Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-01

Last night was frigid, Indictment oc-
cssion.
However enthusiastic in his cause a
candidate may be, and however willing
said candidate may be to brave any ad-
verse conditions of weather yet the hum
BILE voter, as a usual thing, is not so far
alive to the necessity for his personal IN
Outstanding of the questions at issue in a
canvass to stand out in the cold and
sleet TO hear a candidate define his posi-
ton. But the occasion of Hon. w. S.
Pendleton IS address last night appeared
to be an exception to the general rule.
Hundreds o. people OF all eolors and con-
ditiOns were on hand at the time ap-
pointed, though the wind was plercIn e
and the cold drizzIe fell on hands and
faces like a shower of needle points
downward. The vacant lot where the
appointment had been made for
was found too exposed, and
an adjournment to the warm
side of the Farmers and Mechanics ban K
was taken, where hundreds of enthusiast
tic voters gathered around an express
wagon, which formed the speakers
stand. The Firemen's band played a
few lively airs, and Hon. T. It. D.
Andrews introduced Hon. w. S. Pendle-
ton as the next mayor of Fort Worth.
Mr.. Pendleton said that in view of the
family misfortune which had recently
overtaken him, and which was generally
known, he did not feel justified in max
ing a speech of wide range. Only sense
Of what the needs of the public of Fort
Worth demanded induced him to speak
at all, ana he merely desired to set him
self right before the voters in JUS
tice to himself and to those
whose cause he represented.
He merely wanted TO rectify some erro-
neous remarks which had been circulated
against him with view to hurting his
chances in the campaign. He had been
the subject of misrepresentation which
he desired TO correct.
1t had been charged that he was not
the friend TO the poor man in the
community. He denied it. It was I'M
just 10 him, not justified by his known
record as a public officer. He had been
state legislature, and never before had
it been charged that he oppressed the
poor or that he lacked interest
or sympathy for that class of citIzenry.
If he were elected he would not be the
champion of the rich; neither of the
poor: but he would treat everyone with
the same impartial consideration. He
would see to it that the laws were en-
force d; without distinction and regard
less of money consideration.
He had been told that rumor was in
circulation to the effect that during his
term in the legislature he said in speech
that zone dollar day was enough for
any workingman. 1t was hard to have
10 deny that. No sensible man would
entertain such an opinion as
that, much less express it in
public. He had never said or thought
such a thing in his life. It was ridicu-
lOus and absurd On its face. He would
give $500 to the man who would go up to
him face to face and say he ever heard
him say it. [Cheers.l It is an Infamous
falsehood.
There had been an attempt made to
prejudice the Irish voters against him
because six or seven years ago when he
was prosecuting attorney, in his official
capacity he was culled upon to prosecute
Mr.. Ratican and other people of Irish
nativity for digging mp graveyard be-
longing to the colored people.
Many colored people came to
him and made complaint that the
graves of their dead were being dug up
and the dust was being hauled to the
streets and used for paving. He prose-
cuted the offenders and denounced their
a nut hJO1anifu
Because they happened to be
Irishmen it had been said
he made cause against the Irish race. He
would have acted the same if they had
been of any other nationality. His SYM
pathies were with the Irish nation and he
eulogized them as race and as individ-
uals, as having taken foremost hand in
the development of the American nation
and country. And yet he claimed no
particular credit from the colored |
people for having conducted their side of |
the case spoken of. He did 1t in the way |
Of his official duty Yet they should |
have perceived that he was the kind of q |
man they needed, inasmuch as he had |
shown them he was not prejudioed against |
any class T afraid of any particular in |
terests.
It had been charged against him that |
Turing the great strike of 1886 he was
vindictive, abusive and active
n suppresslng the strike, and that he |
organized companies and shouldered guns
md went down to the depot to shoot the
strikers down. This story was wholly |
untrue. He was summoned by process
IF law TO aid the officers to suppress the
strikers. He was in his Office attending to
his own business when the summons was
Ieryed. Officer John Thompson, who
zee present, had served the supa-.
mons. He obeyed it. Hes went /
o the depot under orders. Instead of
wanting to shoot anybody down he rea-
oned and pleaded with the strikers. /
That's what he did, - from tnesIiss7
eners. Was he to be condemned for
hat? Within a few feet of me and
oremost among the strikers was 3. 2. 1
3lakely. He remembers how spoken
% them and reasoned and arguea
And Blakely also remembers how, few
lays after the depot difficulty, when he'll.
Blakely) was being conveyed to theJan,
lie (Pendleton) met him, and vent on
lis bond and had him released. Did |.
hat look like luminosity to the strikeEss
Mr.. Pendleton proceeded toshow thes
inconsistency of DR.. Broiles present |;