Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-11

down and gave remarkaoie per
formauce In hedging. The fact Is, at
first he thought fence-cutIlng was
popular, and went TO an extreme on
that; then he got Injected
with the herd law idea,
aud came ont in his message auNocf'-
ing that. When the stock convention
met he weakened again, ana weh' ue-
fore IL and swore that lie oldh saS
what he meant, or mean what he saiu'
As II that wasn't atonemeht enough
for his apostasy TO hcfd-la"lsn, ne
went to another extreme again an"
crowned the list of blunders 10y adVls-
ing them to kill the lence-cutter ana
promising executive clemency'"
"Will the herd.law be made party
issue?n
~ think not. All parties will come
out in opposition to it,"
"But Terrell says that no man Will
ever again be elected governor who
does not indorse the herd law"
mo man will be elected who iavors
it,"
What should be done with the
school lpnds?"
81 am In favor of selling them in
small tracts To actual settlers only and
stop the leasing. 1t prevents the set
Element of the lands. Who Is going
10 purchase in big pasture, with II
fair prospect of not only
being bulldo2ed and brow-beaten
but perhaps endangering his life?
Money received from the sale OF the
lands should, instead of being invested
in bonds, he put in immediate uses,
| building school houses and educating
children, or SO much as may be neces'
sary, relieving the peopleof the burden
| of school tax"
"Is there any prospect or necessity
for IA division OF the state"
"Whle the idea of division Is very
unpopular, have often thought that
it would be much better for the people
OF the state If 1t were divided
as originally provided in the ar
ticles Of annexation. There Is such q
vaflety Of industries now that 1t Ia ini-
possible to adjust legislation to exactly
suit or even do Justice To all. There Is
the ~ ricultural interest, the stock in
terest, the Ger. al interest, the cotton
interest, the sugar interest and many
Others, each clamoring for the adop-
ton OF It's own parcuiar views in the
statute book. To produce the greatest
|
perity population must
| be homogeneous. Such is moi
the ease i'm Texas, but the reverse ii
true to Iamentable extent. If thu
state were quarlered, such conditions
would xxi /. AS far as the politica
status OF the question is concerned, II
would give Us six new senators, and
two or three more congressman on ac
count of fractional population. TAX
ing IL all in all, | am of the opinion
that the sooner the state is divided
the better for the people. Legislator
only go up to Austin to wrangle any
way, and that is the only method t,
stop IT,.
Colonel, have you decided you
own status In the next campaign ?n
mot yet. am tired of politics an,
don't know that ! will re-enter Tia
field again. | would like to vote fu
either Sayers, Mills or Martin for gov
ernor. II the Democratic party put
out Ireland | can beat him, and he
about the only man in the party l Gu
beat y
Suppose the Republicans shoul
nominate regular ticket?p
1T would only be so much the be-
ter for me should conclude To- run
III would be relieved of the odium
Republican coalition and my vote in
creased rather than lessened. Repul
licans who have voted for me woul
; continue Ia do so, and on the otht
hand the Republican support of tn
Democratic ticket, which was liftee
or twenty thousand votes in the la.
? election, would he diverted, leaving
!, much smaller majority 10 be owe
" Gomez
;, "'To what do you attribute your Il,
!, feat la the last campaign?
IL THE candidacy of Davis and raj
q road influences. The fist was n m
/ up job by leading Democrats. and
Is trembled when l,saw the beginning
~ the scheme. Davis was Il man e,
ar tremely susceptible to llattery, and /
ld magniIying his strength and hintii
M To him that he could win the ra,
IN they so worked upon hin
IN that he played directly into the
We hands. Then the old hloody-shi
It's howl was raised, and the prejudices
the people aroused to hold in che,
mt their reason. The railroads went sol
against me. In Galveston and aloi
IN me coast 1t was a regular combinati,
an ticket, Ireland and Ochiltree, as
1T, SHOWN ny The vote. That was Il
lis reason Finley was beaten. won
have to outvote 'em about two to OF
Tor any way TO get counted In. Democra
are such poor arithmeticians in tigt
he ing up the opposition ballot, The re
lse majority against me was perhaps fife
ut or twenty thousand
nt- "Will the South continue solid I
nd Democracy ?'
he There is but little reason to no
IN otherwise, and revolution, If ev,
ny VIII mt come before the end of n
pie present century. The Democrat
IL party is held together by the old :,
'ut aiery on account of war memoir,
I'VE aud this power will stand by il.
,ck matter what the issues involved Il
af. cry movement il has made since /
, war was To vindicate the right
ut seccssion.n
Is the solidity of the North eoual