Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-21
CYCLONE MAKES COMPLAINT
THAT THE srRINGDALE Box MAT
TER WAS PUBLISHED
In the Way IL WAS. Says 1t wa.n't
According to HoyIe, Hut the Ga
zette Boys who Are Cyclones
Friends Say 1t Wa. the Record.


AUSTIN. TEX. Feb. 20.
By a stan correspondent Hon. J.
II. Davis (Cyclone) finds fault with the
reports furnished the Gazette and Post
In the house proceedings OF the Frost
oNeal contest He goes further than
this, and declares that the Democrats Of
cass county stuffed the ballot-boxes or
tempered with the returns OF the
Springdale precinct. Mr.. Davis and
the Democrats of Cass county can
tight 1t out themselves in the courts of
Texas, but the representatives OF the
Gazette and Post beg leave to deny
that they In any way colored the re-
ports to the disadvantage OF Cyclone"
The fact is they defended Cyclone
completely in the TeXarkana court
scandal and are friendly to him even
now. When the committee on privil-
eyes and elections considered the Frost
ONeal contest Manager Thaggard of
the Springdale precinct was here. Elec-
tion Judge Howdyshell was also pre-
sent The election Judge came here to
testify that the vote was not correctly
counted and thet he kept an account
on his shirt cuff OF eleven votes that
We're counted for the Populists that
should have been counted for the Dem
ocrats. He could not tell how many
others were counted in the same way.
Manager Thaggard came here to testify
mat he was not satisfied with the count
and would have recounted the ballots
II he had had a warm room to work in
1t Is asserted that one OF the judges
protested at the time that the vote was
being miscounted, He was overruled
by the others and Immediately reported
the facts to the Democrats. These wilt
nesses Were not called owing to the
fact that the Populists surrendered I'M
conditionally. w. Il. Cureton Pop)
and Smith (Rep) signed the report
recommending that o Neal be retained
In his seat This Is not all. Cureton
and Smith agreed to the following
scathing Indictment, the last para
graph Of the report OF the committee;
Your committee would further rec
ommend that the house condemn the
false or fraudulent counting Of the
votes Of the people as mockery of our
institutions. a crime against freedom,
While we exonerate the contestant
from guilty knowledge or participation
in the fictitious count at Springdale,
we can HOT IeIThll from dilllnduNeTllnB
upon the action of self-assumed lead
ers. with lofty pretensions to virtue,
who would plan the debauchery of the
ballot in any district"
Every Populist present voted TO seat
O'Neal and also for the adoption of the
report which condemned their leaders,
as follows; Carson, Cooke Cureton.
Edwards, Floyd. Foster Mcneil, Nc
Williams, O'Connor, Radford, Rhodes
Of Gtnlrag
dleston and Watkins.
This is not all. Chairman Patterson
asked Col Buck Walton before the
committee closed the case IL he desired
TO Introduce his witnesses or open an
other box where O'Neal alleged that
frauds had been practiced. Col. Walton
replied in the negative. Ten or II par
ties were brought here from Cass county
TO testify In this contest case. The
Populists were given fair hearing and
declined to make fight OF any sort,
The writer Is not familiar with Cass
county political methods or It's polite
ians, but he speaks from the record
here and the record made by fopultsts,
convicts Popullsm in Cass county.
S. H. Johnson Of HASKELL Tex, form
erly of this city, is here perfectlng ar
arrangements to organize national bank
at Marlin, the county sent of Falls, one
of the richest counties In the state.
Marlin has only one bank now and a
population Of $500.
the Tarver irrigation bill, which pass
ed the house yesterday, had for It's
sitalwart champions Hons, w. w.
Tifrney, Frank H. Burmeister and VIII
liam Cassln, who rendered valiant SER
vice Mai. Tarver, ''the gentleman from
Laredo, sah," Is the biggest man in
Texas since the passage of the irriga-
tion bill.
Murdo Mackenzie. manager of the
Matador Cattle company, is In the city.
Col. Mackenzle's company own 10000
head of cattle, and he Is probably as
wen posted on the industry as any
man I'm the state. He says In Motley
and adjoining counties THE snow has
been deeper than or years, but the
loss TO stockmen Is not great
Hon. j. D. McGregor of Houston.
who served in the Twenty-third legls-
lature, Ia in the city watching legis-
lation. DR.. McGregor has many friends
here. and the boys are making It in
teresting for him.
Hon. w. II. Plemmons of Potter has
received petitions largely signed from
actual settlers in Donnelly Randall.
Potter, Hale and other counties In the
Panhandle lndorsing the Smith land
bin. The signers declare that the Smith
land bill is the most equitable measure
DEHulnk 1T AuHtllls AAltA ann lNA IN
favorable consideration at the hands
of the lawmakers. No man has worked
more zealously during the present sea-
sion for the best interests OF actual
settlers and cow men than Judge
Plemmons. He has represented no
faction or class, but endeavored In COM
mittee first and then on the floor of
the house to secure the passage OF a
bill that will advance the best interests
OF all classes OF citizens OF the pan
handle regardless OF faction or con-
fllcting interests. He has endeavored
10 compromise all differences, and com
slders the Smith bill measure that Is
certain II II becomes a law to be bless
ing to the West. The Smith bill IL now
pending in the house and will be dis
posed Of this week Il Is believed.
Messrs. Thorp Andrews. Thomas
Jefferson Floyd and James Splllane
have returned from Prairie View.
where they inspected the colored normal
aud inquired into its needs. These gem
tlemen were delighted with the man
agement of the school and win recon-
mend several needed Improvements to
the finance committee.
HUGH FITZGERALD.