Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-23
STATE POLITICS.
Never 80 Dull and Lifeless as at Present.
A One Sided Campaign.
To What Extent will Texas be Represented at
the Worlds Fair7-Goyernor Ross
10 Go to Bryan.
sreeisl corre,porderee OF the Gazette.

staSnation Is oil but absolute and uni
versal in Texas ut present. There IL the
most striking contrast between the po-
litical situation now and that existing
prior 10 the state convention. Then there
was contention. feeling and no small
schemes were sprung. and the fatal
boomerang was seen now and then TO fly
hurting through the poiitica! fogs and
mists, only to return TO plague the in
ventor. That palladium OF freemen, the
press, ratified hot shot upon one side or
the other, and HOGg and anti Hoeg,
commission and auti-commissinn argu-
ments were heard upon every side. A
email but able and ingenious band of
unprogressis,s struggled by aid OF all the
arts aud artifres ut their command TO
stem the popular tide and turn back
upon itself the popular move that threat
en-d to engulf them, but in vain. For
time they withs;ood the force and mo-
meutum of it. but before long were
swept away by it, and before the con-
vention met were Us completely anuthi-
lated as were Pharaoh's legions III the
Red sea. Since then nothing.
or next TO nothing, has been
heard of them. The march OF
the commission hosts since the adjourn
ment of the convention has been un-
eventful as was that OF the lsraelites
after the overthrow of their enemies.
Not that Rll Democrats heartily acQui-
esce III the dctum of the convention con-
cernIrg the commission, for there nre
some; not many, whose opposition 20 the
proposed scheme Of ruilwny regulation is
..hearted, and who find preteIts
enough TO justify them in voting against
it. But they are very quiet about il, and
say very little on the subject, realizing
of course, the utter futility of taking
against what the fates appear to have
decreed as Il foreCone conclusion. Like
the royal monarch who put away his
wives one after another, when he had
tired of them, because his conscience
would not permit him 10 live any longer
with them, those gentlemen, or some OF
them Mt any rate, appear 10 TO the VIC
tins of morbin cunscieures whose imper-
ativs dictates they find it hard TO resist.
They Will 90 TO the polls November 4,
and cast their vote against the popular
scheme, and perhaps thank God that
they are not as other men are. As no
particular harm will result, and as they
will have exercised ths sovereign privi-
iege of every American citizen in custing
his bulIot, it is to be hoped that they will
lind their consciencss marvelously
eased and their minds ut rest when the
days work is done
In conversation with Governor Lub-
book Saturday, thnt gentleman said: 81
have lived in Texas ftty-Gour years and
| can truthfully say that / never knew
state politics 10 be so dull aud lifeless rs
1t is now, and just before the election
too. Why, there is nothing doing or
being said. 1t Is simply wonderful.
Others note the same political apathy,
and attribute IL, as Governor Lubbock
does, 10 the one-sideduess of the cam
paign and the fact that Col. Flanagan
has ut srly failed 10 enthuse the rank
aud file of his party or to incite the
orators on his side TO take the field. His
canvass Is entirely prrfunctorv, lifeless
and uneventful. There Is nothing NOV
ing or ringing about it. Even his own
partisaus are rs little moved by it rs the
Democrats are. There is something
lacking, apparently, in his style OF
campaigning or his personality, some
thing that if present would rally the
ing numbers aud encourage she sp9akers
among Republicans, of whom there is no
dearth, TO take the stump and throw
sOme life and animation luto the cam
paign.
It is interesting to note the wonderful
contrast in this particular between DEM
ocratic and Republican minorities. Iu
Northern states, where the Demo-
erats are largely in the minority. and
even i'll Kansas where they are hopeless
ly so, they ure no less aggressive and
c0mbative than il they had good reason
10 hope for present success. Nothing
like the Republican slothfuiness and in
activity in Texas exists there. They do
not go incoming about waiting for
providence or some unforeseen agency TO
put them on top. They are lighters, and
carry every man of them. chip on his
shoulder. Thyy are rustlers. aud never
say die. By such tenacity of purpose,
such stubbornness aud persistency, they
succeeded last spring in eiectiug Demo-
cratic governor of Iowa-a few years
ago, typical "ynller dug' Republican
stute.
How long under present methods, will
1t take the Republicans of Texas TO elect
q governor? Not until the crack of
doom, unless they alter their manner OF
political warfare, and throw aside the
close corporation of select few plotting
and scheming for Federal spoils.
Commissioner Foster OF the agricultural
bureau hus received several letters in hs
last few days from the directors of the
World = fair and from the various sub
committees thereof, asking what Texas
is going to do about state exhibit. At
present he can give no satisfactory an-
swsr, not being able to surmise even
what the state legislature will do in the
premises, or whether Il will do any thing.
As 10 well known, the constitution pro-
hibits by express provision the expendi-
ture of my state funds whatever for the
encouragement OF Immigration and as IL
is difficult 10 see what othe purpose the
stnts could have in placing au exhibit at
the fair thnn the announcement OF i'm
migration, both of men aud money. one
is puzzled TO know how the idea can
be carried out without violating the
the fundamental Inv. 1t 10 perhaps un-
fortunate, that such an inhibition ex-
ists, but there it is as frowning and for
midabis as the late speaker of the lower
house of congress. Gov. Ross admits
that he does not see how the legislature
can consistently get around it, while he
admits the propriety aud need for such