Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The People Prefer Patriots Not Pos
turing FOR the Presidency.
Development and Progress Of Southern
Invention ana Genius.
DcGress and Ochilirce--A Happy Ton
gressional Family.

Washington. October ~. - How they
do criticize, and often most harshly,
supposed and real aspIants
for the preside ncy. Twenty-three
gentlemen called during the
day at the GAZRrTE's rooms,
corner of penn'a avenue and ~
street aud most OF them were induced
10 speak of the chances of leading as.
pirants for the nomination at the
hands of the Democracy. One idea
seems dominant: that the people grow
weary of those who are posturing
through months or years before the
country with the purpose OF securing
the nomination. With many, Heud-
ricks, for this reason alone, has become.
almost odious He wns pronounced
by one of my callers "the great Amer
can straddlcr.n Thereupon he Is
called the colo ssus, that bra2en ginnt
which bestrode the hprbor of Rhodes
and was one of the seven wonders OF
the world. Neither Hendricks nor
Iilden hns spoken on the tariff Ques.
ton, or in reference to railway land
grants or monopolies. Does rilden or
Hendricks favor the protractcd exist
ence of the banks or the substitution
of silver and gold certificates and OF
grecnhacks. II need be. Tor the notes of
the national banlsa Would these men
assent To the demands of the banks
and have special two per cent bonds
issued Tor the use OF these banks? Cass
straddled the "lree soiln and Polk ON
the tariff question, aud Buchanan kept
his mouth shut, while Henry CLAY
never spoke with Il foriied tongue and
was never silent when the people had
tl,n . inl.f "a a p.
expression of his opinions. His -peech
at Raleigh, when lie was u candidate
for the presidency, caused his defeat;
but it constitutes, to-day, II prouder
and more enduring monument TO his
fame than any ever reached in honor
of his rival who wen the presidency.
Canning tricksteIs and money bats
instead of honest, fearless statesmen,
win, in our time. highest honors
and offices. The people, sew
eral of my interlocutora in.
sisted, will approve none of these
veteran demagogues, and the sun and
the CONVERSATIONAL have set M the
candidates in vain. Tilden and Hen
bricks and Holman and Ben Butler
and Mcdonald and all the recognized
| candidates, long before the national
| Democratic convention sits, will he
| rustier and more tiresome 10 cnntem-
plate than the old battered and bruised
| Indian whose sculptured face and
| form for fifty years have guarded the
doorway TO the whisky den across the
street.
A BIG SPECULATION.
believe | mentioned in former
letter the fact that General Joseph IL.
Ialnutnn Gnpntpe4 IInrrla unH ..ur-
land and Casey Young and Clint At
kins and the eloquent priest, John
Rockford, with that Admirable Crich-
ton, J. Harris Rodgers, and others ara
incorporated rs the Pan Electric COM
pany. All these are Southern men
The inventor and his assistants are
Southern, and therefore do advert 10
the company, constituting within IL
self n new departure in art and
invention. All inventions and dis.
coverics made by j. Harris Rogers,
late electrician of the United States
capital and his assistants, are the prop
erty of the corporation, which has
issued shares TO persons contributing
10 the capital stock The company
owns magnificent laboratory full of
machinery and models of its patented
inventions. Rogers secret telephone
is held by the present owners In New
York nj 81, 900 900. Rogers was paid
only $3.50, 600 for IT, His electro-gus
telephone, which would be invalua
bic in the GAZETTE publishing house,
has been stocked at 81 ,0O0, 600. II is
simply device by which people talk
TO Que another through the gas pipes
of the house and city. TO utilize these
pipes and this gas, one need only pay
The Pan-Electrlc company for the In
genious mouthpieces applied To the
gas pipes, so devised that instead Of
talking gas you talk through gas, the
best known conductor of sound. IL
saves legs AID stair carpets and ena-
bles the women 20 gossip with their
neighbors without lenving the house,
and thus saves the cost of spring
bonnets and street dresses. Every house
erected in the capital IL supplied with
this gas telephone, and Womens shoes
and tongues last infinitely longer than
ever before.
Is 1t not queer that ~ facilities for
locomotion nre perfected and multi
piled the necessity for IL Is rapidly les
sened? Strect-cars, herdics, elevated
railways and bicycles invade all
towns and cities, and people abso-
lutely forget how TO walk. Lifei IL too
short for such tedious locomotiOn.
Legs unused will finally disappear,
and the race, having long ago become
tailless because II ceased 10 swing 10
persimmon, pecan and guaya limbs
while deyouring lis sustenance, will
now become legless. 70 "loc0mote,u
one OF the Coming race will need
only an inflated liver pad on which 10
r.,af bituaaif Hunuu ieUa ara ra mildly