Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-09-01

a mistake. THAT advantage lost TO us
| can never be regalned during our short
| life. The two great cities are now
neck and neck, strainlng every nerve
on the race course OF success. Dallas
the older and most heavily built, Fort
Worth more active. younger and spirit.
ed. She did not get an even start, but
by superior skin ana pluck, her man
ayers have forced her to the front, and
she has the inside track. Shall we put
upon our prize winner the heavy handi-
cap OF local option? Shall we tighten
the reins and let her drop behind at
the three-quarter pole, or turn her loose
and with whip and spur. with whoop
and holler let her thunder down the
hindu
Our histories tell us Of our gallant
Texans captured by the cruel Mexicans
and forced TO stand In line and draw
a bean to determine which of them
should live-which should die. A
white bean meant life. black bean
death. II was indeed "a cruel position.
Next Tuesday our beautiful city of
Fort Worth will be put through the
same terrible ordeal. What will be her
ialeT 1t might be we'll for us TO pause
mere and enquire why II has come to
pc that our city and county should
be placed In this desperate ana dan
Herous position? Who has forced this
cruel issue upon us? Why Is il that
our bright young city, just budding
INTO mature beauty should be forced
10 stand blind folded before the blarJt
beans? ''i
hold In my hand printed list of All
tHe names signed to the petition for nm
order for this election.
who procured these signatures and
why Was II for the good or in OF
Fort Worth fT FIra, -
this was done?
who seeks 10 turn It from the broad
ana safe path Of prosperity and 10
iurce us Into the mire and sluah OF
local option? l have seen many petI-
Tons circulated in Fort Worth FOR sub
scriptlons OF money for the upbuiId
ing OF the material interests of our city
ana county, and our people, broad
minded. big hearted liberal handed
men, signed these rolls Of honor and
generously gave their bounty to build
our railroads, our mills. our factories.
our churches, our colleges. our charit-
able institutions, our every enterprise
that tended to make us happy and
prosperous. Men whose watchfui eyes
guarded Well our interests, while other
slept Strange to say, not one bright
and glorious names are found on this
petition to the commissioners court,
why is II that the names OF these
grand leaders, who we have followed
with such confidence and profit in the
past, and who never yet betrayed us.
are absent from this petltion2 Never
before We're these brave men known to
lag behind when there was any good
thing to be gained for Fort Worth or
her PEG. le,
Who are these new strange leaders
that have forced themselves into notice
by SELLING the reins OF government
and forcing us into struggle for
We may well dlstrust these obscure
and unknown patriots who have SO
suddenly sprung into notoriety. The
alarm Is sounded. The old guard
springs up as one man to rally around
the best interests of our city and
county when danger threatened us
In the past. The old familiar names
again flash like swords on the rolls
Of Brown, OF HUFFMAN. Of Evans, OF
Tatum. animate their successors. and
side by side, shoulder to shoulder,
with locked shields, the brave de-
tenders of our property and good name
are being added every hour, new
swords are flashing, and again we
hear the old time war-cry, of courage
and success.
We have in these later days indeed
fallen upon strange times. We I'M
port our brushes, our boots aud our
hustlers from Boston, We buy our
beef and bacon from the Big Four OF
Kansas City and Chicago aud our
politics from Kansas or Maine. - GER
tain noble Athenian, being asked at
q banquet to pay on the lutte, an
swered that he had never learned TO
fiddle, but knew how 10 make a email
town great city. Are we ready to
turn over our city and county AFFAIRS
to lot OF f0natical tiddlers or help
our city builders, the business and
property towners, TO make Fort Worth
what she deserves TO be. the finest city
OF the southy