Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
How the Dessh Of z. J. Davis is Con-
tempIated at the Capital.
The Ex- Governors Extraordinary Ca
reer His Idiosyncrasies and Su-
periority in Texas.
The Negroes Left Without Leader e
Who Will Take His Place.

question arises, ana may occupy the
attention OF cabinet meeting, who,
now that Ex-Governor Davis is no
more, shall dispose Of public plumber
in your state? Will the position Of
the late grand almoner in Texas, for
our elective monarchy be transferred TO
Tom Ochiltree, or given over to the
no less redoublable Colonel Bob Taylor
of Fannin county? Colonel Bob ~
already in the capital. Ex-United
States Marshal Russell. II General
Dudley, Jno. G.. New and Indiana aud
Ohio republicans controlled the de-
c'aion, would have the place vacated
10y Davis and wear Davis mantle, but
Brewster Cameron, with deVilisl ma
Lightly and cunning is master of the
Encouragement, and continuing TO
fire blank indictments at Russell
eDyelops him Ia a cloud through
which the sunshine Of patronage
and power cannot seud its benigrHnt
rays into Tcxns Brewster Cameron
il II who directs the star route prosecu-
tions. He loves Jewell md lutes
Dorsey a@ he does Russell, and Brews-
ter Cameron drew INSPIRATION from
Davis, and the demise OF Davis invests
Texas Republican politics with In
finite gloom and many un-
certainties. a noted baInacle
who has held offices by fed
eral appointment for twenty years in
Texas and now occupies the best in
the state, has been here for some days
mending his fences. He was from the
northwest and makes all his invest
fnents there II Davis death results
in the substitution of u Texan for this
oracular and owl-iike place-man quite
ten thousand dollars, annually alb
stracted from the commerce OF the
state, will he invested In Texas instead
of Wisconsin or Iowa, and wise legis-
laturcs of those states will protest
against his removal. All that the
south has lost by carpetbaggas has
enured 10 the advantage Of states kt-
You'd the Ohio. Many M lionSSfave
been thus transferred froms neefo the
other section of the countr FOhio is
thus profitted million dol Ars annual
ly and yet the north does howl that
Tennessee protected in nothing and
ravaged in everything can't pay her
debts. But the south should not com
plain of this injustice. Northern peo-
Pile do not understand the process.
They never felt the halter draw and
have good opinion of the law-of radi-
calism.
NIL NIsI BoNuM DE MoRTius.
Do not misconceive me.
/ would not wrong
the living and still less the dead.
Gov. Davis intensity of devotion to
party made him many enemies and he
would tolerate no divided empire
Aa CTsur ait nUIus was the legend
inscribed on his escutcheon. Two such
lions as he and Russell could not roam
in the same forest. not even In Central
African jungies of Wharton county
Therefore the invocation of Brewster
Cameron and thus of the attorney
general that RUSSELL like Dorsey,
might be crushed by the resistless
weight of fed eral power But Davis,
in his private personal conduct, was
honest, He rises up in solitary major
ity above his fellows. His name must
ever be emblazoned upon the shield
OF southern radicalism and upon his
tomb an extraordinary recital must be
inscribed.
Every passer-by, through countless
coming years, reading the unique epi-
taph with wondering incredulity, will
repeat the marvellous story and sigh rs
he wanders on
HERE LIES u. J. DAVIS, THE RECON
WHO NEVER STOLE ANYTHING
His virtues, however, were never
shared by official or partisan associ-
ates. One of his cabinet He'd the coun-
try, n confessed thief; another, pow
erty-strieken when he entered the
states service, came out rich OF an
other II was written: his name was
Honey, that he was drowned, and the
river In which he fell became metheg-
lin for forty miles below. The states
credit was utterly annihilated, and
railway Adventures bought and sold
Davis Legislature in market overt.
Coke was elected governor, aud
Davis thinking that Grant would
give him military protection, refused
10 surrender his Office. He was help
less and only went forth when the peo-
pie of Austin resorted TO violent
measures to induce submission to
DEGREES OF the ballot box. He was not
n bad man and only an insane aealot
in partisanship. He honestly believed
democrats incapable of patriotic nc
tion or purposes. He never forgave
Grant for his refusal to Intervene in
his behalf when Coke entered the cap
itol at Austin.
WHAT WILL COME OF IT.
What will be the fate of Davis par
" in Texas? True, there Is not much
OF II, and IL is almost utterly black.
Davis was very 10TH many supposed
10 have its members augmented. Ii
had monopoly of Federal officers
in the state and there were
not enough of those TO appease the
hunger OF It's parti-colorad leaders,
Davis life, even rs II was, became n
burden because of the impossibility of
stalking the insane thirst for power
that maddened the many radical
leaders, of high and low degree, dog
gng his steps forever and begging for
crumbs OF Federal patronage that fell
from his richly spread table, He
sought 20 rise higher, not that he
might enrich himself, but that he
might have more to give. Therefore,
he came To Washington and sat at
Gartield's breakfast table, and asked
that he might be postmaster-general.
Garfield "palavered,n aswas his wont,
and promised and evaded, and filled
divers offices rs Davis sug-
gested; but nothing more,
and here again deeper shadows fell
athwart the pathway Of Davis amhi-