Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-02
"raI by are Saying About the
o'0eeIay at Galveston.
TWO SIPS TO THE QUESTION.
Extensive Sarations Making for the State
t''' ement at the Capital City.
h'e.H, ,h r ds Did Considerable Mischief
Em Site-A Hampstead Cit
61ndignant at the Attor-
uey-SeneraI.


what this one or that one has to say OF the
slittle by-piay III progress at Galveston.
While interest in the receivershlp lnvestl-
CATION has greatly subsidized, if it has not
died AWAY entirely. there are still two sides
10 the question. Is there may always be. y
rather singular and quite remarkable cir
cunstance connected with the investigation
IS hat wherever YOU find an anu-Hogg man
you strike u Fellow VINO pretends 10 believe
that the rcceivershin was
JOB or \ sTE.I.
IN four cases ont of five he IS apt 10 use
the latter term. He will admit, ! you urge
it. that the third party IN Tyler. the fcl-
lows who are responsible for the row ana
the investigation, and 10 whom ne looked
for better case. ar not one bit better than
those whose scalps they are after. BY their
own showing. they wanted to have share
u the ''stral' as some cal II. And because
H. could not &c, l., they make vicious
Nd ugly kick
IA verv strong an-i-Hogg man said 10 the
wrter i always thought THAT Hogg inter
Ncnad in the interest OF one set of scala
SasS as against another set
4 But .'scalawagSn was nor exactly the ep-
hhet he used II was not 50 nice as that.
FiS hatred Of the governor Is such that II
Extends 10 and darkens The character of
Elose whom he suspects Of fricndllneSs TO
Eogg. The fact thai he IS
CHARGED TO TIRE MUZZLE
NTH the bittcresU prejudice in the matter,
Segdrds both sides 10 the controversy IS
t.scalawagS '' Shows how sentiment even
emOng the enemies of the administration
has undergone i radical change IN the last
len DAYS Abatement of interest in the IN
vestigatlon Is perfectly natural. When the
romplainautS broke down completely in
their efforts 10 connect she governor with
Che various steps that introduced and con-
tluued the receivcrShip, his enemies cared
nothing more for IT, They felt no further
.concern about il. and would not care if it
Dad stopped right there. The general public
Boon caught on or learned the animus that
prompted the whole thing. and it, too, be-
lgsn TO ask itself. what is it all aboutt Wit
tnesseS have beer. examined for three weeks,
land the whole story OF the receivership
gone over again ana again in all its details,
and people are
I BEGINNING TO REALIZE
that they have learned from il very little,
End nothing of Toment that IS new. All
the salient and pronounced features of it
@ere known before the investigation began.
Nothing of importance has been added
Since. They have been given glimpse at
fhc manner in which federal receiverShipS
have been managed with reference 10 the
distribution of fat offices. the salaries and
made, and find that they suffer
Yin comparison with the International and
y eat .NOftltfn FtttlNtTSulf- IucN uDN
tuOw That # Judge McCOrd had appointed
y second master IN chancery, and the re-
leivers another attorney or assistant with
kIoOd salaries. or if provision had been
ilnade in some way for two or three patriots
Iof the third party" we would never have
heard word OF complaint. If, in other
words, the Judge had exceeded his duty as
lie had been asked TO do, and had made
places for
! OFFICIALS NOT NEEDED.
Dor if he had done the very things he stands
,accused of doing all would be well. and so
far as the compliments are concerned he
would doubtless nave had plain sailing.
1The public seems TO understand that at
least the moral if not the active influence of
the Fasteners who own the road was used
10 encourage and bring about the investiga-
jtton. Living II distant states, and caring
very little for Texas or her people, they of
course prefer federal to state receiverships
and are ready and willing To employ any
agencies, or act III concert with them, that
will discourage state reCeiverShlpS of rail
,lds.
itnow appears that the compliments
not really know at the outset how little
pre- was IN their case, or what sort of
,ime they were sure of bagging. Neither
ad they calculated the
\ FORCE OF THE RECoIL
when they should have discharged their
DunderbuSSes They simply bla2ed away
Sin ga random, hap-huzard way as one
would fire II Il flock of birds in the ar,
hoping, of course. that some body would get
peppered in the grand fusilade Whether
they have or not. let the public decide. But
what Of the recoil! That is what the pub
lie is talking about now. as it is about the
only feature OF the Investigation of interest
enough to excite comment. The complain
ants cannot be said even 10 be in the situa-
ton of the soldier who claimed that he had
killed rs many Of the enemy as the enemy
had of him.
Nothing could be clearer. more candid,
positive and uneGuivocal than the Jesti-
mony of Judge NcCOrd. y searching cross
examination disclosed no flaws in the hon
est and
STRAIGHTFORWARD STORY
fold Jy him in the witness stand. Messrs.
kF'iuley and Chiffon went through the ordeal
knscathed. y wcil-posted gentleman said
o-day that there were only three or four
points in the case. Was d receverShip in
|svitable! There was no doubt that it was.
Had Gould been allowed Judgment on his
fnote. Federal receivership would have
been asked for and granted. Judge Pardee
would have had another splendid oppor-
Sunity to provide fGr a few more of his po-
Sitical friends brought Om:distant states,
maybe. and given bigger salaries than
|Judge McCord allowed
Were the salaries aud allowances made
excessive Certainly not when compared
lwith those allowed in Federal receiver
sshps If the TWO receivers Of the Mis-
Souri Kansas and Texas got $4,000 year.
VII big commission added. $4,000 a year
Sot be considered excessive as the com
htion OF the international and Great
jhern receivers.
III Judge McCord commit an offense
Ahy of Impeachment when he allowed
lFinley Sl000Os
: 4 THE ANSWER TO THAT
= : fhat not he, but the parties at interest,
= opposed the allowance He did no more
z ~ carry out their wishes. If left 10 TX
: allowance himself without a suggestion
- q the parties at interest. it might have
g : much less Who knowsl II was not
2 EJaffair, but the concern of those who
2. bed the road.
? ildge McCord also holds himself entirely
z tueless in the failure of the district
. K to record the order allowing Mr..
pbell 5000 as master in chancery. The
FI had orders. and so testified, TO record
such matters. Should Judge be i'm
leG because the clerk of the court fails
! ord certain order, although no dam
esultS TO anybody by sucn failurel
tarfs any money been stolen, embeZzled or
squanderedi Not cent. IL is all there,
except so much as was needed to
REPAIR AND IMPROVE
the road No one complains of the expendi-
ture in that way. The receivers have
targely rebuilt the road and made it one of
the best and safest in the state. It is no
Serk-water line but one of the longest and
most important in the state Il has more