Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
How Newspaper Man Qnizzcd Bos.
tonian About Ben Butler.
A Conversation With pcrc Hyacinthe--
His Coming Visit 10 Texas.
Tho Great Railways and Their Forfeited
Land Grants,

Washington, November Am adj
mirable old gentleman from Boston
called MT the GAzgrrE's Washington
City apartments this morning. Jim
George, who is AZ modest as Tom Och.
iltree, was extracting nicotine
In perfect blcssedness from
an odorlicrous cigar. George was not
nj all ahashed In the gorgeous presence
of the elegantly dressed, suave, ruddy
aud rotund Bostonian. I was of
course curious to know what the rich
merchant thought of Rem Butlcr's
probable fortunes in his desperate
death struggle with the old arlstocracy
of New England. The merchant said
he was not n little amazed TO find
that Southern Democrats sympathiked
with Butler. Not long ago you people
away down South, never ceased TO
apply to Butler, the appellation
spoon thief He was alleged, too, 20
Toe the murderer of Mumford and
deemed "beastlyn in his conduct
towards women.
WHAT IN SIGNIFIES,
"uow il this?n quoth George, ~
never heard of those things down
South. | was in the confederate
army through the whole war, | was
captured ut Baton Rouge and Port
Hudson when Butler occupied New
orleans and we never heard of those
things. | believe such allegations
were contained In Northern papers
some years after the war,
but with us Southern peo-
pie these assertions of Batler's
dishonesty were deemed the usual
sectional partisan falsehoods OF the pc
riod.N George was solemn ~ MORT
| bund Socrates and the Bostonian's
eyes underwent n process of diiation
like "a cats In twilight. He stared
wonderingly ut George and looked In.
/ quiringly In my face. George went ON;
"'lhc truth Is, when we first heard
/ these stories about Gen. Butler he was
/ Il Republican NJ, q. from Massnchu-
sets, representing the richest, most
| godly and intelligent district of New
| England, and of courscwe knew these
assertions Were only oNtraVngant cam
paign lies. We Were, II Is true, n little
| oil on the negro suffrage and civil
| rights and social equality question;
! but Butler having arranged all these
matters satisfactorily ana set the me-
gro cleverly on his pins, once more re-
turned to the Democratic party from
U
negro question. ON that we ARE now
with Butler and we do hope sincerely
| that he vii he made chief magistrate
! of Massachusetts, aud we wont
! cry If lac becomes president
| In fact If sam 'i'ilden he not
! hen Butler, it he win the ,ndlng
/ fight in Massachusetts, Will be the
next president of the United States.
| Hoadly, Hendricks, Thurman and
| Mcdonald neutralize one another, and
| the contest Is between Butler and Til
| den, with the massea of the COM
mon people, including all Africa,
roaring for vigorous invincible Ben
Butler. II money and lies, like those
about the spoons, and all the
| force of popular acknowledgements
may not defeat Butler in tins pending
conflict, he will surely defeat Tildcn
and ] do pity poor Dawes aud healt-
| broken Iloar. In truth ! would sup
! port Butter with Enthusiasm, If foi no
/ other reason, that | might witness the
| humiliation OF these two tawdry,
swelling, empty, sonorous ffuuds from
! the old Bay state"
! My digniiied visitor could
contain himself no longer.
/ He was noil-plussed and
| ''uon-suited.n He bowed himself
\ coldly and formally out of the apart
ment, ana iricles. like those that rattle
these frosty mornings IN the empty
| recesses of John Shcrman's bosom,
! formed everywhere over the person of
| the frozen out' Bostoniau. Jim
! Georges inefiable GOODNESS, as refresh
| ing as Tom Ochiltrces when settling Il
| tavern bill with soft soldern asserted
itself. Its victory WIS complete.
PERE HYACINTHE AND ms WIFE.
Pere Hyacinthe was briefly inter
| viewed this afternoon by your cores
/ pOndent. / encountered him with his
| kindly American wife In IA corridor of
the interior department. ] knew that
| the sound of my French patronyniic
would command for me recognition
and an audience. A major-generai of
the French army and tile foremost
artist OF Paris both bear my name. ]
/ was anxious, OF course, To have II
protracted conversation but found the
! place and occasion unit. The hall
1 was thronged, and could have no
such colioquy as those tliat have
/ operated 80 disastrously OF late upon
! friendships and fortunes of many party
! leaders. 1 did not therefore extend
| tIlt lIiA'iNlth VIZ N'h' NFliNh
| of II promise that another would be
awarded me tomorrow evening.
| Then when insisted that the great
| orator, enthusiast and pbilanthropist
should visit Texas, he haid lac would
certainly do so. / informed him that
he would find Frencbmen everywhere
! IN Northern Texas; that the greater
numbers Of his countrymen were In
! Fort Worth and Dallas, while Ger
mans sought homes In the
southwestern district OF this
empire broader and richer in
recources of soil and climate than ever
blessed France. / told the good nian
how rapidly the state was growing in
wealth aud population and that he
would never be able to give his coun-
trymen proper information In refer.
/ ence 10 tLe most attractive state OF MI
the states IL he failed 10 visit Texas.
] said further that Frenchmen were
more rapidly absorbed and BE-
came more rapidly thorough
| Americans than even Engliahnen
or lrisbmcn. The first Amerlcan'born