Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-27
AUSTIN LETTER.
A Palaiable Pot.Pourri OF Personal
and Political Paragraphs.
Gleaninss Of oureu. Topics Gathered
from Corridor aud Capitol.
Special Correspondents OF the c,a,c,o.

special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
AUSTIN, May 28.-"lou can depend
upon 1t East Texas will claim man
on the ticket. and she IS going TO kick
unless she gets 1t, said u well.posted
politician the other day. 1.-THE
Eastern fellows went away from Gal
weston very much disappointed, and
they have been cherishing up resent
ment ever since. They will make II
lively In the convention unless they
get what they ask for"
Said l, What do you suppose will
satisfy them?p
"Oh, well, they have but one candl.
date, Dick johnson of Shelby. They
are booming Dick right along for the
MISUNDERSTANDING. There is
not much Of a hurrah about IL, but lots
OF solid work. Dick is a mighty popu.
lar man among them, He has been in
the senate long time, |
and everybody has confidence in
his Judgment aud discretion |
one of the sober, solid sort, you know,
whose very appearance would attract |
confidence anywhere from horse |
! race TO u camp-meeting. He is East |
Texas man, and East Texas will take |
1t as slap In the face II he gets left, |
which she is not in a very good mood |
to endure
1t Is understood that Senator Ter
rell's friends are urging him for dele
gate-at-large. No ADLER representa-
Texas can, If she chooses. send n dele
CATION to Chicago which will rank the
peer Of any there. Hubbard, Terrell,
the size of IL.
1t may be reckoned certainty that
Judge Hancock will be IA
candidate for reelection To
congress, and he will encounter but
little opposition for denomination.
, The only contingency which could
: prevent this Is the presence OF vice
presidential bee in his bonnet His
warmest friends, however, are not san
a, guine of any formidable movement 10
. place Southern man on the presidon-
, tial ticket. He will 20 back TO con-
i gress TO carry on the good work OF
fighting for n peoples tariff, and there
is no telling what four years will de-
, velop.
~.
THE GAzETrE's agitation of the
question of new census In 1885 has
awakened great deal of interest here,
and the justice of the proposition il
g universally conceded. The extreme
- injustice even now of the present
basis Of representation Is patent
to all who have visited the sittings Of
the legislature. In the lower house
j. one man, Mr.. Browning of Mobeetie,
J.. represents sixty-seven counties. aggre-
eating about one-fOurth OF the entire
+ state, which has already made rapid
" progress in population, and In 1890
It will be IS populous ~ eastern sections.
O Unless there Il n reapportionment the
!, member from this district that time
:. will probably represent u constituency
- of two or three hundred thousand pe0-
q pie, who will have no more voice Ia
a legislation than little eastern county
l. with population of Is, 900. The same
y conditions in a lesser degree would eX-
n list with reference to every western
l. district. 1t is not right and all should
a unite TO apply the remedy.
~.
Much sympathy Is felt for ex-
Comptroller Brown, against whom
Judgment was rendered la the district
q court last week for s, 6G4. with interest,
the amount Of the deficiency In his
accounts with the state. No one would
y think OF attributiDg this deficiency 70
any improper use of the money, either
n by the comptroller or any Of his
assistants; their integrity remains UNI
a impeached. The fault Is conceded TO
n be in deplorable system OF book
d keeping, In which one man attempted
ar direct supervision Of almost every
l. account, feat entirely impossible.
v 1t is further alleged and even tacitly
i admitted by Mr.. Brown himself that
he was only nominally comptroller,
q his chief clerk being the active party
4 In the management of the Office. IL ID
~ said by those who ought TO know that
y until after the disaster which befell
i. Mr.. Brown there has always been a
n great deal of loosencss In the manner
n In which the Office was turned over by
n retiring officials, the accounts rarely
a being squared up. and each successor
: merely coming In, as change oil
r. book keepers, instead OF managers. In
: this way deficiency created years
n ago might be transmitted on
:. indefinitely without discovery, and
"a finally to blight the fair name of some
i. innocent unsuspccting official. IL Is
safe to say, however, that hereafter
"a every account will be closed and every
70 nickel counted when the office changes
r. hands.
q. The Dallas Times IN commenting on
the Endorsement OF Ireland and Gibbs
p by Dallas county, says 1t means anti.
n herd law and aDtl-lease. IL Is well
y known that the governor ~ opposed
- - on pripciple to the lease system and
: his famous declaration that ''The time
:, would never come in the history OF
as this country when man could
" not turn his COW out
a. upon the commons" settles his status
+, on the herd law question, but some
!" surprise il manifested, ut the great
change OF heart which has come over
Barney, whose other name - Gibbs.
II was no longer than the last regular
session that he fought for the lease syt-
n tenn. being one Of its most earnest and
r. efficient advocates, and up 10 the spe-
"a ciai session he had not changed Ills
4 views. He IL also known on certain
a occasions TO have favored herd Law
- Ilimitedj. otberwisea local option herd
A. law. There Is great rejoicing that Bar
: ney has been converted over 10 the
"a Himor-pare free-grass faith. Bar
!. ney is mighty good fellow,
4 a man with lots In him, II properly
tavsInred and IL was @ shame 70 Keep