Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Moral Influences that Shaped the
Results at Chicago.
Republican Women Of the Campaign
Blaine and Logan's Wives.
Extraordinary Omission in the Republi.
can PlatfOrm-Star-R Route
Steve.
Special Correspondence of the Gazette.

hins, the Star-rOuter," Dorsey 's
bower" gave the nomination to
Blaine and Mrs. Logan to her "hub-
by" If Blaine, by any accident,
were made president and Guiteaued,
or otherwise ''removed," we would
have an administration full of those
womanly virtues which Mrs. Stanton
thinks should be injected into
the ballot-box. 1t would
be a marvellous dispensation
of Providence If woman's political 10.
tencr and fitness for tasks of state
craft should be first exerted and illus.
tratd by Mrs. Logan in the highest
Office in the world. But what is the
necessity for the investiture of women
with ali privileges of citizenship, IL,
even now, she may fill the chief mag
istrGy of the empire? Then, IL
Blaine be chosen president, it is com
monty believed that his pugnacity
and ardent, selfish ambition will in
velv' the country in some needless
foreign war. He would live as a Caesar
aud have brilliant, rather than q
wise md just administration, and then
Blaine doesn't wear button-hole bou-
quet. The rich are made enormously
lich ny war; while the poor are
wretcfedly impoverished, imbruted
and slaughtered. War would accom-
plish atonce results as certainly but
more surely wrought by "protection. y
Conservative Republicans, contemplate
ing thee facts, insist that Blaine, like
Logan, is greatly influenced by his
wife AMI by "Gail Hamilton and
that conservatism is assured, even in
Blaine'i action, by the potency o.
these two admirable women. I had
supposed, on the contrary, that "Gail''
is often empestuous.
SIGNIFICANT.
Tedious and interminable and full
of platiudes and discussions of
divers subjects as the Republican plat
firm ma, be- it is the more remark.
able for is strange silence in reference
to extraordinary vices Of the times
which tn protracted swag of the par.
ty has generated. Even Grants hui
miliationand Arthur's condemnation
because oihis approval by the 'busi-
ness interests" and the universally OF
corruptionin public and private life,
so debasd by vices incident To
class legisation, that the people be-
lieve at LIST that place-holding and
honesty an concurrenlly impossible,
or ut least improbable, are unnoticed.
SO DEGRADED and debased has society
become th.t senator's and representa-
tives and newspapers and even cen
sus return ascribe better morals and
n better staa of society to Utah than
to Eastern ommonwealths and cities.
70 these painful results of protracted
Republican domination and their
remedy no difference is madein Blaine's
platform. N truth, Blaine's personal
history andfortunes are such that it is
supposed hF nomination was demand
ed and Effected by the thoroughly
corrupt maDrity of his party.
HOW HIS ELECTION Is TO BE ASSURED.
When ma say that he will be elect
ed, the reasn for this faith is discoy.
cred, not inhis worth or ability, but in
the fact thatBlaine's means Of buyinp
newspapers and voters are
bounuless, as the ri hes he
has acquired through class
OF men agrandized by depredations
upon publ lands or upon popular
toll, effected through the tariff code.
Blaine acquired his millions while
Serving his country" an occupation
that formerly invested greatness with
poverty. overty, economy and toll
We're once most honorable, but riches
now give rank and the poor and hon.
est cannot fflord to serve the state. 1t
Is only in Western communities that
modest competency can win public
honors. Til1en is imbued, we are told
with the Conviction that only a rich
Democrat can compete with the nomi-
nee of party that has acquired pos
session, by long tenure of legislative
and executive power, of three fourths
of the wealth of the whole coutry. 1t
has such monopoly of wealth that
Mr.. Tilden believes that voting has no
reference to patriotism, and only to
the acquisition of dollars and cents.
he who cannot buy votes and news
papers can never he, in Mr.. Tildep's
eyes, an available" candidate. Such
il the inference from his adhesion 10
Payne OF Flo or.
There was time when poor men
could aspire to the highest places i'm
the land, but class legislation and grea,
land grabs and financial processes OF
government have created a governing
class and working class-the imperial
East with its millionRires, and the vast
lmultitudes SO poor and ignorant that
their votes are purchasaDle as their
Hives are wretched.
We see the palace. Its splendors
catch the eye and compel admiration
we never contemplate the Thousand
novels about 1t, whose occunans
do the partisan bidding of the great
lords of rails, banks, mines and tariffs
| We confess the splendors of the faw
put never the miseries and poverty O
the masses.
Biaine's possibilities of success are
accurately measured by vices and
crimes Of his party that have produces
existing conditions of society, OF
course when this Is true the wonde,
ceases that Blaine's platform, with ali
its multifariousness, fails to advert II
the most extraordinary fact incident Ia
current history and to the present con.
dltion OF the people ard country
democracy, II 1t would win. mus,
make this silence of BlAine's platform
ssniiicant. 1t must appeal to the
honest, uncorrupted MASSES Of the
common people. The ennobled and
aYgrandized "protectedn class. the
sp,culators. who never dug y
dollar out OF the ground and havs
grown rich simply by legislatino thea
dollars out of the peoples p0clxets in r.
tneir own, adhere to Blaine. He n
their representative leader. He wonij
perpetute corrupt and yicious svs.
TENS by which they have been aggrsn.
nized, and the people will onlv Sinner,
Blaine to the extent that mo,;ev XXI H.
| Ignorance. ieJ o1iocs