Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-07
A BAwD's LOVE FOR THE WEST.

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The squeal of the CD. News, voiced
in its fanfaronade about special
train, whose specially" is very well
understood, grows louder and more fan
tastic as its utter inutility as factor in
converting Western Texas becomes ap-
parent.
The freak of attempting to attach it
self as caudal appeudage to the can
didacy OF Mr.. Mills for the senate is as
ridiculous as other freaks savoring of
the methods of the blackmailer are dis
reputable. No constantreader of Texas
dailies can repreSs smile at the as
sumption of the role of defender of
any leading Texas Democrat by the
News. Since for a consideration it
sold itself to the carpet-bag admins
tration of E. J. Davis its harlotry has
only been varied by the variety Of the
SANDERS 1t has circulated regarding
the successive Democratic administra-
tions of the state.
More grotesque, however, than all
other things it has done or could do,
is its parade of friendly sentiments for
Western Texas, whose possibilities it
derided and whose leaders it malig
nantly abused, until, coming to North
Texas, it was discovered that their
patronage was desirable.
When The GAZETTE, single handed
and alone, fought the fight of West
Texas in 1884 for justice and fair
treatment the News, more than all
others, was responsible for the swell
ing of unrig teous prejudices against
it that eliminated in the disgraceful
denial of hearing at the state Demo-
cratic convention at Houston, and in
the kissing down of the representative
of West Texas who essayed to voice
its just claims. That monstrous wrong
THE GAZETTE denounced, after the
convention, as unworthy of the Demo
cratic party, and for its holiness. the
organs of eastern prejudice attempted
tie read it out of the party. Where was
the News then, and what was it say
ing?
Always malignant, whatever its OBJ
ject, this same News continued to pur-
sue the leaders of Western Texas with
the vilest SANDERS, and as late as 1887,
it became necessary for one of the
most houored-then and now-of West
Texas public men to warn it that
patience had ceased to be a virtue, and
he would, if it did not cease its libel
Gus publications concerning him, try
the effect of little wholesome
upon its conscience. The
that tempted his wrath was a
leading editorial sugg esting, by such
innuendo as. the practiced libeler well
his connection with a
large land steal, lie which, needless
to say, was manufactured out of the
whole cloth.
Such has been the kindness of the
News for the men of the West, upon
whom it now fawns-for favors. Nor
has it limited its attentions to indiyid-
uals. In all the years of its existence,
the mission of all missions to which |
THE GAZETTE has been devoted is the |
settlement and development OF West |
Texas, and the chief obstacle it has |
found to the speedy accomplishment of |
that has been the Misrepresentation of |
the News concerning the possibilities
Of the country, from which Eastern
people got wholly false impressions.
Setting out as it did to fasten the lease
aw and the pasture system upon the
West in the interests of combination
by which it was hired and partially |
owned, the News, to further that
end, sought to convince the rest OF the
state that West Texas was only fit for
and how well it succeeded is
lttested by the long delay in securing
wen respectful hearing for state
4 ent of the rights and needs of the |
West.
As a newspaper, the News must
stand or fall. Its appeal to sentiment