Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Lusty Tread and Valiant Crest of
the Young Giant of the West.
Phenomenal Growth and Success OF the
Fort Worth Gazette.
The Triumphs, Resources aud Central
Geographical Position.
Sober Reflection on the Whisky Bill
A Review OF Other Topics.

newspapers received at this Ollie
rarely TAIL TO discuss the fortunes o
Fort Worth and of its vigorous, fresl
and earnest newspaper. There wa
never adjudication 80 well advertised
as the GAZETTE. Its straight Democ
racy, its perfect independence, il
Justice and fairness in dealint
with men, parties aud communities
aud corporations, Its enterprise IN d
manly vigor, are approved every
where. IL Is the first paper from tn,
Eastern and Middle states containing
full press dispatches and specials from
| Washington aud the Fast 10 meet
dailies coming from the Pacific coast
and with these II divides the empire
In bread districts west of FL Paso anC
Sauta Fe. Now II is first of Eastern
newspapers to enter Mexico, and IL
will be first of such newspa-
pers to enter the capital of the His.
pan American republic. 1t will hay,
II special correspondent in the Mexican
capital, and be, read In the East for la
Southwestern and Central American
news, even as II will be sought after
| by our own countrymen who have fol.
lowed progressive railway lines and
become tradesmen and miners in the
interior towns of the Mexican republic.
The reciprocity treaty involves the
fortunes of newspapers as well rs OF
tradesmen,
But the GAZETTE's domain of circu.
lation and influence is not confined to
countries west and south OF Texas. 1t
happens that railway trains going
north and east from Fort Worth leave
Fort Worth at such hours in the
morning that the first editions of
the paper are first of
Texas daily publications 10
reach Arkansas and Louisiana, and
thus the latest news from Washington
and the east and the first dispatches
from all quarters read in Eastern Tex
as and in states east of Texas are only
TO be found in the Fort Worth GA
XETrE. OF course the GAZETTE, of all
dailies, has exclusive jurisdiction in
wide districts north of the worlds
wonder--late the "iniant wonderi--
sometimes called Denison or Murray
town." the latest euphemlsm for that
delectable village. More red men read
the GAZETTE than any other publica-
ton of our time. Railway time tables
and the direction taken by the several
roads converging at Fort Worth have
contributed M much TO the wide circu-
lation of the paper rs its own inherent
virtues. People say, I'VE want the
daily paper containing the most and
freshest news from all quarters, and
secondly, the paper that gets here
lirst.h Then they do want, out West,
an exponent of personal and local free
dom. In the East, where wealth ac-
cumulates and men decay, there Is II
strong and growing tendency to i'm.
parialism. Here The West and
South are deemed dislointed
provinces OF the empire. Not only
the Eastern press, but the supreme
court of the United States, IL perme-
ated with the idea of the universally
of the power and supremacy of this
federal machine at Washington,
which plumbers the South and West
to aggrandize the East. The domi-
nant idea of the GAZETTE is the equal
ity and freedom and integrity of the
states, and this theory of republican
government is accented everywhere, In
the West and South. These plain,
simple facts account for the "notori-
etyn or "fame,u whichever of the two
terms may be preferred, OF the nnscent
capital of Northern Texas. There is
genuine, solid ,oorM In 1t, fortified by
every appliance of art and beneiaction
Of nature.
IN is PROPERLY DENoarINATED FORT
WORTH.
The people Of the place stand by the
newspaper the newspaper stands by
It's people. They are rich, enterprlsing
and Intelligent. Their farms are the
most tXuberHnt on The continent
their locks latest their fortunes
blessed No wonder the GAZETTE
prospers, and yet / am often
induced, when people will not believe
that daily paper, equal In all things
except its European dispatches, 10 the
New York Herald. Is published every |
day in the year In Fort Worth, Texas,
TO recite these simple facts In order TO |
account for the prosperity and power
Of the Fort Worth GAZETTE. Then
men confess that there is reason for it's
existence, and that no newspaper, pub
Iisbed at any point, has wider or more
desirable field Of action and usefulness.
Formerly the GAZETTE was spoken
II as u mad enterprise of oyer-rich cat.
lie kings; but 1t has become, In the
substantial and fixed fact In the news
'"phi pi'biSSo "h" btti"tuiS VI thc
ITS INFLUENCE.
Palpably enough the GAZETTE has
changed materially the world u opin-
on OF Texas. Not very long ago II
yas commonly said that Texas had
tut one daily newspaper, and only
me from the great commonwealth OF
he southwest was recognized In tue
last. 1t WAS and IL published
till, | believe, on an island
II the Gulf of Mexico. Itwas an en-
erprisjng journal but Of course was
lot read by sharks aud porpoises, the
My creatures TO which IL had access
outh Of H.. II was hemmed In. Pub
shed now, when Texas and the
northwest are stfiated with railways,
cannot compete with n newspaper n
ndiDg consumers OF its intellectual
roducts on every hand 1t might
ome up out OF the sea Invested with {
very charm Of an Aphrodite. but II
rowing old before II reaches the sea- Il
bore above Houston, II becomes even A
latternly and discrepid rs II jogs a
long towards the interior realms Of L
be Fort Worth GAZETTE, IL must ]
ravel fifty miles TO lind readers even
n one side of It's doinicil, while the 6
;AZErTE's consumers on every hand, ]
within nifty miles OF its home, would 4
onstiiule city as great as 81. Louis, d
nd these have learned from the GA s.
ETrE all the world doings before the /
uondam lcviuthan OF Texas newspa- ?
erdom has crawled ont of the sea up
a n H.. t.l | 4.