Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-05
SHERMAN.
soowling Republicans Sick at Heart and
Sick at Stomach.
What They Think of Norton The Funeral
of an Old Settler
Special to the Gazette.

EhpNAeN W 1AN 1eh1oNANs
SHERMAN, Ten, sept. 4-rhere is
singular dearth of news in the city
to-day.
Late intelligence from Houston has
put long faces on the few Republicans
Of our city, and they wear a horrid
scowl when met by their Democratic
neighbors.
The idea Of being compelled to vote
for A. b Norton or submit to the
charge Of disloyalty to the party
of great moral ideas is
hard on the average Sherman
Republican, and they cannot
disguise their repugnance at the UNI
fortunate dilemma in which they are
placed. Bets are freely offered here
that their national ticket will be de-
feated, and so far no takers can be
found among the loyal hosts. Two
weeks ago they seemed hopeful and
defiant, but later intelligence has cast
a gloom over their hopes. and their de-
iiance has been turned into apologize
excuses for the many defects in the
personal and political character of the
plumed knight who leads the ticket.
Blaine's character with all its
crookedness Is a bitter pill TO any
honest Republican, but when loyalty
demands that they shall forget the
graceless record of that old, long
haired crank, A. 3. Norton, and con-
done his ISLANDERS on the state that has
given him refuge and protection, the
dose is almost too nauseating for even
a Republican stomach, and they are
sick. If such Infamous Sian.
derers of his state and neigh
bors, as Eorton proved him
selfto be fSur years ago in his Indiana
canvas, are to become the representa-
tive men of the party in the South
I and to be the chosen standard bearers
of RepuDlicanism, it will be many a
day before the solid South is con-
verified from the old Democratic faith.
This man Norton is disgrace to his
city, his county, his state-and we had
almost said his party, but this last SEN
timent we beg the privilege to qualify
for of such in the main
is the kingdom of loyalty.
The few decent Republicans in Texas
refuse to accept the leadership of a for
lorn hope. As was we'll said by Quincy
of Galveston in conversation II short
time ago with one Of our sherman
Democrats, "Our leaders who have re-
spectability have no ability, while
those who possess ability have no re-
spectability, aud the party is in a
devil of a tiX.n
The funeral of Uncle Sammy Moore
took place from his residence, East
Mulberry street, this morning, and
was attended by a large procession
of old friends and neighbors.
/ While every citizen of Sherman
laments the loss of good and honest
man, true friend and neighbor, and
a model citizen in Uncle Sammy
/ Moore, they realize that the grim
reaper came when the harvest was
fully ripe, and that at best he could be
spared TO us only a few years longer.
In his life and example we can all
learn lesson of usefulness that II
Needed, will fill the land with honest
men who know no guile or deceit, and
/ II that example We're followed
/ by those who survive him
the world will have gained much by
his life. We offer our sincere sym.
| pathy to his sons aud daughters, and
/ 4 prayer that their lives may be as
/ honored as was his.
! Col. j. Y. Cockrell left this evening
on the o'clock train for Abilene. HiE
I daughters, Miss Ella and Miss Lou, gc
TO Dallas, where they will spend Il few
Gays visiting friends, after which they
/ VIII Join the family ut their new
/ western home in Abilene.
! The Brady cowboy show troupe still
solourn in Sherman.