Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Scurvy Politician Who Seems TO
See Things lie Does Not.
The southern Question in Nutshell Is
Supremacy Of Race.
ny Mall and Telegraph.

pOlItlcians are liIulu-eAceeullSiy
iimid. "roliticn involves the idea o
timidity, If not cowardice, and poll
ucians" are eminently 'politlc." Now
that ! have the adjective In an molten
sive shape, let me suggest
that | use 1t for all
1t Is worth when asserting that at this
iunctuie we do most need heroic
Statesmen" and not politicians.
Last night dozen good men, occupy
ing places in the eyes of the o1l
which statesmen should ill, made
speeches before n grcnt throne in front
of the Metropolitan hotel. Not one OF
these gave uttcrancc to his foremost
thought or surely he Is incapa-
BILE of thinking. All these orators
were content to inveigh against Ma
homo and the corrupt white men
bought by him with the money or
with honors and offices which he Is
accustomed to distribute ms grand al
moner for the empire in the province
of Virginia.
AN EVASION.
Mr.. Barbour delivered studicd
written speech. Thus prepared. his
brief statement of facts shoUld have
gone to the foundation and expuunded
L ne OIlGtI WI Iu't hilfEl'iiN'S anu VI
the terrible struggle in Virginia. Re
adjusterlsm was the occasion for the
conflict, the cause lay behind IL. The
ready rcadjusted and the whole
had assentcd TO the settlement. The
very truth, the negroes constituting
the great mass of Mahome's followers
az. l. l,t
ter. IL signifed nothing to them
whether the debt were paid at all and
still less how IL was adjusted. They
never gave the pretended question at
any time moments thought. They
followed Malone because they saw in
him an enemy of his own race. Ma
hone was approved as the spoils dis
penscr of the administration and by
its newspaper organ. Malone repre-
scented the negroes race preiudices and
they followed him us the enemy of the
Southern whites.
Whose fault was this? Nobody
blames the negro. He votes for tho
party, rs lie supposes. that liberated
him and against the party which he is
made TO believe would re-enslavc him.
lie votes rs black man against the
" i''A' ~ We hio ~ WV NbOiN SUI "
IoNDyCr AND PURPOSES or run
WHITES.
But TIE white people of Virginia alb
horred this issue. They evaded If.
Mr.. Barber even vet cVades IL. He
does refer to ii; but most limidly. Ma /
homes white strength lay in the West
and in the mountainous dis.
tricts OF the Old Dominion. There
lie drew after him, on the
stated question, a large number of
farmers and shepherds who consli-
tuted the body aud soul and strength
of the original jeff Davis Democracy !
of Virginia. MahouU's whilostrength /.
consisted OF original secessionisis and
negroes. These and the Washington
Republican, Arthur's stnlwart organ,
We're the three pillars of strength u.a-
holding this "archn enemy Of his race
lnd country, William Malone.
AN roC DARE 10 PRINT THE rRrruo
IL isnot always pleasant to tell the
ruth; but since nobody, besides your
correspondent, Ia Responsible for what :
nc writes aud the public safety re.
ltlires the plain statement of plain
acts. | cannot refrain FROM their I'M
estralned expression. Therefore must
say that these speech-mRkars, in-
'iuding Mr.. Barbour, shrank from the Il
ruth, when Mr.. Barbour declared
hat the Democratic majority, a week
" TWO later, would have been doubled. !
ne meant TO say TINT within those two i
weeks the whole white population of +
lrginia would have followed in the !
cotstepsot the negroes aud voted rs n /
ace. me conflict tat Dnnsville had not .
lis perfect results. The /,
'h0le white population of Virginia !,
Iuu not heard the guns ut this Lex i
,lgtoh aud Concord. But wherever :
ne news went, that blood had been
piled IN u race conflict, men of the ;,
Wo races, 10y n native impulse, which !
an he represSed by no code of men or !
'ou, were instantly separated. They I
aesd one another n few days later
Irmed to the teeth. They Only voted
80 accident Of drunkenness. 40 con,
cious were all Of impending dangers I
'iused single shot TO be fired. III
here had been, one or the other rnre
n Virginia would be, even now. no
more. 1T was the possibility OF this
collision of races, consolidated against
me another by the wicked devices of
'iahone aud his whitc adjuvants, that
hipelled the people of the mountain
nus and western districts of Virginia
? stand by their race rather than by
heir party.
LOOK AHEAD.
Read Mahonesncwspapers, especial. :,
ms kepublicanat Washington Ii "
evotcs nan us space TO the purpose of a
sNaspcfating blacks against whites. =
W,i,le man has slain Il negro the ~
'epupiicaii dwells upon the piiif,l !,
,elucnt with exquisite satisfaction, =
ne Individual may deserve reprobn- !"
on, put the Republican inveighs -,
,ainst me rnce. II devotes itself to Il
ic purpose OF eNasperating Ignorance q,
~ creauiity against white men i,
no, however they may differ about Il
become, the very instant -
" race question arises an absolute q,
nv, MAJ monsters are they who I,
ppeai 10 this passion, Suppose nil "
he lies that have been wrii,en If "
htsholm and Gully and Film PM !,
on and the rewksbury tanncrv .
ere truths; why use them To- exas ~
crate blacks against whites. We nrc U
'id that the necessities of party de-
innd II, and the lives and fortunes NJ !,
unions Of our race are coolly baznr,ed y
lat one or another bndy of Marty !,
'aucrs may bask IN the sunshine of y
over and riot In splcndors OF this =
ew'iang'ed empire. ~
Northern people, in the homes and - !,
'u.ss anu at the ballol-boxes OF the =
on.h' would differ In nothing from -
iose OF the South. The Northern =,
s 't..a OF shtwart, transferred MS n =, ;"
''na'e cili1en TO the south, becomes. 4,
,o ne remain out of federal office. n ~ y,
,,,s'' ne absolutely hates the ~ ~,
n,on 70 lhe extent that the Union Il Il,
p'usented by the black diety, and ins