Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-13
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u DECATUR, DALLAS,
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device and cunning artlhce known to its KIDD
OF journalism TO throw dirt upon our railroad
prospects Just why THE GAZETTE should not
want Decatur and Wise county 10 obtain this
railroad we can't see, and especially TO tell
such unreasonable tales about the Originators
being frauds and Mr.. Henderson myth, etc
THn GAZETTE forgets that II has circulation
In Wise county, and hat every man, woman
and child in Wise county ia directly interested
In this railroad. and further, that while we
w1uld not charge. or even Intimate, that our
citizens would visit unmerited punishment
upon even THE GAZETTE, but they have a
small sized law suit in Wise county district
court, in which frank Lovejoy Ia plaintiff and
the Democrat Publishing company is defend
ant, wherein they are charged with i0elously
tlandsSing said Lovejoy, and wherein plaintih
asks damages OF $4,000, and that we are human
beings up here and liable to err, and that IL Is
human to err" and that 1.-THE GAZETTE
has time and again did all It can against our
prospective railroad. Nowwe simply mention
this as friendly warning fraternaly.-l Wise
County Messenger.
plain statement OF facts will, per-
haps, best develop the injustice Of the
above publication and the lniquity Of the
threat that THE GAZETTE is to be robbed
through the machinery of courts because
1t dared to expose the trick Of the Dallas
News for working injury to Fort Worth.
When it became known that charters for
two railroads from this city to the North
west had been obtained, and that the en-
gineers OF the Fort Worth Western were
about to take the field, the Dallas News
gave publicity to the falsehood that the
people OF Fort Worth had offered to pay
$50, 900 and 500, 900 for the Gulf & Pa
cihc railroad. The purpose of this false
statement was to create the impression
that there was nolhing IN the Fort Worth
Western or Kansas Southern; and there
fore this city wanted the Gulf s. Pacific.
| Ia reply TO this falsehood THE GAZETTE
showed that, as Fort Worth would have
two roads OF its own to the Northwest, in
addition to the Fort Worth & Denver, this
city had no use TO- the psper railroad of
Mr. Henderson and certainly the alleged
Gulf & Pacific railroad up TO that time
had existed only on paper. The Dallas
News repeated its falsehood and TUE
GAZETTE again showed the absurdlty of
the trick, but never once mentioned De-
catur or Wise county in connection with
the matter. When Decatur or any other
town has bona-fde enterprise Of any
character on hand, THE GAzBTTE will be
the last paper in Texas to discourage it;
but this paper does not propose to re-
main silent when Dallas schemers seek to
iniure Fort Worth When THE GAZETTE
sees that there is aught in the Gulf & Pa
chc railroad besides Dallas trickery, 1t
will say 1t, but at present we see nothing
else in 1t than very lame effort 10 ex-
alt paper scheme into the dignity of
veritable enterprise. That road, II built,
would invade the territory of the Atchi.
son, of the Missouri Pacific, and of the
Fort Worth & Denver railroads, from al
three of which roads Dallas is soliciting
iayors. Is it reasonable to suppose tina
Dallas would flaht people from whom /
hoped for aidp But when the Gulf
Pacific assumes life and form THE GA
t zETTE will say so, and not before.
This is not the first time Dallas ha
made Parade of building roads to tn
0 West. 1t clustered and promised and de
= ceived at the time the Fort Worth 6 Den
yer gave the people Of Wise and othe
counties their first railroad facilities
! Then came the ever. to-be-remembere,
"Northwestern" that was to cross tn
1 Fort Worth & Denver at three differen
@ places, run out to Jacksboro, Will
o around and take in SOmervell county
$ And now comes the Gulf & Pacific, Gale
|. Sc, we presume, because 1t neither begin
i at gulf nor ends at the Pacific, even o.
t paper,
II THE GAZETTE does not believe the pit
o pers of Decatur represent the feelings {
r their people, for 1t is incredible that JUS
y men would deliberately rob newspape
o through the machinery OF the court
e because that paper had bee
!, forced to defend the interests Of its ow
IL town and when that paper had never bee
D, aught than friendly to Decatur and wis
=. county. We have this faith in the peopl
y papers which display their malice by as
a criblng to TnE GAZETTE language whic
G. 1t never used, one Of the Decatur paper
10 going so far in It's blind rage as to accu:
)r THK GAZETTE of calling Mr., Henderso
u ga tramp and "a fraud" THE GAzETI
Is has done nothing OF the kind, and the a
Is cusation is malicious.
of II the Gulf 6 Pacific railroad is raj
IN road and not scheme, TnE GAZETTE
be opinion could not prevent its constru
IN zion. ANY man with grain of SEM
is knows this; and the trick of the DALI
r. News in falsely stating that the people
I'd Fort Worth had offered 500, 600 for u
~ so.called Gulf Pacific railroad, and Il
ne violent language of Decatur papers /
te wards The GAZETTE, without shadow