Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-25
WASHINGTON LETTER,
Biaine's Nomination Greeted win M,
Hires, Examinations and Stage
Thunder.
Blaine's Palace What 1t Cost and How
Paid For.
How the Government Commends Itse,,
TO the Affections OF the People.
specIal correspondence oftbe ea,e...

WASHINGTON, June 2l.--When
good man IL paid as much as ST 900 nor
annum for enthusiasm in behalf of tbo
party that gives the salary and sntbu.
siasm Is wanted by the gallon. IL Il.
cheaper than mean whisky and quite
as villainous and infinitely more effn.
sive. The celebration last night Of
Blaine's adoption as the leader of tho
Republican party by the place holders
of the capital was most flatterInv
to the gentleman from Maine
Though the civil rights code he oners.
tive 1t should be remembered that II
creates no vacancies and all offices and
clerkships are the monopolies of Re-.
publicans. In this fact consists the
righteousness of Pendleton's civil ser.
vice reform code. Its just and equal
oeneficence, If 1t have any, must be in
futures and the exclusive tenure Of
offices by Republicans is so wrongful
that have been much inclined to be-
lieve that the Pendleton law NAV be
repealed or greatly modified il
democracy win power 1t is not
right that law which pretends to ip-
more ,partisanship in its operation
should enure wholly to the advantage
of one party. More Republicans Sc
cure places now than Democrats, and
yet OF the 10000 place-holders
IN Washington who ratified
Blame last night. ninety
per cent. or more are Republicans.
paid an average of 81 200 each per an
mum for all the noise they make in
this campaign. Fireworks and music
evoked half the population of the CAPT.
tai, delighted by the opportunity to
escape from boarding houses, odorous
OF cabbages, and hot within as stoves
that send up forever from dismal
easements facilitating, unsavory
fumes of the kitchen.
HOW TO CONSTRUCT HOUSES.
Tell the people of Fort Worth to
construct their houses with windows
opening like double doors, extending
from the floor to the ceiling, and then
have the kitchen in the garnet with a
descending elevator. Health and
comfort will ensue. Then have a
Finnerty air syphon on the summit of
the structure, with pipes from iC enter
ing every apartment. Foul air is drawn
out by resistless force, and health
and purity and of course Democ-
racy will dwell in every house.
If Washington houses were con.
structed with reference to hot DAYS of
summertime the air inhaled in the
homes of the people would be as pure
and fresh and invigorating as that of
the public parks, and malarial fevers
would not pervade this most beautiful
but most uncomfortable dwelling place
of men. There Is external splendor
enough and warmth in wiuter, but iu
the houses themselves there is no pro-
vision for comfort in summer months.
Northern people and Northern archi-
tects have reared the domiciles of the
capital.
GEN. DUDLEY.
1t Is not pleasing to very many Re.
publicans that Gen. Dudley failed to
secure the guLernatorial nomination
at indianapolis. Calkins, who won
the prize, is an excellent gentleman
and Of excellent ability; but his
strength in Indiana Is not comparable
with that of Dudley, and therefore do
Republicans confess that If Gov. Hen
bricks accepts the leadership of his
party in Indiana there is no doubt of
Calkins' as well as Blaine's defeat in
that commonwealth.
THE NEGRO AS A SOCIAL FORCE IN
WASHINGTON.
Southern people, accustomed to
hourly intercourse with negroes
and forced into well.defined So
cial relations with them, are
amused by the conduct OF the
good people from the East and Ohio
who constitute the ofiice-holding
class of the capital. All these multi
tudes of government employees, after A
p. m, each day, as soon as they have
dined, saunter forth into the parks
and shady hooks of public squares of
the capital. The parks having fOunt-
aims are especially attractive. Seats,
each for four occupants, are provided,
and children in little carts, and nurses
and school girls fill these resorts of the
people. Two years ago Iowa circle
was filled each afternoon and evening
with pleasure-seekers; but Samson
distant, and from these there came
multitudes of dusky maidens to air
themselves when the sun was low.
Their lovers came, and their sisters,
and aunts, and cousins, and Iowa
circle was abandoned by the clerks and
by the good New Englanders who then
resorted to Franklin square, the
most beautiful and best caredfOr of all
the parks of the beautiful city. But
the aristocratic negroes have followed
the clerks and their wives and sisters,
aunts and cousins and children to
Franklin square, and have observed
that already the choicest seats In the
shadiest hooks of Franklin square are
given over to colored fashionable
danes and their lovers. One colo-ed
girl not only mOnopolizes bench for
four persons, but such is her repulsive
force, as operative upon an OHIO or
New England maiden, that no seat In
the vicinity of the cheeky Venus has
an occupant. She creates vacuum In
q quarter of the park. The process OF
African invasion has only begun, but
within the month Franklin square is
doomed to desolatiOn, and al
white frequenters of the charming
spot will HE away to the gardens ana
groves about the Agricultural ana
Smithsonian buildings. African fash,
ion and taste and art will follow, ana
here the Ohioansa and New Englanders
must fight the battle which IL coming
between the races in Washington
The Danville struggle will sink into
insignificance cOntrasted with TINS
pending In Washington between the
afternoon white and colored loiterers
In the parks of the capital. 1t Is the
battle fought over again between the
mOcking-birds and English spare VS..
Beneath the wide-spreadiDg shade
trees lining the broad tesselated pave
ment leading down from the main en-
tpas L.. tl..l Dns nxyVU m