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VOLUME XUX.
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16.—-The First Republican
'Campaign
ii C1 REE speech, free soil and Fre-
" montr* With this catchy bat-
tiecry the new-born Republican party
In 1856 pitched with zeal into its first
national campaign, which for enthusi-
asm and excitement was to surpass
any Presidential canvass the nation
had seen since the picturesque “log
cabin and hard cider” contest that
took place in 1840.
The campaign for “Tippecanoe and
Tyler too" bad been waged by the
Whigs in ia spirit of hilarious jollity.
But while the Republicans of 1856
sang, hurrahed and paraded with
equal gusto, there was an overtone
of deep gravfty in the political de-
velopments of that summer and au-
tumn. The issue of slavery extension
or freedom lent an unusual moral
fervor to the contest.
In the West there were but two
parties, the Democratic and the Re-
publican. In the Eas; the skeletons
of the Whig and Know-Nothing
parties.still rattled. The main battle
soon was seen to be between the Dem-
ocrats, whose nominee was James
Buchanan, and the newly hatched Re-
publicans with their appealing west-
ern hero, General Fremont, who had
planted the Stars and Stripes on the
highest peak of the-Rocky mountains
and with whom they hoped to plant
their standard victoriously on the
White Bouse. Ex-President Millard
Fillmore, as nominee of the Whjgs
and Know-Nothings, -was destined to
tfe a mere “also-ran.”
The paramount issue for the Re
publicans was in truth as well as fig-
uratively a burning and bleeding one.
In Kansas and Missouri the guerilla
warfare between slavery and anti-
slavery forces struggling for domi-
nance under the Douglas scheme of
“squatter sovereignty” was raging,
with murders and plundering on both
tides. Republicans pointed with hor-
ror to “bleeding Kansas.”
Southern Democrats protested th;.t
their Republican opponents were try-
ing to elect their ticket by “shrieks
for freedom.” The abolitionists had
aroused genuine apprehension In the
slave states. Representative southern
statesmen and newspapers uttered the
threat, which they were grltnly to car-
ry out five years later, ‘that Repub-
» lican victory would be followed by
southern secession. Real fears that
Fremont’s election would mean the
end of the Dnion caused thousands
In the North to vote for Buchanan,
who was pledged not
slavery question.
But the Republicans, deriding south-
ern secession threats as political
“hluff,” swung with keener enthusiasts
Into their long torchlight parades led
by pioneers bearing gleaming axes
temlDfscent of Fremont’s exploits as
a western “pathfinder,” or lustily
joined Rocky Mountain glee clubs in
singing Fremont campaign songs, or
listened in soberer mood in great
mass meetings to exhortations by pub-
llefsits, preachers and poets. <
Clergymen, professors and literary
men, especially those in New England,
the abolitionist stronghold, furnished
to a marked degree the Republican
leadership. The moral aspects of the
slavery question made a strong appeal
to thepj. Bryant and Emerson entered
ively Into the campaign.
Plot of Ground20x20 Feet Produce
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$18.05 Profit for 4-H Club Girl.
On a plot of ground 20 feet by
20 feet, Ima Henderson of Union
Point *4-H Club planted 40 tomato
plants, one row of carrots, and
one row of English peas in the
spring of 1928. This plot meas-
ured 1/80 acre of ground. Thirty
cents was spent for seed and
twenty cents for arsenic of lead.
Ima cared for her garden during
the year, pruning and staking her
tomato plants, keeping a mulch
on the top of the ground to pre-
vent evaporation of moisture
from the soil, and during the
months of July and August dur-
ing the drouth she irrigated her
plot by running water from the
water tank between the rows of
her garden. She gathered 111
pounds of tomatoes which she fig-
tired at a value of fifteen cents
per pound, 18 pounds of carrots
which she figured at ten cents per
bunch, and three gallons of peas
which she figured at twenty cents
per gallon. $2.85 worth of toma-
toes were sold in Jacksboro and
the money used to purchase her
club materials for 1929. The rest
of the production was used fresh
and canned at home. A total val-
ue of $18.55 minus an expense of
50 cents for seed and insect con-
trol, equaled $18.05 profit from
1/20 acre of soil. A whole acre of
soil at this value would have pro-
duced a profit of $1,444.00, minus
cost of labor which the child did
inot figure.
Citizen Coolidge Takes a Walk f! Mineral Wells °PP°ses Jacksboro- $55.00 Investment Makes Profit of
Battery “F” to Banquet.
The members of Battery “F‘”
will be honored with a banquet
next Tuesday evening at the
American Cafe. The . hour has
been set at 7 o ’clock so that mem-
bers who so desire may be free to
attend the revival services. All
members are urged to attend the
banquet.
JackCounty Man Tops HogMarket.
Jack County furnished the top
load of hogs on the Fort Worth
market Tuesday. They were sent
in by T. H. Cherryhomes, J%ckd-
boro, who furnishes the Fort
Worth market each year with a
number .of cars of cattle and hogs,
and they always sell in the top
ow. This load consisted of 50
barrows that averaged 233 pounds
to stir op the and sold at $10.95. They were
very uniform and of good quality
and were hogs that had been rais-
ed by Cherryhomes. The sales
were made by the Farmer Com-
mission Company and the hogs
were bought by Swift and Com-
pany.—Fort Woth Star-Telegram.
Yon couldn’t exactly call this picture “Roamin’ in th’ Gloamin’," but
Grace and Cal are enjoying a little stroll down Massasoit street, Nor-
thampton, Mass., on which they live now. Surely you remember Cal—used to
be President, you know.
Wild Animal Show Coming Next
Saturday.
Advance agents of the Honast
Bill and Moon Bros. Shows were
here last week billing the to\$n
Pecan Budding School.
Arlington, Texas, April 1.—An
attendance of over 500 persons is
expected for the opening session
of the pecan school which is being
fostered by the North Texas Ag-
for their big animal show whieh • J t> q
is to be in -Jacksboro next Satar- °- *
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abolitionist sentiment with her famous
“Uncle Tom’s Cnhin.” published an-
other anti-slavery novql.
; Southerners, convinced that the in-
•stitntlon of slavery was a beneficent
one. were wounded by the bitterness
Df these northern lenders denouncing
their system, and felt that the North
was displaying fanatical hntmf when
Long- j northern preachers thundered atJtl-
day, April 6th, at the ball pamk,
under the auspices of the fire de-
partment. Two performances will
be given—in the afternoon at 2
o’clock.*and at 7:30 in the even-
ing. The afternoon performance
will follow immediately after the
big street parade which .will begin
about one o’clock.
A representative of the show
seated that they had $75,000.(K)
worth of wild animals which in-
cluded elephants, eamels, lions,
bears, monkeys, trained ponies
and dogs. They also invite the
owners of outlaw horses and
mules to bring them to^the show
and let their cowboys ride them.
The show will be at Bryson on
Friday, with the features and at-
tractions which are listed in their
advertisement in this issue of the
Gazette. v
Earl and Erwin Neely are now
at Huntsville where they’have ac-
cepted positions. Their wives will
follow in a few days. . ’
Gray of the local faculty has an-
nounced. The membership of the
North Texas Pecan Growers Asso-
ciation has been invited to partic-
ipate in the opening exercises.
The. pecan school, which will
last from April 8 through April
12, is the first organization of this
sort ever to be initiated dealing
solely with the subject of pecans.
A strong faculty for the session,
headed by Prof. J. F. Roseborough
of the Extension Service of the
Texas A. & M. College, will pro-
vide instruction.
Work in the school will center
largely about problems of pecan
propagation and of top-working
native pecan trees. Patch bud-
ding, skin budding, chip budding,
and bark grafting will be thor
Fort Worth Highway.
Fort Worth, March 29.—Dele-
gations of business men from
Mineral Wells and Weatherford,
representing the highway com-
mittees ^md chambers of com-
merce of those cities, were told by
County Commissioner Boaz and
Hubb Diggs, member of the high-
way department of the Fort
i Worth Chamber of Commerce,
that bonds had been voted in Tar-
rant County for the Jacksboro
Highway, that arangements had
been made with the State to des-
ignate the route, and that the
path could not be abandoned now.
The route, is due northwest from
Fort Worth.
This was told the delegations at
a meeting at the Association of
Commerce yesterday afternoon.
Representatives of the Associa-
tion of Commerce and county offi-
cials were resent.
^The Mineral Wells and Weath-1
erford groups protested the air-
line route to Jacksboro, and ask-
ed that it be changed to follow the
present highway through Weath-
erford and Mineral Wells, with
new construction continuing
through Graford, Graham and to
Lubbock.
The visitors were told that both
routes had been considered, the
air line route and the one via
Weatherford, Mineral Wells, Gra-
ford to Graham. While commit-
ted to the airline route, the Fort
Worth men agreed to use their in-
fluence in' every way possible to
further the building of another
highway from Mineral Wells via
Graford to Graham.
Present at the conference were:
C. E. Turner, Allen H. Guinn and
W. H. Roach of the Mineral Wells
highway committee; John Cham-
berlin, manager of the Mineral
Wells Chamber of Commerce.
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From a flock of 147 underfed
and underdeveloped white leg-
horn chickens Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Bailey culled 92 in the fall of
1927, and started* the year of 1928
with 55 while leghorn hens that
measured, according to Standards
of; culling, to good producing
hens. Food purchased during the
year amounted to $10.9J. Grain
sorghum heads and small shelled
grains' produced at home which
was fed the flock totaled a value
of $14.00. Egg production from
those 55 hens during 1928 totaled
5,004 eggs which was an average
of 91 eggs per hen. 81 fryers
were sold and used at home dur-
ing the year. Anl average of 30c Slj^
per dozen for eggs sold on the lo-
cal market was obtained during
the year. . The record books kept
by Mrs. Bailey showed that a
tiorf profi
production profit during 1928 of }
$185.90 was made, and an increas-
ed value of flock of $40.19 above
the $55.00 value of the flock of
January, 1927, was made. These
records show that approximately
50c worth of feed was fed to each
fowl during the year, and an aver- ■
age return of approximately $4;6o
per hen was realized. s
City Election Held, v |
In ,the city election held last '
Tuesday, W. H. Breech was elect- :
ed mayor with 183 votes, defeat-
ing R. H. Austin, who received/;’
142 votes, by a majoritv of 41. R,
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elected
and street commissioner, respect-
ively, without opposition. j |
42 votes, by a majority of 41. R.
j. Gwaltney and Gus Jone.\were
lected as water commissioner ‘
could not arise, he explained, -
Davidson of Weatherford
brought up the question of W1
building the Bankhead Highwi
from Weatherford west to th£,*g
and J. M. Davidson, a member of j Parker*-Palo Pinto County line
the Weatherford highway com-
mittee; Dick Boaz, Joe Schooler
and Harve Wright, Tarrant Coun-
ty commissioners; Hubb Diggs
and Leon Gross of the aviation
committee of the Association of
Commerce; Ed McRae, manager
of the tourist bureau of the Asso-
ciation of Commerce;
Lancaster of the transportation
department of the Waples-Platter
Grocer Company, and E. E. Allen,
local automobile dealer.
Chamberlin declared that the
present routing of the highway
was unfair to Weatherford and
Mineral Wells, as it would ex-
clude those cities from an artery
oughly considered. The college ’°f important travel,
will make use of native groves i He also warned that Fort Worth
near the campus where trees have|was jeopardizing itself because of
been in the process of being top- p0SSiijilitv that Dallas might
worked for one vear and longer, .... , 1, , , , r , .
giving the students an opportnnU bmId a cu‘-°ff and lead travel
ty of obseving the work in all of tbeir city. If the present high-
its various stages. I way is followed, such a situation
□
The Old Villain
lojv canceled a trip to I^iirope in
order to be In America to vote. Whit-
tier begsed votes for Fremont in pas-
sionate verse. Harriet Beecher Stowe,
who previously bad stirred np so much
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slavery sermons from their pulpits
and uttered publfc prayers for Bu-
chanan's defeat.
Sonfherp fears of “Black Repub-
lican" victory, while not wholly idle,
proved to he premature. The election
went against the Republicans. But
the popular vote of 1,341.264 for Fre
mnnf ns against 1.838,16!) for Buchan-
an was a surprising demonstration of
strength hy a new third party in Its
first national election. Tt gave prom-
ise of future success and inspired
heightened apprehension among its
spponents.
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THE who always is
HOUERIRJG 1FORE"
How Franklin Proved
Fitness for Position
Benjamin Franklin, at nineteen
years old, visited London, He was In
search of work and went straight to
a printing office. The foreman was
rather disdainful and said:
“Ah. a lad frpm American seeking
employment ns a printer! Well, do
you really understand the art of print
Ing? Can you set type?”
Young Franklin stepped to one ot
the cases and In a brief space set up
these words from the first chapter of
John’s gospel: “Nathanael said unto
him, Can any good thing come out of
Nazareth? Philip said unto him
Come and see.” The text conveyed
| such a delicate rebuke, and the work
was done so quickly and accurately
that a position wap granted trim at
once.
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16 miles, which he said was ne
ed. It was then suggested
Diggs and agreed by all j
to invite State Highway
sioner Ely and State 1
Engineer Gilchrist to jc
sentatives from the chambers
commerce of Fort Worth, Mil
al Wells and Weatherford
county^ officials from Tt
Parker and Palo Pinto Count
in an inspection of the prc
Jacksboro route, the road . _
Mineral Wells, and the Bankhead
Highway from Weatherford to
the.Palo Pinto County line, with
the view of improving all these
highways.—Mineral Wells Index.
The Gazette believes that it will
be interesting to Jack County-
folks to learn that citizens of the
neighboring city on the south op- //
poses more highways for Jack
County, especially after citizens
of Jacksboro and Perrin ha^e
[tried to help in their efforts to get ’ ■
a new road over the famous nine-'&*f*i
mile gap—even to sending citi-
zens ' befoi*e the State Highway
Commission. Among the protest-
ing delegates was the secretary of
the Mineral Wells Chamber of
Commerce who has been a wel-
come guest here on several, oeca-.
sions, and also the manager of a
utilities company that receives
several thousand dollars business
from Jacksboro each month.
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Dennis, J. R. The Jacksboro Gazette (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 4, 1929, newspaper, April 4, 1929; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth730042/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.