| time to bulldoze legislation" etc, and
not few openly expressed their in
| dignation with refreshing epithets and
ornamental denuuciation. The other
statement that there is no deny ing
! the fact that the fence-cutier- are well
organized and have II powerful inilu-
ence in Western Texas; in fact, 1t
would not be going too far to say that
the great mass of the people In the
| West are either actively or covertly in
sympathy with the law-breakers,n is
also dscounted and rel eiled by western
men as {, statement that goes 'too far"
| for truth.
The others still-and by no means
| Il ew--legislators--w are charg,
with being 'covertIy IN sympathy with
the fence-cutters, and viii favor NJ
measure TO crush out the disorder
would like To know 10 whom the inn
aginativc reporter referred. Its an
| infamous SANDER said one member.
"Thcre are numbers here who con.
denim the wrnngs that brought about
the trouble, but with equal emphasis
condemn the tence-cutting. They will
| insist that the first wrong be righted
and that Justice, even.handed justice
he done To all parties, but there is ne
such thing rs 'covertsympathy" with
fence cutting, as stated.
Governor Ireland Is Justly indignant
that his message was synoptized and
published before its delivery and
against his positive iujunctions to the
press, but does not lower his dignity bN
the use ofsuch English terms as would
alone properly characterize the
breach OF confidence. He smiled and
asked, as there no integrity in
Texas journalism? Upon being
treasured he gave no further
evidence of his disquietude
An observing citizen in high station
and one who reads carefully and crit
icisps justly, to-day said "If | were
called upon 10 name the leading cause
of the fence-cuttiug | would name the
Galveston News. Its course Oh land
monopoly, syndicate purchases aud
large pasturage fencing, from Febru-
AIRY last TIL about The middle of No
vrnber, inspired the split of dissalis-
faction which ripened into revolt
az inst that policy, aud following the
logic of the News teaching
we have the ience-cuttipg. 1t
first disturbed the elements and stirred
up the storm, aud now, because it can
not ride the blast and direct the
cyclone, il is mad with lts own creu-
ton, and tries 10 escape around the
corner, like the vertable rogue who,
with the stolen goods, cries, "Stol
thief. stop thief !"