Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-15
THE-GAMPAIGN.
Barney Gibbs Gives Hissviews Of the
Political Situation.
The Hogg People are Going to Fire the woods
Plea for a Campaign of Ideas,
Not Personal Issues.

Yesterday beng Dallas day at the
Spring Palace, x-Lieutenant- Governor
Barnett Gibbs took in the Palace, and
was as happy as a clam, and full of
compliments to the beauty, enterprise
and taste displayed by the Fort. He says
that nothing will pay Texas as well as to
duplicate the Spring Palace at Chicago,
and that he will take $500 stock in such
an enterprise. --f..-.
When approached on campaign mat
ters he frightened up and declared he
was too busy for interviews or open let
tiers, but that he would be at leisure q
little later in the campaign, and would
tangle up with the antl-raIlroad commits
sion men if there were any left.
= In reply to q direct question as TO what
phase, the campaign would take, he SAID:
1.-The campaign in the last two or
three weeks has assumed an entirely diff
ferent shape. 1t bid fair then to be an
out and out, old fashioned bold fight
between the commission and anti-com-
mission men. Now the men opposed to
commission have changed their tletics
and gone back on Henry Mcdonald, who
is worthy leader IN any fight, being
young, vigorous and brilliant. So far
none of the politicians opposed to a COM
mission have said so in plain unvarnished
language, unless II be George Clark,
whose Walnut Springs speech should
have been given to the people. The
rest, like my friend, Col. Sheppard,
have declared for man Cor a one
horse) commission or something other
than the one contemplated by the
judiciary amendment. The tendency is
to dodge the issue and make it q
personal fight between the can
dIdates and their followers.
No man opposed to a commission should
support q commission man, as a matter
of principle, and this should be cam
paign of issues, for Texas is too big
state for lodging issues and settling
nominations on personal grounds.
1.-The fight will be hot one, as certain
elements have entered 1t, on the basis Of
personal objection to Mr.. Hogg, one OF
the leading candidates; and in the cry OF
anything TO beat Hogg, they are
concealiug their position on the leading
issue. The officers of the Sheriff 8 asso-
citation have sent out secret circular,
that no Hogg delegate shall be
allowed to the state convention.
The Drummers' association, at their late
meeting in Austin. were SO abusive and
earnest in their determination to defeat
HogS that they Disguised some of their
own members, The Insurance associa-
ton are also active in their opposition,
and these three associations are trying to
com bine with railroad and other associs-
ton and corporation influences to con-
troll the Democratic convention and tie IL
up under two thirds rule against Hogg-
"These associations were formed for
business purposes, and they will find that
as political agencies they can t control the
Democratic party OF Texas. The young
men in the ranks of the Democratic
party will make such fight this time as
they never made in the history of the
party IN Texas, and are practically solid
for the commissioner and Jim Hogg. L
have certified copies of some of the talks
made by the drummers at Houston to
show that they are organized along with
other associations to make this personal
fight on Hogg. have copy of Mr..
Shaw g speech at the drummer's ban
quet, in which among other things he said
the brains (the drummers) were against
Hogg where ever the members were.
1.-THE young Democracy will meet the
drummers, the underwriters OF al. at
the Democratic convention in San An
tonic, aud 1 will agree to walk bare
footed through the prickly pear country
il we don't do them up. Business is
business, and politics is politics, ard
the Hogg merchants pay as they CO..
And the Drummers association will have
more political sense after this campaign,
if not more business sense.
,'The Democratic party OF Texas is q
great big institution, and these various
associations, and some big newspapers,
and some old politicians who are COM
bining influences and lodging issues will
learn thing or two in August. 1t is
either party of principle and means
what il says in its platforms or the
voters will know why. If it it is to be
dominated by business associations COM
posed largely of non-residents who want
to down officers elected to enforce the
laws, then l know little of the buck
ing proclivities of Texas Democracy.
The men who are opposed to railroad
commission ought to come out of the
brush and fight square fight. They
had just as well do it, and let the per-
sonsl campaign alone, for the Hogg and
commission men intend to fire the
woods.