Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-15
TAR DRIPS.
The Marvellous Growth of the Farmers
Alliance in North Carolina.
Senator Vance In Critical Position-Crops
Flourishing-Ex-G Governor Bell of
Te1as-Hog- Raising Era
MACON, N. c., Aug. IL, 1880.

MACON, n. c., Aug. Il, 1880.
To the Gazette.
If you think, your North Carolina
leaders in Texas will appreciate
budget of "tar Drip" will drop
few in your news urn.
The Farmers Alliance has taken the
state by storm, and everything succumbs
to its influence. There is no governor to
be elected this year. but it sways al
congressional conventions, legislation
and even county officers and hence, will
elect the United States senator. Vance,
whose term is to be refilled, had better
look to his laurels, as the Progressive
Farmer, the Alliance organ, has at
tackled him in his opposition TO the sub
treasury bill, though it is not yet OPP
posing his re- election. Vance political
hold in the state is enormously thought
by some to be stronger than the Alliance.
Tho Richmond and Danville railroad,
the most powerful political influence
within the state, and whose president Is
the Warwick of North Carolina politics,
is inimical to Vance. This with the
petty jealUusies of rival candidates, and
the Alliance, which is really not in favor
of him, but Endorses him sometimes in
conventions to conciliate the Democratic
party, which is not quite all digested by
the Alliance, will prevent his election.
Crops are booming. All crops except
wheat and oats are better than in ten
years. They were poorer last year than
in ten, so l hope the cropping equilibrium
will be restored. The farmers in the
"a 10 in q condition.
We raise little of everything and not
much of anything. The climate being
wet, it takes a great deal to pass over the
winter. / burned in Eastland county,
Tex, one cord of wood to four here. In
the matters of clothing and eating, this
same ratio holds-and medicine too,
though it is healthier here than in many
parts of Texas, some say, but dom
think so, barring the danger OF fever
which is more fatal in some low districts
in Texas than here. The summers are
cool here but the average humidity being
rs per cent. there are close hot days at
times which would suffocate in city like
San Antonio.
p. H. Bell, governor of Texas in 1850,
resides at LittletOn just east of here.
He is about 64 years old, tall, slender
and nimble and adheres to his old SLOUGH
hat and cloak. He is very taciturn and
impresses one as being q person whose
mind wanders amongst the fond recol-
lections of the past. 1 have no doubt bis
thoughts often fit over the sunlit prai-
ries about Goliad and San Jacinto. He
was personally acquainted with Houston,
whom he admired for his dash and brav-
cry. l read 9 life of Houston last spring
and must say l admire him very much
and think Texas was wrong IN deposing
him as governor. Santa Fe, which 1
suppose embraced the entire New Mexico
or more, may be, all east of the Rio
Grande, (your readers of the older class
doubtless know more about this than 1
do) was purchased by the United States
during his administration for $40 ,000,-
900. understand the ex-governor ap-
piled for pension four years ago, but
not being O citizen, could not get it.
l think the nomination of your con-
vention, which it appears will be Hogg
SO big that he spells his name with two
g's and a capital, propitious one, as
this year marks the beginning of the
hog-raising era in Texas. l trust the
next man in the lead will not Cook him
for his political dinner, but l don't care
If the little man from the new West, my
favorite section of your state, does come
in at such speed as to Wheeler off the
track, for think him an estimable gen.
tlsman. and the county he lives in more
estimable than he is.
Well, think so much more of Texas
than do of North Carolina that be-
Iieve l have written more about 1t. L
am sorry could not honestly say to the
''Tar Heels'' in your state that they
made q mistake in moving from here.
The trite saying, that North Carolina Is
good state to emigrate from, holds
good now as of yore, and for the same
reasons. B. I. E.