Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-09
JUDGE KENNEDY.
A Voice from Fisher County in Answer to
the Sweetwater Correspondent.
FISHER TEN Nav 6 1891

4 Voice from Fisher County IN Answer IL
| the Sweetwater Correspondent.
| FISHER, TEX, May G, 1891
| Editor OF the Gazette.
| In your issue of the 9th ult. there was az
| article from your Sweetwatar correspond
| ent, charging that your issue of the 18th
| contained an article from Fisher, which
Judge Kennedy Of the Thirty-second dis
| trict We deny that any attack on Judge
| Kennedy was intended.
! As well might every hurrying footman on
| the street turn Indignantly round at the
| cry of stop thief and claim he had been
slandered, as that the Hon: William Ken,
| nedy's friends should claim that he had
| been Iibeled because we said that Judge
| Cockreu did not talk through his nose when
| he addressed q frontier grand jury.
Indeed we propose to steal some of the
Sweetwater correspondents thunder and
say to the readers of The GAZETTE that we
never thought Of Judge Kennedy other than
nified and respectful TO all. In short, one
of the ablest iurists in this part Of the
state. and in all things above reproach
This is our opinion Of Judge Kennedy of the
Thirty-second judicial district. With the
Sweetwater correspondent we think him In
all these things the peer of any district Judge
in the state. But with all this freely. cheer
Hon. William Kennedy, does it still follow
that he has also those peculiar qualifications
necessary to West Texas. a frontier judge2
Must We repeat that when we ask this
question we are not disparaging Judge Ken
nedy or calling in question his legal ability,
or his integrity of character. That these
are beyond dispute we gladly concede. But
we must let the record of convictions in his
district answer the question. And none
realize this more than the honorable Judge
himself. for it is not eight months since he
regretfully commented on the fact that
there had not been a conviction for COW
stealing in his district since he had been on
the bench. The fact is, we do not hire
kid-gloved dude to grub out mesquite
stumps, nor employ cancels hair brush to
beat a papier mache matriI. (Now let some
fellow with blood in his eye rise up and say
we called Judge Kennedy kidgloved dude
or q camel's hair brush.)
The gentlemanly, scholarly Freadenburg
could not convert the village blacksmith
but Peter Cartwright pounded religion
into him so effectually that it stuck to him
while ne lived and consoled him in death.
Now we are mot drawing invidious COM
parsons" but trying to impress fact by
Illustration.
Again we deny that we slandered or mis-
represented any of the 'best citizens of our
county III Muat we saio apout tue pel.llonS
by which Fisher county was transferred
from Cockrell TO Kennedy in 1889 CT sought
to be kept with Kennedy in 1881. And the
only reply we have to make to criticisms
passed upon Us for writing what we did in
The GAZETTE of the 18th ult. is to invite
the Sweetwater correspondent or anyone
else, TO send TO the Fisher County Call, and
have printed in deadly parallel, - what we
said about the petitions in THE GAZETTE of
April Is and the criticism contained in the
issue of the 9th, and underneath print
certified copies of the petitions and the sig
natures thereto. This will settle the matter
satisfactory to all and bring it home where
the people are interested, and where it be-
longs. Newspaper CORES ondents' con-
illusions are sometimes jumped at, but facts
and certified copies are like sand rocks.