Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-15
Blaine to Take the stump-The Irish
VOse-Blaine's Personal History.
A Prominent Trio Galveston and Can.
forbia-The Mississippi River
Question.
Special Correspondence Of the Gazette

Piohouhceu. ouuseU CON should hava
a place on the Democratic ticket
Hendricks says that the "old ticketn
would surely win, but that Mr.. Tilden
will hardly accept the nomination. he.
cause of impaired health. Then n
Cleveland has lost favor in the
eyes of the anti-monopolists
by refusing to sign the bill reducing
rates on the elevated railways, and If
Dorsheimer be Objectionable because
like Chief Justice Chase, he went of,
for awhile with the Free Sellers. whv
not nominate Mr.. Cox? He can carry
New York by 10000 majority, and as
well eclipse Blaine at the Hustinps.
Then, too, Mr.. Cox has voted against
every railway land scheme that ever
came before congress. He has been In
congress nearly thirty years. He
came here in bis boyhood. His pri.
waite personal character is stainless
like his political record. He is the
Admirable Crichton of his time and
the most felicitous speech-maker in
America. He can't help saying good
things. His wit bubbles up spou-
taneously. Therefore his rivals saw of
him, The is the funny man of the
house" and yet he is none the less the
statesman and scholar and rhetorician
of the house. Then, too, Mr.. Cox
has only modest competency. His
wife has the sole management of his
business affairs. She sends him into
the courts of the country when her
financial condition demands relief. In
tact, she rents him out, and then
nersonsl fortun.s even DC doss -.
isle, when things get into AN averIost-
ing snarl. under the comnlex r,Ias
cali Cox to the chair to nprova l"i H.,
tangled threads and hiring order ont Of
chaos. ' o'' Vi
WHO ELsE CAN HEAD-oFP pIArNro
Blaine pronoses 70 cantnra t tha -I Ir;s,
vote. He has been nlottiny fSr tha
achievement of this result for vearS
ever since he first heard the nres;San,
tial bee mzzinp in his skull.can Coy
Is of Irish stock and was foran,oSt of
anti-monopolists even while Rem Rut.
Ter was the choicest ..,au, NJ
Thad Stevens and most raSi.
cal of tie internal reconstruction
committee The south would snnrori
Sunset Cox as zenlouslv es IL Would
adhere to sam TiIden or Jobn or Con
Hancock. In fact, Snnset GOV ia tho
proper Connection of Rlaine an tbe
stump. before the neonie hefora Tho
Knights of Labor. before the f,ish aud
before the masses who made Cievaland
governor of New York. II ia also
true that Mr.. Cox. many venr, renrs.
sented an Ohio district IN conaress and
is TODAY the strongest Dan,oeret who
approves tariff terorm in that er,1,iro
state.
In any event, il Mr.. Cox have a
place on the Democratic ticket, and
like Greeley and Garfield, Blaine un-
dertake to discuss, before the people,
issues involved in the contest, MIR. Cox,
as a leader of his party, would con-
tribute to the political lit
erature of the country more effective
and useful speeches than were ever in
jected by any one man into the seetL-
ing caldron of n presidential cam
paigu. He would make new speech
every day, each, in the eyes of its read
ers, more brilliant and logical and
unauswerable than its predecessor.
When S. S. Prentiss used to
hsrangue great multitudes, such was
the glowing splendor of his gorgeous
poetic fancy that the mob forgot the
matchless, resistless logic of the un-
equaled orator, because enraptured by
his marvellous eiouuence. Even so do
men forget Cox's learning and logical
acumen and genius for statecratt be-
cause his satire and witticisms and
scholarly taste distract attention from
his solid worth.
1t strikes me that Mr.. Cox is
the man to oyerwhelm Blaine
and by force of contrast
in the personal and moral and intel
lectual characteristics and history of
the two men to win the high office to
be disposed of in November next. Let
New York and Texas cooperate and
make the president and vice-presi-
dent.
TuEuARBoR QUESTION.
Representatives of California mani
fest keen interest In the question
which SO excites the Galveston wharf
conipany. Wheat from California can
be transferred by rail TO the coast OF
Texas and thence to New York or
Liverpool by sea at much less cost
tn IN by v ay of Cape.Horn Therefore
10 these Culifornians ask for action
by congress in their behalf, They
have no Texan local prejudices.
They only want a good harbOr
on the coast of Texas. They are told
that such haven for great ships can
be more speedilv and cheapiy con.
structed at the mouth of the Brazos
the natural terninus of the railways
from the Pacific. The engineer corps
of the United States will not be averse
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