Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Kilbournc's Damage Suit aud His Conn.
Voorhees, aud Blaine.
General Shermans Military 0bsequics--
His Official Death Struggles.
The Parks and Statuary of Monumental
Washington.
Cox, Carlisle and Randall - Senator
Cokc's Position.
ny Tclegrapn and Mali 10 tho oa,oltc

ny telegraph and Mall TO tho Gazette.
Washington, November 5,-Kii-
bourne, who sues the government for
$4,000 for false Imprisonment, n hold
and dashing and brilliant. nv was
incarcerated, your readers will
remember, because he refused, when
brought 10 the bar of the house, to an.
swer questions pertaining to his own
and the private business affairs of 9th
ers. He was sent TO Jail and kent
there by Thompson, doorkeeper of the
house. He SUES Thompson, viii re-
cover damages and properly, but he is
not 10y amy mcaus eutitled to the ex-
travagant sum of S350,0O0 clnimed, or
the sum awarded ON the former trial.
Bat Dan Voorhees, Is kilbuurae's
lawyer, and juries are addicted
10 verdicis as Voorhees, writes them.
What n magnificent advocate was
spoiled when he was lost in the sem
ate. Even as Blaine, l.iatchless ia hot
debate In the house, fell even TO medic
ocrity, where Edmunds, Thurman. Coke
andGarticld address the cold reason and
intelligence of the country. lIdmunds.
aud not Blaine or Voorhees,. would
ndorn place ON the supreme conrt
bench even rs Noorhees's splendid Pc
Mus would make him an unrivAled
leader In the popular branch of
congress.
SHERMAN, THE GENERAL, DEPuNCE
with grand flourish aud rattling
Of brass buttons and epaulettes Gen.
sherman ut last has gone down into
the tomb of private life, Gen. Phil
Sheridan crawling into his old clothes.
Shernlan's demise, as general, was
most difficult To terminate. lie died
hard, For the past three years the
newspapers have been talking about
the sad event, sherman himself
was interviewed ON this sad sub
Ject twice or thrice each week.
that mnuldnd might know lust how tho
old man felt about II aud how he was
not grioved that he must 20. He used
moral hair dye most earnestly, eyer
seeking 10 impress the country with
the conviction that he WIS ever will
ing To 20, ana that old age did not
write truthful history of ilyIup
years In crevicos beneath his eyes. He
WIZ jerlSy In wit aud movements
rather than elastic, and everybody
having to smile. when II general
was funny, the old fellow was always
eNcruciatingly jocular. He went about
Attending old sul,iiers' reunions and
affected epigranmatlc bitter speeches
that signlfled nothing, while The less
lpquncious Grant always talked prac-
tictl horse sense.
rHEsoLDiER IN GOVERNMENT.
Hut sherman, the general, we nre
happy 10 say, IL no more, He was n
thorough soldier, II master of his art,
and this demunisn called war with
him WAS II fine art. He was right
about IT, War means domonlsm. IL
means death and ruin and desolatlon.
aud poverty, dissolution and suffering
and human anguish. sherman, Ike
his SUCCESSOR Sheridan, was the nn-
of all that Is hateful and
horrible In war. Vice and crimo were
heir footprints and sayAgcry spranp
up In paths they trod. And
yet the cOuntry's capital IL
)nly adorned with conspicuous
10 Shermnna Sheridan.
they have lirted up good odd Abe,n
Who shuddcred when each drop OF
,lood was spilled ON n white haTber's
Jole, hard by the GAzE1TEs WASH
ngton Office on 4 street, aud George
asa soldier on mon
trous horse adorns a remote park two
e MANI , ar I aod v"V an 9,a9n
lac fame of Sheridans aud Shermans.
\ stranger visiting Washington and
'iewing It's monuments would esteem
y nation of soldiers and people
ddicted TO war and delighted that
hc statoshad been forced or led intothis
onl, detestable, brutalizing business.
Wise patriotism would have Civ.
n this imperishablc renown to
Iuman virtues and not TO
Of lawless crime.
I Is OF the soldier and not OF
he man that we speak. Should not
iarshall or Adams. or jay. or Madison
e hnnorcd first by those who would
erpeluate government Of law and
liberty? And yet Americans lud here
10 oul-doDr popular monument 10 toll
4 the virtues and fame of the match
l.a ,,l,t,.l iuuiica ,,r of Ha,t,ffsnu nt