Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-28

the policy Of Cleveland's selection Of
Southern man for place in his cab
met:
Mr.. Reagan is undoubtedly right when he |
! SAYS that "true wisdom would dictate that
/ he (president-elect Cievelandl should select
real representative men" OF the South. OF
coprse this refers 10 the South OF to-day, not
20 the south OF twenty or twenty-five years
AGO. Neither Union or Confederate antcce-
| dents can DIT perly be considered In testing
renret ontative character or measuring repre-
sentative eminence in the formation
\ of a truly renresentative cabinet. 10
IA representative men OF the hour,
imbued with the liberal spirit Of
the hour, alive TO the questions OF the hour,
and equal TO the exigencies OF the hour, that
| arc wanted to complete the official circle OF
! truly Democratic administration for the
whole country and FOR every essential part,
| without touch or dream of Partially or in
vldious discrimination.
To THE GAZETTE it seems that the
idea Of the News land of Mr.. Reagan,
Il he is correctly interpret ed, is more
in keeping with the spirit and purpose
OF the Democratic party than is that
of the Herald, II we correctly guess its
meaning. We have yet to understand
that the Democracy is in search es-
pecially ofmen for its high places who
"forgot the Union in its hour of need
and travail" Gen. w. S. Hancock
"forgotp Texas from 1860 to 1864, but
remembered" It when military com
mander at New Orleans, and Texas
went for him with rebel yell at Gin
cinnati in 1850. John Hancock 'for-
got" Texas from 1860 to 1864,
but in the days Of Radical misrule
of the state he Remembered
it to good purpose. Gen. Bragg OF
Wisconsin "forgotr Texas and all the
South from 1860 TO 1864, but ever since
has Remembered Texas and all the
South, especially at Chicago in 1884,
where the commander Of the Iron
brigade did more than any one man
to squelch Tammany and give Cleve-
land to the Democratic party and to
the people. OF Randall the same may
be said. OF all the Northern leaders
of Democracy the same may be said.
What does the Herald mean -? What
"hour of need and travailp is referred
to--thst in which the South" tried to
, get out of the Union, and was pre-
vented by Democrats; or that in
which "the Southn tried to
get back into the Union,
and was aided by Dcmocrats2 II the
: former, would the Herald have one
kind of Democracy for the country at
large and another kind for Texas aud
e the South? If the latter, then Judge
Hancock has especial claims to seat
in the cabinet; for, as the South has
yelled itself hoarse over war Demo
I Gratis and soldier Democrats who stood
+ between it and the tyTannical rapacity
5 of Republleanism, so should it, to be
y consistent, feel grateful TO Southern
\ Unionists who used their exceptional
G influence in days of reconstruction t.
n tighten the burdens of the people.
9 We repeat, we are not advocating
Judge Hancock for any position at th,
hands of Grover Cleveland or Of tn,
people of Texas; but we do protes
against such test of any mans claim
as that evidently submitted by the Her
aid. 1t savors too much fthe bloody
shirt test raised by Republicans in tn,
North. 1t perpetuates AN unhealth,
= spirit and is at variance with tn
!. principles and declarations and pur
a pose of the Democracy. It is Obnox
! ious to the feeling that prevails in Tex
q as. 1t is the essence of Bourbonlsm
"a That some men, North and South, ma,
4 love to llnger in the ashes O
"a war and go down int
10 the graves dug twenty year
ago for issues and memories to battl
n over now, is not strange, Each genera
% ton is instructed by the fossilized re
y mains Of past day unearthed by po
or litical antiquarians, But the mel
u who in very truth did not forget
10 their duty from 1860 to 1861, do no
~ forget 1t now, and the efforts of fossil
NJ and "bloody-shirtn screechers, South a
"a well as North, will meet with no en-
10 enlargement from those who are Den
Il. ocrdts from principle and whose aim
ri. and hopes are in the future. 9Th
n hour of need and trsvailp is the pres
n. emit; and men who lived on parche,
a. corn in an effort not to "forgetp thei
IT. states and people are as tired of South
d. ern post-bellum colonies and major
he and captains as they are of the Az
.al gusta speeches Of substitute buyers.
es- -
Ia Great Democratic Leader.