Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Evisceration OF Scctionalism sror,
Poiitics-The Sonth's Good Fortune.
Whether Democrat or Blaine, the South
Will Be Victorious.
The Sure Transformation Of Part,e.
How 1t Is Wrought Out.
Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.


Special Correspondence OF the Gazette
WASHINGTON, June l4.--See how
charmingly the plot thickene. Two
years ago we began to think serlouslv
about the iinpossibility Of evisceratinc
sectionalism from federal politics, nm.
less the white people of the South
themselves were rent asunder as part;.
sans. A solid South bepat
OF necessity. a solid North
and in the ensuing contl;ct
the South was always crushed. Da.
feat in elections signified little ~
nothing; but the practical financial
and moral results were intolerahla
The powerful Northern sectional
newspaper press was induced to mis-.
represent every virtue and distort
every vice Oft the South. The worlds
opinion OF us was shaped by speeches
made by Sherman, Hoar and Ed'
munds and by the ubiquitousness of
their great newspaper opponents, un.
III southern people were degraded In
the worlds eyes and Southern nron.
erty lost value and Southern states
were deemed moral pest houses. | hear
honest Eastern men say and constantly
do hear 1t from Europeans that thew
would not dare traverse Mississipni
The story of Chisholm's and Matthew'S,
taking-off is AS Familiarity well known
in Europe as in America and infinite.
ly more has been written and NH.
lished about the killing of four or five
negroes in Danville than of the fiftv
whites who fell in Cincinnati. Worse
than this, Malone stands before the
world, through the intervention of the
Radical press, as the representation of
modern Virginia. How infinite the
evil! How measureless the degrade.
ton!
THE SOLID SOUTH NO MORE.
These measureless calamities
all spring from the solidity of the
South. and this from the effort made
by Ben Butler and Thad Stevens to
subject the South to negro domination.
Their object was to vote the Southern
states AS rotten boroughs by voting the
negro. If their ends had been at
tanned their mastery of the country
would have been final and absolute.
The consolidation of the white race of
course was effected. The negro was
Invested of political power and the
South became solidly Democratic.
! How unfortunate was this has been
shown and confessed everywhere. To
remedy the misfortune statesmen
and patriots, wholly reckless of
immediate results to parties, have
compelled the discussion of practical
questions. The people have been in
duced by discussions forced upon the
senate and the house to forget the race
| 1Ipsftnn and aantinn oli nd
parties are undergoing, in the very
| presence OF presidential election,
thorough processes of transformation.
Blaine is relatively stronger to-day.
and am glad of it, in Austin, Texas,
than in Boston. Mass. He draws to
his support the protectionists of the
| South, and drives tariff reformers
of Iowa, in greater numbers,
into the Democratic ranks.
No greater good fortune could befall
Texas than the numerical equalization
of parties having new basic principles
and no longer distinguished simply by
race features. Therefore when have
seen the partisan condition of each
county in the South precisely what ii
was when the old Wing and Demo
cratic organizations fought their battles
with vary ing fortunes in every consta'
ble's election, and when have seen
each Southern state denOminated q
doubtful quantity in presidential cam
paigns, then VIII sectionalism be nc
more and people of the South become
the richest, freest and most prosperous
on Gods footstool.
NEW ENGLAND AND THE GULF STATES
am none the less Democrat but
the more patriot. If these changes
supervene in the gulf states they vii
he equally operative in New York
If the Democratic party lose strength
in Texas it will win in the Northwes
and in New England two votes fol
each one lost in Texas. Any partisan
revolution that sweepsin one direction
in Texas, will move with great vic
lence towards the opposite point o
, the political compass in the North ant
} East. A Texas Democrat takes u very
narrow view of the fortunes o
his party and country VIII
weeps when he sees old Wing
of the South, and their children, ant
all pIotectionists, heretofore acting
with the Democracy, going over t
Blaine and Logan. There is no Treason
in their conduct to their section
Blaine is not Sherman, or Hoar, o
w hulcNcI NiCCr "
conduct and character, he is too grea
IL man. Intellectually, and as presiden
would be too full of grand designs, :
recognize sections or remember tn
4 rebellion" In Blaine's eyes tn
5 country is an unit, and he would civ
1t continental unity. He has no littl
: vices. His 'jobs" were always grand
and there is absolute sublimity In hi
cunning.
AN ILLUSTRATION.
1t is already announced that he
a going into West Virginia, state vot
: ing, like Ohio, in October. II is a quas
,, Southern state. Blaine proposes 7
capture 1t and North Carolina, an orig
inal old Wing state. He has an ey
on Tennessee that used to vibrate be
tween Democracy and Whiggery
Neither of these states went into tn
rebellion; but were ''precipitated" Int
: it. Blaine would influence the actio
!, ofthe mother and daughter, Mort
Carolina and Tennessee, Ivy that Z
West Virginia. He says a
may make two or three speeche
in West Virginia, whittier he goes I
"look after his coal mines, oil well
2 and railway lnterests.n The Demo
J. cratic majority In West Virginia varit
e from ak 10 eight thousand. Elkln
and few of Blaine's star route pe0pl
will accompany him. They have oni
to buy thirty.five hundred votes whil
Blaine expatiates, on O shallow pr