Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-01
4 !. ). WHEELER

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/ Should Do.
Of the Past.
State Land Policy That Will
| Settle the Country
|,s.sss Of. the Gazette.
~, %. The world has often
y" che great progress which
1 a,sde in the West, and yet
y does not begin to realize it.
IN who three years ago passed
uuinhabited, and as ne
.,,inhsbitable prairies, can
400 how they could so quickly
I.,med into beautiful homes
settlers. TO him in fancy
M fresh trail of the buffalo
(,sos the dreary bark of the
IN the sharp yelp of the
WA dor. the imperious lay
' ',,,,nr. gobbler, and the wild
y II he cowboy. But these
y. II stilled or mutiled, and
:. The South and the i ist will
line fine November morning
This is a country of people,
"A animals, claiming the same
and political recognition
<ordei 10 its sister sections.
Think of this as a cattle
"A yet here in Eastland
..s,re fewer cattle, by half,
,ss,.ssid old agricultural coun-
I'm. The vast herds of the
',hsve been replaced by the
Gothic settler, and the cow
Ssofa CURIOSITY here than in
Al county of Van Iandt.
M fellow ''green from the
AIMED into Cisco the other
,sekled an old inhabitant, in
nwl, with:
sr.e. am huntin' Il place
~ amt go many people, and
NJ and fish out a livin'. You
out your grub like they do
me- -,
st Young man. go West. :"
What in the HI il thi.?"
hundred miles too far East.
urther."
low boarded the next train
He said that after coming a
miles to get out of civiliza-
succeeding no better than
vas discouraged.
one Of the most important
lsl points in the West by vir'
jpr at the crossing of two great
nilwsy, the Texas & Pacific,
Houston & Texas Central. II
nown to the political world as
oftwo of the most promi
HE. Judge II. b. Wheeler, and
Fleming. The latter has au
bis retiracv from politics fol
being. The former is thu
of all Texas now as prospec
bney-general.
Judge I. h. WHEELER
a typical man of thu
West, representing IT.
with his owl
bnt rank in the hearts of hi
ID the respect and confidence
hole state without regard Il
Conservative. vet firm; dar
eautious; sure, but slow, he il
psof man to whom the worlG
Mnr its progress, its pros
Insecurity. The public ser
The Judge are too well known
federation here. 1t is bu'
dlswful tribute to the man Il
when a dangerous politica
threatened the health of thu
tate, when communism GU
bd the pillars of government
be was the first to apply tn,
knife, aud more than an,
q contributed to stay its raw
llsing the prominence which
figen Judge Wheeler's nam'
zion with the attOrney-gen
and the influences which ar
plght to bear upon him to per
andidacy, a GAZETTE repre-
called upon the gentleman t,
bis status in regard to TIL
nd also his views upon polit
In the state.
THE INTERVIEW.
are you a free-grass man,
man, or a Barnev.Gibbs-sit-a
pi-the-fence man %
We In this section under
free grass, that is that ~
uninclOsed lands should Is
all live stock that rang
7 not only essential, but at
indispensable to the settle
Prosperity of the West"
Y think that even the Fla,
70 try to get along withou
eng familiar with the want
Stern portion of the state,
lnswer this question pos
from information gained b
sldence in the state j do nc
Wy section would prospe
Ine grass on the common
closed lands he kept free."
proportion of farmers in tn
fhd practically on stock for
vt nine-tenths.n
Ie not a great deal of noun
~ worthless land, which n
sercare to inclose, and whic
emu
.ne exception of the 'san
snot much land on whic
!. good grazing. The grea
psck Is the want of waite
V secured by artificial mean
!! might be rather expel
Nm q sufficient quantity ft
poses, 1t no doubt would |
proper encouragement W,
US state. These lands ca
scovered and utilized by I'll
- system. or by the enac
not a herd law have a tie,
promote the absorption