Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Fewer Of tho Lobby Cautions Reticencc
ofMembcrs Of Congress
The Supreme Cont on New Trial.
Reconstruction rraud and Farce.
ny Mail and rolesraph,


ny Mail and Telegraph.
Washington, November 20 --gThoro
Is no means of asrertaininu trusf-
worthy facts In reference to the result
81 TIE contest for thespealScrshlp An
adroit lobbyist who has served tbs
railways here for many years said this
morning thatnohudy would ever know
now congressman will vote In the com-
ihg. caucus. They walt and watch,
hch taking care OF himsclf--each
would hear the last and hest
| propositions affecting his own ad.
| vaneemcnt The candidate pruifuinu
the best places on comn,it,eea or TINT
Candidate In whose flinndship the con-
| gresham seposes most confidence, SCI
cures the support ol the modest niom-
DER, What effect the railway aud
WHISKY rings may produce cannot be
measured. IL IL only known Tint they
prefer Carlisle This fact gives conf
uohee 10 Caflislo's adhcrcnta, aud NJ.
S''s wanting high places on commit
! tees are, therefore, disposed 10 curry
favor with Carlisle. do not pretend
10 say that Carlisle Is the worse be-
causu thus upheld, but most fortunate.
lle has made no trade and corrupted
nobody. He sought, at the last SEES
sion, toservo the whisky mon, whonre
citizens OF his aud adjacent states, and
thcy DO only evincc proper gratitude.
some time ago they had the greatest
corruption iund, except that of the
California railway king, ever brought
to Washington, but there IL
nothing 90 show that they
are now using money TO buy the speak,
crship.
SAN RANDALL
The adroit pcnnsylvanian has ap-
poared, nm told, on the avenue. "A
u naked question Of party policy, II
would seem that Cox should be nindo
speaker, but Randall Ia defiant and
confident, demanding the ofilce for
Ponnsylvnnih His friends absolutely
declare TINT II tho office loo given 10
Randall, his state will vote with him
Ia 1881. Then, too, Randall has d.
covered what hobby cacl congiesA-
man would ride, and II "iioored, y how
TO chair and cheer him. He moi only
knows how 10 parcel out chairman
ships hut how to promise one, with
It's clerk, To zach good man who might
otherwise support Carlisle or Cox. IL
II hard, people say, 20 Nget away
With sam Randall. He IL squnroly
bullt. His head IN square aud his face,
aud his friends always said that he ~
4 square num- | don't doubt, hut
Judge lleagan does, and many like
him, when the thrill question Is dis
cussed.
r1ErRuE POLICY.
You viii observe that I have no
friends 10 serve OF enemies 90 punish,
aud In writing OF this contest would
present tile precise ihcis aud lust what
y said by the gossips of the capital.
SPRINGER
,nme bounding into the arena Sa i-
lay with fresh vigor, lie Is n
lctlve aud earnest OF all contestant
His rooms are crowded, and he IL rs
nlk well. for springer.
Cox, like Springer, keeps lip nm ov-
upronr, while Sam Randall
= moody aud gr,im, aud Carlisle char
Icter1od by AN ensy dignity that well
becomes gentleman OF his admirable
presence. The party would gain Moth
ng 10y making MIR, Springer speaker
certainly nothing 10y elevn,ing Ran
dali unless II hc desirable 10 put
period to The discussion Of the tariff
question. If the selection of a speaker
30 made With reference TO the grand
went OF next year, Cox, as u political
act, should bc, rs Carlisle will be, ths
penlser but this IL snid without the
cmotcat Idea Of what sum whisky ana
nilway lOhblci propose 10 expena ia
chall of Carlisle or OF Randall. rhcy
ave only agreed that Cox mus, DO
WHERE WILL II END?
Did II ever occur ~ you TINT the
uprcme court of the United Statcs, ns
rgnnized by the filthy hand OF See
ional craftsmanship, would dare to do
light or tell the truth, aud this, too, In
he very face Of the hostility Of tho
'arty creating and constituting tile
onrP This decision, celebrating the
wi rights net, Inns not only paved the
way for the probable reconciliation of
aces In the South, but won for the
curt itaelfa degree of moral power
md respect never accorded Since IL
was packed by craftsmanship 10 pro-
mitigate u foreor1nined and lawless
|ecisi0n. But suppose this body OF
brlsts go u step further, aud, havinga
roper case before them, declare those
amendments void which
'ere forced through organized lawlcss
Iobs In Southern state capi,oIs acting
Ddcr duress, and called In dcrislon
ate legislatures. They were not Leg
latures under state laws and consti-
ltlons. They had no right
speak for the several states
llich they assumed 10 represent.
hey reigned simply through the sn-
ryentiOn Of the bayonet, Saihbo
I'd his mouthpleceA tint Washington
, howl pite0usly az the supreme
'urt nulliiied ciyil rights Malone
beartbrokcn about II. He does
Ing the bloody shirtmost rapturcusly
I'd even fnrlously because The SUI
enc court, 10 use vulgarIsm, las
gone back on cuffae.p But suppose
70 court declare TINT many states,
otiDg for the constitutional amends
eDta. were not states, or. II states
ere swayed by military authority,
zen the amendments 20 down With
% civil rights ael.
These constitutional aIRendments
ere partisan measures. devised, not
at the negroes might 10 gamers In
Ierty ana fortune, but that whites
IN might bcfubordinnled tothess
'gTocs, and that this Radical party
light govern the South aud nppf0pri-
G It's Offices through ilie intervene
N of negroes. The amendments,
ereforc, were chuckcd down tho
roats OF states, half full Of blacks and
,kened unto death, by most heroic
ocesseJ OF partisan practices ever
piled 10 free common weaiths
'ould II not be well 10 have these
Itstions, az well ns this OF civil
,hts, referred 10 the nttpTeine eourl2
ouId not the bare proposition gtvo
rceness 10 tho nilrjeks Of the Repiib-
mn aud ~ Maisone while Haunting the
5ody shirt In tfe fssas OF the Iicnple4