Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-14
SENATOR GIBBS.
The Dallas State>man's Views on Fence
Cutting and the Extra Session.
Leading Questions In state Politics
Gov. lreIand's Position.
Fort Worth the Right Place to Hold All
The State Conventions.
special to the Gazette.

Special 10 the Gazette.
Dallas, February Ex-senator Bar
nett Gibbs of this district showed ul
to-day circulating about among his city
constituents, aud submitted to an IN
terview. He thinks the legislation oi
the extra session will be satisfactory
and accomplish the ends in view
and he has every confidence in the
governors enforcing the law to the
letter. He claims that every legal OF
reasonable excuse for fence-cutting has
been removed, and from this time ON
the press and people can no more jug
tify fence-cuttiDg than they can horse
stealing or any other disregard OF
property rights. He laughs at the
charge that the legislature WIS en-
gagged In any campaign work, and
says the political probabilities
were discussed even less than at the
regular session of the Eighteenth leg
islature. So far as the war on the gov
ernor Is concerned Senator Gibbs says
IL has strengi MIN with the PEG
pie and the Legislators, who know that
there was no law previous to the extra
session to suppress fence-cutting.
He says The leading questions now
in state politics are the proper land
policy to be pursued, and the proper
policy towards corporations, and that
Gov. Ireland on these questions,
whether judged 10y his past record as a
legislator or 10y recent utter
ance, Is In full accord
with the larger portions of
the people. Senator Gibbs asserts that
the governor favors sale of the pub
lie lands 10 actual settlers only, and
w m lA..
islature voted against land
subsidies to railroads. He has always
been opposed TO the sale of land in
large bodies ut low rates, whether to
individuals or corporations, for while
this policy has a tendency to the im-
mediate reduction of taxation, il will
soon result in the people not being
able to get cheap homes on long time,
and hasten "a social condition that
should not be reached in
Texas in twenty five years.
Governor Ireland is known to be OPP
posed 10 allowing corporations to spec
ulate in land, but would not go to the
extent OF interfering with vested
rights or advising or approving any
unjust legislation.
Senator Gibbs says he don't believe
Governor Roberts would be candi-
date, as he has "a better thing in his
law professOrship, and moreover is
shrewd enough to know that he could
not be nominated, AZ his land policy
is not bearing good eleclioneering
fruit.
The senator also says that he is de-
cidedly in favor of holding the state
Democratic convention at Fort Worth,
as II is the only town in North Texas |
asking f'r it. He says IA he has
many personal friends in the kepubli- |
can party, he is in favor of the party |
holding its convention at the same |
place and ut the same time, and if |
there is enough of the Greenback |
party now in eXis ence in Texas 10 |
make state convention, he Is in favor |
of its assembling ir Fort Worth also |
with the Democratic aud Republican
conventions. 1t is evident that Sena-
tor Gibbs Is "cnttouing upr to Fort
Worth ana Tnrrant county particu-
larly, and the western portion of this
congressional district generally.
He preserves II solemn silence on the
New Orleans exp osition commissions
ship.