Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-06
DALLAS.
The Candidate CircuIates a Petition to
Himself to Stand for Office.
His Creditors and Relatives Sign It-AccI.
dental Shooting Which Results Fatally.
STANDARDIZATION Movement
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DALLAS TEX March 3 1890

DALLAS. TEX, March 5, 1890.
In the language of the Oak Cliff Daily
Weekly, "And it came suddenly to pass
that the summer was not yet GOMEZ
but the blizzard has returned to the land
Of the Dakota and the springtime has
probably come to stay She is not decolette
and sleeveless yet and the ball has not
opened here quite as early as it has in the
Fort under the scorching words of Evan
gelist Williams, but she is here. It will
not be long before Brother Williams will
be ours, and, if we can then send out to
Tyler and have Brother Sam Jones to
meet HIM here, so as to focalize
the fire it is entirely probable
that the heated term will reach Dallas
first. There is no doubt that gentle
spring is here. The tell-tale buds have
wilted, and it is very true that they and
oil the tender, fair young flowers and
leaflets appear to have been boiled for
green's; but we have the candidate and
he blooms early this spring. He is q
lovely flower. He is an orchid. But
like other flowers ''he cometh up and Is
cut down. - and is seen no more forever
until the next campaign, when he
sprouteth and groweth tall and bloometh
again. So is he in Dallas.
There were two very bitter enemies
who attended the same revival meetings,
once upon a time. They had married
sisters, and their enmty one toward
another was intense. This was height
ened by a horse trade and an unfair dog
fight, and they spoke not one to the
other for forty and four years.
But one of the twain was converted
and came face to face with the enemy of
long standing and short stature, and
thus addressed him: Glow are you,
John! l now feel humble enough to
speak to a dog!" So it is with the can
didate. He now halls us when he meets
US.
There was another candidate q long
time ago IN Galveston, and it was not
Mayor Fulton, either, who humbled
himself that he might be exalted. His
opponent had spread abroad the report
that he was moved by a spirit of pride
because he burst wear good clothes. In
order to contradict this fatal cinch
he found it necessary to exchange suits
with a tramp, and instead of his dainty
button hole bouquet, which his wife who
wished to aid him all she could in his race
had pinned on, he tackled onto his lapel
a dirty card which read, 81 am yaller
uOE. Illus uIIb4IiS uliHStlI LS WOn
the race. His opponent left the country
and has never gone back there unto this
day.
But the Dallas candidate takes the
whole bakery. Or course we mean the
one who stands in monumental stateli-
ness in our minds eye. He was met on
Main street this morning and recognized
us at once, shaking hands as if there had
been a breach or some other kind of bad
break between US, we remained on the
qui vive, where we were standing
when he made his first pass.
He threw back the breast of
his coat and began drawing out of his
side pocket what appeared to be huge
fire brick, with which the writer eX-
pected TO be annihilated the next instant.
But the candidate held our hand, shak-
ing the same now and then, and stuck
the paralyzer under our nose in a very
friendly manner. 1t was his gall!
Herewith he let the many folds of
long petition drop gracefully TO the pave
ment, while he held a typewriter cap
ton and read it to us. It read:
ave, The undersigned citizens of Dali
las county, respectfully and most ear
nestly entreat -- to stand for
at the ensuing election, to take place on
-, l890-pledging him our undi-
vided support in the race. - This
was signed by all of the candidates.
relatives, and also by three merchants
to whom he owed debts of long standing.
Each Of the collectors in town
had signed It also. When he
met a biIl-sticler with his long
document it was case of cheek meet
cheek. This, however, may not be the
first instance on record where a DallasIte
has carried around petition TO himself
to serve the very dear people. But what is
the difference? In this age Of brass q
man who would sit and white upon a
goods box and wait for some office to come
tripping along seeking him is soft enough
for the lunatio asylum. Our political
delicacies are now hashed out on the
European plan. You call for what you
want, and call loudly. You pay for
what you get, and you pay well. OF
course none of US viii take soup if we
can help it. SO is it unto this day in
Dallas.