Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-18
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
A Correspondent,s Defense.

WEATHERFoRD, TEN, Aug. IL, 1885,
Editor GAZETTE; We notice in THE
GAZETTE of to-day card from j.
Speight Smith, denying the coz
rectness of the report in SUNDAYS
GAZETTE, as reported by your regular
correspondent, Of the primary convention
held in this city on Aug. IA We take
occasion to refute the said Smiths de-
NAL and indorse the report of Mr.. Dor
sey as in substance being correct and
true; and also indorse former reports
made by your reporter at this place
concerning convention, and claim that the
charges of misrepresentation made against
him In this instance are made simply be-
cause his ideas in politics do not concur
with said Smith and like enemies of the
Democratic party. We were present as
spectators at the convention referred to
and heard the speech of w. Il. Farmer and
heartily indorse Mr.. Dorsey's report and
condemn the charges made by Smith
against HIN as being incorrect and wholly
without foundation. We further state
that the report Of Mr.. Farmers speech
was very mild and conservative for the
speech was intiammatory throughout and
OF decidedlya communlstic ring.
l. w STEPHENS,
M. V. KENNIsoN,
j. NJ. RICHARDS,
JOHN l.. JACKSON,
II. M. KIDwELI
ID. w. KNIGHT,
w. j. CARSON.
Regarding the charges made by j
Speight Smith against me, in which the
above is an answer and rebuke to MIR.
Smith, / have this to say, that can feel
that my duty as correspondent has been
fully discharged when l can get the in
dorsement of such citizens as have signed
their names to the above, against one
man, as wholly unreliable as J. Speight
Smith, who has been resident of this
county not exceeding two years and has
made himself conspicuous in the order of
knights OF Labor in lorder to attain
notorlety and at this darby date OF his
residence became candidate
for the Office of county clerk
no doubt expecting the nomination of
the Peoples party, Of which he is a
leader, and might safely be charged with
being the instigator of the party in this
county, and would, If he had the power. |
tear the Democratic party to atoms at the |
twinkling Of an eye. AS | said above |
this man Smith has only been in the atty |
short time, and 1t would look a little |
better for him to obtain the respecta- |
olllty OF the community as a citizen be- |
fore thrusting himself before the |
people as candidate for an
official position. Smith made sew
eral charges against me in his card
In to-day's GAZETTE, which he knew to
be base falsehood as ever existed ON
paper or uttered, which fact can be prov
EN- by numbers Of prominent and substan-
tlal citizens, and anu backed up in saw
Ing Smith caiinot prove single charge
he SO willfully made against me by a sin.
gle citizen OF any prominence. lie is a
man calculated to injure any decent com
munity by his false teaching. He charges
IN MS clrd that three Greenbackers and
one Republican were sent from
the Democratic convention held
mere July Is, to the state CON
yention held at Galveston; this he knew at
the time he wrote 1t was utterly false
not Misrepresentation, but faisehood
IN which our citizens Join me in demand.
ing his proof. The Endorsement of the
above gentlemen of my report of the con.
vention is sufficient for the public to de.
eide as to the reliability of the report. az
the names Of the above citizens have been
honored in this city for from ten TO thirty
years and they are among the best and
most respected business men In Texas
g.. I'll. B. DORSEY,
correspondent of The Fort Worth GA.