Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-21
CHICAGO LETTER
The Presidential Dutlook-mo,,o a.
Coming Man. '
Beecher's Leciures-Mrs. Lanv,r,
Freddie-social Notes, ""'
Special Correspondence Of ~.

9,eeu' ~ seems To amount IN -
.lan taik, but he had better save ", ,he
ullseeiliy spectacle of anot,,oe
scramble for the prize. 1t was p,aies
WV WY? broke The power of the famone
3V9 IN 1850, and the plumed knimhs
nius iair to enter the field stronsas
tiiah ne uid four years ago. At sn,,
rate, 1t is hardly among the possibii;
lies Iilat Grant can show even as n,nol
strength as he did then. There il nn
reason Tor it, The country does no,
owe nm anything. His nomination
"9uiu mean Democratic ascendencv
Logan is making trouble here, Ia
mas liosts Oh ardent admirers who are
Working as hard as they can for hin,
nuI ms cnances are very slender even
III his own state.
- LEI me register a predictions: Ifthe
,hepuoiicahs 90 not nominate dark
,r, II VIII he James G.. Blaine
inoush Arthur has surely made
very sensible chief magistrate, the
KEN ana widespread dislike for him
at the time of his nomination and suc.
cession to the presidency cannot i.
forgotten. at the same time II viii IN
be rather close race betweam
him and the plumed knight. Tha
latter has been before the public for an
long in the attitude of candidate that
his character is pretty well known
The trouble Is he Is too well known for
his own good. He Is popular i'm.
mensely so, but there is hardly man
living who could stand before The pub.
lie as he has done without making
some blunders. For, all that. he IL
to-day the strongest Republican cam
didate that is in sight. 1t is Blaine or
a dark horse, and prominent among
the dark horses is Allison of Iowa.
Henry Ward Beecher came again to
swap lecture or two for Chicago
dollars. Henever finds any trouble
i'll making an exchange and so comes
quite often, considering his duties at
home. The old man, past the three
score and ten mile post on life's high.
way, talks just as well as he ever did,
and says 80 long as he finds it easier to
talk than remain quiet, he will con-
tinue to be heard. He is grayer and
redder or more florid than last year.
His mental faculties were never
brighter and he will probably pass of
suddenly some time in the full glory
of his active work. He says he shall
not take any active part in polite.
probably unless in his Judgment the
wrong man Is nominated, Ii there
ever was o minister whose congrega.
ton gave him full liberty to act inde-
pendently, that one is Beecher. A
writer recently referred to the excel.
lence of cathedral Easter song and
said it was so fine that had it been in
Beecher's church it would have been
talegronhed r. Cbioaao avar 1 'v ,r, a" IL
The April fool Joke at the exnenst
of Matthew Arnold and Chicago. to-
gether with its sequel, was character
isticaily American. What a tempes
in tea not. il did raise. How peopI,
did indulge in unguarded abuse OF In,
apostle of style. Ii our late visitor die
not harshly criticise us before, he sure
IN Ii not without grounds for doing 81
now. II Chicago were as slow as Lon
don, the hoax would have been discoy
cred in time to save great deal Of un
called for precipitate resentment. II
, was rather adding insult to injury FOL
the paper THAT was the most complete
~ victimized to say that Arnold want
, ed to say all that was credited to him
Ihe promptness with which Chicago
deals with everything that comes along
+ Is commendable on general principles
but in case OF this Kind little more
of the spirit of Davy Crocketts MOTIF
would be beneficial. AT thesame TIM
the affair has not been without its val
uaole lessons. ihere was a very laig'
/. alnoun' VI truth IN tEe JOKE, cruz
) eIioush ~ Was, anu prooaoiy pecause
was 30 iuli OF tru,h was the reason
, nurt 80 oauly ana was SO holiy aho
uhauViseoiy resented
II The shams in our society need to b'
: exposed. There is too much false pre-
tension to knowledge Of literature
1 music, art and the sciences. A large
1 share of people seem 10 think it is nee
essary to pretend to know whether
: they do or not. 1t comes from tals'
{ pride; from a desire to display some
thing not pos essed. Superhclai pre-
l tenders are met with In all KINDS
: society.
: The local Republican committee hal
lately been besieg ed with requests TO
I tickets 10 the convention. It was tn,
3 result of an erroneous statement in on,
! of the papers, and has been almos
3 equal to Cables April-fool joke oil
} Marx Twain, in getting hundred o
two of people to write to him at ono
for his autograph. Surplus tickets b
I the convention are to be divided amoni
J the delegates, who will be the onl,
source to which one need apply for ad
8 missicn.
Mira J,angtry and ber shadow
/ Freddy. are here She has improve,