Fort Worth Weekly Gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 17, Ed. 1, Friday, April 13, 1888 Page: 4 of 8
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PUBLI8BEV EVERY FRIDAY
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DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING COMPANY
Publisher nnil Proprietors
If Mayor Bkoilkj will pursue for two
years the pith indicated In bis selection
Of standing committees he will retire
from cfllse with the plaudits of the en-
tire popnlation of Fort Worth
That special from Washington in yes-
terdays Gazette that Mr Throck
morton would become a candidate for
Congress in the Fifth district if the peo-
ple desired him to do so Is very signifi-
cant And it must be very interesting
reading to Mr Hare and to Mr Bell
The Texas pool would ingratiate itself
With the people of the state by prompt
dissolution It looks bad to see certain
Texas roads refueo to enter the Colorado
pool and then insist npon the perpetua-
tion of the Texas pool If railroad pool-
ing is a good thlntr the people cant have
too ranch of it If pooling is a bad thing
he people do not want any of it
Of the meeting of the Txis Traffic
Association Tuesday The Gazettes
Galveston special of yesterday said
The representatives of the Texas Pacific
Southern Pacific and Houston and Texas
Central systems are all favorable to the
position maintained by General Manager
Meek of the Fort Worth and Denver and
approve of the cnt of 25 per cent on
Overland rates
Regular trains are now running on
the Fort Worth and Denver between Fort
Worth Tex and Denver Col The Fort
Worth and Denver is the only great Pan
handle rontc and Fort Worth is the
Texas terminus of the line Merchan
dlse from New York and other eastern
cities is now shipped to Colorado via
Fort Worth Give us deep water on the
Texas coaot
To Mr Cleveland Come to Texas
In May and listen to the mocking birds
and see the flowers and gsze on the
grandest state capitol building in the
Union The 6onth Is n the Union
and If the G O P organs howl
at your visit they will make you votes
with the mugwumps Come Mr Cleve-
land yon arc welcome to onr hearts and
onr tamales
Governor Husk of Wisconsin is re-
ported as saying that many former slave
owners of the south aro preserving the
names of their former slaves together
with ntcessary proof and aro quietly
waiting to lay claim to Indemnity for
them when the Democrats have full con-
trol of the government The fool killer
Is neglecting his duty either In Wiscon-
sin or in the south
The mistake that Texas labors under Is
due to selfcomplacency The people
outside the state do not know anything
about Texas What the state needs is
advertising and a geological survey
would officially advertise the mineral re-
sources of Texas As It now is men
laugh when a Texan talks of Iron in the
state and only a lew individuals of the
countless millions on earth know that
Texas Is manufacturing the best article
of pig Iron
en
The death and bnrial of Jacob Sharp
o Hew Toik boodler recalls the fate of
Ife boodle gang Of the gang there
are now dead Jacob Sharp and James W
Foshay bribe givers and Aldermen
Kenny and McLaughlin bribe takers
Three of the latter are In Sing Sing
prison one has been tried once tfith a
disagreement of the Jury one is Insane
three turned informers three ore in
Canada one in Germany and eight are
under indictment bnt at liberty en bail
Two bribe givers survive and are under
Indictment but ont on ball And the
two gobetween boodle handlers ore In
Canada Boodling brings poor reward
THE LIFE OF TEE TRUST
The protective organs have been wont
to sneerlngly ask of the reformers how
trusts are to be eccoursged by the tariff
Nothing could be plainer A trust is a
combination formed by the producers of
sn article for the purpose of raising the
price of their product This they do by
limiting the production The protective
tariff helps the scheme along by laying a
duty upon the trust articles thns making
It impossible for foreign producers to
compete in the markets of the Union
The consumers are thus placed at the
mercy of the producers and exorbitant
prices are charged for these pro-
tected articles If it were not
lor the tariff this could not ba done
lor when the domestic manufacturers
set their figures too high their foreign
competitors wonld come In and force
them to return to a reasonable price or
else leave the market
But wageBthey say how about wages
when the manufacturers by reason of the
trust are enabled to put up the prlco of
their products do they not raise the pay
of their employes J
No The manlacturers know what they
can employ laborers for and that Is jast
what they pay them not a penny more
When their employes do not want to
work for their figures they may stop and
other men will be fonnd who do And
another thing The very object of the
trust is to limit the supply and as that
is decreased fewer men will be
needed and fewer will be em-
ployed So It will > e seen while
the consumer pays a higher price
for all these protecte d articles the work-
man gets no more for his labor employes
are thrown out of situations and the
manufacturer Is the only one who reaps
any benefit
Away back early In the seventies the
ealt manufacturers of the Ohio Valley
formed a trust The Kanawha manufac
tnrereby reason offheapjtaeland strong
brine controlled tho market and made
jBgf gg 3a 8 t >
salt too chevp The Ohio Valley people
went up the Kanawha river and dead
rented every furnace in the valley
That is they paid them so much a year
for allowing their furnaces to remain
Idle And they paid well for some of the
furnace owners drew more in rents in
three years than their whole property
was worth
A soft thing for the owners was it not
to do do thine and have splendid Incomes
to spend Yes Indeed But how about
the workmen who had been employed at
the furnaces When anybody spoke of
reducing the duty on salt the manufact-
urers had always raised a howl about the
poor laboring mac how about him now
lie was thrown out of employment and
left to shift for himself to do work
where he could find It and accept what
pay he could get
And the trust oh the trust made big
money It had the market under Its con-
trol and I fixed the price of salt to suit
Itself It revelled in enormous profits
which the people paid and which only
closed when the Saginaw furnaces were
built and by their low prices smashed
the pool A protective tariff was the envi-
ronment which hedged the salt monopoly
from danger and made people pay exor-
bitant prices for a necessity of life that
the furnace owners might thrive and
grow rich
A protective tariff is the life of the
trust
mi
RAILROAD POOLS
The action of AttorneyGeneral Hogg
looking to the restraint of the Texas Traf
lie Association and the counteraction of
the pool in procurlrg testimonials from
merchants to the effect that pools are blesc
ings to trade are bringing the subject of
railroad pools prominently before the at-
tention of the people of Texas Supple
menting this action of the AttorneyGen
eral is the course pursued by certain
Texas railroads with reference to the
Colorado pool and the strange spectacle
Is presented of Texas rail-
roads clamoring for the public
benefit that results from a Ttxis pool
and refusing to give the public that bene-
fit through an adhesion to the Colorado
pool
It would be highest wisdom in the
Texas roads to yield gracefully to the in-
evitable and dissolve the Texas pool
The people of the state are unalterably
opposed to combinations of this charac-
ter Public opinion in Texas destroyed
the boycott as maintained by a combina-
tion of labor and public opinion will as
surely destroy the combination of cap-
ita as maintained in a Texas railroad
pool If there is any doubt in the minds
of railroad manigers as to the public
feeling on this subject they have bat to
refer to the utterances of only a few o
the most prominent statesmen of Texas
The present state administration will be
reinstalled in power practically without
opposition and Governor Ross the head
of this administration whose Attorney
General is now praying for injunc-
tion against the pool put himself pquare
ly on record in his first message delivered
in 1887 In that message to the Twen-
tieth Legislature Governor Ross said
I respectfully suggest to your honor-
able bodies tho propriety of enacting that
hereafter pooling or combinations be-
tween railroads and other common car-
riers shall bo deemed unlawful and If
any officer agent servant or employe
thereof shall enter into or execute any
agreement of that character or shall
operate or assist in operating a rail-
road under such agreement or shall
knowingly aid or assist In the operation
of a railroad under such arrangement he
shall be deemed guilty of a felony and be
imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term
of two years
In a speech delivered at Wcathcrford
October 9 18S6 Senator Coke said he
bciieved the Legislature of this state
ought to create a commission and protect
the people against pools rebates and dis
criminations and In a speech delivered
a few days later at Fort Worth Senator
Coke used this language In referring to
pools
An Inter stato commcrco bill I havo eald
will bo passed at tho nest seeslon of Congress
bnt tbat docs not affect the commcrco confined
to tho several states over which Congrsss has
no jarlsdlctlon I ray to yon as a citizen of
Texas that there f honld be a bl 1 passed by the
Legislature of Texas erecting an authority to
stand between the people of Texas and thoabso
lutlsm of railroads as noworKanlzedlntoaoower
which etiangl a and defies competition I hope
to eco the Legislature pass sach a law Sach a
law ousht to bo passed Sach a law Is In force
In New York In Massachusetts In Mlsslrslppl
In Georgia twothirds of tho states of
this country navo lass creating rail-
road commissions to stand between
tho people and the railroads and eco to It that
exorbitant charges are not exacted from th ° m-
All tho > e states have nvlzable streams which
are admitted to be the great regulators of rail-
road trtfilc because they glvo competition that
cannot be pooled pooled out of exlttencc but
Texas has no river navigation I It has been
found wise to institute railroad commissions
in the states I have named for still better
reasons Texas ought to have a railroad com-
mission to protect our people fnm railroad
combinations I would make no war upon the
railroads Far from It Wo are a long way be
y nd the tlmo for ox carts Wo could cot raise
the animals that would ba necessary to trans
port our produces They would cat them all up
Wo aro compiled to have railroads I would
invite tho Investment of rallroai capital in this
state but I would ask and I do ask thit the
constrvatlsm tho Intelligence and tho best
judgment of the men who build our cities who
own our farms and who till our fields who
create tho commerce of this country shall be
Invoked to tho settlement of this great ques-
tion Thcrallroad agitation will continue and
I tell you It ought to continue until there has
been established a tribunal which will stand as
an aibltr tor between the pcop e and the com-
mon carriers It takes two to make a contract
always did until now when all tho railroads
aro pooled and tho flat of the pool commis-
sioners as to what proportion of the products
ot tho country they will tato for moving the
balance is absoluc As long as I am a citizen
of Texas I will never cease to cry aloud and
spare not wfclo there is power In this state
abovo tho power of tho government No my
fellow citizens see that your representatives
represent you npon this question not in an
unreasoning onslaught upon rallroadsf but in
a Just and judicious and a liberal lawKjilch
will protect tte people and will lnvltevtho ln
veatmoatof railroad capital In our atatewiich
cannot do wlthont railroads p Sfe
The railroads of Texas should Pgnafcr
these utterances and avoldWagotikm
by not doing those thlnga whlch are n
violation of the statutory anil organic
laws of the stato Tbepeople andjadB
In Texas are closer together at this time
than they have been for year and the
most ordinary sagacity would point out
the true policy Neither roads nor peo
ple have aught to gain from antagonism
and the roads ought to be able to see that
thesame power which moved trains that
were obstructed by unlawful combina-
tions in 1886 will also destroy
unlawful combinations that prevent the
competition to seeure which Texas has
given liberally
The pool will go and it is wisdom in
the railroads to dissolve it without wait-
ing for a Texas Legislature to compel
them to do so
1886 and 1S88
New York Star
The Influence upon Mr Randall of the
Presidents message and the growth of
the surplus can be seen in this wise Mr
Randall presented on June 28 1S86
nearly two years ago a tax reduction
bill to tho House and accompanied it with
tabular statements showing his proposed
reduction to be
Customs free list I 1526121 IS
Cmtomsrales 7014452 29
Tobacco Internal taxes 2640708 43
Total 31977 665 S3
In 1888 Mr Randall proposes this re-
duction
Customs taxes 250C0 f00
Internal taxes 70COJ000
Total 93000000
Sj much for Mr Randall
On April 12 188G Mr Morrison pre-
sented to the House a tax reduction bill
from the ways and means committee
whch proposed to cut off taxes thu
Customs tree list 7017287 00
Heduced raies on CDitons 624 SI
l < m late cto W171B 76
Woolens 11563049 54
Sugar 50S5915i
Total 2505139 63
But under tho influence of the Presi-
dents message and the horriJ surplus
Mr Mills proposes in 1888 to more than
donble that customs reduction proposed
by Mr Morrison Mr Mills advises this
reduction
Free list 222 0000
Rcdaclng duty on woolen goods 175000
Chlnaand glasiware lKUU 0
Chemicals 750 dO
CottongDods CO 000
Flaxhcmpand lute 1500COO
Suar HcoOOJ
Total roductloa 5485010
And he has added an Internal tax re-
duction on certain form3 of tobacco
amounting to a little more than 825000
000 which will make a totnlannual reduc-
tion estimated at 80000000
TVo Blast RVfrtBt Every Day
That Magulres Ctfndurango keep3 the
liver active tfie b ojrels open and the
blood purified
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A
tSxas vetesans
Lot Them Us Invited to Hold Their Next
Bleating la Fart Worth
The Texas veterans the survivors of
the war for Texas independence will meet
In Temple on April 20 Captain Isaac D
Parker of this county one of the
veterans will be In attendance
and he should Invite the noble
old veterans to hold their next
meeting in Fort Worth the convention
eenter Texas cm never too greatly
honor the men who wrested from Santa
Anna and the Mexican hosts the glorious
Lone Star State Let the veterans meet
In Fort Worth next year
THE BORLINBTOVS HOSPITAL
The Basis of tho Rumors That Several
Men ilave Ueon Killed on tho Q
INJURIES TO NEW MEN
Chicago III April II The Dally
News says that a dozen serious accidents
have occurred to new men who are
handling Q rolling stock but that in
every caso these occurrences have been
suppressed and even kept from the public-
An investigation shows that yesterday
William S Lythe a switchman was
killed by an engine at Sixteenth and
Wood streets At Hawthorns a suburban
station Ctiarles Red another switch-
man had bis hip dislocated and foot cut-
off yesterday It is cla med another
man was killed in the lumber district
by an engine and his body
hurriedly carried away by an express
wagon and that at Hawthorn another
mm was killed of which tho authorities
received no information Oi Monday
tcere were eleven men In the round house
who had received severo Injuries Ten
of these were removed to the hospital
The day following no one it is charged
was allowed to enter the round house
while the wounded men were there
Paul Morton who wai s jen by a re-
porter disclaimed any knowledge of such
facts
TO INVESTIGATE THB RKrORTS
Chicago III April 11 James
OBrien press representative of the
striking engineers called on Coroner
Hertz ond Chief of Detectives Henshaw
this afternoon and as a result an Investi
gation was ordered regarding the
disposition made of the bodies
of tho brakemen and switchmen
killed on the Burlington road
The strikers claim that half a dozen em
ployes have been killed on tho Q
since the strike and that the police were
not notified of the accidents Paul
Morton who acts as spokesman for the
Q company denies emphatically that
the facts are as stated Morton objects
particularly to the term Infirmary being
applied to the companys roundhouse at
at Western avenue He does not deny
tnst several Injured persons were carried
in there and were being treated by Dr
Tollaferro tho companys physician
Since the new employes took the places
of the striking switchmen about 100
bunks have been placed In the
roundhouse for their accommodation
Night men occupy them in the day-
time and the day men sleep there at
night Whenever an accident has hap-
pened Instead cf carting the victim to
the hospital he was carried to his bunk
where he might be taken cite of until his
recovery This says Morton
Is all there Is to the report
that the Burlington Rillroad Is
malntalninga hospital We dont de-
sire to keep the matter seer t said he
It has always been our custom to fur-
nish medical attention free ot charge to
persons injured while in our employ
Tnere are two men suffering from mashed
arm3 out there now Three cases were
taken to St Lukes hospital One was a
man who was knocked down by a man on
a Panhandle engine throwing a link at
him and the other two were men who re-
ceived their Injuries In the riot that oc-
curred over at the St Paul yards
i ita i
Bend It Along
Trinidad Advertiser
The Fort Worth Gazette asks
chesp coal Trinidad will furnish it
for
ChronioConths and Colds
Ard all diseases ot tho Throat and Lungs can
bo ikxai by tho use ot ScdUa Emulsion as It
ctfutalnl the healing virtue of Cod Liver Oil
aid lirnophospnltcs In their fullestarm Is a
ieauUrfjliY crtflmy EfijutMon ptfatablo a
nlllri < wsllyr < Hfeested ift can be wien byfne
feosttfslKareiTJeieSriM Iconsider SaittsJ
fcantslon the rcowcy paraxeeUeSeoflfl To
bercnlous and Strumous Affection to saj
nothing of ordinary colds and thtoat troublosR
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GOULD VS BENNETT
BedHot Letter to James Gordon
Bennett ot the Herald from the
Wizttd cf Wail Street
The Herald Beplj to What It Calls Slad
denies znalloe and Dowardlj Mud
Sllngma of a Oorsalr
New Tort Herald April I
There was a great ferment around the
headquarters of the Corsair yesterday
The Bureau Ananias was working on
full time and the air was blue with sus-
pended electricity All sorts of superla-
tive rumors wero abroad regarding the
marvelous birth which the genius of the
Skunk of Wall street was Incubating It
was to be the crowning emanation cf his
wondeifnlly fecund brain A dczsn or so
of secretaries stenographers and type-
writers were kept busy in noting down
revising and copying some very mysteri-
ous matter upon which one might sup-
pose the safety of one hundred and
twenty flva millions of illgotten money
depended as the fate of millions of men
and women turned upon the grandiloquent
general orders which Napoleon issued on
the eve of battle
One person was bent low as with the
weight of age by the burden of responsi-
bility wnlcti the Little Old Man ot the
Sea had placed on his shoulders This
was Colonel Herbert E Dickson the
visible head cf the Bureau Ananias He
was the man who conceived the gigantic
blow that was about to ba struck who
engendered tho motive impulsed in the
Corsairs brain and who sharpened and
adjusted the weapons that are to be em-
ployed
MDD SLINGING
And such weapons
Oh ye gods
The Skunk of Wall street after long
and bitter labor which convulsed the
wnole of the little world that revolves
around him as well as himsolf at length
toward nightfall gave birth like the
mountain In the fable to something that
was about a thousand times smaller than
expectation had pictured It In fact
being smaller than ever the Corsairs
mo3t heartless critics had believed even
him It would take something In the na-
ture of a moral microscope to discover
anything in it that justified so mcch fuss
and fluster and flurry and travail
What a mean petty weak little skunk
ling It was to be 6ure this mtcome of so
much preparation and talk and mysteri-
ous generation that people had been led
to think would smack of Joves thunder
and the sulphurous fumes of Erebus
The public had supposed that the Cor-
sair would discuss in something like a
serious vein the matters at issue between
himself and the community at large be-
tween himself and tho outraged bond-
holders of tho Kansas and Pacific who
are trying to flod some justice in the land
for tho gross wrong which they have suf-
fered
WHAT WAS IT
What was the ominous birth
It had nothing whatever to do with the
celebrated legal controversy about the
embezzled bonds It did not demollah
the character of the lawyers who had
dared to engage In a contest against the
colossal power built cf insolence and
dishonor which tne Corsair has acquired
Oh what a ker flump was there my
countrymen
The thunderbolt was only a little two
penny tin peashooter
Tho only thing that made it at all dread-
ful by any possible stretch of the Imagi-
nation was the fact that It was loaded
with tilth filth of the most puerile piti-
able disgusting sort
The document which Colonel Dickson
waved in trlnmph over his head as he
read it to the reporters last night was sn
open letter It contained about 1500
words and was addressed to the proprie-
tor of the Herald From beginning to
end it was a loosely linked chain of abuse
adorned here and there with jewels of
vulgar vituperation
Think you that Its author or authors
desired it to be published in the Herald
Not by a long shot
The head of the bureau Ananias sent at
an early hour for representatives of all
tne other morning papers and assured
them that at 10 or II oclock they should
have the open letter in all Its glory of
tjpswritten verbosity At the appointed
time a Herald reporter was also on hand
I have nothing for you quoth Mr
Dickson with a heroic effort at suavity
which was in fact nearly successful
Why was asked
Bacause I do not think the Herald
would publish what I have
You have no grounds for assuming
that The Herald always gives both sides
of every controversy and if your client
has any statement to make to the public
why should it not find a place In the col-
umns of the Herald
Here upon the head of the Bureau
Ananias came out flitfooted and said
I may as well tell you that the letter
will not be given to the Herald There
is no assurance tbat you can give me
that would Induce me to do It
And he stnek to It
MODKLLED AFTER JOHN KELLY
Bat here the leter is
New Tork March 311833
To Mr James Gordon Bennett
In Fridays Issue of the Herald you
fulminated what I am told Is commonly
called In the Herald oflice a scream but
that scream must have been charged with
dynamite as I have learned that as it
rolled off from Mackey and Bennetts
cable direct from Paris It shook that
noble structure from which the Herald Is
issued from basement to roof
Now as In this so called scream you
have taken occasion to deny certain state
ments deliberately made by me as to the
New Tork Herald and yourself it is
proper that I reply In the first plate
I never stated that you were ever a di-
rector of the American Cable Company
It is true you were never Invited to take
a seat in tbat boird and I doubt If any
member of it would sit In a board
with you for reasons that will be appa-
rent as I proceed
When Imade these statements I had
before met a certified copy of the records
ot the American Telegraph Company
now Western Union and I had also a
memorandum made by one of your asso-
ciate directors who was then connected
with the actual manegement This state-
ment proves the truth of what I said
and the falsity of your denial This
memorandum is as follows
MEMORANDUM
Notwithstanding the New York Herald
has generally during the last twenty
three or four years been among the
largest Individual newspsper patrons
of the Western Union Telegraph Com-
pany it has been for the greater part of
that period always ready to criticise and
denonnce the company on the most
fl 87 pretext These criticisms in a
lesser degree date from the retirement
of James Gordon Bennett Jr from the
board of directors of one of tbe largest
telegraph companies now embraced in
the Western Union system > 3
are now rendered to all Xf
often simultaneously to
of Individual papers < > er
wires bat they were then transt
< < >
now on the principle of first come
first served and papers that were
late in getting In their reports from Wash
ington Albany and elsewhere had to wait
their turn
The elder Bennett had been supplied
1000 shares of stock In the American
Telegraph Company at a price more than
twenty per cent below the market value
and his son elected a member of the
board His first service was to demand
that the Herald being a large stockholder
and our lareest customer was entitled to
and should be awarded precedence in the
transmission of special reports This de-
mand conld not be acceded to and the
new director was a disgruntled and dis
sgreeaole associate in the board When
the company was absorbed by the West-
ern Union he was not among those who
were taken into the Western Union
Board
Tae bitterness of the Herald ha3 been
intensified since the refusal of the cable
pool to allow the French company
to renew its contract with the Herald fcr
special rates at about onehalf tho price
tne other newspapers were being charged
The rennwsl of that contract was demand
ed In 18S3 accompanied by a threat that
if it was not agreed to an opposition cable
s
companies In 1865 did not nAK tarO bnrns
prompt transmission of new epoithAt
wonld be laid The elder Garrett had at ent
one timearced to unite with Mr Bennett
in procarlns a new cable but Mr Pender
succeeded In persuading Mr Garrett that
an opp sltlor cable would not pay But
a few months l ter he found another cap
ltalist who yielded to his importunities
and he got his revenge Whether he got
the benefits he bad demanded and expect-
ed is a doubtful question ne has suc-
ceeded in procuring a general reduction
of rates but whether that compensates
his unremuneratlve Investment in the
cable Is a question of his own finances
As it is thus apparent that the Herald
though actuated by personal malice and
selfish Interests conceals this motive
andposessnd pretends to act as the
guardian of public Interests denouncing
lnlts lordly way individuals and corpor-
ations using such epithets as wizud
corsair etc and uttering such fearful
screamsthat even the Herald building
quakes it seems meet that I should say a
few words of and to its editor and pro-
prietor
oh so virtuous I
As tho Herald says Mr Bennett wonld
not sit at the same board with me It
seems proper for me to state the objec-
tions I might have to such an association
with the editor and proprietor of the Her-
ald
Let me see I have known you over
thirty years and during all that time
yonr life has been one of shame Your
private life has been but a succession of
debauches and Ecandals so that yonr
name is associated on every tongue as
Bennett the libertine And however gen
themen might meet you atclubsor hotels
not a gentleman la New York as you well
know would allow you to cross the
threshold of hl3 residence where virtue
end family honor are held sacred Your
very touch In the social circle Is contam-
inating A few Instances such as de-
cency permits to be put in print will
snfflse to illustrate and confirm what I
have to ssy on this head A few years
ago while on one of your debauches the
police came down on a house of lllfsme
in this city You were among the vic-
tims bagced
When you were arraigned past mid-
night at the police station you Ecreamed
I am James Gordon Bennett proprietor
of the New York Herald Lnmego
Do you remember the sraplo reply
ef the fsithfnl cflher who said
You may be James Gordon
Bennett or you may be Gjsorge
Washington the case will take theuiuil
course Ofllser lock the prisoner up
and you went behind the bars In the
morning when you had sobered down and
came to a full realization of your situa-
tion you no longer screamed I am James
Gordon Bennett proprietor of the New
York Herald but you spent the whole
day In trying to get the newspapers to
suppress the sickening story and with
very good success
At a dinner party given by you at
your residence after your euests were
about through you took a revolver and
began firing at the globes of the large
chandelier over the center of tho dinner
table sending the thousand pieces of
broken glass in the eyes and faces of
your gueVts who piled p ellmell under the
table No ecream was made over this
insult to your guests by James Gordon
Bennett of the New York Herald
Another incident in this shameful
career will be enough to illustrate my
present purpose Some years ago I am
told you invited soms gentlemen to dine
with you on your yacht among
them a noble lord It soon
became apparent to the gentle-
men that you were on one of your wild
orgies and they were anxious to get
ashore You started to land them and
after rowing around in a circle for a-
while you finally brought up to a landing
without knowing whether it was New
York Brooklyn or Williamsburg You
landed your guests et the morgue and as
you were proceeding stumbled and fell
Into what afterward turned out to be a
box for the bnrial of the days victims
What a scene it would have made if
while you had been lying in that box tho
dead victims had been pla ed in and the
box closed p and taken away for burial
As your senses gradually roturned me
thlnks I hear tne same tcrcsm I am
James Gordon Bennett proprietor ot the
New York Herald Let me out
some conundrums
Now one word more and I have done
with you Are you quite satisfied with
your recent partner Messrs Andrews
and Crouch In the attacks on Gould and
Sage You suppose that with Andrews
to do the saaro law work and the Herald
to do the screaming the combination
would be formidable Dons you now
wish you had made some few Inquiries as
to Andrews reputation and character
before you went Into the association
And dont you think that be
fore you began your attacks It would have
been more just If you had made inquiries
as to whether you had any foundation for
your daily tirades A slight Inquiry
would have shown you that Messrs Sage
and Gould simply did their duty as trus-
tees that neither ot them received a
pennys profit from the transaction
while the bondholders were benefited to
the extent ot millions as the bonds were
put by it from 70 to above par where
they now remain
Since I exposed the fact that no bond-
holders ever complained that Andrews
anu Crouch had no clients that they
went to Europe to find clients that An-
drews and Crouch were all there was to
this persecution and their motive wasjrs
vengc and gain that Andrews
a practicing attorney by guarantee-
ing his dupes Stoop Rjds against
cost and expense as shown by the
letter of Messrs Pick Co which I pub-
lished him clt committed a criminal of-
fense Andrews and Crouch cave taken to
their holes and have not since been seen
and only feebly heard from Bnt the
Herald still continues to scream
Jay Gould
Such is the Corsairs letter
Whom tns god3 wish to destroy they
first make mad
brnUet rheamatlsm swelling
etc In jean and splint rlninone
WfOdKal pteooUefiPTtche eto lnJborEeB
iignra Jtoot Lto > ment t a 8nr caj6f Tho
iug orjHnlmeqfit Is tlvnnlverAcverd cc
Tho
FROM AUSTIN
Gazettes Weekly Compilation
from the State Capital
Austin Tex March 31
Special to the Garcttc
Austin Tex April 9 Todty Maj > r
Holmes the accommodatins and gentle
manly private secretary of Governor Ro s
sitllne at his desk in the executive oflice
asked The Gazkttk scribe whether he
thetcribej had ever had 81000000 In
his hand
Not by a jug full nor ofcy otif r
newepiper man replied The Qazettx
man 3
Well here hold thl3 a momenS said
5Iajor Holmeswho placed in therres
pondents hand nine checks of SliipOOO
eachJ nd one for 827000 drawn byUhe
Treasurer of the Ucited States on ftjL
subTreasury at New Yorkand payable to
the order of the Governor of Ten
Ablgpllo of money aint It said
Holmes
I should smle said the correspond
So the million d MIsrs due Texis for
rontler claim by U cle Sim is now all
afe in the state treasury
The state treasury will pay school war-
rants to and mcludins registered No 200
AttorneyGaneral Hogg received a let
ter today from a prominett merchant la
a small town of North Texas saylnc a
Texas and Facib cflUlsl had passed east
leaving blank afli lavits and petitions to
be signed by business men asserting th
usefulness of the Texas Traffic Associa-
tion and that Its dissolution would work
an iojury to tho small towns while tend
ing to build up the lareerones
O the two million acres belonging to
the State University over one hundred-
th < usand have been lately leaned at fonr
cents an acre as follows Andersoncoun
ty83 320acres Crockett 54400 Callahan
160 Pecos 39680 Tom Green 17760
SacKleford 160
Much of the land was leased under
threats of Commissioner Hall to prose-
cute illegal occupants
G A R KNCAMTMHNT
Special to the Gatette
Austin Tbx April 11 The Grand
Annual State Encampment of the Grand
Army of the R public opens hero today
many members havine come in on tap
mornirg trains At 11 oclock the mem-
bers of the Grand Encampment were es-
corted to the hall of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen corner of Ninth street
and Congress avenue which hid
been artistically decorated for the
occasion Three magnificent Ualted
States iligs ot heroic proportions fes-
tooned the walls while portraits of scenes
of the late war were suspended from
them The following raembars of the
State Encampment were present this
morning others aro expected to
reach the city tonight Col
ncl W H Sinclair of Gslve ton
department commandei A J Ltffrl of
Dallas junior vice commander Colonel
W H G < iflla ot Galveston adjutant gen-
eral A K Taylor of II uston quarter-
master general Dr C B Stoddard of
Austin medicil director David Peikins
of Houston chaplain W D Wylie
cf Dallas judge advocate It B Bier
ol Hsuston andL B Moore of Denison
A B Homer of Galveston D S Brown
Samuel Emerson end J N DHhlcf Fort
Worth G A Knight J C Biegcr
William Long A G Mslloy and J
M Fos3 of Dallas Cspt Buckley
of Gainesville J n Pratt
and J M Elledge of Fort Clark W n
Webberand Herman Krauseof Lampasas
C S Slade of El Paso R L Ferguson of
Temple C G Brewster of Laredo J W
Burke D Friedman C B Stoddard J
J Anderson and J C DeGress of Austin
The Encampment was convened at
11S0 oclock by Commander Sinclair
when Comrade J C Bigger W H Web-
ber and R B Baer were appointed as a
committee on credential and the En-
campment took a recess until 2 oclock
At that honr they met again and the an
Lual addrtss of Commander Sinclair was
read and other business pertaining to the
Welfare of the organization transacted
A communication was read from San An-
tonio inviting the G A It to be present
at the exConfederate reunion In that
city at an early day
The followlnc delegates were elected to
the annual convention at Columbus Olio
September 16 J C Bigger of Dallas
C C Brewster of Liredo and Dr C B
Stoddard of Austin W H Griffln of
Galveston is alternate
Fort Worth was elected the place for
holding the next annual encampment
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year Col J C DeGress of
Austin commander R B Baer of Hous-
ton senior vicecommander SEmerson
of Fort Worth junior vice commander
D Perkins cf Houston chaplain Dr C
B Stoddard of Austin medical director
The following council of administration
were elected D S Brown of Fort Worth
J M Fobs of Dallas J K Pratt cf Fort
Clark C S Sado of El Psso J J An-
derson of Austin
Hlls Vegetable Sicilian Hslr Rsnewer
is becoming aTmiveiksl favorite tor re-
storing gray hair aflts original color and
making hair gro wfyd ck and strong
V
THE JANGWELLS
2h Ejitem Ccmpltc una to bs Tested wltl
File Frcainre TjOay
Yesterday the last of the 115 gang wells
was put dowa with the proper wire gauze
about the openings and the pumps set to
work and notwithstanding the river was
high and the water very muddy that fur-
nished consumers was as clear as crystal
and the wells are a complete success with
one f xception and that question will be
settled to day It is will these wells fur-
nish enouch water for tire purposes To
test this point the Are department will be
out today and a rigid test will be made
IHELiSLOF THE BREWEKIES
NoHorcDcsrlo bs Slannfaetmed In
tho
Stats ot Kansas
Tomka Kan April 11 The decree
in the Seibold Hagelln brewing case in
which the United States Supreme court
recently sustained the constitutionality of
the prohibition law of Kansas was today
signed by Judge Brewer of the United
States Circuit court exceptions of the de-
fendants that the decision cf the Supreme
court did not prohibit them from manu-
facturing and the United States marshal
was today o dered to close up their
brewery at Atchison as a nuisance This
was the last ot the Kansas breweries to
hold out against the prohibition law and
Kansas Is now very dry
Fotherlnghams Cass
St Louis Mo April 11 The Fother
lngham suit against the Adams Express
Company to recover 60000 for false Im-
prisonment was continued today The
witnesses for the young messenger tetsi
fled to the point and stuck to It In an ex-
asperating way that bifllas the monoto-
nous crossexamination Depositions of
Haight and Wlttrock the convicted rob-
bers now In the penitentiary were intro-
duced but did not differ from tho test
mosv in the former trial
miiaur > wt5 s t
wjnbuyfc tattle
Gud bui Ve
ScpjjfA NSfJoOPlUM
ICE
5
yS22
a bottle Au druggists SELL IT
rTJhe gEvrSlis
TKe Debilitated
The Aged
JJRSa tlerrous rtostratlonNervous Hesd
JiUBracia NervousWeakness
Stotfitdh and Liver Diseases and all
T affections of the Kidneys
AS tk NERVE TOHIC It Strengthens
and QuielsyheJverVe
AS AM ALTERATIVE Itrurificscnd
QrJehe tho Blood
VVS A CAXATIVE It nets mildly but
mr < iy 0jrvrfeo fe
ASA DIURETIC It negates the KI < 1
ecjs fad Cures their Sitcora
IteoWilcnded by profes onul an J business men
rnce iok boldly druKgiMs Send fur circulars
W Ll < hJCtlARDSOtl CO Proprietors
BURLINGTON VT
UiNDER PETTICOAT LAW
Tho
Queer Fix ol a Kansas Town
Odkfilaosa Elects a Lady
Haror cud ChooseB
Several nicmbsrsot tho 3ama Sex to Seats
In tho Oonucll A tjerenarto
to th < Victors
Oskaloosa Kan April 4 This place
tho county scat of Jefferon county has
had notoriety and celebrity thrust upon it
by the election which took place yester-
day and which handed over the govern-
ment of the town to the gentler sex
headed by Mrs Mary D Logman for
mayor Telegrams from points fai and
near have rained upon the victors Let-
ters from woman suffragists and long-
haired men fill the boxes at the humble
postoffice and were it not known that all
the ladles are married doubtless
numberless offers ot marriage
would follow K sa3 leads In
many particulars but when it comes
down to actual petticoot government her
position is first and immediately in the
rear of the gorgeous band wagon which
carries the news to Mary Tne newly
elected mayor Is a matronly appearing
lady free from frills and fripnery quite
handsome and just beyond the middle
age She is the mother of two children
and at present is a proficient assistant in
the office of the Register of Deeds which
her bussand nils The chairs and decks
to be filled In the city hall by the Coun
cllwomen are as follows Mrs Sara
E Balsley who is considered
handsome and ot flno appearance
not over thirtyseven end tho
wife of Dr J W Balsley who ranks
high as a practitioner She has been
active in the womans rights movement
for years and is a pleasing talker Mrs
Hannah A Morse while not a stylish
woman in the present interpretation ot
the world i3 very clever in her manner
and cttacts attention by her earnestness
and zeal in the cause the champions
Her husband is s leading member of the
Jefferson County Bar and is loyal to his
wifes ambition Mrs Emma Hamilton
Is the wife ot a land and loan agent
noted for her deeds cf chanty and
in advancing the conditions of her
sex on all occasions Mrs Car-
rie L Johnson is young and
pretty with a decided dash and cirriage
which Indicates her determination to win
the fight for her sex Ht hqsbsnd Is the
cashier of the Oskaloosa Bink Her
tasto for personal and home adornments
are tally gratified Mrs Millie Golden
is the wife of a mtchanlc who is an ex-
pert In bis 1 ne and under his new honors
his hammer han a ring like unto laughter
She Is the youngest of the Council and
boasts a prepossessing cast ot features
which arrests attention Her two bright
little cirls are no burdenjto her loyalty
and zeal but seem to fill her with
a courage that shall leave them a
heritage The issue was no license and
antibilliard hall and the Citizens ticket
was defeated by an average of sixty votes
for each successful woman candidate
The entire female popnlaton was active
and canvassed vigorously for votes Con
slderable chagrin was expressed when
the result was known but It soon passed
oft under the novelty of the situation and
then the boys turned out the cornet band
and gave the successful aspirants a sere-
nade Osksloosa cannot expect a saloon
or pool table for a year and the lower
element is beginning to more to other
pastures
irr
Aricritnra Bltte f aro endorsed by all the
leading physlclanB and nheratsYs for their par-
ity and wholesomeneai Sftif jour grocer and
druggists for the genalodtlcle prepared by
Dr J G B Slegert tf < ntV
Good for Something
Omaha World
Foreign art master Vot you call
dat j
Little boy Dot is von landscape 4
Von landscape ch It look like it
vas von paint scape from dat whltevash
brush
Vat I do burn him
Chuck him In dot barrel mlt dose
otter vasto stuff Maops tioso American
collectors take him
Tho number of hides imported Into En-
gland for home consumption is estimated
at 9000000 per annum which together
with the domestic hides bring the total
number to about 30000000
SfS
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