Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-02
Dallas Political Notes
Special to the Gazette.


DALLAS, TEX, March There will be a
meeting of citizens, to ratify the action of
the Democratic city convention, held at the
Union depot tomorrow night, at which
there will be speaking by Gen. Cabell, Judge
Wooten, Seth Shepard, Col. Whitehead
and other fine speakers.
A COMMISSION ARGUMENT.
During the lull in the convention yester-
day while waiting for the report of the
committee on organization, two lawyers
were discussing the political situation, one
maintaining that the people had all
turned against the commission since it
went in force and the other that the people
who were for it two years ago stood pat"
on it now. Warming up on the subject
the commission man challenged the other
to point out one man who was an earnest
advocate of the commission two years
ago and against 1t now, saying: 81 will bet
you s. you can't produce one such man"
why, 1 can find you dozen right here, +"
said the other, and commenced calling up
different ones, but failing after several at
tempts, he gave it up and acknowledged his
failure.
FOR HoGG AND COMMISSION.
Senator Kimbrough told a GAZETTE re-
porter that after the special session was
over he expected to ''peel his coat" and
make the fur fly in his speeches for
Hogg and the commission. He said he
the sophistry and demagoguery of the
Clark and railroad crowd, who were admin
istering sugar-coated pills to the people.
He says the fight is on the same line as two
years ago, and it is as much commission or
no commission as it was then, and all the adj
ministration people will have to do in this
canvass is to expose the cloven hoof Of their
adversaries. He says it is very adroit on
the part of Warwick to try to put Governor
Hogg on the defensive
CONVENTION NOTES.
vote of thanks was rendered Jesse
Knox yesterday by the convention for his
manly and sacrificing course in withdraw
ing from the race in the contest for the
Office of assessor when he had dead
lock- He withdrew in the interest
of harmony. Joe Blakeney in thanking
the convention for the honor conferred in
nominating him for assessor, and espe-
cially his friends who stayed by him with
out wavering for forty-one ballots, paid
very high compliment to Jesse Knox for
withdrawing, and said that Jesse Knox
could have anything he wanted in future
conventions from himself and his friends.
When Collector Boyd was approached by
a GAZETTE man and asked how he liked the
nomination of Ford House for collector, he
smiingly remarked: splendid, splendid.
l am still in the race as an independent
candidate for collector. Conventions, my
dear sir, some times make mistakes, but
the people never"
DThe sages on the street corners say that
House is the weakest man on the ticket,
and Bogel will take pleasure in beating
him. Mr. House was collector one term,
and while everybody admits he made a
good officer, he made lots of enemies, and
when he came to run the second
time against Bogel he was beaten so badly
it made him sick. But this time he is
backed by the whole strength of his party,
and ought to pull through.
The other candidates-Jim Arnold for
marshal and Joe Blakeney for assessor, are
very popular aud have large personal fol-
lowing and will strengthen the ticket.