Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-04
CHAIRMAN NlCKS
olsAoaEEs WITH ALDERMAN
DRAKE BY THE
Assertion and By Reference 10 tho Records Of
the CITY couacil-ll Is a Very Inter.
esliag Bill Of Reading.

Editor Of the Gazette.
Inasmuch as the Daily Advance has
editOrily accused me OF making an
eleventh hour attack" on Alderman
Drake. 1 bcg leave to state the following
facts Ia the first place 4 had PROMISED
the city editor Of the Advance an inter
view Va answer to the one published Ia
that paper by Mr.. Drake. but | told him
that ] was Invoicing my drug stock ana
could not furnish il before today. This,
he said, would be all right. / told Mr.
richards this morning that as Mr.
Drake had distributed several hundred
copies Of the paper with his Interview
that I wanted to do tie same thing
with my reply and did not intend to
BE- forced to pay for and distribute Mr.
brakes campaign thunder for him, as
! would do. II lac was allowed TO read
my interview and reply 10 il ia the same
ISSUE
MIR. Richards told me that he would
reserve the right 90 reply 10 me himself
or ask Mr.. Drake to do so and / de-
clined 10 give him the interview and gave
Il 20 the Evening Mail That j would
not have been treated fairly b. The Adj
toriM page this afternoon.
10 It's extra Drake edition appears On
answer 10 my interview from Mr.. Drake
IN which he INDUCES In his sHuuc old
tings nt the watcrwOrks, with his usual
absence Of facts.
Mr. Drake claims that he was not in
vitod 20 certain meetings Of the water
works committee ] again assert that
there never was a meeting Of the COM
mittee unless he was invited II he was
iu tho city.
Mr. Drake says that It Is not fact
that he as chairman of the public
grounds. committee did not report in
favor Of buying 200 acres Of land from
Caps Cauty and Mozart If any per
son viii look Ola page 3i3 Of the minute
book In toe city hall containing the re-
cords for May, 1891. lac will find that
Mr. brakes memory IS very ueacher-
GUS.
Again be says he did not approve Of
the pump house plans That the commit
See was two % one" when he well
knows that be- and ! were the only meme
lcrs of the committee present. There was
not even n chance for u minority re-
purt' lie could have tied the committee
IL he lad not approved Of what was
done.
Mr. Drake says the wells are not flow
ing as much as ! claim they are, and
quotes the city engineer. Now I refer
any enc TO W. s. Marshal, Captain A.
w. ScOblc or any one who is familiar
with the How of the wells / am of the
city engineer told him as he twists every
thing that stands In his way Of re-elec-
tiUn.
still maintain that We al understood
that Mr.. Drake favored the settlement
that the committee first agreed to with
the contractors. and refer any one who
doubts d 10 either Mayor Paddock, Al
dermeI Mes Or Early, who were present
az the meeting
Now he says Powell told him we had
TO pay the I'D per cent and he signed the
report 20 pay IL. He might have added
that Montgomery, too, told him We did not
have 10 pay IL and he ordered his pamc
taken OF, Who represents the Sixth
ward beside Lewis. anyway
Mr., Drake quotes Mr. Hnwes. the
constructing engineer, very freely be
cause that gentleman has left the city
and his evidence can not be had, but
does he give the well known fact that
Mr. Hnwcs agreed with the contractors
IN every claim they have made against
the cityG
Mr. Drake proves his position by say
ing that we advertise IN The Gazette Ia
cure rheumatism IN three days But
that is just iu keeping with the rest Of
his utteranccs. No such advertisement
ever appeared Is the only mistake that
he made ahou. that and l think that il
pretty good for him.
But life Is too short 10 fool time away
In answering every error in that fifteen
minute interview If he had gone on
for twenty minutes with the same ratio
of inaccuracies there IL no telling what
he might have said. Respectfully,
Chairman waterworks Committee.