Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-24
REAGAN'S SLEDGE-M MAUI.
TIE OLD HAMMsRER YIELDS 1T
WITH TELLING EFFECT,
And Bruised aud Bloody Heads Mark His
Pathway-Some Truths That
VIII Go Homo
SPECIAL to the Gazette.

SPECIAL to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, March 19-The following
fully explains itself;
AUSTIN. TEX, March II, 1892
To the News Galveston. Tex:
1 have read your editorial of March 10
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 S400,0 600 by issue Of his certifi-
Gates of debit
You ask, What induced Mr.. Sterne to
consent to this arrangements" 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 railroad probably $1,000, followed
with what is equivalent to a cash check for
S24.441 by one of them for the functionaries
of the East Line receivers hip, with author
these gentlemen"
The intention of your editorial was to
show that Mr.. Sterne returned here with
me from a two weeks trip to Mexico so as
to be at the hearing of the receiyership
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 here at
that time with him. That does very well
for the News
He did not stop with me when here, and
] did not see him when here. That looks
like coming up pretty fairly to the News
standard of truth.
1 never had any connection with the East
Lire railroad or its receivership. or its re-
ceiver, or with the court proceedings in re-
lation to 1T. The effort to mix me with its
affairs was undoubtedly to try to drag me
down to the corrupt level of the News by
series of falsehoods which surpass the
ordinary efforts of the News and equal its
best efforts in q campaign Of falsehood and
SANDER
The view of the News that it is disreputa-
BILE 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 a growth.
Mr.. Sterne conducted in behalf of the peo-
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vestigation of abuses by the railroads of
that state which was ordered by its legisla-
ture in 1873 by what was known as the
Hepburn committee The result of the
labors of that committee and of Mr.. Sterne
are in i've large volumes now before me;
and in that investigation Mr.. Sterne did
more than any other man IN America to
bring into full view the methods which
have been employed by railroad maguates
to emburden the railroads of the United
States with hundreds of millions of dollars
of fraudulent and watered stocks and
bonds.
And more, when was urging in congress
the passage of the interstate commerce
law, MIR. Sterne aided me with his great
ability and learning. going from New York
to Washington on different occasions for
that purpose.
Still more, during the last year Mr..
Sterne, in the United States circuit court
for the eastern district OF Pennsylvania, in
an equity case, made an argument OF 123
printed pages, in the case of the interstate
commerce commission against the Lehigh
Naiier- railroad company TO sustain the rul-
ing of the commission aud against the con-
tention of the railroad company. So it will
be seen that there is a bond of friendship
between MIR. Sterne and myself older than
our trip TO Mexico, and that of kind not
supposed to interest the News.
If hid known Mr.. Sterne was in Aus
tin, and had possessed home here to which
I could have invited him, should certainly
have extended to him that courtesy in con-
sideratiou 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 to
the News or to any person 70 justify or e1-
cuse the wanton and uncalled for attack on
me by the two Newses.
The News OF Galveston and the one at
Dallas have persistently lied on me and
slandered me ever since it entered on the
present campaign for the corporations and
against the people. Its character for such
things IS SO notorious that have not felt
called on heretofore to notice its attacks.
a3dress this paper 10 the News, but
fearing 1t may consider it less courteous TO
tell the truth than to publish batch Of
falsehoods, I shall send it also to some
other papers and ask its publication.
By misrepresenting the condition of |
Texas and the conduct OF her public OFF, |
GERS, for the purpose Of securing the politi- |
cal supremacy of corporations and monopo-
lies ever the people, the two Newses have
been and are now inhicting serious injury |
on the material interests and on the charac- |
terof Texas and her people.
knew of nothing which EQUALS their |
mendeeity and rotten corruption except /
tl-sir brazen hypccricy.
JoEz Il. REAGAx.