Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-02
Correspondence of the Gazette.

Correspondence or the Gazette.
CoMANCHE TEX, Oct. I.-Yesterday even
| ing and last night wa, teld day in G manche
counGy Democracy and 1t will long be Tt mem
bered by the citizens. young and old, of Co
manche and the surrounding country. COM
mittee fro the neighboring Democratic CLUBS
of Shiloh and Evergreen notified the meMber
of the Comanche Democratic Clnb that their
| clcb would visit the Conan che Club in body
| 1T their next regular injecting and proposed
that they all j1in In grand street paraoe and
/ torchlighs procession at night. In pursuance
of the prog ramms the Comanche Club met n
| cpen f1sld in the eastern suouro> OF the town
| and awaited the approach Of the yisitoIs who
! appeared promptly " 30 o'clock. when they
| formed in d line of two abreast ana marche4
through the PRINCIPAL sueets in reg ilar order
| to the martial strains of music furnished py
/ Professor etraey's string band. The column
was about one half mile long and presented
grand and lMpoeing appearance with the
| United States nsge End banners waving and
Tapping in the breezs al along the line and
torches on long poles above The head OF almost
ev5.y rider.
The column halted and formed circle in the
| courthouse square, when 1t was proposed by
| the marehal of the &C ;asion That three cheers
| be given for Cleveland aud Thurman and lht
success OF the Democratic ticket al which the
| neighb0r. ng hill reverberated with thouts and
! huzzahs frt m thousand tnroats. THREE cheers
were proposed for Roger 2. Mills and tariff re
| form, when q similar wilu outburet followed.
| l. was again proposed to give three cheers for
| governor Ross and the state De mccr2cy when
another wild demonstration followed. The
| procession then disbanded and partook CT the
/ bounliful refre shnents tprea1 by the Co
| marche Club for her visitors After all had done
| full and complete justice to the wants of the
inner man, an Invitation was given to all 10 as
eenb!e at the speaseEs' stand. Where taeJ
! would be entertainer by listening to the dis
! cuss!on of the political Issues of the day.
The Hon. ", o. Hamilton WAS iAtroduc I'd
ana ma a very forcible and tie ling speech,
| curing the delivery OF which be was often anL
/ Loudly cheered. After defending / q q mastery
mannef the record OF the Democratic party,
.both state ana national, in his closing re marks
C threw bomb into he ranks of The Union
Labor party lha. ,omple:ely paralyz-d tnem.
It was like a bolt CT lightning in clear sky.
He charged and proved thai there existed
! in he ranks OF the [ dion Labor Non Partisan
party secret Organization or innGr"eeNnCll
| called the National Order of V!det!cs, its mem
| bership In Com anChe county mum 1eTt4g 100, or
| about one tenth the strength of TIE Union La
| Dor party. lis members have TO attain to 8
certain deRlee Of intelligence before they are
| eligib, 20 membership. or in Other words They
have to be good manipnlato,s of cohTentLons
and elections before they will be accepted as
membaIs. There are five lodges or -islhcils
| in,this county, oficereG and equipped after the
style OF military organizations. l! has Its gen
! erals colonies, captains, neutenanss, and or
derby sergeants. They have arsensls ano places
The objects of this organization is to take
charge or and preserve The liberties Of the
o;heL nine tenths of the Union LABOR party or
/ nineteen twentieths Of the whole people. taxi
! ing 1t that one half should be L MON Labor
|
speaker, that the nineteeu- twentieths of the
| good and intelligent citizens Of this country
| are not capable of self government, reasoning
from the standpoint of said organization. The
| speaker then esld this new party, claiming tC
| be go pure, had been denouncing the Demo
cratic party for being controlled by rings and
| cliques from every street corner, and asked
! who ever knew of such secret organization
existing in the Democratic party, and what
party it WAS being run and controlled by rings
and cliquee.
!
chare es, first, the book of instruction. contain
ipg the DEF laratione of purposes. the oath to be
&C ministered to the initiate, and the duties,
etc., of the members, but In orc er to be able to
| read the booh intelligently 1t is necs ssary TO
have key which he also had. He then pro.
duced letter written by one OF the candidates
on the Union Labor ticket notifying comra &c
| (Micador) to APPEAR at certain place on Ger
tain time, as they had special orc ers from
headquarters. and signed his name therepo,
! AND also designating his rank IN the order SIS
vieion, ETC., 'ano in corroboraIion of all the
above facts the County Judge Of this county
arose and stated that he ha1 been gulled into
joining it-by ever percussion and misrepresen
talon; that 1t did exist and that she Union
LABOR lea 1ers of his county belonged to It and
had been manipulating it In their own inter
startling disclosure. and great many of her
best members aie deserti, their ranks and
coming back to the Democratic party,
saying ii 10 good enough for them.
40 suC sUOfC CApoolslVu abCO
that thu Videt.es had not disbauded In
1886; or, If they had dissolved, that they
had been Tesurrectsd to do duty in 1888
as political bosses, the forgotten ritual
Deceived in August WAS naturally called
to the mind OF THE GAZETTE. Therefore
this paper printed the ritual on the 25th
of this month az piece Of important
political news &nd al the same time in.
quired if there were any members OF the
order In Tarrant county snd If there were
any Videttss running for office ia Tarrsnt
county. TSese perfectly natural inquiries
we're justified by the proof CT the fact
that such sn order had Councils and
s6iyouacs' IN other sections Of the stste.
These intsrrogktoyies, in some myster.
ious manner, 1mpelled the Evening Call Of
Fort Worth, an organ If the N1n-Partissn
(so-calle6) psrty, to deny all knowledge
of the tx;stsLcs CT shy such order os the
Videttes and 10 challenge THE GAZETTE
TO produce legal proof Of something
this paper had not asserted or charged.
AZ part Of the history Of this very In
terestlng expose. we append editorials
taken from The Evening Csll OF this city:
MORE CAMPAIGN FALsEHooDs.
Evening Call oct5.
When the last general election YVES over the
small campaign politician laughed and boasted
gleefully at the manner in ~hich he had fright
ened the peopie into voting the ESQ called)
Democratic ticket by raising the ruin the town
scare crow. He admitted that he inteu ton ally