Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-25
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
Success at the Polls Will Not be the End
of the Fight on the Commission.
Republican Lily Whites Will not Put Out a
Ticket This Fall, but the Quincy Degrees
Faction Must Retire.


having subsidized shortly after the state
convention had adjourned. No one
doubts that the ticket will be elected by
an old time majority, or that the COM
mission amendment will receive popu-
lar Endorsement at the polls. The fact
that all acquiesce in this result, without
regard to the personal wishes of some
who would be glad to see the commission
fail, robs the campaign of the
usual interest prevalent at such
times. 1t is. however, by no
means certain that success at the polls
will be the eud of the fight on the COM
mission, any more than its Endorsement
by the convention was. The knowing
ones think they see evidences cropping
out now and then, of q determination
among the leading ants to prosecute the
fight in the legislature. AS that body
will be largely in favor of the commits
sion; as 1t Will be composed OF men
elected upon that issue, and supposed to
be earnest supporters of it, one is puZ-
zled to know how the ants hope TO sway
them in the direction of violating the
trust reposed in them by q contiding con-
stituenoy. But Us there are tricks in all
trades; so there are in law making, and
what cannot be done III an open and
straightforward manner, is often eo-
complished in roundabout and ques-
tionable way by working upon human
frailties. Whether very determined
fight on the commission will be made in
the legislature is merely question of
conjecture. No hope, however, is en-
tertained by the most sanguine anti of
defeating 1t at the polls. The urwitZ
Republican manifesto created tempo
rary political breeze here, but it, too, is
passing away and but little 10 now
thought or said of it. No immediate
or even early result is expected
from it. 1t was something in the nature
of brutum fulmen and ended only in
the noise it made. A prominent Repub-
can told me to-day that no lily white
ticket would be- put out this fall; that
while there might be disposition among
some to do so. il would not be wise to
create q deadly schism in the party by
precpitate action of that sort. Besides,
said he, 'did not the lily whites praUti-
cally capture the convention when they
secured the nomination of Web Flanagan
aud the craftsmanship of the state execu-
tive committee? They are not in
such bad plight after all.
They have no urgent cause to
bolt ticket which they themselves par
ticipated in making, and which in some
important particulars IL agreeable to their
tastes. Discussing the question fur
Their he said, that unless the negro lead
ers abated their high preteusions, and
quit their scheme of bagging everything
in sight, the whites would be COM
PEELED to exclude them from the pri-
maries, and take the entire management
and control Of party affairs into their own
hands. At present, things inside the
party are, SAID he, in a deplorable shape,
and must be corrected II there is to be
Republican party in Texas. White
Republicans can stand negro
rule no better than Democrats
can, and if the party is TO grow, is to
become what it should be, respectable,
honorable, and such as to invite the fell
lowship of Others not pleased with the
policy of the dominant party, then must
it get upon q much higher plane than it
now occupies. He assured me that IN
less the Cuney-DeGress faction lowered
come in two years from now.
Austin is laying great store by her
the subject the average citizen Of the
place Mt once brightens up and grows
eloquent in praise OF the great
scheme. Bids for $500, 900 worth of
bonds will be opened October Is. and 9
award made to the best bidder. The
mayor says that the bonds will be sold
ABOVE par, and that in his judgment they
will go in block to syndicate. Bonds
for the remaining million dollars will be
sold as the work progresses. The CON-
tract for building the dam will be let on
the same day, and work will begin No
vember l. When built, the dam will be
ll50 feet long, extending from bluff to
bluff. and sixty feet high from founda-
ton to top. It will create one of the
grandest artificial lakes thirty miles long
in any state. Owing to the bluffs
on both sides of the river,
not more than 1000 acres
of land will be covered by the back
water extending up stream that distance.
This land the city will pay for, although
II is not very valuable. On either side
of the lake the timber and underground
sklrting the waters edge will be all re-
moved and the border kept clear in or
der to enhance the natural beauty of so
vast body of water and give it an added |
effect. Already, the mayor said, capt.
italists are purchasing tracts of land and |
building sites OH the bluff overlooking the |
lake. No Rhine or Swiss castles will |
look down on prettier picture than will |
the residences perched on the command
ingiheights of the Colorado rising from $50 |
to 500 feet above the waters edge.
Two years will be given the contractors |
to complete the dam and canal. This |
latter v Ill start from the gatehouse at
one end Of the canal, and cut through |
solid rock, will extend 1000 feet below
the dam, and will furnish the power de-
sired for manufacturing and other pur-
poses. The city will utilize it TO furnish |
water and electricity for Austin. The
city will also erect on It a cotton mill OF |
its own as starter, to be in readiness to
begin work as soon as the dam Is COM
pleted. The money for this purpose is
being subscribed now. After the city
shall have used all the power needed for
pumping water and supplying electricity,
there will remain water power for lease
to others, amounting to 10, 600 horse
power. I should have stated that the
canal will be 100 feet wide aud fifteen
feet deep, heavy volume of water on a
down grade, and capable of furnishing
D vast amount of power. 1t is proposed