Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-26

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TtLDEN AND JOHN KELLY.
The Indiana candidate is in the
same category with Carlisle and Ran.
dali. The Democratic party would
gain nothing by his election. He can
not aid In giving Northern votes, 10y
becoming speaker, to our party in 1851.
He has no potency with John Kelly
nor has he strength enough at home,
like :. S. Cox, with 1900 majority In
his own district at his back, To
paralyze the cunning right
hand of Tilden. Tilden,
mark you, stands aloof from this CON
flict. while Jno. Kelly, from II bed of
sickness, enters the lists for ;. >. Cox,
and Kelly, you must know, can't he
spared II, with absolute certainty, we
would carry New York in 1851.
THE TRUE ISSUE.
am not pretending to say, in all
this, that j prefer, personally, any one
of tue candidates. only discuss
questions of partisan policy involved.
III do not reason well, then, by all
means, let Carlisle have the speakers
chair. No living man is better quail
fled for it.
CONS CHANCES.
a New York congressman said sub
stantially this morning to your cores
poDdent The campaign of 1888 is now
closed. The smoke of battle has
blown away, and we can take birds
eye view of the situation, strengthen
ing the weak places preparatory to Tn
presidential campaign in 1881. The
first guns in the New York conflict
will he fired by the Democratic house
in selecting speaker.
TIE SPEAKER Is THE HOUSE.
As he forms committees, so w
they report legislative measures. BY
his ruling he can control legislation,
THIS Is A FACT
so well known that it is useless to ar
que it. We should select speaker,
who, first, entertains views III accord
ance with those of u majority of The
party, and second, who can bring to
the party the surest means of success
in 1854.
Pennsylvania is without doub. a
tariff, yea high-tarh state. 1t is
certainly n Republican state. Moth
ing that the Democratic party can do
can change this fact. New York is
not high aritr state. New York can
be made certain Democratic state.
This will not be seriously denied.
Again 1t Is a wel-known fact, that not
p per cent. of the congressional dis
tricts in the United States are of the
same faith, AS is Pennsylvania on the
tariff issue. At least 10 per cent Of the
districts concur with New York.
ANOTHER PIfrr
If the Democrats elect president
next year, they must secure POI cleo
toral votes. They have 1913 certain;
4S less than POI, the number required.
or this number, New Yorl; can
furnish 81, leaving l. to be secured
in California, Nevada, Indiana,
New Jersey and other doubtful states.
Democratic New York, with thirty
six electoral votes, asks the Democrat.
ic party to give her the speakership,
presents the name of u Democr It, the
intellectual and scholarly peer of any
man III congress. His views are in ac-
cord with those of ut least eight-tenths
of the party. Pennsylvania, Repub-
lean Pennsylvania, presents the name
of Democrat, ii is true, but his views
of tariff legislation are not shared by
two-tenths of the party, and il is Sc
rionsly urged that Pennsylvania can
didate, with no possible chance of an
electoral vote to follow. be given the
preference over New York, backed by
thirty-siX solid Democratic electoral
votes.
True, Kentucky has candidate, but
New Nork's candidate entertains the
same opinions on the tariff question.
and we cannot believe that Kentucky
would take the ONCE if there We're a
consequent chance of losing tn : presi-
dental race in 1854.
As Elijah said of old to the Hebrews,
so should we appeal to the Democrats
in congress. ''Choose We this day
whom we will serve" Democratic New
York with thirty.siX Democratic cleo
toral votes or Republican Pennsylva-
mia with itsthirty Republican electoral
votes.
AN lMMurABLE SENTIMENT.
state pride Is Il fixed immutable senti-
ment which cannot be repressed and Is
always operative. 1t would be humil-
iating indeed to New York, Demo.
cratic New York, To receive IA slap in
the face in the house of its friends for
the benetitof candidate from n Re
publican state. To sum up, New York
and Pennsylvania have the two largest
electoral votes in the electoral college.
The larger of these two is Democratic
and asks Democratic house To honor
her son. The smaller of the two is ms
surely Republican, and can 1t be
That the wishes of the largest
Republican state in the Union will
have more weight than the demands of
me more potent Democratic state. If
THIS must he, then, indeed, may we
eXclaim, at is worse than Il crime II
Is n blunder." The only raw of
hope now illuminating the dark WAYS
OF the Republican party is looked for
IN some Democratic blnnder, and il
Republican states are to have the pre-.
ference over those that are Democratic,
then, indeed, has the Republican party
cause To hope for Democratic blunders
to INT 1t out of the Slough of Des-
pond.o
A Suffrage Petition.
Washington, November %. - The
committee of one hundred appointed
by the agitators' suffrage convention of
the District Of Columbia will present
u petition TO congress the latter part OF
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