Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-08-31

Der OF them to enable them To carry ont
their intentions, they then approached
tue manager on the subject. This was
not until about . O'Clock at might
Alter what had passed the management
uccllned to accede to their proposition.
feeling that he had been mistreated i'm
the premises.
Inc management never announced its
purpose to discontinue the publication of
THE GAZErrE until the attachments were
run, and but for the attachments the pa
per would never have suspended for a
single day.
Inc management never attempted to
persuade the printers to do anythiIig. and
never made any further promise to them
than that they should be paid for their
work.
The City National bank kept the dues
ON the Associated Press DISPATCHES maid
up, that they might not forfeit the fran
chise, and thus depreciate the value OF
their property, which was no more than
any other sensible business men would
have done.
On Friday one of the committee ap
pointed by the business men came to Tir
GAZETTE office and stated that II the
management of the paper would
meet the committee and assure
its members that the paper
would he run In the interests of Fort
WORTH and that the business men would
be given the preference in the purchase
of the property should II ever be offered
for sale, they would discontinue efforts TO
establish an opposition paper. At the
request of the committee representative
of The GAZETTE Printing company met
with the committee and acceedcd to their
proposition and separated from them
with the understanding that they would
be satisfied on receipt of his written CON
tract to do what he had promised YER
bally.
AT the meeting in the afternoon, how
ever, the opposition to The GAZETTE was
renewed with unexpected bitterness be-
cause the management would not
consent to give employment to
some former employees who had deserted
the paper in its hour of trouble, and
joined hands with those who were seem
ingly endeavoring to damage both TIKI
GAZETTE aud its owner.
The proposition to sell THE GAZETTE
was made at the request of the oppoS-
ton; otherwise it would not have been
done.
The GAZETTE Is now out of debt, and,
having sufficient means to carry on its
business, is not for sale, consequently u
proposition looking to change of its
ownership would only be made at the re-
quest of those wishing to purchase.
There is no other citizen of Fort Worth
who has more deeply at heart the inter
csts of this city than the manager of THE
GAZETTE. For proofs of this he would,
with becoming modesty, point TO the past.
II has only been in the recent business
troubles through which he has been
called to pass that, when he found it i'm
possible to promote both the interests of
Fort Worth and individual interests, he
deemed 1t unav oidablc to do otherwise
than follow the first law of nature and
protect himself. The breach between
the manager of THE GAZETTE and the
prime movers IN the Democrat began
about two weeks before the suspension
of this paper and has been widening
ever since. The results so far are gen
orally known to the people of the city.
The management of THE GAZETTE has
made no effort to correct the misrepre-
sensations that have been made; and re-
grcts very much that any of the business
men of the city should have been induced
to encourage the efforts of those
who have tried to destroy the
usefulness of this paper, especially sc
since these efforts have been actuatcd by
purely personal motives and TO gratify
spite