Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-08

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Harris in said communicate.
onsly. avoids giving I'M nri9;' studl-
preston or to whom H. t,ra,. ans eA-
efnor, u Is. generally known ths. 10Y
o. those who worship Al No ~, ~ y
uysBocracy and his connectso, s-i,h -, 81
ucket matter shows that be IL n ~ .us
70 20 anything to favor thai interes, 'ls
nc says that the Commissioner c',,..
ADOPTED and ordered the obiectiorsSil
b Nj printed after he and Mr. Prosser
IL i''t NIUE w me form 10 be used II
~ Wen known That Judge Harris 4
the only lawyer In the commission.rs
yourt ana that the commissioners IN Ill
iesal matters are governed In III on;,,4
ION ana as he arranged the ticLe. l..
Terence is Irresistible thai said sic,,a,
was adopted and printed al his reouest
me Judge evidently knew al dat
, ulhg lhht there WAS no law au-
. t,horiz'ng the county judge or
anything whatever IN IA Van
adopting or printing a ticket. and IN tbe
HOsence OF any such authority Il was
= Migrant case of oiiiciOus intermeddl-
ing by Judge Harris and the court In
the interest Of Hogg aud the Hogg can,
dluates with n matter that ala moi In
any way concern either Judge Harris
OF tne court II the judge was not ,tc-
tuated by partisan motives. how comes
II that he takes such interest in pre-
paflng and printing a ticket which the
liogg people have been trying To have
adopted all over the state. and which
has been bitterly fought by ali of fhc
other pnrtiesi II is a strong co-inci-
dence that IN each city where the new
ballot law has been adopted tho same
identical ticket has been demanded hv
lhe i9gg forces. aud all at about the
same time, and 1t is also strange that
capt bah and the other Hogg leaders
We're all before the commissioners
court insisting on this same ticket when
ITS untarness is too apparent for ar
gument
Judge Harris says that the ticket
has no binding form on the electro.
managers. This is true, hut the qies-
ton of why he was so anxious for its
adoption If he considered 1t of no form
IS still unanswered. unless IL was be-
cause he thereby sought an unfair nd
vantage. The Judge Knew thar he had
appointed only llogg men to hold the
elections, and 1t was certainly to be
expected that those whom he had ap-
pointed for said purpose would ndOrt "a
ticket which had received the official
endorsement Of the county Judge and
the commissioners court, and especially
so as said county judge was the nom
lnet ioI uihulct Judge ana any contest
that might arise would doubtless ga
before him for determination. Il Is
also singular that Judge Harris should
be so solicitious about The ticket as {.
write to the uttorney-genpral's office for
n partisan opinion about It, when IL
wns not amatter in which he Ind any
concern whatever. Looking at tho en-.
tire ntair from any standpoint the only
conclusion at which person can ar.
rive is that there was q deliberate con
spiracy among the Hogg people to gair
an unfair and unrighteous advantage
and that Judge Harris was either d
tool Of the cousnirntors or was one 0l
them The Judiciary shoud be aboy,
amy such conduct, for il is to Il alon,
that the patriotic and thoughtful lool
for protection against the wild wave,
of political partisunship. In Texas I
has always stood as q brpastwork. be
hind which the people could shelter ant
until Gov. Hogg's reign il has Away
avoided the suspicious Of pnrtyism, bu
those who avow political allegiance t,
him seem to have lost all conception o
propriety and political or judiciary 20
sition seems to have been the rewart
of party service and as consequence,
a great many of those holding such po
sitiOns have not scruplcd to use then
to advance the aims Of their lord an,
master, j. $. Hogg,