Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Cranky Parties and Parties Of One
or Two Ideas.
Queer Old Anti.Masonic and God-in. the
Constitution Oranks,
The Grea. Whisky Crank The
Greenback and Fiat Money
Monomaniacs.
The Anti-Mcnopolists stupendous Wis
dom Of Democratic Leaders.
Special correspondence oftbe Gazette.

Special Correspondence oftbe Gazette.
WASHINGTON, July 27.-This is n
queer world. 1t is eminently one
sided. Next door to the building / |
occupy is great structure five stories
high, owned by the "Reformers,''
sect having two big ideas; the one TO
annihilate Free Masonry the other
to inject the word "God'' into the
federal constitution. They publish
newspaper. The present pope of
Rome, who is good man, is afflicted
with mania on the subject of Ma
sonry. He honestly believes Masons
wicked conspirators against law
and right of religion, when, in
truth, Masonry is submission and per-
feet obedience to God, t. law and
right Masonry was instituted, such
is its accepted tradition, a thousand
years before Christ came. Therefore
it does not advert to Christ. Its men,
bers may be Christians or Mohanme-
dams or Hebrews and yet these solemn
old fellows would have God recognized
|
| Masonry. They would amend our
faith on the one hand and our code of
organic law on the other.
1t is very well that these cranks do
not attempt TO personify or otherwise
describe the Deity which they would
thus honor. Is IL yours or my con-
ception of the Supreme Ruler of the
universe that Is to he thrust into the
supreme law? Whose God and what
God would these enthusiasts have us
personify and cDnstitutiOnalze? Is IL
not wonderful that our fathers sepa-
rated religion itself, as well rs church,
es, from the government? But the
unco guide are not content. They
must thrust their faith into my facts
"For the life of me,n | said to the
learned old gentleman who leads
these monomaniacal religionists, II
can't see why we should inject God
into the constitution when we are not
required to inject him into stump
speeches. The Republicans regard the
constitution AS "a sort of stump speech
of easy virtue. 1t enables them to do
all things. They find In it all power,
and therefore, in their eyes, God is in
it, and there is no use in writing Deity
on It's face. The Democrats
dare not disohey its mandates
These are rigidly construed. The con
stitution is supposed by a Democrat tC
mean just what it says, neither more
nor less, and constructive powers de
rived from it are not recognized by
the Democratic party. Suppose"
continued, 1--WE recognize your God In
the constitution and succeed in hav'
ing it amended as you desire. Their
tno
everybody will want q modification q
the amendment aud it will be an awls
ward and impracticable reform. II
were wiser to suffer Deity to remain
the great Governor of the Univers
| and not bring Him dow
to petty tasks we woult
assign to Blaine or Cleveland. Ifyou
reverence Deity and comprehend ON
Impotence you would not impiously
degrade both in the worlds eye 10y
naming either in code so often VIC
lated that it is Invested of all sane
tity. When country's rulers violate
and set at naught its supreme law, the
people no longer respect 1t, and tn
government, morally, ceases to exist
The higher law of trancendental re
pubicanism has anDulled or supplant
ed the constitution, and the latter II
unworthy. in its openly repudiate'
condition. of the nominal presence o
, Deity. Further than this, my friend,
a your utter disregard of constitutions
restrictions and inhibitions, wher
sectional or partisan ends are to be AT
tanned, has robbed this charter of free
dom Of its sanctity in the people
ewes, and there is and can be no Coz
In ii. 1t is morally repealed, ant
# when this was effected by its repeate'
e violations you absolutely repealed tn
!, Union. In other words, you and you
;, party leaders are the only destructive
ruinous, secessionists that have eve
d cursed the continent and you deserv
to be hanged. Ii Jeff ia
;. Wis had succeeded in gettihI
d double-barreled or two Unions, whel
# we can hardly tolerate the burdens
: criminals. But Davis failed and yo
( have triumphed. You have destroye
Il by perversion of its purposes AM
g facts aud by class legislation and b.
!, robbing the many to aggrandize tn
+, few and by the transfer of enormou
: riches and power to great corporation
II and by creating Il pehsioned nobilit.
!. You have destroyed the republic ant
9 set up the empire and the constitution
i does not exist; therefore, you can't pu
{. God in it,"
+ THE EFFECT OF THE SPEECH.
n The godly man, who SO loves Got
: that he cannot love the constitution
! because God Is not in II, was amaze
n by my speech and shocked as well
Z but / spoke literal truths, and non
!. can gainsay them. The Republics
: party and leaders, at this hour, ar
inatchlsss secessionists. They hav
Y destroyed, by persistent violation, Tn
constitution which il the only bond
9 union.
0 THE WHISKY CRAZE.
g, st. John, the apostle OF colt
water. all the way from
!. Kansas, is buzzing around the capital
D There Is no wide difference between
e him and his 'one-idead" follower
j, and those good people whose candi
date for the presidency would inject
: 1jossn into the constitution. st. Johl
8 il up for the presidency. He can
b trust Blaine, even though the whoi
German vote Of the Who'll
country repudiate Biaine, and 81
John willTun the race as the nationa
4. "local optiopist." The loss, II, TIL
: case, falls on Blaine and not on Clevt
{ land. These cranks and optionist
following st. John are all Republican
and have always voted with the re
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