Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-16
THEY ARE NOT HOGS ABOUT II
Have Enough OF C.oinR Into strange
BaiIi,vioLa and Working for city
Candidates - johnson Grassers
Come I'm Npmbers--Najor Harris.


AUSTIN. TEN. Feb. 10.
CBy Special Correspondent. Col.
Jack Farley. manager Of the freight
bureau OF the Dallas CONNER
cial club. arrived in the city yesterday
on business connected Will the johnson
Grass bill He win remain until next
Saturday to sec that farmers are pro-
tected from their hereditary enemy
johnson grass. There is moro interest
manifested in johnson grass than In
any measure before the house,
Major Nose Harris of San Antonio
is in the city. The major threw hlm-
self In front OF the Elmendorf band
wagon last Monday and was terribly
lacerated. lie Is slowly recovering
from the effects of his injuries. and in
time willfully recover. IL is mis-
take that there was any politics in tho
late fight at San Antonio. There were
thirteen Democrats on the Elmendorf
ticket and ten on the Callaghan ticket.
and many OF the leading Democrats
of san Antonio supported Elmendorf.
The greatest blundor made by the
Callnghan Managers was in taking u
legislative Junketing party 10 san
Antonio last Saturday night. The
boys had high old timo from all ac-
counts. The conservative citizens of
San Antonio resented outside inter-
ference in their affairs and Csllaghan
lost hundreds OF votes. Speaker Tom
Smith made a red-hot speech for
Callaghnn and nominated that gentle
man for governor "some years hence"
The weeping willow OF Denton
Alvin c. owsley, made a speech In
which he nominated Tom Smith for
governor. Smith and OweleY swear
thut by all that Is holy they have
abandoned the practice OF visiting
other towns and making speeches for
their favorites In municipal eonteats'
| These gentlemen are not hogs, they
know when they are gorgcd.
One of the leading lawyers OF the
house said to the writer today: NEARLY
every deed OF trust given in the state
reeks with fraud. and rascaily busi-
ness men ruin the credit OF reyas by
buying large stocks OF goods and then
making assignment, making preferred
creditors of the bankers and their own
relatives. Great frauds are y TpeiratI !
| daily and business men NJ OthHf
states, who find market FOR their
| goods In Texas, are robbed with inn
| punity by sanction of law. J am In
] lNNoI OF huhlUtNA integrity anu hthl-
/ ing honestly with our fellowinon with
out Us well as within the state, ana
| hence will vote for a general assign
ment and collection law" Two mem
| bers OF lr~usc judiciary committee No.
| / were attentive listeners and bowed
acquiesccnce to what had been snii
The vote OF censure has not affected
/ Cyclones standing with the Populists
/ in the least. The truth is every busl-
/ ness or trust or combination In the
state has johnson grassers" here rep
resenting their interests. Many OF the
leading Democrats OF the state are hero
as attorneys and lobbying for and
against bills now pending. and that is
about all that Cyclone wnJ s,i'y H.
| Hon. John Il. Peyton, Trinity lnemI,r
of the committee on labor, has been
placed In false light with regard To
the labor lien bill now pending. MIR.
| Peyton Is in favor OF n labor's lien law
| that Will alive workinRmen every dol
lar Justly due them and also give them
a lien on all property not exempted by
law. No man IN the house IL more WILL
Ing TO give labor Its hire than Peyton
| lie opposed the Kennedy labor lien bin
] because he considered one ir two see
/ lions OF the bill fnr-reachlng and
overriding the exemption laws NJ TIN.
| state. The gentleman from Trinity
/ VIII vote for labor ton bII mn VIII
| protect labor and deal Justly with
/ capital, and no more can bA asked by
reasonable men,
HUGH FITXGEUALD.