Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-04

Is done, If 1t can be done, THE GAZETTE
is willing to leave the question open.
There Is nothing. however, in either
the Industrial or political condition OF the
state, of which il is not proud. Owing to
good crops, tine fruits Of native industry,
and in spite of unfriendly federal leeisla-
tion against which her representatives
battled bravely. she is enjoying period
of tranquil contentment politically and
otherwise, that is the burning envy of a
few very loyal and enthusiastic Republic
can states whose names occur readily to
the most thoughtless. Compare Texas.
either as to her economic or her politi-
cal condition with Kansas, the banner
Republican, as she is the banner Demo-
cratic state, and what do you hndE
Texas has no debt hanging over her, has
a surplus in her treasury of a million and
a half, and a permanent school fund
that amounts to 500, 900 900, the equal
of which Is possessed by no other state In
the union. Her people are conteuted,
and fairly prosperous, and deeply en-
crossed in the work of developing the
extraordinary natural resources OF the
state.
Owing TO the wise and prudent policy
of the party to which the great majority
of them belong, the political state of az
fairs is In the most tranquil and satisfac-
tory condition imaginable. 1t could not
be more so. This OF itself betoKels thu
universal coptentment that prevails
throughout the state. There are no bick-
erings, no broils or bad blood. Whsr-
ever these are found, and the spirit of
faction raises its head and utters its dis
oordant cries to influence and excite,
something Is rotten; all Is not we'll. Are
there any such evidences of discomfort or
bad management by the present admins
tration. as these unholy signs betoken?
Far from it. There is not state in the
union, Republican or Democratic, that
can point to q cleaner or better ordered
adm inistration than the imperial state of
Texas boasts. 1t is doubtful If there is
one that parallels it in these particulars.
1t is certain that Kansas does not. Her
people are overwhelmed with debt, and
her farming lands blanketed with east
ern mortgages. Consequently, there
Is discomfort loud and clamorous.
There are warning factions rending and
tearing each other. The state during
the campaign has been ravaged from
end to end by the jay orator and the
political shark, and pandemonirm has
reigned supreme. Four separate factions
are warning savagely tor supremacy and
more regulations arc smirched or
ruined there IN day than in Texas IN
year. Politically, the state ia in o vol
canio condition. Industrially, it is in
| worse condition still.
From all these disturbing and disquiet-
| ing things, and from the block-of-five
corruption system in vogue in northern
| states, Texas is happily exempt The
truth is the average Texan knows nothing
about the political corruption and shame
full decentralization, the overheated strife
| and brawling condition of politics in the
| doubtful states. And just as the family I,
in which concord and agreement dwell 4,
| is more enviable and desirable circle
! than the one W here unfilial and uubroth-
erly discorc reigns. So is the state
which, like Texas, conducts Its local az
fairs in such a way as to leave no room
ior discomfort and deprives the brawllng
politician and the factious intermeddler
| of an opportunity to make trouble, SUI
perlor to the faction rent and politically
corrupt doubtful state.
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