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

policy might prove prolific OF danger.
touching upon the railroad question.
he said he was not opposed To THIN,
They had doubled our taxable va ues
within the last decade, but at the shme
time the people should be projected
against their exacilons, A law existed IN
the statute books against pooling, which
they We're
VIOLATING EvRRY DAY.
The Legislature had failed TO enforce CON-
pliance with their charters.
Replying to she charge OF Col. Swain
that he had voted for the smohe-houso
and corn-orio tax, he said he was willing
to confess whatever responsibility AZ.
tached TO him individually for II. The
attorney general placed construction
upon the clause which the constitutional
convention did not attach to Il.
Replying TO the charge OF Swain that he
voted for the clause authorizing tue In
corporation OF foreign land companies,
he said that II they were foreign com
panles they could not have been incor.
poratod here, and II Incorporated here
they were domestic and not foreign CON.
panios.
Col Swain had said that he and his
colleagues, Walsh aud Templeton, werO
responsible for the change In the capitol
contract from limestone 10 granite, He
and the balance OF the state had sup.
posed that II was due 10 Gov, Ireland.
| lie charged that the comptroller, the at
torney-general and the land commissioner
had violated every principle Of the state
pride In voting for Indiana limestone.
The speaker said that he had voted for
the lease law OF 1881, and that Col,
Swain had voted against IT,,
Ho also declared that IN the
constitutional convention when propo-
sition was made TO engraft tue lease sys-
| TEN upon the organic law he was one OF
four men who voted for IT, He said that
under the land boards Encouragement OF
the school land the school fund had boon
| deprived OF one million dollRra, and the
university OF eighty thousand dollars an.
nually. lie charged that Col swain was
ArREE-GRAssER,
which he thought afforded an eaplana-
tlon of the Fort Worth GAzErrE TO HIS
cause. He said that no had always adyo-
Gated the policy OF selling lands 10 the
actual settler He would draw a line 70
marx the boundary OF leases and give the
| governor or land commissioner the power
| To move II back as the demands OF sNttlc.
meni would require.
He denied the charge thst he had been
a prohihltonist Ia 1875 aud 1881, and said
he had always been an anti Pruhibitldnist,
but that he voted to submit the matter to
the people because 10 was their privilege
70 make and unmake constitutions. lie
said that Col. Swain had been a straight.
out Prohlbtionist, aud that he was the
drst TO preclpltato agitation.
The epe0kor closed with an anocdote
aboutJonah and the whale, aud tribute
to womanhond
SWAIN IN REPLY,
Gel. Swain said IN reply, that Gen.
BaDs taking argument had resoItod so
an anecdote to sustain his posi-.
tons. He said that when the prohibition
question was before Lamar county he
had been sent for to make speech and
told Thorn that the law was worthy an
experiment; that they could try Il for
twelve months and 10 ~ was not SUCCESS
they could then repudatc Everybody
agreed that II whisky could be cxpunged
from the country 10 would be good
thing. Tho result Of local option In
Lamar showed II to be Inn
practicable, and n on this ground
alone he opposed 10, Iic had never made
local law ana 4 rhn RoYwnvi pagt ~
my faith 60 do an | can 10 enforce IT, APP
plause. The disastrous results OF Gen
Ross land policy on settlement was hap
PLY illustrated by an aneedote.
ROSS rIors.
Special 10 tho Gazette, 'e
CAMERON, TEX, June 5,--Gen, Ross
/ speech here to-day was q great surPrls'
/ to everybody, IN that he executed u com
\ plete flop on the land question The bur
, den OF his talk on this subject was II
/ show that he WAS better loase-iaW ms
e than Swain, inatead OF urging 9s NJ SUI
/. phur Springs the fact That the constltu
= tlonal convention refused 10 ADOPT "
n lsaalrs, s4gtetn en- argument nnAint
n il he decinr taat he Was oneoi four me
who votsd for the proposition. The ger
q. orsl,a snerch Was ono hour and forty mil
mes In length, over forty minutes beln
4, devoted 10 anecdotes. II Is said that "
i reason for the generals change OF bat
u on such an important Issue 10 the MIDI
AZ of the campaign ie due 70 the fact that
Az has become alarmed as 20 his prospect
IA and hopes 10 bolster them up with Ea
of Texas support by this move. Swain
M speech accorded with bis published Int
10 Views and speeches. The discussion q
he yeloped no new issues,
y. DENTON COUNTY POLITICS.
special 70 the Gazette,
DENToN, TEX, June 6.--Tle Den
". cratic executive committee oi Dent
TX county met in session AZ the courthou
Die this evening, Or. A. M. Elmore OF w
be-. Point, chairman, presiding aud Dr. D.
M, Knox of Bolivar. 4 county convent
,dy WAS called for July 81 f1r the purpose
be al, citing delegates 10 the state ana q
cir aressional conventions. The prlmaf
~ oyer tho county TO meet on the 2itn
loe .Jniy. II was determined that only sl
hla nnrsons who would agree 10 support
ore nomioeea OF the party should be peru
be ted 10 take part IN tho primaries or ~
,lth convention The meeting was wen
bic tended and the utmost harmony !
n vailed.
tier CANDIDATES foR JAckAAN fiAVH
gpecial 70 the 3nzeul'
old sAS ARrosIO, Tx, Juno b.--pal
he dates who are willing 10 rick iheir =
cen In the lato Marshal Jachmon's place
as thick as hogs. Am0ug tioNs
hen have been announced thus lar are Nst
anu vide Dovine, b. 9 Duval aud j, q. lia
lnei Of San Antonio; Sheriff w. g. Jone
1ah' Gonzales; Gon. Albert Roberts and !
'lne q III. Iollingsworth OF Austiai
me TAYLOR Of m Paso and Lee Bniieso
San 8Abe. Several outside precincts
Won vet 70 be heard from,
ILL., wv. MA. YpRMAS AT MoR0Ah
A IN special 10 tne Gazette,
4 ~, MoR9AN, Tx, June t.--Quiie
croyyd Of 10th ladies aud gentenel
se,nbIed al The Baptist church Ihpr
VA. riaht 10 hear Henry fprInan,
l ING tyorth,s candidate fOS congress.
yen. a ,zKrrR man did not have The plei
WIN NJ bearlne he speech, bat has hea