Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-25
WATCH YOUR TICKET.
Certain Features OF the Present State
Campaign Not to be Overlooked.
Party Machinery Being Quietly Manipulated
Adversely to the Popular Interests.
Crooked Tickets.
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.

| Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
AUSTIN, Tex, Oct. 23.-There are
one or two features of the present cam
paign in this state that appear 10 have
escaped the notice, not only of the
masses, but of those supposed to
be conversant with whatever is
going GU in politics. Or, if the
knowing ones are CON- they do not
appreciate the Importance of some things
that it behooves the many to keep an eye
on. A recent dispatch from this city in
THE GAZETTE discussing the appar-
ent apathy existing in state
politics, has put some friends of
the railroad commission idea to
thinking, and specializing as TO the
Focuses thereof. They are disposed to
feel that the masses who pronounced
short time ago so emphatically in favor
of commission. and carried everything
before them in laundering fashion, were
lulled by the plandits attending their
victory into state OF fancied security
that has made them wholly forgetful of
the cunning, able aud ingenious adver-
saries whom defeat did not wholly con-
quer, and who, II is believed, are now
shrewdly at work manipulating the
party machinery with the hope either of
defeating the proposed amendment at the
polls or of forestalling effective
legislation on the subject, should the
amendment carry. These gentlemen
point to recent manifestations as seeming
proof that some underhand work is in
progress, and that ii behooves the friends
of the commission to wake up and be-
stir themselves. A gentleman well up in
state politics said to-day: "a great
many newspapers in the state, including
nearly all the dailies and host of week.
lies, print mutllated form of the state
ticket instead of that prescribed by the
executive committee. OF the morning
daiiies, THE GAZETTE Is perhaps the only
one that prints the ticket as
the committee directed. The regular
ticket should read "For the commission
amendment. - In great many OF the
papers this is entirely omitted or printed
in connection with the alternative form,
''against the commission. - Although
the commission was the sole issue within
the party previous to the convention and
although its advocates and adherents
won grand and notable victory over the
enemies by committing the party to its
Endorsement in convention asse nbled,
and making it g plank in the party plat
form, as much to be respected and sup
ported as any other part of the platform,
these papers quietly ignore their duty
in the premises, the presidents in such
cases, and the traditions of the party,
and by printing a mutilated form of
ticket strive to impress the Democratic
voter with the notion that the commits
sion is an open question, for which he
may vote for or against without
affecting his allegiance to party. In
this way they hope to win the votes
of many who, considering themselves
loyal partisans, might otherwise fear to |
vote against the commission lest thew |
imperl their standing in the party. OF |
course, those papers are unreconstructed |
and as much opposed to the commission |
now as. before the convention. The |
az HenceSS of that fact may not |
Afpear in their columns, but |
it is believed that such is the case, all |
the same.''
"But that is not all, - said he, "the
mutllated ticket scheme is being played
in another way. Taking their cue, evil
IDENTIFY, from the papers aforesaid,
county executive committees in