Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-16
TIE CAUSE WHY

Barney Gibbs Th!nks tine EInls Bin Wa
PEematureIy sprunE-Ehe Coming Issue.
Special to the GSzetss.
DALLAS, Tex, Nov. st is no
thought that every state in the Union vii
EsVs its election returns COUNTED before
the city Of Dallas will. There is some
future prospects Of knowing how sht
vent. This is matter CT interest to tbs
msjoIity OF the people here, SO the re-
Turns from New York and Indiana seem
10 be dull sud sluggish.
The taCs i, Dallas Is 6isgUsted with the
result, because it has neither suited heI
| inclination nor put money into hel
pockets. General Csoell, Colonel Shep
SFd and others have for 8he time with
drawn from the bulletins. They cen
cede Hsrrison's election, but have moth
ing to Say about il.
EErreY Gibbs wa5 seen to-day, and he
was disguised, too, but he said ne Hss
not surprised end that the result Was but
q logiCR. conclusion CT the msnner in
which the Mills bill Wsg precip!tsted be-
tore The country as 81 Issue.
When the Gibbs interview sppeaEsG in
THE GAZETTE the day Giter the introduce
ton Of the NILS bill, opposing its sdOp
ton as campaign Issue, many OF his
friends heIe criticized hin severely; they
DoW sEy be wss the only Dem Graf In the
sts,e streRd enough to calculate its
f ct CT bold enough to express his opin-
ion Oh It.
Four yesrs $50 he bat every spsre dol.
l.F he hsd on Cleveland, and won.
This year Re refused to bet dollar.
Whiie he voted fer the ticket and made
several etrCrg speeches for il, he never
believed 1t had chance for success, and
in conversation with Judge Reagan and
others few days before the election, he
told them that he had never believed there
WAS chance for Cleveland from the day
that the Mills bill! was precipitated az an
ISSUE.
1t is setd that both Gibbs and George
Clark urged the Texas leaders TO declare
in favor Of tariff reform in q general
way, and Leave the details 70 be
arranged after the Presidential election
lie now predicts that the Democratic
party will never win nationally unless it
gets nearer the people in It's policies and
nominations. He says that the Demo
crstic leaders in the ensuing Congress
n Ia SOAsCHb " LA4C III
teFnGl revenue system as an issue, and
will show an earnest desire for economy
and reasonable tariff reduction, and favor
the submission ci constitutional smend-
ment providing for sn election Of the
President by direct vote OF the people,
instead OF by an Electoral College, that
they will retain their present strength,
snd gather popular favor, and improve
the government; that neither party has ST
this tine shy positive strength with the
masses, snd that even in the south the
Democratic strength ia negztive. He
asserts inst the debates On the question
Of the electoral system will show that
there is no good resson for retaining 1t
in these days Of railroads, telegram and
newspapers. Besides this, be argues
that under the present system both par
ties are slaves to the money power Of the
doubtful states, and to win at al
must win by debauching the floating vote
in New York and Indiana In regard to
the present defeat, he attributes some
local defections 10 the distribution OF pat
ronsge by Cleveland in the north on the
basis and in the South on the
basis OF war records, but don't think this
materially affected the result outside OF
New York