Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-13
THE STATE KETTLE
Filled With Things Political
Near Boiling Point.
LOW PRICES FOR PRODUCTS
And stringency of Money Have the Same
Effect Now They Have Always Had.
How Pile of Money WaA
Made by Huntington.
The Political Pot.


Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, Tex, Feb. 12.-Nothing makes
the political pot boil like tight money, low
prices and dull business. The past year
| has been one of the hardest for several
years Texas had of course, to suffer with
the rest, less, perhaps, than some of them,
her greatest trouble being the low price of
cotton. But for that she would scarcely
have felt the bad effects of the money
stringency. But when a state has to sell
2,00o,000 bales of cotton, her foremost
staple, for less than the cost of production,
her people can't but experience their full
share of the general i'll fortune. They are
out of pocket, and those of them that have
q mild hankering for politics, or for some
petty Office or another with a small salary,
begin to talk politics, and others who make
a trade of politics are unusually active.
IT'S that way now in the state. Even our
Republican brethren are bestirring them
selves as though an early entrance upon
the field would give them the choice of po-
sitions and such other advantages
as may promise the Lord knows
what. Although the executive COM
mittee has called the state convention
to meet here March s. it does not seem that
the party has any definite plan of campaign
or ticket in view, or if it has the Republi-
can wheel-horses here are in blissful igno-
rance of it. One of them said to-day that he
favored a full ticket and an out and out
platform. He had no use for namby pamby
ism and half and half men or measures. He
would rather vote for a thoroughb bred Dem
ocrat than for milk and water Republican.
asked what issues have you to stand
onl'
"Plenty of them,'' said he.
''Name few
"Wen, there is the commission. We
should put in plank opposing that; one
f,,, 1,fr oh loud lnrrr
and declaring against all such laws. We
want the constitution amended to admit of
an appropriation By the legislature for an
exhibit at the Worlds fair. We want to
urge the state to cooperate with the Fed
eral government IN procuring all the inter-
nal Improvements needed, and in promoting
the building of factories, in which we are
woefully deficient. We want radical
change in the public land laws of the state,
which seem to have been ordained-or, at
least sour public land system seems So
for the purpose of robbery. A man
cannot now know whether his title to land
is secure or not, the state often stepping in
and despoiing him of 1t after 1t had issued
q patent for the same. These are some OF
the issues we propose to stand on. As to a
ticket, don't know anything about it, and
hear nothing
For some time previous to the meeting Of
the executive committee at Waco, there
was a wild row In progress here between
the Republicans who wanted the conven-
ton held here, and others who preferred
for some reasons that it should go to some
other town. 1t leaked out that the Office
holders here and their friends who would
of course be expected to put up something
for expenses, got very magnanimous and
protested that Dallas or Fort Worth were
better entitled to the convention than Aus
tin. For that reason, they contended that
it should go TO North Texas. The colored
brethren, led by DR.. Mckinley. negro
physician here, and his friends, were not so
unselfsh, and made hard pull for Austin,
and won.
AS opposition to the commission win in
all probability be plank in the Republican
platform, IL might not be impossible
for the anti-commissionists now hur-
raining for George Clark to form
some sort of an alliance with the
Republicans. The thing could be done easy
enough il the Republicans would agree TO
have themselves labelled
''IEFFEhsoNI1N DEMOCRATS"
and admitted along with the Ocals patriots
TO the Democratic primaries. After that
they might Go and vote as they please.
Speaking about the opposition TO tbs ad-
ministration, ind that there is good deal
of curiosity TO know who else besides Clark
will be brought out as 4 candidate for the