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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-18
MAHosE's MEASURE.

Mr.. Wise was ready to admit that Gene
raj Malone possesses more than ordinary
ability, but does not measure up TO the
JefFersonian standard Of capacity. honesty,
aud faithfulness.
The sneaker then contrasted Republican
and Democratic management Of state ar
fairs. showing the folly Of returning 20 Re-
publican rule. General Malone IN has
speech at Abingdon told his hearers that II
given the opportunity he wonld settle ,he
debt question, out he refused to tell ms
method Of settlement. giving as a reason
therefor THAT the Democrats would cry
Me, t0ol'" In what contemplate stti-
tude does he place himself The debt
auesiion has been settled, and there is no
thing in the past record OF General Ma
hone 10 conmeud him 10 the confidence
and respect Of the people. We want no
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-18
A PICTURE OF MALONE

He next turned his attention to the can
didates Of the opposition. remarking that
In would be an useless consumption of time
10 speak of Messrs. Slomp and Lurty. In
their obscurity they are entitled 10 exemp-
tiou from harsh criticisn-de nsjnirfs non
o,.ras ley. Malone is the candidate, and he
Is the platform. lie is the all-in-oll of the
opposition-its Alpha and It's Omega. lie
then repeated the statements OF the lead
ing Republicans of the State concerning
General ManOne.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-18
yAnrors cHARAcrEnIzATIoNs.

Malone has been described by them,
said DIR. Wise. as heartless and cruel, as
soulless tyrant. an unscrupulous and un-
principled demagogue. SAID the speaker
EIf were disposed 10 indulge in yitupe-,
ration | could not equal the strong ana
vigorous denunciations hurled against him
by his political associates. They are
familiar with tho man and his methods,
and they do not hesitate 70 warn the peo-
ple that he should not be trusted.
II do not believe that an angry God
could infiict upon this people a greater
curse than would be the elevation OF WI
lam Malone 10 that high Office which has
been graced by many of Nirginia's purest
and noblest statesmen"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-18

The speaker now made known his
grievances against the newspaper fraterni-
ty. He had kind word for the reporters,
who generally do things fairly and well;
but the correspondents and the news;
editors were the ones against whom he had
hard things TO say. The former, he
said, were broken-down aristocrats
who write any sort of yarns, and the
men in the offices who handle the letters
don't know any better than 10 put 1t in the
papers. He insisted that the reports that
are being published are very unjust IN that
thew give the Democrats credit for what
they do not deserve and diminish Republi-
can meetings from great demonstrations to
small and tame affairs
THE CONTEST.
After telling several anecdotes Mr.. Lurty
came down TO the discussion of the princi-
ples Of the two parties. the issues Of the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
Homes for the Homeless.

Commanche Pioneer-E Exponent.
This boosted 10 cents tax OH the S100 is
all right, but the emigrant who wants q
home will go to the state where homes
are free and land laws are less pernicieus,
even if taxes should be 81 on the Sl00
Who foots the bill under the present
school land system? Why sir, 1t is the
man who goes to the West and tolls out
the prime OF his manhood and rears his
tender family almost out Of society and
civilization and lays out all his meagre
accommodations ana runs the gauntlet be-
tween short crops, unpaid interest, and
the tTeatened custer by the state, and
all this that taxes Con values) may be
low.
Texas has made the most remarkably
slow progress in material growth and de-
velopment of almost any state III the
Union, yet her climate, soil and re-
sources, generally, are superior and area
greater than any other state One of the
most exciting causes of this has always
been and is now the land policy Mil
lions of acres for spectators railroads.,
phantom ditch, improvement and other
companies, but the man Of toll, oh how
little and how difficult for hinl
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
TO DRAW OR NOT no DRAW.

To draw or not to draw; that is the question.
Whether It's eoonier in the mind to venture
The doubtful chance OF SHINING for & straight,
Or to stand pat against Of greenbacks,
And then by bluffing get EN-. To draw-to ante
More. But by that draw, to ill; and end
The tremors and the thousand direful haps
That hands are bare to. IT'S a contamination
Devoutly to be wished To draw-to fill!
To fll?-perchance to bust! Aye, there's the
rubl
For in that yagrom draw, what cards may come
When we have shnfied off the uncertain pack,
Must give us pause. There's the foul take
That makes calamity of b6b-tail flush!
For who would stand the blind, the crafty raise,
The wait upon the age, the reckless strad3iS,
The insolence of bets, the vile, base cards
The patient player Of the dealer takes
When ne as well might his spondulics save,
BY simply passing? Who would chatting bear,
Or grunt and fret under a cruel raise.
Forsak his aces up, lay down three queens
But that the dread, of seeing after call
The undiscovered full, against whose might
No flush can stand, puzzles The viii.
And makes US rather nurse the chips we have
Than curious hands we know not Cf
And thus a sanguine four heart speculation
Is sic6ened with black, pnwelcOn,ed club;
And lovely iack-pots, of great wealth and mo-
meut,
Without the cards, their fortunes turn away,
Losing the right to open.
-TChicago Herald.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
Commissioners Halls Report.
Austin Statesman.

The annual report of Commissioner
Hall of the general land office, which was
published in full in yesterday morning Is
Statesman, is one of the most interesting
aud important official reports given to the
people of Texas for many years. It deals
with the land question in a comprehensive
and exhaustive manner, and contains
many valuable suggestions touching an
intelligent solution of the land problem :,
not the least important of which is the
recommendation that the university lands
be placed under the control of the uni
verSity regents. Upon the subject of land
titles the commissioner SAYS:
Mitigation in more than one judicial
district has so resulted as to east doubt
upon the validity of a large majority of
the sales OF land made Big the state land
board under the act of april II, 1883.
1t is now a simple act Of justice that
these purchasers who, acting in good
faith, have complied with the law as far
as permitted, should have their titles
confirmed and all doubts and uncertain
ties removed. The moral relations of the
state to these purchasers, whose lands
have been declared forfeited, is another
subject Tor serious consideration. in view
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
THE MOuRNFUL STORY.

Exhibits and H of Commissioner
Hall s report tell the whole story of the
operations of the law. Comment could
| add no significance to the figures. For
the two years ending August 81, 1888 the
| total amount of land sales made by the
state out of the holdings of al the public
lands was S45 ISL acres. During the
same period the forfeitures for non-ful-
fllment of the terms of sale aggregated
5G6 ,493 acres.
Thus, it appears, that out of every 100
settlers who locate on the school lands
sixty-seven are forced to abandon
their claims because OF inability
to comply with the hard contract which
is forced upon them by the state. This
is the story told by the commissioner 8
report, but the whole truth is even more
deplorable
It is 4 wen-known fact that many of
the school land purchases are made by
spectators in evasion Of the law These,
relying upon other resources of revenue,
and having bought simply as an invest
ment, are, of course, able to meet all
| the requirements of the law. Thus the
| proportion Of forfeitures by actual set
tiers is made to appear even smaller than
it really is. Were an exact census to be
made and published of all the settlers
who have sought to acquire homes out of
the public lands and failed in the at
tempt, returning to their former homes
bankrupt in purse and spirit, the present
land law would not survive the first out.
burst of nopnlar inaignation.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
CHANGE TIE LAW.


Chapter 8, article 143, of the Revised
Statutes of Texas prescribing the mode of
furnishing certain supplies 10 the asy-
lums reads as follows:
The comptroller shall, on the first day Of Au-
gust of each year, and quarterly thereafter, adj
vertise for sealed proposals for furnishing to the
superintendents of the lunatic, deaf and dumb
and blind asylums certain supplies, as hereinaf-
ter named, for two weeks in daily newspaper
published in the cities of Austin and Galveston,
prior to the day of opening OF said bids. Said
advertisements shall state the articles orwlich
bids shall be received, and bids sbal1 be
made separately as hereinafter named.
This law was framed i'll 1876, when
there were no daily papers in the state of
general circulation outside the cities of
Galveston and Austin. The Texas of
1889 is no more the Texas of 1876, and it
is unjust to cities like San Antonio, Hous-
ton, Waco, Dallas and Fort Worth to
permit this law TO remain in force. THE
GAZETTE is not asking for government
pap for itself, as this paper owes nothing
to such patronage for what it is; but
does ask that the state Of Texas shall no
longer advertise itself as having only two
cities wherein are printed newspapers of
general circulation. There may have
been reason for this provision of the law
in 1876; but, certainly, there is none for
if now.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
of Yale. He was graduated in the class

of Yale He was graduated in the class
of 1917.
Queen Victoria has begun her efforts
toward economy by dismissing her cor
set-lacer. Hereafter She will have her
corsets fastened by the maid of the back
stairs.
A young man who claims to be q grand
son of Garibaldi lives in Nashville, Tenn.
He is a dark, misunderstanding Italian,
but his claims to az exalted ancestry are
not extremely clear
Jane Hading almost had nervous pros
tration IN Kansas City. She was aeeosted
by one of the citizens who spoke
very good French. With Partisan polite-
ness he invited her to buy corner lot.
They couIJIn Il imagine what caused lit
tie johnny Martin of Sioux City, To fall
i'll ana die, but a post norton showed
thirteen marbles in his little stomach,
where he had put them for safe-keeping.
It has been noticed as strange coin
cidenee that Ellis Phelan, an ex-Confed-
crate soldier, was elected Judge of pro-
bate in Waterbury, Connecticut, at the
last election, and on the same day q
Union veteran was chosen member Of
the Alabama legislature in the same dis
trict where Phelan formerly lived.
Uncle Nat Statham Of Wilcox county,
Georgia, is remarkable old man. He
says he viii be ninety-four years of age
on June 20. He is active for one of his
years, can walk ten miles a day, If nee
essary, and does walk from four to six
miles nearly every day. he says he
landedAhe first steamboat that ever went
TO Macon, acting as pilot. He served in
the war OF 1912 ana in the Indian war of
1896.
A cable dispatch speaks of Osman
Digna as ''half European himself - He
is a Frenehman, or OF French descent,
formerly a merchant at Suakiin. His
name was Vinet before he abiured it,
and his religion to marry one OF the late
Mahdi IS numerous daughters. He should
not be COMPOUNDED with Oliver Pain, the
eOmmunistie journalist, whose joining of
The Arabs and subsequent unpained death
induced friction between France and
England.
Benjamin Harrison s wife is in receipt
of nearly fifty letters a day from office
seekers. In fact, her correspondence
has become so great that she has been
obliged to obtain the services of private
secretary Miss Florence Miller, daugh-
partner, has assumed this position Miss
Miller, unlike Elijah Halford, does not
whistle, but she makes a very good sec
rotary. She assures Mrs. Harrison 3
correspondents that the wife of a presi-
dent does not occupy q political position.
Now comes the story that Nine. Patti
wants to be a Cheralier de Ia Legion
Honneur 1t is for this that she is
willing to sing in Paris at price which is
much below what she could obtain III
South America or at the Cape of Good
Hope. Patti begins to think that she has
enough money, and she now longs for
decorations. Recent revelations lead to
the conclusion that with large fortune
at her disposal she can obtain almost any
European order. The notes of her voice
having been turned into bank notes, she
may readily become an aristoerat of
note
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
The Libel Law.
Temnle Times.

The libel law is one of the many things
to be put into shape by the next legisla-
ture. It is only fair assumption that
the law should be made with due refer
ence to public demands on the press. In
publishing items of news, often given by
reporters whose malice could not enter
into the matter, the press is placed in a
position where no amount of caution
could avail anything The power of the
press to do an irreparable injury should
be weighed along with its power of per-
hitting injuries by simply keeping quiet
on all matters of doubt. The press is a
barometer and should faithfully record
the Temperature of society.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04

should pray to be taught self-reliance,
self respect and selflfood
In dealing vita stlle negro'' question
the Republicans are sniyelers and hypo-
critics. Hayes exchanged white control
of the South for the presidency, ana
that. too, after he had shed crocodile
tears over the s'poor negro when he
was informed that Til5en had been
elected president. To-day 90 per cent.
of the Republican party North would
consent to the suppression OF the
negro vote in state affairs if
the South would send up a Re-
publican congressional representation
TO Washington; and the Southern white
man has more sympathy in an hour for
the negro than the Northern man ever
had or ever win have The feeling of
the Southern white man is personal; that
OF the Northern white man, poltical; the
Northern Republican foments South
ern' and negro'' questions for parti-
san use in the North
There should not be a senegro eues-
ton at this late date, and would not
be, were it not for a class of pestiferons
poiticianskwho use the negro question:
se-ealled, of the South to achieve pollti-
cal ends in the North. The negro is
free, free to make OF himself a
man worthy of freedom, or free
to be unworthy of all the blood
and treasure expended in his behalf.
When the Republican party made the
negro free and invested him with the
ballot, it did for him all that any party
could do for any people. The Republi-
can party can do no more for the negro
than it has done, although certain class
of Republicans affect to be engaged in
an effort to guarantee to the negro
the rights with which he has been in-
vested. This, however, is for partisan
effect in the North only.
If the negro is down trodlen, as these
canting hypocrites declare him to be,
how, then, mas he acquired that proper
ty, that education that social progress of
which we are reminded by these same
sniveling partisans when they desire to
humiliate the Southern white by boastfng
that the Southern negro is outstrippng
him? If the negro is without rights in
Texas, why are these schools and col
leges established in Texas especially for
the negro?
The progress of the negro has been pro-
vided for by taxation of white men, and
it will be rapid or slow as the negro
pauses to listen to the siren song
of some benefit yet to be eff
fected for him by Republican
ascendancy. The schools are here, the
land is here, the work is here, and they
will make the negro if he will utilize
them. Republicanism may rant and
rave, threaten and cajo1e, promise ana
deceive, but the negro must now work
out his own salvation, in which labor he
viii have Southern white sympathy or he
will make no further advance. Virtue
and intelligence and wealth cannot come
to the negro through governmental aid;
many negroes possess all these, but they
were acquired by individual effort; and
the negro as a race viii never acquire
them as long as he depends for them up
on the success of any political party.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04

Will the Chicago Inter-ocean and
Tribune, the New York Tribune, Press
and Mail and Express, the Columbus
co. Journal and the Philadelphia Press
please read in to-day Is GAZETTE the re-
port of the superintendent of the Texas
asylum for the colored deaf and dumb
and blind of the state? There ism t much
race war" in it, but there is something
in it eff Southern white people 8 taxes for
the benefit of Southern unfortunate
black people.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04

IT is well to emphasize at this early day
of the new year the closing utteranees OF
President Cleveland IS letter to the Massa-
chusetts Tariff Reform League: ''In the
track of reform are often found the dead
hopes of pioneers and the despair of those
who fall in the march But here will be
neither despair nor dead hopes in the
path of tariff reform, nor shall its pion-
GERS fail to reach the heights. Holding
fast their faith and rejecting every allur-
ing overture and every deceptive COM
promise which would betray their sacred
trust, they themselves shall regain and
restore the patrimony of their country
men, freed from the trespass of grasping
encroachment and safety secured by the
genius of American justice and equality -
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
ssTHE NEGRO QUESTION. -

All this suddenly revived discussion of
s'the Southern question and of the ne
gro question clearly indicates the cause,
and that cause is Republican ascendancy /.
The negro has been taught and the negro
believes that in Republican rule there is
something of especial benefit re him
sell; he has been taught to rely for pro-
gress upon Republican success and power,
and not upon himself; the Republican
party has freed the body of the negro
ana enslaved his mind. OF all men and
OF al races IN This republic the negro
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04

WHEN the Fort Worth GAZETTE assumes to sit
in judgment the Democracy OF David B.
Culberson, assumption wears its most brazen
face Houston Age.
THE GAZETTE passes without protest
the constant desire of the Age to criticise
this paper; but in this instance THE Ga
zETrE demands proof. This paper has
too long and sincerely admired "Gld
Dave" to permit even a characteristic
Misrepresentation TO pass without pro-
test. The man who says THE GAZETTE
ever questioned Dave Culberson s Dem
ocracy is what Horace Greedy would call
a - well
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04

"THE Queen of Bedlam'' is the title
of a new romance of frontier army life
by Captain Charles King, U. s. A. Cap
tain King is a master CT stirring MARIA
tive and most ingenious weaver of COM
plicated and exciting plots. He is the au-
thor of Between the Lines, - now run
ming in Harper s Weekly; of 'Dunraven
Ranch - in Lippinoott 5 for November;
of ga Wartime wooing, and other
stories.
Thenew story ''The Queen of Bed
lam - deals with life at q frontier army
post, and Is a love story of strange COM
plications. The first installment will be
published in THE SUNDAY GAZETTE for
January 6, and in THE WEEKLY GA
ZETTE for January.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
WORKS F0R me pEOPIE

Houston New Era: The Fort Worth
GAZETTE looms up immensely in its new
dress. THE GAZETTE which has the
welfare of the peoples at heart, and
gained a wide reputation, is one of the
best mediums in the state. The mechan-
ical work is nicely gotten up, and as 20
its editorials and.Other reading matter it
cannot be beat. The New Era sends best
wishes to THE GAZETTE, and may the
future be as prosperous as the past has
been. And may THE GAZETTE soon find
its way in every household IN the state
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
.ABoUT 1EN and HoaTEN.

Mr.. Parnell has half promised TO come
to America again next year.
The novel tManch, - written by Mrs.
Mary E Bryan, was Alexander Steph-
ems favorite work of fiction
Inc only daughter of FehiInore Cooper
still lives at the old home of the novelist
at Cooperstown, on Lake 0tsego.
Judge Charles j /. MeCurdy of Lyme
Conn. is now the Oldest living graduate
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04

IsnneRATioS is the one great need of
Texas. The population the state now has
makes possible deep water, mines and
factories. With more population al that
the state hopes and struggles for would
come TO it. There is power in 1000, :
600 or 5, 600 900 Of people not possessed
l 200 600 or ? 600 200. Texas and many
of its people are land poor, as well as
rich. and the need is immigration.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
SUAK1M.

Emin Pasha Has Not Been Captured Tho
Story Told by an Old Sergeant.
SUAKIM, Jan. "A sergeant who be-
longed to the old Egyptian army has ar
rived at Suakim from KhartoHm. He
states that he left the latter place No
vember %, and at that time Emin Pasha
had not been captured by the Mahdi =
force. but had repeatedly defeated the
dervishes il the lBahr-Gazelle province.
Officers at Suakim who are personally ac-
quainted with the sergeant know he is
trustworthy and believe his information
concerning Emin Pasha is true.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
REGARDLESS OF DRFss

PearsaH News; The Fort Worth Ga
zETTE, which We have long regarded as
one of the best dailies in the Southwest,
now comes TO us in new dress and, iii
the eyes of many, greatly improved i.
But we always have been an admirer Of
THE GAZETTE, not judging it by its out
ward appearance but by its daily con-
tents which constitutes its worth and
popularity regardless of dress. We hope
it may continue ia prosper and labor for
the good OF Texas and the Southwest.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
A Live City.
Ell Paso Herald.

Fort Worth has also begun to clamor
for new charter. The present charter
is considered inadequate to meet the de-
mands of the present and future. The
Fort is live city and VIII fix her new
charter on schedule time when she once
begins work.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
Missouri Lerislatnre.

JEFFERSON CITY Mo, Jan. S.--Hon.
J. J. Russell, Democrat Of Mississippi
county, was elected speaker OF the house
this morning, and E. d. Gates CT st.
Louis county was chosen clerk
In the senate, w. }. Johnston Demo-
crat of Montgomery, was elected presi-
dent pro TEN, and Il L. Gray of Colums
bia secretary.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
Letter Thieves Sent IN.

CHICAGO, Ill. Jan. 3.-To-day Judge
Bracket sentenced oberkampf and black,
two men who have been On trial here for
some time past for stealing letters from
the letter boxes, TO the penitentiary :,
Oberkampf's sentence being for FIVE
years and Mack 5 for three.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
FxcELLED eY NoNE

Wichita Herald: The Fort Worth Ga
ZETTE is "a thing Of beauty and joy for
ever" in its new dress, and seems as proud
of il as young lady just coming out .
in her frst ball costume. As a newspa-
per THE GAZETTE is exeelled by none in
Texas, ard its conservative editorial pol
icy III business and politics, indicates it as
reliable guide 10 those seeking after in
formation
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04

W estern real estate. That is the differ
enee between being a poor aiheriean ae-
tress in America and a poor English ac-
tress in America. Mrs. Potter should
HE her TO England instanter and drop a
piece of ice down the back Of the prince