Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-07-14
4os ss2; 1856, i52.67s; 1857. 4s9.7o5; 1sss,
bO7's7s; 1859, SOS, ii0; 1890. 5i5.6l6; 1921,
565, 672 1892, 5S3,ss5; 1898, 605.495i 1884,
$50, s0s; 1895, 6o3.7b2.

406, y32, 1856, 45Z,0fo. 1851, fos'tpV' 100,
5o7,s7s; 1853, 52s,lio; 1890 Si5 sis; iSsi'
6So.sOS; 1895, 6os,7b2.
1t will not be long until Judge Alex
Stedman will be valuable member OF
the railroad commission. | nave CON
cluded that the Fort Worth lawyer ~
very much of an investigator Tor inc
reason that almost every time nave
been in the consultation room OF the
commission since I have been here l
have found him very busy man. MS
interroga tories to the railroad attor-
neys in the recent cotton tarln afgu-
ment clearly showed that he had given
the subject study, and / noticed that
every question he shot In had 10 my
mind quite a bearing on the SUBJECT
He is becoming to a very popular man
here in the Capital City. | seldom see
him ON the streets, and / take II tnat
when the electric lights 90 on ne can
nearly always be found AT ms resi-
dence. Alex Stedman, to my MIND Is
nne who should go higher. lie Is
man the people can place confidence
in, and he Is not, In my opinion over
rated either
I saw Captain Tom Thornton. the
chief clerk in charge OF the secretary
OF states Office for the first time last
week. [ though he was my friend. we
eat toge Their and once In a while, when
he feels generously disposed we smoke
together. so | thought in the absence
of Colonel Mayneld this week l was
dead sure of Scoop from my
bosom friend Il was Thursday, be-
heve, went In and extended my
pedal extremities upon the acting
secretary's desk, and proceeded to de-
mand a scoop" as follows:
TON. now Is the time to immOrtallze
Yourself in the absence Of the chief.
Give me a scoop and I'll promise sol
EMMY to be your everlasting friend.
get out, you Eutter-snlpc. Tvs lost
a whole lot of valuable time in ac-
commodating you, you rattle-brain IA
Der pusher and you never have given
me a wrlte-up. Get out, and II you
come around here with any more sweet
talk like that I'll make you hard to
catch" came back the soothing reply
from the gOod-loOklng and iire-eating
official and / proceeded to accept MS
advice and go over to see Colonel
Klmbrough, the indispensable OF the
| educational department, who looks AZ
ter my religious welfare down here.
Hon. Cullen T.. Thomas Of Waco who
won for himself an cnvinblc place in
1 the Twenty-fnurth Legislature. was
here Thursday on his way home from
/ San Marcus where he delivered n lee
| ture before the Chatauqua Speaking,
| politically, he said that he was for
| the free and unlimited coinage Of sill
| Yer at the ratio OF 10 to I, and unalter-
| ably opposed to the single gold stan
| dard idea. He said that he should do
| all that he could In the light for silver.
| Yet he said he recognized the fact that
| Democratic supremacy Is question of
vital Importance, and the contest
! should be made within the Democratic
| lines He thinks there is no other hope
for financial reform; that the policy u
| the Republican party for thirty years
has been for a contraction Of the cur
rency: that the POpullst theory, " sue
cesssul, would result In ruinous infd-
ton and that botween'thc two Is the
| Democratic party which has always
stood for hl-metalllsm. lie said before
the present year no prominent Demo.
crat I'm the nation ever declared for tho
single gold standard, and that De
macracy OF many states constituting
the national declaration for bi-mptal
ism has demanded free silver at II
to 1. In congress he says, the leading
Democrats Of the party by the bills in
tr0duced year after year construed the
national money plank to mean FIRE,
! silver at l6 To- /. He believes In a Wig
orous fight to commit the party II
state and nation To- free silver withou
waiting for the aid or consent of any
nation on earth. a. q. ID.