Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-23

defense Of the people Of Fort Worth,
whom the News had msligned and trs-
duced, it knew it wss Saying things that
would Gu. to the red, aud listened fer
Just such squawk as went up from the
News establishment, coupled with hom-
lily on the proper amenities of journalism
The Newsis frequently silly, but i: is
never s, absolutely ridiculous SIS when
engaged in reading the press Of the state
6 lecture on decent journalism. II this
instance, however, the News was psrticu-
larly unhappy, for by it's reference to "tne
Journal (meanirg itself too busy and
too broad to be personal" it calls the
attention of the reading public to rec
ord which is anything but creditsble.
"Too broad 10 be personal?" Let US
see. What ousnal YVES it that, having
lent its columns to G. member of its staff
to wresk vengeance for & personal griev-
snce against John L. Barlow, tried with
all its power to break Barlow down and
drive him from the state, when he sought
redress il & couEt OF justice? The News.
What journal was i. inst, less than
year sgo, in trying to ruin Rev.
G. W. Briggs, got down in the very mire
of personalities and SO outraged decency
that it's name becema Kissing and & re-
prosch throughout the state ? The
News. What Journal was it that aimed
its yenomous Shafts OF misrepresentation
agalns. the hopest sides of Richard Coke
until IL finally hsd to cease from mere
exhaustion? The News. What j3ura.l
was it tb:t made personal wsr upon
John Ireland until it became nluses in
the stomachs Of its readers? TIE News.
What journal WAS it thst showed
s disposition to belittle G1verncr Russ
and his administration until it found tnat
he WAS too strongly entrenched in the
hearts Of the people to be hurt by its
puny efforts? The News. What journal
WAS /: inst reeBed with personal insults
to Mayor Fulton until he quoted it with
clus? The News. Waat journal was it
that finding it could not m:ke tool
of Hon. w. H. Grain tried to cripple
the influence OF the brilliant young
by mskirgs bitter personal
war upon him? The News. What joVr-
nal Is it that has made personal attack
on every public man IN the state Of Texas
who hiss refused to bow TO its dictum or
accept its word as lsW2 The News. And |
what journal is it that knows no character |
TOO high for its envy or too pure Tor Its
attack, and no me6ns too low fer its
IN carrying out its ends and
aims? The News; the Galveston AID
Dallas News.
The Galveston News mas beer for years |
the self constituted censor oS the T,x1s
press, and since the establishment CT It's |
branch at DSllRs a feeble "me toe" is
piped to every criticism aimed a. another
journal, and every insult throTn in ths
lace OF the people CT any other city. TEx
GAZETTE recognizes 70 such censorship |
snd BOWS to nc such authority. THE
GAZETTE cares not t. ba1bee for the ap-
pesrsnce the News makes in puclic, bct
notice is served On it right now tbs.
very time il throws its insults in the
Isce of Gne people of this city or section
hey will be promptly and properly re-
Piled to.
THE GAZETTE, the only journal in Tex
IS that has never been personal, strong
Z the confidence Of the people, whom it
ISIS never betrayed, enthroned in the
hearts Of the citizens of North Texse,
whose battles it has fought and to whom
t has ever been true; hsppY in the friend
ship OF those whom It's fidelity has gath-
,red around it, snaps its fingers in the
see of it's whining and peevish old con-
temporary, and laughs lis impotent
nCuthings to scorn.
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