Daily Democrat. (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 275, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 13, 1880 Page: 2 of 4
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The Democrat.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 13, 18S0.
For;President,
W. S. HANCOCK,
Of Pennsylvania.
For Vice-President.
WM. H. ENGLISH,
Of Indiana.
Democratic State, Ticket.
For”Governor
ORAN M. ROBERTS,
Of Smith County.
For Lieut. Governor,
L. J. STORY,
Oi Caldwell County.
For Appellate Judge,
J. M. HUET,
Of Dallas County.
For Attorney General,
J. H. McLEAEY,
Of^Bexar County.
For Comptroller,
W. M. BROWN,
Of Falls'County.
For Treasurer,
F. E. LUBBOCK,
Ol Galveston County.
For] Land Commissioner,
W.C. WALSH,
Ot Travis County.
friends who never fail to injure
his cause by their over zealous
advocacy of his “claims.”
The reduction of the national debt dur-
ing the last month was $8,974,881. For
the past quarter it was $26,573,115.
These figures proclaim in unanswerable
fashion the results of Republican admin-
istration, and may be conned to advan-
tage by those who are clamorous for a
“change.”—Denison Herald.
The figures of the above may be good
but the conclusions of the Herald rather
puzzles us. Has the Herald flopped, or
anything of the kind?—Sherman-Courier.
Not at all. Just a little indis-
cretion in editing with the shears
that’s all. Very few thieves steal
judiciously. We file a caveat on
the remark that the Democrat is
an expert in the business.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS,
State at large,
E. B. HUBBAED,
J. W. THROCKMORTON.
Alternates,
W. H. POPE,
Ot Harrison.
W. PI. CEAIN,
Of Lavaca.
First district—J. H. Jones, of
Eusk county, elector; James E.
Hill, of Polk county, alternate.
Second district—C. B. Kilgore,
of Van Zandt county, elector; J. G.
Dudley, of Lamar, alternate.
Third district—S. W.T. Lanham,
of Parker, elector; E. 0. Foster, of
Graham, alternate.
Fourth district—E. A. Jones, of
McLennan, elector; Scott Feld, of
Eobertson, alternate.
Fifth district—John Hancock,
of Travis, elector; B. F. Dunn, of
Fayette alternate.
Sixth district—John A. Baker,
of Bexar, elector; E. D. Linn, of
Victoria, alternate.
For Congress,
OLIN WELLBORN.
For Representative, 17th Legislature.
B. B. PADDOCK.
If you think labor is not scarce
in Texas just step out and try to
employ some one to cut you a
cord of wood.
The darkey’s hour is just be-
fore dawn, when he sallies forth
to raise a pullet from a neighbor-
ing hen-roost.
The minister pronounces man
and wife one, but it is not known
until the honeymoon is over which
one he makes them.
The weather for the last few
days has been, gilt-edged, and the
farmers are taking advantage of
it to gather their cotton.
When the Democrat adver-
tised for one thousand cotton
pickers for Tarrant county it was
said that the boll worm had obvi-
ated the necessity for extra help,
but we see the farmers looking
anxiously for cotton pickers “all
the same.”
Those cabilistic figures, 329,
are making their appearance in
every town in the North and the
scrubbing brigade are busily en-
gaged in erasing them. But they
reappear with stubborn regularity.
The Eepublicans would be glad
to forget them, but like Banquo’s
ghost they will not down at their
bidding.
It would have been better for Throck-
morton’s senatorial aspirations, perhaps,
if his chief deputies had not taken so
much stock for Roberts in the contest for
the gubernatorial nomination.—Independ-
ent Blade.
It would be better for Throck-
morton’s aspirations if he could
apply the gag to his indiscreet
Fort Worth is happy over the pros-
pect of having a branch of the Gull, Col-
orado and Santa Fe Railroad. “ There’s
rnanya slip ’twixt the cup and the lip,”
and we would advise the denizens of Fort
Worth not to halloa before they are out
of the woods.— Weatherford Herald.
But Fort Worth doesn’t do bus-
iness in a “ slip ’’-shod way. It as-
certains what is necessary to be
done, and then goes ahead and
does it. The Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe is coming to Fort
Worth, and so is the M., K. & T.,
and the Young Giant is to be the
metropilis of North Texas—and
don’t you let it escape your memo-
ry. •
The distance required for stop-
ping railroad trains increases very
rapidly with the increase of
speed. In experiments made in
England the Westinghouse brake
stopped a train moving at the rate
of 41i miles an hour at a point
only 485 feet distant from the
place where the brake was ap-
plied; but when the speed was
increased to 61 miles an hour the
distance run after the application
of the brake was 1185 feet, and at
a speed of 68 miles an hour the
train ran 2,005 feet after the brake
was applied.
The Graham Leader, after read-
ing the threats of vengence dire
made by the Dallas Herald, arrives
at the conclusion that “ it will be
a grand thing for Texas if Fort
Worth can hold the fort. The
energies of Dallas will then be
aroused, and railroads will then be
made by her energetic capitalists
that will open new routes all
through the state. Galveston can
well afford / a fair divide of any
appropriations to Texas harbors,’
in order to have all the state so
greatly benefit ed by Dallas en-
terprise and Dallas money. The
G. C. & S. F. E. E. has no right to
flank Dallas.” We can say to the
Leader that the Young Giant still
holds the fort and will continue
to do so.
We would hate to live in a coun-
try where there was no agricultural
success, where people depended
upon manufactures, stock raising,
mining, or any of the industrial
pursuits [except agriculture. We
did not know until yesterday what
a terrible trial the people haye
who live out of the agricultural
regions. But yesterday we picked
up the Dallas Herald and read this
paragraph.
Take away trom a state, from any geog-
raphical of political subdivision of the
universe, agricultural prosperity and suc-
cess, and you bring upon it absolute ruin.
Everything else stands still. There may
be railroads, but no trains will pass over
them ; there may be manufactories with-
out end, but no hum of machinery will be
heard, no swilt moving fingers of opera-
tives be seen. There may be mercantile
houses, great and small, “but the Spiders
will spin their webs from the shelves, and
the dust ot disuse accumulate on their
counters, while the hinges of the doors
will grow rusty tor want of opening.
There may be navigable streams, but the
paddle wheels of no steam vessels will
ever disturb their waters, no sailing ves-
sel will ever disturb their placid bosoms.
The condition ot affairs will be something
like that depicted by Byron in his poem
“ Darkness “The blind and blackened
earth” would swing “in the moonless
air and all would be darkness.” Sailing
vessels would lay without a tremor upon
the pulseless ocean and the rottening masts
would fall into the still waters, making no
splash. Hopeless men and women, gaunt
with hunger, fearful to behold with the
ingrown expression of dread and horror
on their faces, would gather around the
dying embers of smouldering cities they
had burned as a borrowed light, by which
to behold their own ghastliness and be-
holding, had swooned or fled affrighted
away, till all were dead saye one linger-
ing wretch and his faithful dog, and when
he, too, died, then, with a wail of woe
that had no echo in the cavernous night,
the dog found light on the shores of the
hereafter, .and the eyeless earth sobbed
out its weary existence with the heart
throbs of an anguish that tnade eternity
weep.
We are going to send a marked
copy of the paper to the New
England States and to manufact-
uring districts of Old England, to
let the people see what a hard
time they are having.
FORT \V ORTH VS. SHERMAN.
If Sherman men were made of the same
metal that Fort-Worth men are, Sherman
would stand to-day without a rival in the
state. Last week the citizens in a very
short time and with but little trouble
raised by voluntary subscription seventy-
five thousand dollars as a donation to se-
cure the building of thb Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe Railroad to that place. Imme-
diately thereupon a surveying corps was
ordered to duty on the line and work will
begin at once. Such enterprise will al-
ways win success. Fort Worth is destined
to be a railroad centre, while Sherman will
be-Sherman; and if it ever advances
much beyond what it is, we will have to
go to work and shape our own destiny ;
no one else is going to shape it lor us.—
Sherman Democrat.
Don’t be discouraged. Sherman
is far enough distant from Fort
Worth to be quite a rsspectable
village. Of course, every place
can not aspire to the prominence
that Fort Worth is destined to
possess, but they can emulate its
pluck and energy and be benefit-
ed by imitating its example.
“THE FORT IS BOOMING.”
Every state paper we pick up
has at the head of its column of
“State Items” this line: “Fort
Worth is booming.” Such unan-
imous expression of the truth can
not fail to attract attention—and
Fort Worth is booming. Every
branch of business in the city is
increasing and expanding each
day. Not only the wholesale
trade but every retail establish-
ment shows a marked increase in
business. Not only is trade in-
creasing, but in all parts of the
city improvements of various
kinds are going on. Business
houses are being constructed in
the centers of trade. Frame
buildings are being removed or
torn down to make room for state-
ly and more substantial edifices
of brick and stone. Dwelling
houses are in demand more rapid-
ly than they can be supplied.
There are no idlers on the streets,
and, in fact, there is not labor
enough to supply the demand.
Every artery of business in the
city is coursing rapidly and every
nerve is strung to its utmost ten-
sion to keep pace with the ac-
tivity that is everywhere visible.
Fort Worth has never been a lag-
gard, and has never been cursed
with old fogy notions or illiberal
business men. Within the last
month her citizens have contribu-
ted the splendid sum of one hun-
dred and twenty thousand dollars
for public improvements. The
subscriptions to the Gulf, Color-
ado and Santa Fe road, the new
compress, and tlie Fort Worth,
Cleburne and Austin Telegraph
Company aggregate this sum; and
not only this, Fort Worth is able
and willing to do more. Let it be
demonstrated that any project is
for the glory or benefit of Fort
Worth and her plucky and enter-
prising citizens will come forward
with money in their hands to in-
sure the enterprise. Such is the
character ol our people, such the
enterprise of our citizens, that
Fort Worth must “boom.” Add-
ed to this spirit and energy, the
god of nature has endowed Fort
Worth with advantages that can-
not fail to make it the metropolis
of North Texas. Blessed with a
commanding attitude, with health-
ful surroundings, with beautiful
scenery to delight thd sense of
sight, underlaid with an exhaust-
less volume of the purest and
most healthful water probed by
more than thirty artesian wells,
surrounded with a boundless ter-
ritory of the most productive
laud rapidly being placed in a high
state of cultivation, it is destined
at no distant day to take the lead
of all the cities of Texas. Truly
“Fort Worth is booming” and
will continue to “boom.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR COUNTY JUDGEJ,
We are authorized to announce the
name of
R. E. Beckham.
as a candidate lor County .Judge at the
eusuing election.
FOR DISTRICT. CLERK.
We are authorized to announce
J. M. Hartsfield,
as a candidate for re-election to the office
of District Clerk of Tarrant county.
For County Treasurer.
We are authorized to announce
W. T. Ferguson,
as a candidate for re-election to the office
of county treasurer, at the ensuing elec-
tion.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
4 J. B. Boyd,
as a candidate tor County Treasurer, at
the ensuing general election.
FOR SHERIFF.
to announce the
We are authorized
name of
J. M. Henderson
as a candidate for re-election to the'offlce
of sheriff of Tarrant county at the'ensu-
ing election.
We are authorized to announce
Walter T. Maddox,
as a candidate for the office of Sheriff of
Tarrant county, at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
D. M. Thomas
as a candidate for sheriff at the ensuing
general election.
For County Surveyor.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
J. J. Goodfellow,
as a candidate for County Surveyor of
Tarrant county, at the ensuing general
election.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
S. H. Holmes
as a candidate for commissioner for pre-
cinct No. one, at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce ;the
name of
C. A. Daniel
as a candidate for commissioner of 'pre-
cinct No. 1, at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
Thos. B. Maddox.
as a candidate for re-election to the office
of County Commissioner, of Precinct No.
four at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce the name
Wm. Harrison,
as a candidate for re-election to the office
of County Commissioner, of Precinct No.
two, at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
J. B. Andrews,
as a candidate for i e-election to the office
of Counfy Commissioner, for Precinct No.
three, at the ensuing election.
For District Judge.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
Judge A. J. Hood,
as a candidate lor Judge of the 29tli Judi-
cial district, at the ensuing eleotion.
FOR COUNTY CLERK.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
Frank Adams
as a candidate for county clerk at .the* en-
suing election.
We; are authorized to announce the
name of
M. W. McLamore,
as a candidate for;;County; Clefk at the
ensuing election.
We areauthorized to announce the name
of
J. W. Adams
as a candidate lor County Clerk at the en-
suing general election.
We are requested to announce the
name oi
John W. Swayne,
as a candidate for County Clerk, at ;the
ensuing general election.
We are authorized to announce the
name ot
J .P. Lipscomb,
for the office of County Clerk at"the on-
suing election. **
FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
Joseph Nugent
as a candidate for collector of taxes el
Tarrant county at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
Tobe Johnson
as a candidate for Tax Collector at the
ensuing general election.
We are authorized to annonounce the
name of
J. R. Law
as a candidate for Tax Collector at the
ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
Dan Parker,
as a candidate lor Tax Collector at the en-
suing general election.
Look Here.
It you want a good ‘-rig,” single or
double—good saddle horses—or an outfit
for the road, call at Wilkes' stable, corner
of Rusk and Second street. tf
FOR ASSESSOR.
We are authorized to announce the
name of
Henry C. Johnson,
[not Tobe]
of Fossil creek, as a candidate for assessor
at the ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce
C. G. Mitchell
as a candidate for county assessor at the
ensuing election.
We are authorized to announce
Wm. D. Hall,
as a candidate tor assessor, at the ensuing
election. m
Iron11 Mountain Route.
FACTS !
The St. Louis,
iron Mountain &
Southern Railway,
With its connections, forms the best ro t e from
Fort Worth toJSt. Louis and all points in the
WEST, NOETII and EAST. I [
Pullman’s
Palace Sleep-
ing cars aud
new and ele-
gant coaches
_ m run from Fort
Wort, Texas, to St. Louis without change.
THE
(DAILY AND WEEKLY.)
AM Tarrant County in Particular.
^rTTT^lTt j^i 9Tlly °ne .change of
Foit Worth, Texas,
Kansas City,
Cleveland
Cincinnati,
Buffalo,
Washington,
Philadelphia,
Chicago,
Louisville,
Indianapolis,
Pittsburgh,
Baltimore,
New York,
And ST. LOUIS is the point where
passengers via the
Iron Mountain Route
Make connections with
9
THROUGH FAST
To all Points West,
North and Bast!
THE TRACK!
sis thoroughly
Ian-1 substan-
tially built, a
large portion laid with steel rails, the entire
nient of the most modern cone
passenger equipment of the most modern cone
struction, combining every improvement to se-
cure iho comfort and safety of passengers, in-
cluding the celebrated Westinghouse Air Brake
and Miller’s Safety Platform. To secure thes.
advantages, see that your ticket reads via ST-
LOU1S, IRON MOUNTAIN AND SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.
Rates Always as Low as bucotber Line
Full add reliable information in regard to
this popular line, with maps, time tables, rates,
etc., will be cheerully furnished by calling
upon or writing to
Hi W. STOCKING,
AgentT. &P. R’y
Fort Wdrtit, Texas.
A. W SOPER, O. W.RUGGLES,
Gen’l Supt., Gen’l Pass. Ag’t,
St. Louis. st. Louis
Houston & Texas Central Railway
AND CONNECTION!.,
The only Line running through the Central and
best portions of the Staw of Texas.
Passenger Express Trains
Daily Fast Freight Lipes !
BETWEEN
T E3 X X s
—AND—
Kansas City, St. Lous and Chicago ! IJI|
Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Oars
Each way, daily, without change,
BETWEEN ST. LOUIS & HOUSTON
via ^EDALIa and
Missouri Paoiflo Railway.
THE SHORT LINE.
Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars
Each way, without change,
BETWEEN DALLAS & ST. LOUIS
via VINiTA, and
St. Louis & San Francisco R'y.
EUROPE!
THROUGH TICKETS
From or to any point in. Great Britain or Conti-
nent of Europe, via the
Houston & Texas Central R'y.
And all-rail to New York, thence via
NORTH GERMAN LLOYD,
WHITE STAR & INMAN
STEAMSHIP LINES.
On sale at the following stations:
Houston, Calvert, Bremond,
Brenham, Waco, McKinney,
Hempstead, Whitney, Sherman,
Austin, Morgan, Denison,
Navasota, Corsicana, Dallas,
Bryan, Hearne,
Speeial inducements to emigrants and people
desiring to settle in the state.
!BY HELPING IT,"
Send In Your Names.
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circulation is larger than all the
other papers combined.
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rates, and in short notice.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED,
COMPETENT WORKMEN.
IN CONNECTION WITH THE
DEMOCRAT OFFICE
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83= For informotion as to rates of passage
and freight, routes, etc., apply in person, or by
letter, to:
J. K. HOGAN, Gen. Immigration Agent.
E. D. TRUE. A. G. F. A.
C. B. GRAY, A. G. P. A.
A. H. SWANSON, General Supt.
J. WALDO. General F. & t*. a,
HOUSTON, TEXAS,
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