Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-20
DALLAS.
Sounding the Business lien on the Sub
iect Of Grand Trades Display.
Remains OF Mcdonald Sent to Tennessee-Red
Tape in Getting Deiauliing Postmaster
From One State TO Another.
QUESTIONING THE BUSINESS MEN.

| Special to the Gazette.
| DALLAS, TEX, Sept. l9.-That enter
/ prising paper, the Dallas Times Herald
ia always found in front of the pro-
cession. They have issued and delivered
| TO every business man in the city a cir
cular in which they ask if the party re-
ceiviug il will close their place of bust
ness on the opening day of the fair and
| If they will decorate their business fronts
! suitable for such holiday. They also
want to know how many of the business
men approve of the proposition TO have a
/ grand trades display on opening day aud
/ how many business houses will be repre-
sented with suitable floats in the pro-
/ cession. With each circular sent out is
postal card on which to return an answer.
DEFAULTING POSTMASTER.
A few days ago THE GAZRTTE had an
account of the arrest by Federal officers
of William n. Sellers, q defaultlng post
master OF Lebanon, n. c. Two post
office inspectors, Messrs Wavland and
Daniels, are here from North Carolina
and are taking the necessary steps 10
have Sellers transferred to the scene of
his crookedness, where he eau give bond.
7 III TutT LOT u tFhuSltT III ClStS "ueTt Gl
/ Indictment by the grand jury has not
| been made, usage has made it necessary
/ to obtain an order from the postmaster
| general An effort is being made to get
/ such an order, and in all probability It
/ viii be obtuined.
THE PARSONS CASE CONTINUED.
/ 1t was Par SOM Willard that was
arrested yester day on charge of dis
/ turbing the peace, and not Wilett as
reported in this mornings GAZETTE.
| The parson appeared in court this morn
/ luG and got n continuance OF his case I'M
/ til September %.
SHIPPED TO TENNESSEE.
! Undertaken Linskie to-day received a
telegram from Mr.. W. c. johnson,
| Paris, Tenn, requesting that the re-
mains of w. T. Mcdonald be ,hipped to
that place and the body went East on
this evenings train. Mcdonald will be
remembered aS the man that was killed
! by tho cars night before last.
SABBATH FAIR.
The fact that the fair management
have decided to keep open gates on the
! Sabbath has created considerable dis
! cussiOn through the local
! press. The clergy first made the
attack, through a petition TO the fair
MANAGEMENT in which they ask. in the
name of religion, for the fair to be
closed on the Lord g day, as the opening
of such q thing on that day had Il
tendency to dampen the ardoT of the
God-fearing people in their work for the
enterprise. The management decided
that the fair must be open for seven days
a week even IF the church people did not
give their support, aud claim in vindica-
ton OF their position that there are
thousands of mechanics and lsboring
people Who can only attend on Sunday, AS
they cannot afford the loss of the wages
that would necessarily follow by their
attending on any other day than the
Sabbath.
NORTH PARK MATTER.
The following card from Mayor Con-
nor appeared in the News this morning:
THE CITY OF DALLAS Executive Department.
DALLAS, lex, Sept. Is
To the News.
In reference to the affairs of this city,
the News in this mornings issue ex-
presses the following:
There IS no more necessity for hsrass-
ing perplexity and tortuous mystery in
the management of the city's business
than in the management of any legiti-
mate and substantial private busi-
ness. 1t is pretty safe to say that when
ever the affairs of Dallas have become
tangled, obscure, hard to be understood,
and needing to be cleared up, wise and
conservative mGXimS, aud sound and
safe methods of business have not been
observed by the stewardship to which
their administration has been committed
rs public trust.
Now | must confess that could hardly
expect anything kind or correct to com
from the Dallas News in reference to the
management of the city's affairs during
my term of Office, for if there is any man
III this community that made the man
agement of the Dallas News uneasy aud
uncomfortable for about three months l
am that individual, and / will stake my
reputation as a business man that when
the time comes, If it is necessary for me
to explain TO the citizens of Dallas that
the management of the city's affairs has
been carried on in an honest aud busI-
uess-like way, it will not take me half
the time or space that it took the Dallas
News to explain that it did not eceive
money from the railroads and other COR
porations of this state in an illegitimate
way for advertising their business. The
system of bookkeeping aud checking
used by the officers of the city govern
ment is rs correct and perfect as that OF
any banking institution or mercantile es-
tablishmeut in the state, and is open to
inspection ut any time, and any reflec-
tion made by the Dallas News that the
affairs of the city are now or have ever
been IN a tangled or obscure condition,
is an unjust ana uuwarranted attack upon
me and my administration, and such
statement is at the same time calculated
to damage the credit of the city. The
city has never failed during my admins
tration to meet every obligation made;
can the management of the Dallas News
say for itself any more? This city has
never repudiated in any way or upon any
conditions; can the management of the
Dallas News say for itself as much?
Now III reference to the purchase of
the North Dallas park for park aud
waterworks purposes, it appears to me
that there is little TO be said, as this
question was thoroughly investigated at
the time The purchase was made. The
purchase was made by action of the city
council, and the vote upon the adoption
of the report to purchase the ground
stood as follows: Ayes-Bustrln, Cole,
Cone, Edwards, Cannon, Garrison, Har-