Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-01
A MODEL NEWSPAPER.
The Bel Esprit of the So.Called Sheet
of East Texas.

of East Texas.
CI.EBuRNE, TEX, April 80 1885.
To the Editor of the Gazette.
Some W eeks ago / was hailed on the
streets of Cleburne by gentleman
who introduced himself as a Mr..
Pfouts, representative of the Dallas
Herald, and solicited from me an arti-
Gle once week for his paper. 1
asked him IL he was aware that L, be.
ing deeply interested in political mat
tiers, wrote from Greenback stand
point. Ho answered. that he was fully
Informed on that head and that many
readers Of the Herald would be pleased
TO read such articles. / wrote an ar
ticle for the Herald, as requested,
which appeared in the issue OF that
paper OF the Goth day OF April.
An editorial criticism appeared in
the Herald on the 25th day of April,
or the day prior TO the publication OF
my article, u criticism, not controvert-
ing or attempting TO controvert the
matter contained In that article, but
rather that personal thrusting for
which this paper is noted. This edi-
torial stated that II was probably the
only man On the face of the earth that
still held to the Greenback theory OF
fiat money, and that / was too old and
cranky 10 ever ret the world afire. y
How much truth there ia contained in
the statement that am the only sur
vivor OF the Greenback doctrine, lam
content TO leave with the readers Of
the Herald, who are fully aware that
the Herald's reputation for lack of We.
racity and an earnest desire to inoul-
cate In Its readers holy love and ven
Grafton for the truth is on a par with
its absolute crudity, its sopho-
moric editorials, which are ex-
oeedingly humorous in the attempt at
elegant diction, its persistent. petty,
envious, malignant, vulgar stabs at
the Galveston News and other ably
edited newspapers In fact, as wen
as name, and last its Injustice TO the
city OF Dallas by it's continued apology
for every known vice In that city.
And am ''old and cranky;n l am
reminded that Calico was crank, by
the learned majority OF his day. There
ia certainly not enough originality
about the editorial rooms OF the Her
aid to make crank.
lam odd but am blessed with a
hale constitution, clear sey Q, Gle IL
conscience and, believe, a clear head,
though silvered with the frosts OF age,
which the Dallas Herald thinks indie.
fensible and an evidence of inability,
to quote the Herald's elegant fig
ure, ITO set the world aiire.i
There may indeed be something
wrong with my head, but the editorial
staff OF the Herald would be obliged
to diagnose the case In the same man,
ner As they build their editorials, post
mortem.
The trouble that Is running the saF
in the green trunk that gives life 10 the
editorial branches OF the Dellas Her
aid IL too much youth and precoclous
ness they, the editoIa, tso-called) o
this sheet will die young, and | an
strengthened Ia this belief by remem
berlng the superhuman amount OF la
Dor they have expended for the gooC
OF the country within the past lively,
4 months, to quote from them, as fol
lows:
! The Democratic majority In Texas
The defeat OF the Galveston deep
water scheme.
The reduction OF Fort Worth from
city 70 village.
The journalistic education Of th
Galveston News. ANDREW YOUNG.