Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-02

nniSsaAe winch Mr.. Brown eYronanrsi,
vtsolts 60 the comptroller. ! iIsoovere,
tne origin OF the difference In aftee,
minutes, through the little nnSra
eioh OF checking up the two sat.
ngures, Mr.. Brown migb
nave done the same had he riven eoes
TINE 70 that task, but, although he hsd ,
humOer OF peeps at the vouchers. no do.
clned to take the trouble.
o. Inc warrant clerk who makes N,
tne payroll and Chief Clerk Mccall hott
enter positive denial to this statement
Sowhere do the records show that Hnsb
swain left the office September s. lsSS
olt TO the contrary they show that ha
worked ten days in September ~,
winch he received ten DAYS paw. Mr.
btoWn seems TO have kept a pretty close
Walch on the entire Swain family Tor sey.
eral months, but am forced Co the con.
clusion that he makes this charge on the
authority OF ''misleading'i newsnaner
personal, which made Hugh Swain leave
Austln on the 9Th Of September, but
winch was noted at the time as prema.
lure The hest evidence is that he left on
the II h. II Mr.. Brown has any better
testimony than the records he ought To
y Miss Lulu Cockrlu, daughter of
,ne present district Judge who resides M
Anson, Jones county, was given a place
IN the comptroller's Office about the LIST
o. April, 1850, and remained in the posi.
tlon until the middle of September A.
the request Of her father Col. Swain took
her into his family as hoarder. The work
which she did was principally eopyinr Inc
rulings OF the Acknowledgements on mat
ters emanating from the comptrolleris
ONCE. Out Of regard 70 her sex, She was
permitted to do IL at her own room. where
II could be as efficiently performed as at
a desk In the compiroller's office. From n
personal Inspection OF this work | can
cheerfully state that the department
Fever had better clerk than Miss Cock
mi. She was regular employee OF the
office, aid received her pay like other
clerks. When she left here about the
middle of September Miss Cockrill re-
turned to the home of her father, Judge
Cockrill, in Arson, Jones county.
Now sum these ups
Mt Brown brings seven indictments
against the comptroller, aud on
those seven indictments he is COLI
vlcted OF seyen--shall / call them mis-
statementsg The word is too mild for
the oG caslon, but, for kind charlty's sake,
II shall be used
A word as TO the method which Mr..
Brown pursued in making this investira
zion. de claims that his Inquiries were
ignored, yet the correspondence which
he prints shows that his questions were
courteously treated. Even after he went
beyond the bounds OF ali de-
cency he was invited to make
a personal inspection Of the records. This
he says he did, but have already shown
how imperectiy Il was done.
The reader must remember that Cor
months II has been an open secret that
W, NJ. Brown was in league with
the political opponents Of Mr. Swain
The proof is conclusive that he has
been acting IN concert with parties 10.
Gated in distant city.
Shalt tell a secret out Of school? The /
of a certain leading newspaper
were approached few days ago by a |
party who gave them an intlmatiOu Of the /
coming manifesto Of Mr. Brown and !
suggested that It was a good time 10 (
switch off from Swain AS an extra I'M !
ducement "a good round sum al
money Was offered 10 give 1
additional strength to the |
weighty arguments OF their wordy cham |
pion. The newspaper proprietnrs--Gl !
honor to them-refused the ignoblo bait,
aud stu continue TO urge the nomination .
If Swain
OF all the calumnles which are pressed |
INTO seven totals, the choicest and the
most unwarranted Il can hardly forbear
| stronger term is that
which intrudes upon the modest
etirement of a young lady, intelligent
md refined, who devoted herself to the
heroic task OF self-supp0rt. Others are
till employed here ia the same manner
IS Miss Cockrill, aud no man is better
with the fact than W. NJ.
Brown. They are given work, such as
opying, which they can carry TO their
zones, and this Is ne first objection that
as been heard to the method. Their
york is faithfully and honestly done, and
hey only receive the regular salary
llotted for II, 1t is difficult 10 conceive
ow anyone could stOop TO misrepre-
entation which involved the name of an
young lady; how needless Is
nat madness which is born Of malice!
OF malice, aye; who does not know the
luse of this attack? Mr. Swain's un-
sin is that he defeated man
no was surf VI It-SltGllOu. 1tIuHDs
lat might have been ultimately con.
oned, had not events followed
hich held the cup Of humiliation TO the
ps Of his unfortunate predecessor until |
5 very dregs were gone. II was not a
comptroller SWANS sfault that Comp
oller Brown was nearly $4,000 behind in
IS accounts with the state for which
dgment has now gone to the supreme
,drt on appeal, but because of 1t Will
am Jesse Swain seems to have earned
e eternal enmity of W. NJ Brown i
lch is The perversity of human nature.
AS an evidence that Col. Swain was not %
ithout precedent for employing extra p
ork in times Of pressure, IL is noted that n
$ predecessor, who by strange cOinci-
nee happens to have been Mr.. w. NJ,
own, expended $40 in this manner
lring one administration of two years
three years Col. Swain has applied $40
r this service.
Mr.. Brown closes with the threat that
ere are still other arrows in bis CULVER n
cry true. The culver Of groundless n,
alice and Of hate Is never empty. But
enyenomed arrow, like the boomer
Q In the hands Of the Impractical
rover, Is least dangerous TO those at
lom il may be aimed. q, q. 5.
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