Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-09
POLITICAL PECFSNIFF.

| OF P,cksnif Dickens Woo: HLike
The girl in the fairy tale, except they were
not Gil diamonds that is.l from his lips,
| they were brightest psste and sho1a pro-
digi0us!y. SINE paople likened him 10 q
direction pest, always pointing the way
to place end never going there. His
very throat Wss mora" The "Peckenit
FISH whine" has passed into the Language,
Gnd we appeal to it az the only desc.ip-
tion CT the tergiversa.ions OF the Non
Partisan (5o-ctllsG) organ Of this city,
for thst paper might truly be called the
Daily Sliveller. Nothing SO illu =
trstes this Pecksn 1li.aism as the course
of the Evening Can on rs free ballot ard
fair count" This Fort Worth Eysrirg g
Whine has for days. been harping On the
beauties OF Gree ballot snd 8 fair
count" aud or Friday printed this para
graph:
TO The GAZErIE: How do you stand on the
question o. a free ballot and q fair cou, q,
I; conf election in Td,ram county, Are
mold to the doc.rlns that the Independents
should be beaten at all hazards and by apy
mcsnr, as you die t'rO ycqrS ago. You are con
.rOlled and possiUly owed by the (sc-caliedJ
Democrat leaGers .r this county, whose
mouth piece you are, and the public wants yc u
~ speaE their Opiaions and yOuTS on ii ese cues
lions.
iris elegant defsDce left TO sort Of
doubt az 20 the stplicstioa CT tie Calls
srt.c,ss on "a free bsliOt'-,hst psper,
III the shove paragraph, boldly pro-
claiwed that it was addressing itself to
Tarram County. In response Their etc,
TEE GAZETTE oa Saturday morning msde
this reply:
\ FOUL ISLANDER.
The Non-Pa ,utan orEan of this city is dc
vot!ns much ppace at THE Il to harpicg on
rec la ios and fair couat that ryan can
not swe & few plain g:eot;ons, mere PUT, f.
,houid confess tina! its ohy motive was to Ia
ere the psople whom 1t cannot rule:
In what year and IN what election was the ire
dom Of be ballot ceGied 10 any legal voter in
"rrrdE. county:
What person o. p rsons axe responsible for
such denial of free ball /:
In what year and IN VIVA. election wa. the
CONT OF votes unfsIs
What pers or persons are TesVol sible for
zuch far count Of ba lots cast:
Ii there /. cause for this southern echo Of
ncr hem radical sandercrs In Tarrant county,
this Non Partisan (so-GllIed) organ ~houlo, Is
tr psme Of jus ice, point Is cut. II there
not hiso:gan II hs:G OF rs own Peep c ohouli
toofes. Its venom anf Its SANDER.
VIII do the people Of TARTAN: county thirk
Of L newspa~ er (ar d cauee) that tnus seeks
20 &c AM aai work material hurt to It's own
psopl, IN base in,inuations and un1efaed
charles:
Les this bloody shirt organ name the man
who mas teried Tree ballot to any ott er MN,
aud the nan who has made an unfair count of
the ballots as;, OK, in very shame, put st
to G slandsrCus insinuEt!One.
TIE attention Of the Daily SAW elIer
being thus called 10 tae msterisi i; jury Ii
WAS doing men OF gil parties ia Tatrsnt
county by scancsIous insinua:ions snd
charges CT political intolerance erd bull
doing, the organ Of the N.-P.'s so
called thus shu I'll ID and twisted on Sat
urdsy afternoon:
AN IMPROVE NED ATTACK.
orr esteemed coteDp )rary, Ihe Daily G,
ZETTE, OF this morning, levels It's battery and
b. lches forth a gressvo ume of crap. and c.r
7isier fen IA the face Of the Call because o.
teraG5ts eff Is PAPER upon the I'm rance
AZ ILtrammfled oallot ard an honest ,ounl
Vow, this attack Of the GAZETTE, and the
malicious spirit in whicn st Is m 4de, IS QDwor hT
the prominence of that i3urnaI snd
&C re IL WORTH of comment fcom the Cal
Z lzE this at ack OF tha GAZETTE is atice, : Il
tuA,us ard utterly unwarra tee by an III
aEca OF the CAL one mas but 20 lisp CT our co.
umns Hc hare Hcrer claimed that am person
has been denied a free ballot III IdrraHf cOgni-
On he contrary every utt5rance OF IN pape
mas been an expression CT confidence In the in
\ gSl;y and patriotism Of the people, which
laraL tess .hs Integrity Of the ballot and ths