Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-20
Farmer Shaw On That Conference.

Special to the Gazette.
DALLAS, TEX, Feb. 19.-To-morrow's is
sue Of Texas Farmer Farmer Shaw's PAPER.
will say editorially:
Saturday mornings News contained a
sensational telegram to the effect that a
caucus had been held in Fort Worth, at
tended by at least dozen men, among
whom were Hon. Barnett Gibbs and
Farmer Shaw that the intention of this
caucus was to select business man and
farmer as candidates for governor and lieu
tenant-governor.
There is grain Of truth in the report,
which IS saying good deal, considering
that the News is the special organ of
George Clark's political movement.
Farmer Shaw was in Fort Worth on
business. So was Hon. Barnett Gibbs
There was no formal or pre-arranged meet
ing. The two fell in with number of
other gentlemen. OF course discussion of
the political situation was q natural con-
sequence. One among the company men,
toned that movement was on foot to
bring out a merchant and farmer to head
the gubernatorial ticket: that it was be-
lieved neither Hogg nor Clark could head
the next administration proftably. While
the company was divided as to preferences
between Hogg and Clark, it was quite
unanimous IN the opinion that third ticket
could defeat both, and that it should be
done for the good of the state
''One present said, without giving his au-
thority, that the Houston Post was an in
dorser of the idea that both Hogg and Clark
should be defeated Another, who is said
to be IN pretty close relations with the
Fort Worth GAZETTE, stated that while that
journal was no mans organ, yet he felt con-
fdent in the assertion that The GAZETTE
would regard it for the benefit of Texas
that both Hogg and Clark should be de-
foated. This speaker says the Endorsement:
by the Democracy of either Hogg or Clark
meant political discord and calamity with
out end, while 4 conservative ticket. as sug-
gested, ought to harmonic discordant ele-
ments; that Hogg represented one extreme
faction; Clark another; and hence we
needed somebody now to represent the
great classes between the two, and to re-
ieye Texas of professional politicsA The
party was also pretty unanimous iI@ con-
demning the star chamber conclaves which
brought out both Hogg and Clark; and
there was full concurrence in the opinion
that the Sub-Treasury-Demo atic-Repub-
lican-G reenback-Vi decte- Voudou conven-
ton lately held at Dallas was job put up
by the George Clark Windsor-hotel crowd
to gull unsuspecting farmers into indirect
opposition to the railroad commission and
general reform.
That's all there was of that caucus. It
was not as the Tyler caucus that nomi-
mated Hogg; the Windsor hotel caucus
that nominated Clark, or the sub-treasury
crowd who, unwittingly, met to facilitate
exchange of corporation Doodle with GER
tain Alliance mauipulators; that is, it was
not a self-constituted dictatorship to the
people as to what they should do 1t was a
party OF gentlemen discussing the political
situation, and, without any pre-aIrange-
ment, almost unanimously agreeing that a
third ticket ought to be brought out to
slaughter both professional and sentimental
-1s t,.l.-
pie will second the notion What do you
say?n