Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-02

! lndlly III was Thought lilaU the IfcuOleSOlne
| question had been got rid of by circular No.
%, issued some weeks ago, and meant to
| place compress and nO-compress shipping
| points on an equality. Recently complaints
! have been made TO the commission saying
that the Central road was disregarding the
circular altogether, and exercising its
| own sweet will with reference
| to receiving cotton for COMPRISING
| en- route. The reason alleged for ignoring
the circular is that it does not give the road
| twenty days notice before going into effect.
| The commission holds that no such notice is
| required, because no new rate is promul-
| gated, only construction or modi-
| fcation OF one, which may. in its
| opinion, be made at any time without such
| notice. The difference between the Central
and the commission is one of legal construc-
| ton that, unless the road gives way, will
| have to be settled by the courts. The COM
mission says that the Central has given it
| more trouble than any other road in the
| state.
WANT A SPECIAL SESSION.
The lawyers whose fees are tied up in q
great multitude of delayed cases pending in
| the higher courts are getting mighty auX-
| iouS for a special session of the legislature.
Their great wish is to secure as early
as possible the organization of the new
courts of civil and criminal appeals, so that
the business now waiting may be expedited.
adopted provides for three courts of civil
and one of criminal appeals, the latter at
Austin and the others in districts yet 10 be
formed. These four courts with three
judges each and the supreme court will
make fifteen judges in all to handle the
business of the higher courts. As soon as
organized 1900 cases now on the docket will
be thrown upon the new courts, which,
having only three judges more than now
compose the supreme court, the court and
commission of appeals. will. it is feared, be
a long time in catching up. Lawyers say
that a fourth court of civil appeals will
have to be established before the desired
Roadway can be had.
CHAIRMAN FINLEY'L LETTER.
Chairman Finley's letter to the Corsi-
cana paper anent the Cole case has put
numherleSs tongues to wagging and
aroused a very Babel of confused ideas and
jangiing discord. Those who year or
more ago resented so vociferouSly a similar
pronunciamento by Mr.. Finley do not re-
ceive this last ruling of his in an important
matter with very good grace, although TO
be consistent they should have greeted it
with vivas of approving reclamation as ii
tends directly to what they clammored for
so earnestly then, to-wit; The purgatiOn
of the Democratic party and the elimina-
ton of the So-called anarchlStic, SocialiStic
and communistic elements so much dreaded
was no sub-treasury party in the state
year ago. There is now. There was no
harm to be apprehended from such party
then. There may be now. The only Or
ganization opposing the Democracy year
ago was the Republican contingent
under the leadership of the gal
liant Web Flanagan. Now it
is otherwise when an imperium in imperio
exists, a hostile organization within the
Democratic party whose ayowed purpose is
to capture" that party, remodel and new
fashion it, and commit the state OF Texas
to the doctrine of Macuneism, a species of
idiotic paternalism that out-Herods Herod
in its conception, and that would make the
Mckinley tariff highly respectable in COM
parison. 1t is therefore difficult for those
clamoring year ago for party publication
to now oppose with any degree of consist
ency or decency, ruling that every fair
minded Democrat must feel is timely, just
and necessary Talking to-day with very
prominent Democrat, asked, what do you
What do think?'' said he; ''Why, sir
what could l or any other Democrat think,
but that it was the proper thing Why
should the Democracy of Texas sit down
like an imbecile and suffer itself to be cap
tured by third partya A sub-treasuryite
may be good enough Democrat, just as
tariffite or an anti-monopolist of any kind
may be. AS long as he remains faith
full to the old party, and votes
the ticket no one will question
his right to entertain whatever vagaries,
political or religious, he pleases. But if he
contends against the dictum of his party,
that 1t is wrong, and the sub-treasury the es-
sence of political wisdom, and affiliates him
self with third party for the purpose of
capturing the old party, what is to be done2
Would you call such man a Democratic If
so, how can Democrat capture his own
party? What does capturing mean but
fighting, opposing and ultimately triumph
ing over the Democrats as the sub-treasury-
ties talk of doing at the polls? No sir, the
sub-treasuryite that enters the third party,
and that proposes to capture US, you and
me, and the Democracy generally, is a
Democrat just like jackass is thorough
bred runner, a Sunol-that is, he is no
Democrat at all. He is sham and fraud,
more to be feared than an out-and-out OPP
ponent, a Republican for example,
''Well, but they say that the chairman
should have called the executive committee
together and let it, instead of himself, pro-
nounce upon the status of the sub-treasury-
ties. What have you to say to that"
mighty little. That is all clap-trap. The
fellows who talk that way would find some
thing else to kick about if the latter had
been the actual expression of the full COM
mittee. What is chairman for, but to be
able at any moment to pass upon just such
questions when propounded by subordinate
officials in the partyl He is presumed to
know what is and what is not sound De-
mocracy; to be familiar with the sentiments
of those composing the committee of which
he is the head, and to be ready at all times
to give advice when due. without calling
the committee for consultation. If he can
not be trusted to that extent, what in
heavens name is he good for? 1t is all
bosh, and nonsense, l tell you; veritabie
rot. Why, what is the problem, the
weighty problem to be solveda Shall
the Democracy of Texas suffer it
self to be captured at the primaries
by third party that will, as fast as it can,
retire the present congressional delegation
from this state and send lot of PETERS and
Sockless Simpsons in their stead to repre-
sent the Democracy in the place of Coke,
Culberson, Mills, Crane and the rest2 What
Democrat, with sense enough to go in out
of the rain, but could solve that problem
for himself in jiffy9 Who wants COM
mittee with big pow-wow to pass formally
on proposition that is so clear to the
mind2 1t is enough to make a man tired,
weary, almost sick unto death, to hear such
childish pirate from men calling themselves
Democrats. The path of Democracy is so
plain, and so well Travelled, that none but
an imbecile ought to get lost in it, or incur
any danger of straying from it,