Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Gigantic Strnddler Who Bestrides
the Party Like Hinge Colossus
His Criticism OF Carlisle,
CORRESPONDENCE OF the Gazette.

The attempt To- inject n sectional
issue into the contest for the speaker
ship is properly denounced by all of
the candidates and their supporters
and was speedily checked by the orig
inators who saw that they had fatally
Numbered. The issue was sprung by
Ex-Governor Hendricks of Indiana.
who imagiHes that he has been
unjustly treated by the Southern del.
egates of the different national Dem.
ocratic conventions. He has lony
awaited an opportunity to avenge the
fanciful grievance. He would show
Southern men how powerful he il AT
home and in his own estimation. Hen.
bricks is tall, wel-proportioued
man, probably weighing moret than two
hundred pounds. He is physically,
but not morally, muscular. He dresses
plainly and his personal ASPECT
would lead one TO suppose that he is
prosperous farmer or well-to-io
country tradesman. This preconc ep-
ton IS strengthened by close observa-
ton of his head and dull heavy face,
indicating neither force or originality.
III ability Is exaggerated by distance.
Therefore, his supposed potency in
Alaska and in distant parts of the
union. His collocation with Tilden
on tire National Democratic ticket in
1876, the election of the ticket and the
discussion that ensued in WASH
| ington, brought his name into
unnatural and undeserved promi-
neuce, and he is commonly re-
garded rs one of Americas non-com-
initial, silent and solemn statesmen.
| He was placed on the ticket with Til
den as lard to grease and conciliate the
demands of the hog-and-hominy Dem
ocrats of the West and thus 10 carry
| Indiana. He was an abortion then,
AS from his birth. He possessed no
magnetism rs a man, and as n states.
man and politician no force. he is
approved not on account of any views
he holds, for he has none of his own
and is nothing more than u prominent
and lucky dealer IN imposing
grandeur and stilted stupid dig
nifty. His career i'll congress
was marked by misconduct. He
never gave origin TO a saying or meas
ure that anybody remembers. He
only followed the more intellectual
men OF the Hoosier state, even when
they entertained political convictions
directly hostile to those supposed TO
govern his action. The bills intro
duced by him were mostly of county
import, and not one contained clause
pertaining TO any great and veXed
public questions. There he always
straddled. AS governor, he was u
grand county fair attendant and judge
ut cattle shows. He did get away
, with the innocent gran
gers. His views on the
tariff are vague and he never heard of
the banks or monopolists and il is COM
monty said by politicians that Torn
Hendricks stands on both sides OF that
great question that now agita,eS the
country. He is Il giganctic straddler
Office aud notoriety is what he
Graves and to have his desire gratitied
he will readily vote as u protectiopis'
Randallte or advocate the free-tradt
theories of Kasson. Tom Hen
bricks thinks he would hav,
secured the first place on
the ticket nominated at Cincinnati IL
the summer of 1850, but for the wicked
interference of influential southern
delegates who now disclose strong
preferences for Joe Mcdonald. He
hates Southern party leaders and al
things southern, and his pretended
Democracy and the kindly cautionint
given him by the leaders of the party
in Indiana Ealone prevent M
denunciation of the people
and institutions of the South. Thu
long. estrained cowardly feeling has
at lastSfound vent He characterizes
Carlisle as Southern man, ana de'
clares that the patriotic North WI
never submit to his being seated IN
the speakers chair. He came all tht
way TO Washington to pronounce hi'
interdict and did ii openly so that th'
press and politicians could not ms
represent him. He thinks he has u
last got even with the Southeri
Democrats. Meanwhile, each an'
every candidate for the speakershil
has placed himself on record as op
posed to the least suspicion OF section
alism. They all and their supporter
wgnt each other to stand on individua
merits, totally oisregarding the diner
, ent sections of the country.
Hendricks was openly condemned
and will be allowed to have nothing
: IN do with the canvass. The Northern
candidates state that his self-assume'
Northernism and patriotic Unionlsli
WAS entirely uncalled for, and gener
, ously declare that it should help Mr
Cariisle. 1t il true Mr.. Carlisle j. o
| Southern nativity, but there Is litti'
! in his career to CONNECT MN WIZ
I. ideas known as southern anu sc.
g tionalism, and with the people oil Una
S portion of the country. lie was a.
WAYS staunch Unionist, ana take