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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
COLLAPSE OF A yrND-BAG.

Three months ago The GAZETTE
said the Farmers Alliance political
movement had reached high tide and
the ebb had set in. The truth of this as
sertion is artested by the voting where
the Peoples party, which is the politi-
cal manifestation of the Farmers Ali
ance, entered into the contest.
Loud boasts of what the Alliance
would do in Ohio accompanied the nom
ination of their state ticket. 1t was
promised that the Peoples candidate,
Mr. Seitz, would receive surpris-
ingly heavy vote, and that the Alliance
would hang John Sherman's hide on
the fence" Jerry Simpson, the most
accomplished politician of that party,
made campaigning tour in Ohio, and
on Monday, the day before the election,
gave out that the Peoples party would
hold the balance of power in the state,
and would develop such surprising
strength that hereafter it would be re-
spected. While he hardly ventured to
say that the Peoples party would con-
troll the legislature, he warranted it
would have enough members to defeat
John Sherman.
If the followers of the Peoples party
really believed these things, they must
be stunned by the result. Their candi
date for governor hardly made a show
ing in the race. He falls behind the
Prohibition candidate. Outside of Gin
cinnati, in the country districts, where
his chief strength lay. he received but
2247 votes in $40 precincts, the com
bined Democratic and Republican vote
being 166.0SS. His vote was less than
one-seventh of one per cent of the
whole vote polled-a proportion so in
significant that it cannot be taken ac-
count of in the political calculations of
the future.
In Kansas, too, where the Alliance
was so irresistible in the elections of
1880 and sent four members to congress,
the new Peoples party, the outgrowth
of the Alliance, has Jared woefully.
The contests were of local nature, but
the Republicans appear to have re-
gained nearly all of the losses of last
year where there was an opportunity
to regain them.
These lessons should teach the ALI
ance, if adversely can teach it anything,
that its mission is not to work in the
field OF politics. The Alliance as far
mers' organization is a success. The
Alliance as Peoples party is a spec
tacle to excite derision.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
OUR NAVY.

The creation OF navy worthy of the
name was begun under the administra-
ton of President Cleveland. The i'm
petus given to it then by Secretary
Whitney is still in force. Several new
armored vessels of the battle-ship class
have been built and launched, while
others are under way.
There is one class Of armored vessels
in which the navy is singularly de-
ticient-that is the class of coast de-
tenders" They are not sea-going ships,
but are designed to operate between
ports on the coast and to do sentinel
duty, for which they are much better
adapted than the heavier sea-going
commerce destroyers" so called. The
Miantonomah, the first of the 'coast-
defender" class built under the new
naval dispensation, was recently put
in commission and is said to be a very
formidable craft of its class. The
launching of this vessel marks the be-
ginning OF new departure in naval
affairs. Others of its class will follow
as fast as they can be completed.
While the armor for the Miantonomah
is of foreign make, it is claimed that
those to follow it will be built and
armored in this country, the works for
that purpose having been established
under the Whitney regime. Vessels
of this class are fit only for defensive
warfare, and can render valuable SER
vice when the country is attacked by
strong naval power, the only power
that would think seriously OF going to
war with Uncle Sam
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
Acrobatic Economies.
William Lloyd Garrison at the Tariff Reform
League Dinner

After long acquaintance with the Ameri-
can system which calls itself protection,
confess to a new conception of its great
ness. The recent discussion in the press
and on the stump have revealed undreamed-
OF beauties and adaptations. Il is auto
matically perfect. Like the Bowery coat it
stretches for the large man and shrinks for
the little one. 1t is wide or narrow, tall or
short, local or universal, It is hot or cold,
fast or loose it runs with the hare or hunts
with the hounds. Its changes are Protean,
and when assailed in one shape invariably
it repelS the attack in another. Charge it
with narrowing markets and it points you
to the great beauties of reciprocity Dwell
on the desirability of foreign commerce and
its grows eloquent over the home market.
Say that IL raises prices and you learn that
its chief object is to put them down. De-
clare for freedom of exchange, and you are
asked how our manufacturers can live and
sell at the low prices at which foreign goods
are offered. In Faneuil Hall cheap
ness is a protective virtue, while in
Worcester dearness is the blessing
that has built up its thriving manufactures
And as fov wages, the tariff raises them of
course. BY putting down the price of
manufactured goods, the employer can
afford to pay his worhmen more. Do you
see2 But Mr.. Mckinley cannot find man
in his vast audiences who has received a
dollar in improved wages since his famous
bill became law. However, we are told that
the workman now buys his goods cheaper
and carpets can be had for novels! The
Boston journal cannot find an article en-
HANGED in price, to its shame and sorrow be
it said, for il knows cheapness is curse
and that a cheap carpet or cheap coat is
the sure indication of cheap man.
Protection loves the poor man and gives
him cheap food. 1t also loves the farmer,
who has votes, and it gives him % &C nts for
potatoes, which, but for the Mckinley tar
if, it afirms the poor man would be buying
at II. Now the manufacturer has his inn
ings, and then the poor man comes to the
bat, and the sides are out SO quicl, and the
ball is over the fence SO much, it takes an
expert to keep run of the game
Free trade is abominable, but if YOU want
to see what protection can do for country,
look at sugarI Come and see the double
back-action cute Yankee invention that re-
duces prices by taking off taxes or by put
ting them on. Take your choice Shall it
be sugar or woolens? Tax of one. higher
tax on the other. Presto. change both 90
down. You can't do that with free trade
OF course we can't
Does it never occur to stump orators that
the way to political eminence is stony, and
doubt arises whether the game is worth
the candleR Is there no strain on intel
lectual integrity, no moral wrench that pro-
testsa By-and-by the falsehood of the hour ,
will lose its glamor, the audience will dis
perse, the metallic resonance of the brass
band will cease, the lights will be turned |
down; only the smell of sawdust will be
left, and the retrospect-will it be the |
solace of declining years9
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05

is all the time falling upon it, meteors of
| various sizes reach the earth in many
| places. The largest known is that which
| fell on the plains OF 1ncuman, in South
America, which weighed about fifteen tons.
4 recent calculation shows that the in
crease of the earth's weight annually, from
meteoric resources, is about 10000 tons.
4 Vermont man went out huuting on Sun
day and hurt himself He held an accident
policy, but the company contested demand
for indemnity under the terms of the policy
and the court decided that the man was not
entitled to recover, as he was violating the
law of the state in hunting on Sunday.
Which means that person to receive the
protection Of the law must observe the law.
Professor Lee, chief Of the Bowdoin col
lege exploration party, has returned to Hal
flax from Labrador. He claims to have
discovered race of MontagnaiS Indians,
hitherto unknown to white men, and has
also brought back valuable collection of
natural history specimens. The fish spe-
cies which he has collected are double the
number previously known to exist in those
waters.
All sounds, whether high or low, loud or
about eleven hundred feet a second. Were
this not SO the different notes of music
would reach the ear at different times. ana
the result would be confusion instead of
melody. If the sun gave forth sounds loud
enough to reach the earth such sounds, in
stead of reaching US in the space of about
eight minutes, as light does, would
only arrive after u period OF nearly fourteen
wears
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
To the Farmers ofrarrap. County.

The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
have set apart 1000 square feet of space in
the exhibit hall located ut the Union depot
at Fort Worth for the purpose of display
ing the resources of Tarrant county, these
exhibits to include all products OF the soil,
grain, fruits, vegetables, grasses, etc, to-
gether with specimens of mineral and met
aliferoIs deposits, such as coal, ores, stone,
etc.
The attention of all interested is called to
this opportunity of placing before the inter
ested public, in a locality best adapted for
such display. sample of what Tarrant
county has in store for her people.
All persons desiring TO aid in making this
exhibit are requested 10 communicate with
the undersigned at once, stating what kind
of products or resources they are able to
furnish. Fruits must be in glass jars.
Printed matter describing lands for sale by
exhibitors will be distributed at the ex-
hibit hall, and also on board Of all arriving
and departing trains. For further infor-
nation address T. NJ. CLARKE,
Secretary of the Fort Worth Chamber of
Commerce.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05

EVEN the Democratic journals of the
country grow weary of hearing Grady
written down as a second George Washing
ton and are calling for halt Grady wsS
al right. but he was no more the equal of
Washington and Lincoln THAI the dog un-
der the wagon is the peer OF the prize
draught team before it.
Such paragraph, from the San An
tonic Light, is unworthy OF a reputable
newspaper. Mr.. Grady was simply a
journalist. Washington was a SOL
der and a statesman. Lincoln was
politician and a statesman. All three
of them were unusually successful in
their work, and were worthy OF honor,
but to compare one of them with the
other is unjust to all. Grady did work
on his newspaper that neither Lincoln
nor Washington was capable Of doing.
Washington won victories in the field
that neither Lincoln nor Grady was
capable of winning. Lincoln won vic
tories on the stump that neither
Washington nor Grady could have
won. Where one man is as successful
in his sphere as another in another
sphere, shall he be compared to the
other as dog to fine horse because
his sphere was O. humber one than
those with whom he is compared?
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
THEIR BOND SAVED.
Three Hundred Men Struck for Higher
wages but Were Ordered Back.

New YORK, Nov. 4.-The managers of
the Metropolitan job printing company are
wondering, after an experience that they
had yesterday, if it pays to run printing
office. About three hundred compositors
went out on strike, although they We're
getting full wages, and their action threat
eued the company with the forfeiture of a
bond of $4,000, for the completion Monday
night of the printing of the Brooklyn reg
iStry list. A timely order from Secretary
Ferguson of Typographical union No. .
sent the men back TO their cases, after the
had been out an hour or 50, but the
managers Were not at ease until evening,
when the presses had rolled off enough
work to make reasonably sure of the COM
pletion of the contract in time to save the
bond.
This work is secured by competitive bid
ding. 1t must be rushed along. The COM
pany engaged 800 extra compositors to get
1t done as quickly as it was wanted. From
the start the new compoSitors seemed to
understand that they were on special work,
and to appreciate the Importance to the
company of having it done quickly. They
began to demand extra pay for rush work.
The company yielded TO save dispute. On
Friday the men proposed to work all night.
This meant double pay. The management
would not agree to it, whereupon it became
evident that trouble was brewing.
About 10 O'Clock yesterday morning the
crisis came, when a delegation of men
waited upon the superintendent and de-
manded 81 per hour for the rest Of the Job.
Their demands were refused with the ex-
PLANTATION that such wages, where 800 men
were concerned, would eat up the profits.
The men threatened to strike unless they
were promised that pay. When the man,
agement again refused. every one of the
800 men laid down his stick and went out.
A message was sent to Typographical
union No. &. Secretary Ferguson responded.
After hearing the company's complaint he
went to the men. They persisted in their
demand. Finding that they could not be
reasoned with, Mr. Ferguson peremptorily
ordered them back to work. They returned
but many of them We're SO sullen about it
that the managers We're kept in nervous
condition ali day They felt $4,000 richer
when the packages from the press rooms,
piled shoulder high in the Office, showed
that the work was moving along as planned.
This experience" said Commodore
Tooker, when the danger had passed, has
nearly convinced US that it does not pay to
take immense contract jobs with bond at
tachments. The caprice of men who were
well paid and who came to US glad to get
work might have ruined US today. We
will let big short time contracts alone here
after, think"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
A SUBSTANTIAL VICTORY.

PROFESSIONALLY the advantage of
Tuesdays elections rests with the
Democrats. They have well held their
own IN every Democratic state, they
have added to their majorities in the
only really doubtful states, New
York and New Jersey, and they have
routed the Republicans in the Re
publican states of Iowa and Massa-
chusetts. In losing Ohio they only
give back to the Republicans what
fairly belongs to them.
Five years ago Iowa and Massa-
chusetts stood among the ''banner'
Republican states. In the makeup of
ante-election tables they never went
into the doubtful" column, but stood
side by side with Kansas. Pennsylvania
and Vermont. The Republican
majority rarely tell below 80, 600 in
either of them. The Democratic food
of 1890 swept over them, and landed
Democratic governor in each, but it was
looked upon as an abnormal condition
OF anafrs, and one not counted upon as
lasting. The reelection, therefore,
OF The Democratic governors in each of
these states is sign that the occurrence
of 1880 is not to be regarded as merely
ephemeral spssm. 1t may be taken as
indicating permanent change of feel
ing to such an extent as to make both
Iowa and Massachusetts worth fighting
for.
The Republicans, indeed, recovered
some of the ground that they lost in
1880, but they have not recovered all
OF their own. The Democrats have
lost Pennsylvania, which they carried
last year on account OF an unpopular
and impudeDt Republican nomination.
But the real advantage of the contest
leans to the Democratic side, for it
shows real and permanent advance
OF Democratic thought
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
NEWS AND NOTES.

The Digger Indians of California prefer
insects to any other kind of animal food
San Francisco has a cat that is a con-
frmed topper. He drinks whisky in prefer
ence to water
Pigmy hogs, about the size of muskrat
and natives of Australia, are the smallest
known species of hogs.
A thief who stole the carpet from Meth
odist church in a Kansas town, pleaded in
extenration that he was very hard up.
Almost third of humanity-or. TO put it
in round numbers, 400 600. 900 people-speak
the Chinese language. English is spoken
by about 100, 900, GOO people.
The average French family embraces
three members and the average Irish fam
lily five In England the average number of
members of family is four.
The coolest spot on the earth is at Werk-
hojanSk. in Siberia, where the thermometer
has registered 81 degrees below zero. The
soil there is frozen to depth of 400 feet.
The average expectation of life on the
principle of heredity may be found, accord
ing to statistician, by adding the ages of a
mans parents and grandparents, if dead,
and dividing the result by six.
The food allowed to sailors in the Ameri-
can navy is better than that furnished to
any other navy in the world. They have
every vegetable that can be canned except
asparagus, besides all kinds of canned
meats. In fact, they have fresh meats and
the mess fund provides fresh fruits.
Dwarf trees, only two feet high, exact
reproductions in miniature of sycamore,
oak, cedar and apple trees, have for 200 or
300 years been raised by the Japanese The
mode of producing them is well-guarded
secret, but some French gardeners have
within the past five years almost eoualed
the Japanese in the production of these
dwarf trees.
Some of the designs in use on the ORR
entail carpets that are so attractive TO West
ern ideas of taste have history that reaches
back to the days Of Xerxes and the early
Persian kings. They are handed down
from generation TO generation of rug
makers, mothers transmitting them to
daughters, for most of the carpet weayers
of the Orient are women.
The earth is not wasting away to any
great extent. Beside.th s'star dust" which
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
The PhilosophIc Temperament.

Madame Neckar relates the following
anecdote of NJ. Abauret, philosopher of
Geneva: ut was said of him that he had
never been out of temper. Some persons,
by means of his female servant, were de-
termined to put this to the proof. The
woman in question stated that she had been
his servant for thirty years, and she pro-
tested that during that time she had never
seen him in passion. They promised her
sum of money if she would endeavor TO
make him angry; she consented and know
ing he was particularly fond of having his
bed well made, she, on the day appointed,
neglected to make it. NJ. Abauret observed
1t, and the next morning made the observa-
ton to her. She answered that she had
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05

THE GAZETTE Will not undertake to return
reIcclcs manuscripts. Persons wishing to pre-
Serve their literary productions should retain
copies OF all communications sent this Office for
publication,
* All letters or communications for THE
q IEETE, whether on business or for publica-
ton. should be addressed TO THE GAZETTE. or
democrat Publishing Company Fort Worth,
Tex. and not to any Individual.
Al. commInica lions intended for publication
must be accompanied by the wrircr's name
cence OF good faith No attention paid 10 an
onymous communications.
Parties writing TO THE GAZETTE on business
personal to themselves, will please incloSe
staInD for reD.v
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
DYING AN AWFUL DEATH.
an Inmate Of a Public House at Te1arkana
Goes to Sleep Smoking and
is Fatally Burned.
Special to the Gazette.


TExARKANA, BOWIE COUNTY, TEX, Nov.
4.-Jennie Wilhelm, an inmate of Madam
May Smiths bagnio on East Broad street,
is slowly dying in her room one of the most
horrible deaths that could be imagined
Monday night, after partaking freely of
intoxicants, she retired to bed smoking a
cigarette and at once fell asleep. A half an
hour later the other inmates of the house
were attracted to her room by her cries,
where they found the poor creature envel-
Oped in flames the bed having taken fire
from the cigarette. She was badly burned
about the face and on the side, and her
breast was literally cooked. She presents
horrible sight. She is perfectly conscious
and fully realizes that death is near, but
declines to give any of her former history
She is about twenty-five years old and
possesses marks Of former beauty.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05

The Waco Day and the Reagan Herald
say there is no use to raise hogs in this
country, except what is necessarily
needed for home consumption, and the Fort
Worth GAZETTE comes out in flaming let
tiers and shows there Is necessity for the
hog product, and says the Fort Worth
paciery kills at the rate of 1000 hogs per
day. Mr.. Day and Herald should take a
run up to the Fort and take a look at the
hogs that come in from Kansas and the Ma
ton. Why do they buy Kansas and Nation
h gs? Because Texas won't furnish them.
The farmer of this country would rather
work himself and family to death and raise
6 and 7-cent cotton, than even raise hog
enough TO eat
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
ON THE NECK.
A Navarro County Farmer in Trying to
Quiet a Drunken Neighbor
Kills Him.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette
CoRsIcANA, NAVARRO COUNTY, Tex Nov
4.-John Miller was killed by Jesse Dunton
at the formers home five miles west of this
city last night. Dunton came to the city
and surrendered to the sheriff He stated
that Miller came home last night under the
influence of liquor, and being reighbors
and hearing disturbance at Miller's home,
he went over to assist in quieting Miller,
who became offended and advanced toward
Dunton in an attitude of pulling pistol,
when Dunton struck him with stick on
the neck, killing him instantly. They were
friends. and Dunton had no intention of
killing Miller
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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05

THE GAZETTE said, Tuesday morn
ing, that the normal condition of affairs
made New York a Democratic state
and Ohio a Republican state. The
vote shows the soundness of this judg-
ment and points the way for Demo-
cratic action in the future. New York
can be carried in 1892 and Ohio cannot.
There is no use fooling away time and
effort on Ohio.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05
Nntica.

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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-05

MASSACHUSETTS, the mother of
great Republicans, has divorced her.
self from old giant Monopoly. She
seems to like Tariff Reform for new
cOnsOrt.