Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Another Possible, Even Probable Can.
dldate for the Presidency.
Ben Buffers Nomination Impossible
Biographical Sketch Of Flower.
His Luck and Genius-His Contest with
Astor-His Relation TO the Common
People.
Special correspondence OF the Gazette.

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, June H. Since
Blaine's nomination became necessi-
ty, l have been giving personal sketch
es of men who may be properly select
ed by the Democratic party to defeat
his Vaccinations In New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut. Massachu-
sets must be lefC to the tender mercies
of Ben Butler. If Butler were made
the standard bearer of Democracy, as
proposed by the Memphis senator,
the Republicans of Massachusetts,
led by the Springti I'D Republican, it
having pronounced against Blaine,
would be forced to support him. They
hate Blaine and abhor this rotary
steam engine, Ben Butler. Butler dis
appeared as u remote possibility when
Blaine's star rose in the West above
that Bethlehem of Eastern wise men,
ycleped Chicago. Buffers nomination
by the Democracy would force the
New York Times and Beecher to sup
port Blaine. Therefore, when we
must save New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut, and can do this without
detriment to the fortunes of our party
in the West, where the tariff for rev.
enueo gives us unwonted strength, as
in Iowa, we must select a leader who
will not reIel decent Republicans and
at the same time consolidate the voting
forces which made Cleveland governor
of New York.
ROSWELL p. FLOWER
was farmer boy, born of humble pa
rentage in Jefferson county, New York,
where he still resides. The best
possible evidence of his moral and in
tellectual worth is discovered in the
profound respect for his manly virtues
and honest worth entertained by the
people of his county. There he is alb
solutely omnipotent. He is now ia
the 46th year of his age and in the per-
lection of intellectual and physical
manhood. He toiled on farm till he
was thirty-s and by steady labor
and frugality gathered enough money
to found resp -cgable grocers bust
ness. When his capital was about
5000, he welded the sister of Henry
Keep, millionaire railway Spectator.
Keep died leaving no children. His
estate was subdivided among his four
sisters and wife, excepting the sum of
500 600 given specially to the son of
Mr.. Flower. This son survived the
testator only u few weeks. and Flower
and his wife transferred this legacy to
the poor of the parish of st. Thomas
church in the city of New York.
IN BUSINESS AFFAIRS.
Such was Mr.. Keeps appreciation
, Of Mr.. Flowers integrity and capacity
, that he made Mr.. Flower the sole eX-
ecutor Of his will, requiring no bond.
Through the past ten years Mr..
Flower, with the consent and APP
. prevail Of Mr.. Keeps heirs and lega-
| tees, has controlled the vast estate,
constantly augmenting its volume and
income.
. In 1872 Mr.. Flower became resi-.
dent of the city of New York, drawn
r thither by the necessities of the late
Mr.. Keeps property. His practical
wisdom and unbending integrity COM
manded limitless popular confidence,
+ and his generosity to the poor and I'M
e fortunate made the multitude love the
q man. In contravention of his own
wishes he was forced to become cam
didate for congr IS, that the machine
tions..of the notorious bill Aston" ,who
openly proposed to buy a seat
in the house, might be
. thwarted Mr.. Astor expended
$ in whisky dens and worse places more
}. than 100000 in vain. Flower was
l. elected by $500 majority. He served
4 through his term, esteemed the most
- useful and practical and wisest of the
Is New York delegation. He was unani-
E. mously renominated by the Demo
l. cratic convention of his district; but at
n the time his daughter was pros
- tratt d by lingering and dangerous
l. illness and Mr.. Flower refused to leave
IS her bedside and firmly refused to ac-
" cept the nomination.
=. Mr.. Flower is plain and frank, even
u to bluntness. When asked whether he
a would be a candidate for the presi-
dency, he answered, without evasion
or indireCti0n, that he would neither
seek nor decline the candidature, bu,
that he was not a candidate If Mr.. Til.
den would accept the position.
10 MR.. Flowers DEMOCRACY.
10 He Is thoroughly man of the peo
d pie since he is only the grown up
Re well developed farmers boy. All his
re sympathies are with the class from
10 which he sprang. He is straightest O.
re anti-monopolists and the chosen loca
fe leader OF the Knights of Labor and o.
t, the New York trades unions. There
m fore it happens that of the delegates to
il the approaching New York state con
at vention sixty prefer Grover Cleveland
10 as the Democratic candidate for the
ne presidency. and 29i prefer Mr.. Flower
New York will certainly ask in the
Democratic convention at Chicago thai
Roswell p. Flower be made the candi
date OF the party for the presidency
His admirable personal worth, his un
to sullied integrity, his thorough sym
pathy with the masses of the people
90 his generosity, his sound sense anC
90 practical wisdom would make &c
~ strong a contrast when he i,
ae SIT up beside James G.. Blaine
se who shines and yet stinks like rotter
d. mackerel by moonlight, on the bleal
ad coast of Maine, that the common
~ sense and common honesty of the
10 country would prefer of necessity, tho
"a flower" of the common people to In,
"a railroad "dead-beatn Of the "nro
n, tected'' aristocracy.
m ITUR AID ASTRA.
10 In contest between Blaine anf
,d Flower, that between Astor and Flower
IE on broader arena, would bereproduced
The banks aud corporations and "pro
iected industries that don't dread ,
foreign war more than they love "pro
lection" will expend millions in he
half of Blaine'a triumph: Will,
m Flower again would rely upon the
n honest instincts and unbought virtue
n OF the multitude. He would destroy
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