Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-19
REAGAN'S SLEDGE-MAUL.
THE OLD HAMMERER YIELDS 1T
WITH TELLING EFFECT,
And Bruised and Bloody Heads Mark His
Pathwsy-Some Truths tn
VIII Go Home.

Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, March 19-The following
! fully explains itself;
AUSTIN, TEX. March Il, ISsa
To the News" Galveston, Tex:
1 have read your editorial of March Is
| headed 'Some Figures and Incidents. "
| You refer to the continuance of the East
Line railroad case in the court here on the
( 9th inst You say Simon Sterne Of New
| York had returned to Austin in his
| palace car with Commissioner Reagan.
| Then you state the allowances made by the
| court to the receiver of that road and
others, and that Mr.. Sterne, the attorney
| for the creditors, stopped of at Austin
| with Chairman Reagan, and not only agreed
TO the allowances made by the court but
| consented that the receiver should run the
road in debt $500, 900 by issue of his certih.
| Gates of debt.n
You ask, What induced Mr. Sterne to
| consent to this arrangement3' And you
answer the question by saying his legs had
| been under the mahogany with those Of
| Chairman Reagan two weeks on their trip
to Mexico. Then you add to the awful cat
! alogue of my crimes by saying; Here was
| a free ride of 1000 miles for two persons,
costing a railroad probably $1,000, followed
| with what is equivalent TO a cash check for
| S24, Al by one of them for the functionaries
| of the East Line receivership, with author
these gentlemen"
The intention Of your editorial was to
| show that Mr.. Sterne returned here with
Inc from a two weeks trip to Mexico so as
| to be at the hearing of the receivership
| case referred to on the 9th of March; that
he stopped with me here, and that some
thing very reprehensible had been done by
! the court, Mr.. Sterne and myself about
| that receiverShip.
Our trip to Mexico lasted eight or nine
days instead of two weeks, and we re-
| turned here the last day of January instead
of the 9th of March. This is near enough
the truth for the News.
There were six passengers on the car in
stead Of two. That is near enough for the
News.
Mr.. Sterne returned here from New
York to attend to the receivership case on
the 9th of March did not return hers at
that time with him. That does very well
for the News.
He did not stop with me when here, and
1 did not see him when here. That looks
like coming up pretty fairly to the News
standard of truth.
never had any connection with the East
Line railroad or its receivership, or its re-
ceiver, or with the court proceedings in re-
latlon to 1t. The effort to mix me with its
affairs was undoubtedly to try to drag ne
down to the corrupt level of the News bya
series of falsehoods which surpass the
ordinary efforts of the News and equal its
best efforts in a campaign Of falsehood and
SANDER.
The view of the News that it is disreputa-
bic to be found in association with railroads
and railroad attorneys evidences very re-
cent and healthful conversion to the side Of
virtue in its old age.
My friendship for and association with
Simon Sterne is not Of so recent growth.
Mr.. Sterne conducted in behalf of the peO-
~, > I, .NrN No. - ~
veStigation of abuses by the railroads Of
that state which was ordered by its legisla-
ture in 1879, by what was known as the
Hepburn committee. The result Of the
labors of that committee and of Mr.. Sterne
are in five large volumes now before me;
and in that Investigation Mr.. Sterne did
more than any other man in America 10
bring into full view the methods which
have been employed by railroad magnates
to emburden the railroads of the United
States with hundreds of millions of dollars
of fraudulent and watered stocks md
bonds.
And more, when I was urging in congress
the passage of the interstate commerce
law, Mr. Sterne aided me with his great
ability and learning, going from New YORK
to Washington on different occasions Tor
that purpose.
Still more, during the last year Mr.,
Sterne, in the United States circuit court
lot tue cdSuGTu uiSLTlCG OF H6uuSylVduId' II
an equity case, made an argument Of ~
printed pages, in the case of the interstate
commerce commission against the Lehigh
Valley railroad company to sustain the rul-
ing of the commission and against the con-
tention of the railroad company. So it viii
be seen that there is bond of friendship
between Mr.. Sterne and myself older than
our trip to Mexico and that of kind no5
supposed to interest the News
If had known Mr.. Sterne was in AVS
tin, and had possessed home here to which
1 could have invited him, should certainly
have extended to him that courtesy in con-
sideration of past friendship, even at the
risk Of shocking the News at the thought
of my association with railroad attorney.
have neither said or done anything 70
the News or to any person to justify or e1-
cuse the wanton and uncalled for attack on
me by the two Newses.
SsThe News Of Galveston and the one az
Dallas have persistently lied on me and
Slandered me ever since it entered on tne
present campaign for the corporations and
against the people. Its character for such
things is so notorious that have not felS
called on heretofore to notice its attacks.
1 address this paper TO the News, ous
fearing it may consider it less courteous %
tell the truth than to publish a batch Oh
falsehoods, shall send it also to soma
other papers and ask its publication.
BY disappearing the condition OF
Texas and the conduct of her public ON
GERS, for the purpose Of securing the po!ltl-
cal supremacy Of corporations and monOpo'
lies over the people, the two Newses have
been and are now inflicting serious injury
on the material interests and on the charac
ter of Texas and her people.
1 know of nothing which equals then
mendacity and rotten corruption except
Tour n T2v.e4y.