The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-02-29
Warrington LETTER.
Tho OIcomargnrine city IN winner
and Why-HOw Don Cameron
Talks and Livcs--A Mistake
-WashingtOn's Grave.
Correspondence OF The Herald.
WAsuINGToN, February

Correspondence OF The Herald.
WAsuINGToN. February 20, 1880.
Democratic opinion seems TO have
reached the conclusion ut last that the
national executive committee determined
properly that tho national Democratic con-
yeniion should sit in Cincinnati. Missouri
is certainly Democratic and Illinois Ms GER
rainly Republican and there was nothing
10 be gained be holding the convention in
Chicago or st. Louis and therefor tho selec-
ton of Cincinnati. A little soft soap, il Cleo
margarine may not serve better purpose
might induce the hog and hominy city and
State to reverse its recent course, and CO.
operating with Gentleman George, Pendle-
: toni vote the straight Democratic ticket.
The possibility of such results induced the
committee to prefer Cincinnati. The most
hopeful feeling prevades party leaders, none
seeming to doubt the coming triumph Of the
Democracy.
now DON CAMERON TALKS.
Don Cameron was interviewed Tuesday by
reporter for the southwestern press. He
says Don lives in royal splendor, but tolls
day and night like galley-save. Don's
residence was built by Boss Shepherd for his
own use. 1t is simply magnificent in Its out
lines, in materials in architectural design,
and especially superb in its adornmonts. The
chairs are covered with the richest,
thickest satin brocado Carpets are Of
silken texture and soft as the winds of
summer time that toy with tresses of Texan
maidens. Mirrors adjoining the parlors are
Is feet wide, and 10 or 20 feet in height.
Don's study and workshop and political ibra-
ry arc in the basement, and therehe plots the
reelection of Grant He makes no conceal
ment of his preference for the ex-President
and subordinates every consideration to this
devotion to Grant He says Grant, potent
even in Texas; that ex-soldiers of the South
prefer him to any Republican and to Til
deu. But the willy Pennsylvania says
that he will adopt no measures
contemplating the revolution in the South
by which Democracy may be overthrown,
unless Grant be nominated If this result
be achieved by the Republican National con-
vention, the South will be invaded every
where by Republican orators and newspapers.
In fact, Hays Southern policy, as originally
practiced, and as defined in his inaugural
address, and as applied to Louisiana, will be
Grants programme. Blaine and Sherman
put aside the bloody shirt because it was in
sisted that Grant was the man
to repress Southern violence and
Blaine and Sherman instantly
discovered that the South wasn't half AS bad
as it was three or four months ago. In fact
they and their newspapers begin to confess
that the negro is better cared for and more
esteemed anywhere in the South than in
Kansas or Indiana. Don Cameron still
thinks that Thad. Stevens was properly
apotheosized, but doesn't seem to care about
the revivifcaton of the old mad man's
flerceness, and thus we Lave all the
Republican candidates for the Presidency
looking to the South with share of hopeful
ness, but Don Cameron has most faith in
Grants strength south of the Ohio.
However ardent and adroit and powerful
the great master of Pennsylvania, it is hardly
possible that his AIMS can be consummated
Parties in Tennessee are in frightful condi-
ton, and in South Carolina there is some
confusion, as in Texas, but no Democrat con-
curs with Senator Cameron in believing that
Grant should be nominated because he can
carry Southern State.
THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE AND SENATOR CoKE.
The Advocate hardly deals fairly with
Senator Coke, who has declared again and
again that he always believed the legal-tender
act to be unconstitutional. But the Supreme
court, organized for the purpose, declared
the law unconstitutional and Coke is silenced.
If the question de novo came before the
Senator he would, Of course, vote against the
legal-tender bill But it is the law of the
land, and everybodys convictions are bourd
by the decree of the Supreme court. The
law is constitutional; in fact whatever our
theories and reasoning, and the constitution
itself deprives Coke of the right to lessen the
value or credit of this war debt. The Sena-
tor abides by the constitution and the law as
it is, the Advocate as the law should be. But
the importance Of difference between Coke
and Bayard are certainly exaggerated, while
Coke esteems Bayard highly and
proposes to support him ar
IDENTIFY if he be nominated
wAsHINGToN's HONESTY his TOMB.
A great multitude visited Mt Vernon
Monday--vour correspondent among the
rest. A lady from the Louise house, weary
of life without care and without purpose
accompanied him. Like all those domi.
ciled there, most of them widows of Confed.
crate soldiers, and Of the first families Of
the South, she, too, having not want un.
provided Tor anu Win lnc income OF Inc AT
fington hotel devoted to her maintenance
she, too, confesses that the philosophy oil
Rasselas and of Juvenal convey truthful
lessons, and that contentment does not con.
sist in the absence of care or freedom from
toll. The cage is beautiful and full of de-
lights, but like Sterne's startling, The "cant
get out"
The Ladies' Mt. Vernon association guarC
the tomb and home and relics Of Washing
ton with treless care. Armed men are Their,
and electric bells would ring an alarm
If i were sought to rob Washington's ssrco.
phagus, ac happened of Lincolns and A. T
Stewards. People commonly wear solemn
aspects and talk reverenily Of the virtues oi