Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-30
THEY WANT A TIGHT.
DALLAS CITIZENS ANGRY AT cULBER-
 SONS HOSTILITY TO IT.

How Dallas omesholder sums Up the
 Character of the Lone Star States Chief
 Executive He Begins to Think He Has
 No Friends.
 There was Dallas official in New York recently who seemed to know all about the fight now in preparation, as well as about Governor Gulberson. He was per. fectly free to speak and reserved nothing except his name.
 You see, I'm holding Dallas county office, said this sage official, tswhich pays me about SIC. 000a year, and am looking for reelection myself l am for the fight like every other official and business man in Dallas, but I've no feud with the pull pits, and l don't care to arrange ono by letting my name go in this connection.
 What sort of man is Governor Gull berson9' was asked this Texas gentleman
 Charlie Culbersen the governor he replied .a is nothing but a boy. He's only about B years old. I've known him all my life, and he's good people; one of the boys, only in this Instance of the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight he's got off on the wrong foot.
 4Culberson's s father, as you know, is member of congress- Young Gulberson the governor, is about as swift politician as Texas has afforded since the days of Sam Houston. He's a lawyer, with pre- tentions to being q constitutional lawyer He's been q member of the legislature and just prior to his election as governor had served two terms as attorney general of sI
 didn't hurt him a bit in Texas, and he won these offices Wiea ease and filled them with success.
 At the last state convention he came up for the nomination fer goyernor He is a native resident ef Dallas county, and among the bakers dozen of candidates in the state Dallas county furnished two The question with Galberson was, could he carry Dallas county against his oppo- nent. The opponent in this instance was rather straight 1aeed and religious party; had what you would call the religious ele- nent behind his game. Calbefson came to me and to Sheriff Cahell and others of the of1ieeholders of Dallas county and asked Us what we thought about it.
 We'll Charlie we said, we've talked this thing over among ourselves and have concluded to take your end of it. We are going to turn in and give you Dallas county with it's g votes, and we'll see what We can do for you with the rest of the state. We'll give these other fellows 8 run for their money in any event.
 And we did. Gulberson hadn't any money to put into the campaign. So we threw in all around and made Up a bundle amounting to about sl2, 000. Ny own per sonal contribution to this showed three oiphers on the proper side of the dollar mark, and l know others who gave as much. And l want to say right here that we the very persons who nominated Gull person, are the very ones who are now try ing to pull off this Corbettz zFitzsimmons match.
 We got Culberson through all right. and of course he WAS elected. The election part is acinch in Texas, so far as the Dem oerat is concerned, and we had won the fight when we got him the nomination About the first thing he did was to disturb us on the question of finance. Weare veer- ing little for gold down in Texas these days, and Culberson, without stopping to find out where his tribe was going, came out in the most extrayagant, flat footed shape for silver, Is to 1. Yes, we used to be for silver little harder than we are now. In 1892 we went into tho game with money on three cards Cleveland, free siI- yer and the offices We win on Cleveland and lose on the other two. Since then we have been getting steadily over toward gold until WIG are getting to be right now a rather yellow outfit
 '' But, as l say, in spite of this tribal migration to gold, Culberson came en= phatically out for silver, 16 to l. This didn't please Us a bit; but, after all, as free silver is rather more of theory than anything else, we didn't lay it up against him. But coming out against the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight is a different affair This fight, calculated to bring, as it surely will, s, GOO, GOO into Dallas, Is practical matter and when Gulberson gets in the way he touches us where we live. His at titude toward the fight is going to bother him hereafter, the more so as it is noth- ing but political play on his part
 But you wanted to know something of Culberson personally I've already told you ho is a boy; q bright, courageous, nervy boy. While he seems to be siding with the puIpits in his opposition to the coming Gorbett- hitzsimmons eontcst-for of course the pulpits oppose it profession aliy-still Culbefsen himself couldn't be called the pulpit sort While he doesn' u drink too much, Gulberson stands ready without the slightest hesitation to sample most any kind of invfgorater that ever lived back of bar in a bottle. When he is lritated, he can swear like tealnster.
 When Culberson began his opposition to the fight, he expected there would be great moral uprising, and he was going to head the uprising. But so far nobody has risen up but the preachers. The eongre- gation is still sitting in it's seat and wants the fight. Culberson is beginning to sec this. The other day he was down in Dal- las and tackled mo about it.
 Jim, said Culberson to me, haven't got friend left in Dallas?
 'f Yes, Charlie, l said, my wife told me the other day that her preacher said