Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-11-23

Mr.. REAgAN as "A CANDIDATE.
Hon. John II Reaghn, u y said, IA oAndi.
date for tho United states senate n Fort
Worth Gazette.
who says 20, and when AID he become cam
didair2 Thruc weeks ago be was candidate
| Tor congressional representative Was no q
candidate then Cor Tho senate. Al1oi urwas hu
playing o. get that game securely 10 HIS baE be
| fore he tried for the oihorg When JAmen w,
Throet morton dccidcd 10 run for the United
States senate he declined 10 DO n candidate Nc
the same timo fot congreaa, ITO wsa not willing
80 be q candidate Tor two high o0eoe ~ onca'
MIR, Throokmort0n ACT an example that judge
Reagan, would ~ won 10 follow liounton
Aso,
Having been convinced that Congress
man Reagan would DO candidate for the
United States senate, TnE GAzErrE set
about trying TO learn whether the use OF
his name IN auch connection was with
authority The following letter from
Senatorolcot A, w. Gregg OF Palestine
IS TuE GAzErTHs authority for the state.
mont which excited tho comments OF the
Age
PALEsrIrE, Tx, Nov 10, 1870
| nEAR sR Your lotlor OF the 18Th inst ID
before me, In whinh you ask Who'll my prefer
onos Tor the United Statoa nenato, and
you inform mo that tho inquiry Ia
made IN the lntoreat Of tho Fort
Worth GAZETTE, and ahy " have any ylows
to oHprcas or anything 10 say publicly through
rnE GAZETTE You win DO much pioaeod to
send II up for mo. while ! have Aothing "
any agninst tho capacity or ntneoa Of either OF
| the ayowod candidates for the senate, ! nm IN
favor OF tho election OF tho Hon, Jno. III Reagan
| 10 that position. HG has had longer and
more varied experience In public llfo than
either Of tho candidates, and think no would
DO more useful In tho senate than either OF
them, and II can not DO doubted or denied that
! bo has always boon faithful and true TO tho Ia
tor0ata OF tho people on every great public
question, and believe hia election would give
moro general satisfaction to tho people Of tho
VIII llo state, t0Au tho election OF either OF the
/ candidates, ! have asked Judge Reagan
whether no would conAont 10 tho upD ol
his nnmo for that position. His rcplS
wae, that he had for many months past bocu IN
recent of lottNra ana verbal requests from
prominent otlscne OF different parta Of the
Htat0 to DO n candidate for tho United
Statos senate that, for roasona he did mol
deem II nocoeaary 10 rc.gtnto he had not con
scented 20 become q candidate; that since The
election, without hia being n candidate, and IN
tho AbAcno a. any intlmation on HIS lnrt o. n
desire 70 he n candidate, no has learned by
direct Information that n good many OF
thl state senators and representatives
elect, ore ia favor OF him no their
nrRt choice for that position
that hle answor 10 tho question ms TO whether
no VIII consent 10 the use OF his name dependn
upon the Information be mHy got as to wheth0r
HIS strength IN other pArts OF tho state IL ~
gr0at 40 IA the parts FROM which he hnB alroady
lotn advised
In my own opinion there aoomo TO b0 n SORT
Of spontaneous movement In hia b half which
looks ~ II 10 would lcaf TO hla election. not
only have no objection TO making my prefer.
ance known but feel II due toIJudge Reagan
that this stAtem0ut and the declaration OF my
protetanoo should be- made public would bc
much pleased II ! can do anything toward
securing the election OF Judge Roagan, for ia
| 80 doing feel would BIO serving Che people OF
this state IN whose interest no has always
labored NO faithfully aud efficiently I am, cir
you're truly, A, w SREdG