Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-04
THE TRUTH ABOUT MIR. MILLS.


having to eat crow on account OF the
charge that the Phillips letter was a
forgery. Having admitted that it was
very foolish letter, and credited it to
the work of an inscriptions opponent,
they now seek to make peace with Mr..
Mills for criticising his utterances by
the wholesale denunciation of every
body who questions his right to die
tatorship in Texas, and OF the Demo-
cratic party OF the nation.
THE GAZETTE has been paid the
high compliment of the greatest
amount OF vituperation that has fallen
upon those who are disinclined to sur
render one-half of the Democratic plat
form at the behest of one Texas politi-
clan, and who have ventured to tell
that politician that his factional fight
upon the Democratic speaker and the
Democratic majority in congress should
be stopped.
Some of the organs which under
stood the situation endeavored st the
outset to show that THE GAZETTE had
misrepresented Mr.. Mills opinions and
his intentions. He stepped in imme-
diately, to their confusion, addressing
studied insult to Speaker Crisp, and
boldly reasserting his intention to en-
barrass the party all he can by re-
volt, made doubly dangerous coming
as it does upon the eve of presiden-
tial campaign.
Other organs whose acuteness will
not measure with their length of
tongue have contented themselves with
warning upon The GAZETTE for the
exercise of a right which they so
cheerfully forego: the right to think
for itself. The burden of the song of
these, which is sung in many keys, is
that THE GAZETTE is an instrument in
the hands of wicked politicians for the
abuse OF Mr.. Mills. These patriots for
get that the people of Texas know that
it is no uncommon thing for the pres
ent managers of THE GAZETTE to have
an opinion, and that they have never
been backward about asserting it.
They have not been accustomed to
''bend the pregnant hinges of the
knee" to every new Gessler that
came along. Though it were true
that THE GAZETTE has slandered
Mr.. Mills, SANDER o. THE GAZETTE
is not so satisfactory an answer to the
public as proof of THE GAzETTE's mis-
representation.
The statement that The GAZETTE
has 'sabused" Mr.. Mills finds no syllable
of verifcation in its columns.
It said that he wrote the Phillips
letter.
The charge that the Phillips letter
was forgery has been retracted by
those who made it.
Itsaid that that letter contained senti-
ments which savored more of Boulanger-
ism than OF patriotism-and his support
ers have reluctantly admitted that it is
indefensible.
It said that he contemplated a fac
tional war on Speaker Crisp and the
Democratic majority in the house.
Hardly had the indignant denials of
his Texas supporters been uttered ere
he, in the first moments of his return
to Washington, wrote note to Speaker
Crisp, declining an important committee
which he had intimated a willingness
to accept, and explained it to the press
as declaration of war upon the major
jority-a step which brought upon him
the severest criticism of his strongest
supporters in the speakership fight
and which renders it impossible for
him ever again to be given place as
one of the national leaders of the
party.
1t said that he was opposed to free
oliver coinage and has quoted his own
utteranees at divers times and places
to prove it. He does not deny it, but
followed up the charge with the asser-
ton, not more than thirty days ago,
that free silver 'would not put a dollar
in the purses of the people. 1t has
remained to those whom the Waco Day
has graphically termed his " fool
friends /" to assert in Texas his devotion
to silver, while in the East both he
and his friends-such as the gold organ
of Boston, An Honest Dollar-are busy
assuring the people that he has been
converted to knowledge of the falls-
cies of free silver. Observe that we
say she"
THE GAZETTE does not deal in innu-
endoes. Its information Is that Mr..
Mills himself assured the New England
congressman that if he were elected |
speaker the coinage committee would
be organized against free silver. One
of its authorities is Mr.. Sherman Hoar
of Massachusetts, who refused to abide |
the action OF the Democratic caucus on
the speakership, because a candidate
was not selected who would not give /
the assurances as to silver which Mas
sachusetts demanded.
It viii avail nothing to abuse THE
GAZETTE for making this statement |