Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-15
THE GAZETTE: FT. WORTH TEXAS TUESDAY. MARCH 15

ter with you Jim Hogg is responsible for it
The San Antonio Democrat offers to be!
two to one that Clark viii "do up'' Hogs
when they come together.
meanwhile, the political zephyrs continue
to whistle through Uncle Jacob McGaugh
ey's whiskers,p remarks the man on the
watehtower of the Houston Post
It will take 6Os votes to nominate in the
Democratic state convention A minority
of SO2 can lock it until doomsday. Judge
Clark's friends claim there is no doubt OF
his capturing sO9 stayers.
The Post thinks there, is something sig
nifcant in the stiffness of the Hogg forces.
Mr.. Jan Byrd writes THE GAZETTE from
Eastland that the people of that county are
pretty evenly divided between Hogg and
Clark.
The editor Of the Terrell Times-Star is
no longer hero-worshiper He says:
''The time was when the editor of this
paper was a great admirer of Roger Q.
Mills. But as time advanced and carried
words and his deeds has shorn him of some
of these attributes which we thought we
saw in him. Instead of the leader, who urges
the fight all along the line and marches
on to victory we see him pushing part Of
the column to the rear that the part where
he stands may be safely landed without be-
ing cut to pieces by the enemy"
The Waxahachie Enterprise recalls that
Judge Clark wrote on March 81, 1890, that
the commission idea ''belongs to a family
with whom never expect to be on friendly
terms"
at is either commission or anti-commis-
sion,' says the Corsicana Light
The Vernon Texan says Clark viii carry
Wlbarger county.
The Tyler Democrat thinks that if Clark
captures one-third of the convention she
will hang on until it thunders or third
man gets the pie"
The Vernon Call says Clark may lock the
convention, but a commission man will be
nominated.
The Quanah Tribune says that Governor
Hogg's veto of the sugar bounty bill cost
the taxpayers of the state $500 year.
The San Antonio Light says: ''THE GA
zErTE opposes Mills because he does not
favor the free silver foolishness." That is
one name for it, but it is not Democratic
name.
The Light calls TIE GAZETTE "the journal
istic puzzle of Texas" Precisely, paper
fair to all, but independent of all is nothing
less than ''puzzle'' to those who are in the
business of grinding out music on the
organs.
The Taylor Texan is not pleased with
The GAzETTE's suggestion of Mr.. Mills for
the second place on the national ticket,
which is strange, since the Texan is Mills
paper.
The kaufman Sun says DR.. Carroll and
Clark are both big men and know how to
forget past differences, but little fellows
can't
The Boerne Post says: Governor Hogg
is nursing his wrath to keep it warm until
after the special session"
The Uvalde Herald contends there is no
adequate cause why Governor Hogg should
be removed from office.
The Elgin Courier charges the commits
sion with REDUCING the railway receipts of
that station 75 per cent in twelve months.
Hon. j. N Browning repeats that he is
not candidate for congress.
The Haskell Free Press thinks "such
calamity howlers' as Clark and the Dallas
News have greatly injured Texas.
The Whitney Messenger says when Judge
Clark says turn Texas loose" he means
turn loose the railroads and corporations.
The Rockwell News foresees 4 guberna-
torial dark horse as the result,
The Itaska Mail declares the issue to be
whether the railroads shall control Texas
Or Texas shall control the railroads.
The McDade Mentor declares for an cleo
i've commission, modified alien land law,
.arif reduction, no whisky or tobacco tax.
free silver coinage, land ownership re-
,tricted to 100 acres, reform in banking,
5he Australian ballot, county primaries,
Clark, Culberson and Hill. The editor of
,he Mentor has opinions.