Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-21
TAR DRIPS.
The Marvellous Growth of the Farmers
Alliance in North Carolina.
Senator Vance in a Critical Position
Flourisbing-Fx- Governor Bell of
Te1as-Hog- Raising Era.
MACON, N. c.. Aug. Il, 1890.

MACON, N. c., Aug. II, 1890.
To the Gazette
If you think your North Carolina
readers in Texas will appreciate u
budget of "tar drip" I will drop q
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 all
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's political
hold IN the state is enormously thought
BIZ some TO be stronger than the Alliance.
The 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 hope the cropping equilibrium
will be restored. The farmers in the
attn ia L. ~, -.
We raise little of everything and not
much of anything. The climate being
wet, 1t takes n great deal TO pass over the
winter. l 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 l don't
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 a city like
San Antonio.
p. H. Bell, governor of Texas in 1850,
resides at Littleton just east of here.
He is about "a years old, tall, slender
and nimble and adheres to his old SLOUGH
hat and cloak. He is very taciturn and
impresses one as being a person whose
mind wanders amongst the fond recol-
lections of the past. ! have no doubt his
thoughts often fit over the sunlit prai-
ries about Goliad and San Jaciuto. He
was personally acquainted with Houston,
whom he admired for his dash and brav-
erv, read 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 l
suppose embraced the entire New Mexico
or more, MAJ be, all east of the Rio
Grande, (your readers of the older class
doubtless know more about this than l
io) was purchased by the United States
during his administration for $40, 000,-
DOO | understand the ex-governor ap-
piled for a pension four years ago, but
not being citizen, could not get it.
l think the nomination of your con-
Fention, which it appears Will be Hogg
10 big that he spells his name with two
rs and capital, propitious one, as
his year marks the beginning of the
og-raising era in Texas. l trust the
lext man in the lead will not Cook him |
'or his political dinner, but l dom care |
4 the little man from the new West, my |
avorite section of your state, does come |
u at such speed as to Wheeler off the |
rack, for think him an estimable gen. |
leman, and the county he lives in more
than he is.
Well, think so much more of Texas
han do of North Carolina that be-
ieve l have written more about it. |
Im sorry could not honestly say to the
Tar Heels' in your state that they |
made mistake in moving from here.
The trite SAYING. that North Carolina Is
good state TO emigrate from, holds
'ood now as of yore, aud for the same
easons. B. L. E.
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