Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-09
Deep WATER.
What the Texas Newspapers Say Of
the Great and Pressing Need
Of the State.
II ;s Not "GaIYestoD or Nothing" With
the People, bui Deep Water
Port for TiXss.
Texas Should sIeet IN q Texas City to Make
an Effort for the uarmon.z alton
of Teyas Din .fenceI


of Teyas Din efences.
Dallss Times-Herald: The News quotes
spprovingly the Coleman Voices opinion
that the Fort Worth deep water conven
ton is boom for Arkansas Pass, leaving
the inference that the DerYer meeting
was in the interest OF Galveston. The
| Times Herald thinks not. But, il that is
truly the milk in the cocoanut, then the
friends OF Arkansas Pass have cause to re.
| ] )ice at DenVer's cooperation with Fort
g! Worth in her convention. The til
| yesterday published extracts from q Den.
yer paper showing that it was believed
there that the difference between Dallas
and Fort Worth On place for the conven.
! ton represented Galveston and Arsnsss
Pass interests.
| Brennan Banner: TIE Banner IS moi
in favor OF "deep water st Galveston OF
nothing" as the Fort Worth GAZETTE
would seem to insinus:e, but it is heartily
in favor Of deep water al the Island city
shall have been satisfactorily demon
! stTGted that deep water there is an i'm
prscSi ability. And every citizen 81 Texas
grow and prosper.
Meridixn Citizen: The Merchants
Exchange ct Dallas wrote to D5nver sug-
costing the holding Of s teep water con-
ventiol st Denver. Ga the next day THE
GAZETTE published call for a deep
water convention at Fort Worth. There
upon began war between Dsllas and
The Fort, which continues unabsted.
The Citizen regrets the ststus CT the
movement, snd does not mean 10 intrude
IN the controversy, but il Is Of the 0pin-
ion tina: the deep water convention TO be
Effective should be held st Denver. It
may DE well enough to hold che st Fort
Worth which will bring out all the lcCal
ieAloUsies aDd ambitions, and then hold
another at Denver and there place
all claims in the hands Of committees dis
Interested ss to particular localities
Congress will certainly never do anything
f3ctive in this matter unless the people
become unanimous in their wish, and it
is almost certain that Texas will never
unite upon any one place for deep water
Instead of these local jaalousies abating,
they are multiplying both N number and
degree. At Denver all the states and ter
ritories interested directly would assem-
bic Snd their deliberations would certain
lY evolve some unanimous plan Of seton.
This is what Is needed and mus. be had
before sny movement will prove success
full.
San Antonio Light: Galveston and
Dallas are of opinion that the deep water
convention would be more properly held
in Denver than st Fort Worth. This
going outside OF the state to do work for
the state, which could better be done
within the state, does not refsct credit
upon either the capacity, wisdom or en-
ergy OF the business circles of the state.
Austin Dispatch: The Fort Worth
people have secured the assistance Of the
Austin Dispatch in assisting them to get
the deep water convention. Perhaps tits
is part OF that OLD trade between Austin
and Fort Worth to get the two Demo
cratic conventions. Ii so, there is a
chance that the public will not stsnd it. |
They refused to agree to the other trade. |
Dallas Times Hersld.
II there has been any bargain and trade, |
the Dispatch Is ignorant CT the fact, |
While it has consistently advocated uni
fed action upon the part OF the people Of
Texas in an 6fort TO secure
deep water port st some point on the
coast, but one feeling, one motive, has
sctuated It; to accomplish the object at
the least expense and at the most prscti.
cable and feasible point. The Dispatch
ass advocated Arkansas Pass because 1t
believed from the data derived hom the
reports Of experienced and disinteres.ei
engineers thst fewest obstacles presented
here to the securement CT permanent
1eep water channel. 1t has not been in
1uenced by local results upon shy partic-
llsr community, nor can it understand
low deep water at Arkansas will specially
benefit Fort Worth and ipjure Dallas.
70 the Dispatch it locks as if both, in
common with the entire state-1ith pos
ibly Galveston excepted-would alike
'e mutually benefited. 1T is
lot difficult to understand the hos
ili.y OF the Timss-Herald to Arkansas.
The TIL Is generally regarded IS q tender
o the Dallas News. which is universsllyl
Understood to have been established
6ely in the interests of the Galveston
wharf comorant and the iunta of that in
eresting village by the sea who have
rown fat upon the annual pickings filched
E N the governments appropriations.
was mainly through he efforts of the
DALLAS Herald, under the management Of j
iouts, Elliott & Hall, that the brazen
tempt upon the part OF Galveston to s
ob the rational treasury OF $500, 900
'as defeated in 1856. and then was formed .
lie conspiracy TO ruin and break =
own that honest, incorruptible and
dependent old journal. To the =
shame and disgrace ! l
Dallas be it said, men were found in ?
sr midst who entered into the scheme !.
i'd lent themselves to the plans of the q
'nspirators. Too well they succeeded, T
i'd the result is that honest criticism
Is been stiff ed, and Dallas, instead of
assessing bold, independent, repre- Il
'ntative press advocating her interests, b
'asts nothing higher than q branch pub r.
cation, issued in the interest of 8 city VI
'stile TO every material advantage D
North Texas, and edited D
Id controlled from the headqusr- Il
rs OF the jluts at Galveston. Y
Mike the Times.Hersld or the News, c,
e services of the Austin Dispatch h.ye 3
zen secured by no locs! CLIQUE. Itlends Il
humble efforts in assisting to GET deep n