Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-03-31

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being industrious. Our people have
declared for good schools, good public
roads good laws, good officers to eye.
cute them, and we have hearty well
come for all good people who will cast
their lot among US.
Tne coming city election for mavor
aud two aldermen Is causing a siiyht
ripple on the otherwise placid snrface
OF everyday life here In town. The
principal interest seems to center in
the mayoralty. Only two candidates
Mayor Squires. the present Incumbent
and Mr.. w. NJ. Weddinpton. have
publicly announced tn, nselves. bnt
we are Informed that DR.. o. Il Dick
inson Is on still hunt for the position
IL is not an avowedly political contest
bat Mr. Weddington, one OF tho
aspirants, being an old.time Republi-
can, we predict that no very large
number of the old Democratic voters
Will SO far Ego back on their
raisin'" as to take ANYTHING
bat ''straightoutn in theirs
AS yet there are no announcements
for aldermen, but we understand that
the outgoing members are aspirants
for reelection Judging from OK.
pressions heard on all ades, however
they have cooked heir 90 SCI by
aiding in the passage, at their last
meeting, of what Is already known as
the odious ordinance No %, which re-
quires all male residents between Is
and rs, who have resided within the
corporate limi fifteen days, TO work
on the streets f ON one toifve DAYS. ac-
cording, as they are notified, and to
1 Furnish hnQ "A ahnuAI
other tool a. the street Commissioner
may order. 1t may be that this is the
long-sought opening in West Texas
for the man with the hoe.n Fancy
some OF our dudes going to the place Of
rendezvous with leng.handled
shovel, bank clerk with pillow or a
scraper, or some of our heightened
attorneys raking up tin cans
and "sich" in b.ck alley.
while the street commissioner sits
serenely by In the shade, % zee that
he does full davis work tr TO get a
chance TO fine him.
There IS Que little ray OF hope left
however. Members of a military or
ganization, invalids and ministers of
the gospel are eX mnt ALREADY there
Is q prospect that Henrietta will fur
nish the largest m liza company in
the state. Applicants for certificates
of disability for street work are thicker
than in consumption days dIrlng the
war, aud we expect before the 18th of
April when the ordinance goes into
effect, to lind that large lumher of
our hitherto unregenerate citizens
have had "a call" TO presch The gospel
to q dying world It will be
something novel If this should
prove means of grace
Your correspondent will PREDICT that
II s me Of them should get u permit
they would lose no time In depicting
place offuture punishmentfor alder
men which would pale the horrors OF
Danle's Inferno and make me ordi-
nary old-time orthodox lakeof-brim-
stone seem pleasant seaside resort for
the heated term.
Speaking of things politicI bring
to mind a sad case of disappointed
politician which goes 10 shDw that
even among the Tins" all arenot hap
by and coDtented. II came 10 light
the night of the last celebrat Dn here.
You must know that Henrietta never
misses chauce for a Democratic cele-
bration; we have got in four on Cleve-
land so far. We ratified when he was
nominated, Gel, brated when We fret
e7rd he was elect' d, and when the
Official count of New York vas de
CARED and we knew "foh shusl" that
me had got there,h we celebrated
Lagsin. When news came oger the
\ wires that he had escaped the ny teri.
Gus strangers lurking around
his Albany home, hao run
the gauntlet of dynlmiters
aud trsin-wreckers, landed il safety
in Washington and had been nsupu-
/, rated, then we did celebrate Your
: correspondent was taking in this lat
ter and thinking that for one, after
twenty-four years every Que with q
drop Of Democratic blood in HIM was
contented aud happy, when nn old
time Democratic citizen o. Clay
county, and one not unknown in Off
cial circles, wanted to know "yhst all
that fuss was forn We felt sorry for
him but gave him the information in
, the fewest words possible; but the
o. d. C. downed us by snarlhlg out:
. democratic president, Democratic
supremacy, hi, what good will IL do
.. III? Why, when old Coke was elected
governor OF Texas in 1874, and after
we had been giound down ulder re-
construction rule and pulveiized by
|, black Republican carpet -)aggers,
DIDN'T get up a big petition TO him
to appoint me POSTMASTER, and
didn't he refer me 10 the
id radical government at Washing
ton? He said he didn't have any
possibilities 10 give me
V~IHe made dive for the nearest place
1of refreshment that had brandy and
sugar to drown his indignation, and
your correspondent wended his way
sadly homeward. meditatiDg on the
ungratefulness OF republics andthe I'M
certainty of political aspirations.
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