Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-31


see the reply Of your corr, spondcut
ASSISTED BY a few OF our
would-be boss ofilce.seekers and one
legged moDopollsts, after Mr.. II n. |
Dorsey had fixed up Just such an article
rs he wanted he went TO those gentle. |
men, as | suppose, and obtained their
signature. Said article Is false and az |
the darkest hue. pointed out the error
In his report and they failed to poiut ont |
one In mine. This looks as though thew
could not find any place to get pry In. /
will say just here, that can prove |
every word that stated In my article. |
and am ready to meet the gentlemen
before any number OF people aud prove |
up the truth of my assertions. Mr.. |
Dorsey says that he feels that his duty has
been discharged when he can get the In. |
dorsement OF such men as the above |
against one man as unreliable as myself, |
who has been in the county not
exceeding two years and has made him. |
sell conspicuous In the Knights Of Labor
IN order to attain notoriety, and at this
early date OF his residence became
candidate for the office Of county clerk.
Ihis Is as base falsehood as was ever
told. Now want TO say just here, II any
man In Parker county will come up and
say that he ever heard me say that |
wanted an office or that would accent
one, | VIII give him go Your CORE
spondent asserts that cannot prove one
word OF my accusations by single citizen
OF any prominence. | simply assert that
| can prove it all by hundreds OF better
men than the most Of the seven that
signed his article. He also stated that
was calculated to ruin any decent com
munity by my false teaching.
Now, Mr.. Editor, did not know
that | was regarded by any as
teacher, but since he has conferred the
degree | would like to teach i'm the
ways OF truth. He also states that my
assertion of there being three Green
hackers and one Republican sent TO the
state convention Is false. Now, sir, /
will give the names of each of them: Mr..
N. M. Dennis ran in 1878 for representa-.
tive. ! was living within five miles OF
him, and IL was conceded fact that he
was a Greenbacker. | myself voted
against him, for was Democrat and
am yet. j. Il. Sweat and X. |. Carr have
been Greenbackers for nine years, to my
knowledge, for l did not come TO this
county until 1876; and the last is Henry
Miller who is the Republican, which
Will refer you, Mr.. Editor, to any old
settler in Fort Worth, as that was his
former home and the place that | first
knew him. Now, then, If Mr.. Dorsey
and the rest OF them will post themselves
better before they make assertions
think they will do much better. Now,
Mr.. Editor, did not want to wage any
political warfare with any one, but since
these men have done so, have princl
pie to. defend, and for the men who have
been in the habit OF running things In
that line so long, IL is hard to circum.
scribe their wishes to those Of the people
When men, blinded by seli-interest
overlook the rights OF others, there Is
almost sure to be some conflict or dissat
isiaction. Last spring, when the Mallory
boycott was being inforced here, these
men raised great cry that we wer,
wrong and that the ballot-boX was thu
place for us to correct them, and now tina
the people have turned to the ballot, the!
raise the bloody shirt and call us any
thing but honestmen and Democrats.
Now, sir, we are the true Democrats
the principles of Democracy are adhere'
to; but II Democracy Is party run by
few designing men, then we are not @
that kind.
Now, Mr.. Editor, think that | hav
written enough to fully authenticate m
assertions, and / want to say to you
readers that would have answered
sooner, but am wage-worker, and al
the time that have Is on Sundays, an
on last Sunday | had loaned my pape
out and could not get another In town
and got Mr.. Dorsey TO send and get m
one from the office. will close by say
ing that will not ask the columns O
your popular paper for further discus
sion Of this matter, but will ask the IN
diligence Of our county papers II Mr.. Dol
sey wants to carry 1t further.
Thanking you, Mr.. Editor, for the In
diligence OF your paper, / am, very re
specttully, j. SPEIGHr SMITH.