Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-01

letter OF Mr. B. J. Clambers In yester-
'sy's GAzkrTE It will be noted that he de
C a-eS his ignorance OF any oath bound
''cifclc.' and that he uses quotation marks
whenever referring to 'cilcleS." From
these various designations OF council
C. C ?, society, order, my, etc, it vii
readily be seen how man msy deny thai
ne belongs to any one CT them and vet be
s member Ct "a oath bound political
order. Il might a'so be the case that .
msn was "elected" 20 membership
without ever going to meeting
In fact, THE GAZETTE Is Informed
81 Just tuca case with refer
cree to certziu citizen CT For,
Worth. Thee things are mentioned to
show the fti;u,iy Ct avoiding mistakes
in the mention Of members. There was
40 desire on Il part Of this paper to con.
pect sny one with the order but simply
~ DrOce that such m Oi}er etiSted-ASD
THIS HAS BEEN DONE
The corc.se, unaffected, explicit hia u.
tory Of the order in Tex e, as printed in
The GAZETTE csTried convection to eve
~ unbissed mind, snd all man felt that
sucn infer usttcn could come 10 THE GA
zSTTE orly ft0-p those who knew what
Trey were tsBiag .bout End VINO were
p entifully endowed VIII intelhgeuce
This statement hiss been Unexpectedly
Strengthened by the I'd missions Of cer.siu
gentlemen whose names had appeared In
THE GAZETTE In connection with mem
bership in this secret order. The Even.
ing Mail OF this city sought to interview
ell who had thus been mentioned, snd as
8 most entertaining pr lon of this re-
view, The GAZETTE republiehes what
these gentlemen said to the MMI:
S1m Emmerson, who was suspected by
q Msil reporter OF having been member
OF the order Of "Videttee," Was sp-
preached yesterday afternoon, and asked
why he had been bounced. HIS answer
was:
"8ecsuse got up in council meeting
and esid that tie whole thing was trea-
son.ble"
"You were member than p
''IeS lraS. and there arr lgt> mare in
torn ,rho r"re dad are get"
Dssir.rg 10 get at the bottom Of the
whole thipg, 8 Mail man went cut snd In
reviewed a number of men who had been
with belong ing to this order. ".
F. Tanning, formerly stalwsrt support.
er OF the old Peoples ticket, WAS seer,
and he did not deny that he hsd been
member OF the 'Vide:tes,' but he ssid he
had left 1t when he saw the oti cts The
order hsd Ia view. 1t WIS too tough for
him. II 3 further stated that the records
Of the procseGipes Of the lodge or elmer
circle" here had been burned utter the
election two years ago. No negroes, &C
;ordipg to Tanning, were admit d
70 it-they were barred out. esquire
SenJro0k, Uho lcaS an mdcper dent
for County TREASURE, ,rss
,drret ont ofM tie race by che "Videttes"
,ecGuSe he ag0S not Vjdeue Fdnuinq
cent further AMI said If ii 7ras nrcessary
,e ,eould go orer the coaa'y and tel the
Je0ple all Gtoat he c0hc,lR and hyly er-
,oSc i.
j. C. Martin, who TEE GAZETTE
harged with being Vidette, in answer
o question propounded By the reporter |
aid:
eyes, 1 was a member OF the Vi
Iettes"
chow dill you happen to get QUIZ"
Il was fred out because l was a Re-
Iublicfn."
Mr. Martin animated that he could tel |
grest deal dbout tie Order and Those
rho belonged to it, but said h. aC0UM MT
o so Just NOE He mentioned e number |
+ others rho agere members, and their |
aH,eS aofre among those published 6y THE
iAZsTTE.
II any msn can DOUBT the eriStence Of |
he order after such statements as these, |
/ must be due to the fact that no does |
os want to telieve.
The existence OF the order being 70 |
orger In doubt, the only question is:
What are its purposes?
THE GAZETTE has endetvored to show, |
rom Information furnished this paper, |
hat the order was purely political, 4
lose political corporation IS 1t were.
Ba, the Call denies this as 1t denied |
he eriSteRce Of the order. THE ORDER
1IsTs. Let the Cali itself then, say for |
vnst purpose the aEder exists.
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