Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-07-02

: nouncing the doom of Mahoneisn
Mahone's papers are dying and III
editors suiciding. He owned or cor
trolled forty or more not long age
All are dead or most buried. Negroe
are not consumers of newspaper Iii
erature, and the thirty thousand white
of all classes that, not long ago cooper
ated with Malone, have followe
: Massey, with the church he represents
into the old rock-ribbed fortress o
Democracy. But we only proposed &
say that the blunder and crime o
Republicanism in dealing with tn
South; and seeking to secure the vote
of Southern states, consists mainly il
criminally unwise selections mad,
OF men TO represent the party il
the South. Instead of evoking ole
Wings and. Douglas Democrats and
consolidating them against extreme
Democracy, and instead of dividing
this party, as Hayes once most wisely,
~ Il Republican proposed, they have
exhausted partisan ingenuity in con
solidating the whites of the south, and
there is no more possibility of Repub
lican triumph in 1884 in any southern
state than in the city OF New York.
!
SHOW THAT EVERY
WRITER Is NOT A POET.
Gath alias George Alfred Towns
end in his sweet ingenious poem, pro-
nounced before the old soldiers, spoke
of this "virtuous city" of Washington
| alphabetically, as 1.-THE virgin city
bath ed in Wa.h hin gton's clear name p
IL il n curious bath tub into which we
a 1,,, Il
Gain wants to k now and earnestly
army generals, as il they were
all ghosts, "haunts your memories"
This graveinquiry constitutes two lines
OF the poem so ingenuOUsly constructed
that haunt jingles delciously with
Grant" Then Gath tells us that
Thoughtful love of country dies upon
the sounding drum It's queer
death-bed, and when she is dying the
drum should be silent, and not sound
ing.p In fact, Cath" should often be
silent when he is sounding brass and
. tinkling cymbal."
Gath tells the amazed old soldiers
that "Old Abe" was Captain by the
Constitution" and they We're his
"shield'' and that he died upon the
battlefield" tigurative term for the
house opposite Ford's old theatre; that
the generals were "childie h-wiled. +"
whatever that may be, and leaned on
OLD Abe" and were "filial
mocrners" round the mighty
tomb, siX-by-two he filled. Then
Gath" tells us that "mercy
kept Lincoln grim as MoIoch all the
future babes to tree and eternal peace
to garner for the millions yet 30 be-
Whose babies Moloch is going to lib
crate we are not informed, and how
immense may be the Mccormick
reaper to be used in "garnering" this
eternal peace" we are not advised.
We read, too, in these inineitable
verses of soldiers OF the classics. -
These are commonly Known
as the arlstocracy of West
Point, originally charity srhool-
but now the hot-house for the produc,
zion of the country's masters. But
soldiers of the classics" is a ylAostly.
"Gathism'' for West Pointer Per-
haps the queerest picture in the poem
Is that which presents old Abe ia the
act OF feeling for a doomed desertern
and feeling for Lis drafted sire.n He
was surely a very feeling man. The
next stanza tells that OH he kopt on
crying and following armies
ON maps. wherever they 'maYehed
and wetting their lines of
| march with his tears" This is rather
steep but We must now confess, since
Saith tells it, that old Abe was a
Heraclitus rather than ~ Democitus-a
weeping rather than laughing pAiloso-
pher. To present him thus strikingly
in both aspects is the privilege. and
required the genius of Gath,n who.
as u poet, uses poets License.
} He never does this whGss turnfne. loose
his prose. But there is not u figure of
! speech IN the poem or statement OF
facts which is not sadly defective in its
unity of beauty. Moreover the poem
is historically senseless. and as, speci.
men of word painting lisa most villain
Gus daub. When Gath writes prose
he is often most poetieal; hen he writes
poetry he is proxy beyond ALI endur-
ance,
POcfd naScauf. non ft
.Neaslaos- Ultra crrjldaB.
involve injunctionS which the facile
letter-writer CATH should never for.
get or violate.
ISN'T In BEAUTIFUL?
The splendid verses by Mirabeau b
Lamar, a famous aud most eloquent
president of the republic of Texas
have been ascribed to many authors.
but never, in Texas, to any one saw,
Lamar. The song should be heard In
every old MISREPRESENTATION hoM,
and village of Texas, whose origina
traditions, character and civilization
are rapidly ob!iterated by railways ano
immigrant populations from German,
and from the older American states
The authorship of these verses ba,
been claimed by one who claimed tina
OF An Quiet on the Potomac To
night
%, lend TO me, sweet nightingale
Your music by the fountains:
Anu lend u me your cadsnces
@, river OF the mountains
Ihat ! may Sing my gay brunette
a diamond spark in coral sci.
. Gem for princes coronet-
, Tue daughter of Mendoza
How brilliant Is the morning star.
> Ihe evening star how tender
: The light of both is In her eyes
: | Ihelr souness and their spendo-
But for the lash that shades their SIGHT
They were too daszling for the 'ight.
, And when sc shuts them all is ni,si l.
4 ! The uanuntpr a