Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Republican Weakness--Ignoring Issues
and Waving the Bloody Shirt.
Public Morals Shaped by Government
and the Party in Power.
Vile Deiamers of Women OF the South.
west--Parllamcntary Jargon.
special Correspondence of tho aa.,,,.

Special Correspondence OF tho Gazette.
Washington, January A. The per-
sistency Of efforts of Republican party
leaders and newspapers to renew the
old conflict between the North and
the South and TO reproduce the
bloody-shirt, measures accurately
the strength of present Democratic
public policy. Talk 10 = Republi
can about gross wrongs done the
toiling multitudes of the United States
by the tariff system, and he confesses
and avoids by pointing to Danville
and singing the bloody-shirt Tell of
enormities done by the banking sys-
TEN, and how infinitely cheaper for
the people if currency came directly
instead of indirectlyifrom the treasury,
and again the Chisholm Mathews hor-
rors, supposed TO blacken districts in
| Mississippi, are thrust into our faces
Whatever the political morals of Mis-
sissippi, and however addicted to vio-
lence may be the people, their training
In duties of citizenship has been d.
rected exclusively by agents of the
Republican party. The whole ma
chiuery of government and of la is
at the dispos al Of Republicanism. The
mainly the result OF a bargain between
the masters of the negro majority and
leaders of the white minority. Offices
are parceled out by junta, and the
people only approve through the bal
lnt-box the DEGREES of the autoeratic
Republican and Democratic
| political syndicates that
WELD with much wisdom the assets
aud direct the action aud morals of
| the commonwealth. Ii political muir
derousness result, its origin must be ns-
cribed TO political training and to
codes Of morals enacted ana approved
by the Republican party. Tell OF these
facts and tnat the people would have
corporations restrained 10y law and
forfeited land grants restored 10 the
people, and II Republican always an
swers, this ~ bud enough, but
then the poor negro you
know and his bloody shirt!r
The central organ of the Republican
party, conducted IN this city by the
Congers and the postoilice department,
strikes out wildly every day in behalf
of the bloody-shirt. In tbesrnate and
house bills are constantly introduced
designed to distract public attention
from practical, and divert it to senti-
embodiment of the rebellion thrust
/ into the speakers chair by the bloody
hands OF rebeldonl, and Mr., Barksdale,
who used to be JEFF Daris' spokesman
i'll the Richmond congress. is IA raw
head and bluody-bones with which
to Brighten old women of the
East and make them forget the prac-
tical questions tuggiug ut the heart
and purse-strings of every man, wo-
man and child IN America. Ia sin
gle edition of n morning daily count
ed thirteen recitals of details OF thir-
teen deadly crimes done within thirty
six hours in Northern states, Ii there
were six million negroes in he North
twice as many bloody deeds would
have been done and thirty-two negroes
might have fallen. The people begin
To comprehend these facts North as
well rs South and the Messrs. Congers
and the l.. o. ID. struggle in
vain To lift the bloody-shirt.
PATENT OUTSIDE AND MANIFOLD cor
RESPONDENTS.
In preparing one Washington letter
10 be printed simultaneously in many
different newspapers in many states,
the corresp ondent must beware of Of
Tending people of districts overrun
by papers for which lie writes. There
fore do we find the good man who
dishes up Washington items Tor the
country press OF the East telling bis
patent outsiden funny stories about
"the new members wivesr These
women, of course, are from the South
and Southwest. They are vulgar,
commit dreadful buuders at
table; ''dip snuff silly and
are grlevously shocked by nude fig
ures in the capitol and art galleries.
These criticisms upon Southwestern
women are devoid OF originality ~ of
truth and of kin to that absurd inven-
lion Of Mrs. Dahlgren's book which
describes cabinet minister's wife as
grossly vulgar and tells that her hus-
band WAS Texan. When was there
n Texan In the cabinet? Never, / be-
lieve before or since the interstate
war. But the habit of newspapers, rs
of book makers, Is to malign aud mis-
represent the South, and this manifold
letter-writer should conline himself to
facts and then he need not lie when
locating them.
PARLIAMENTARY JAnGoN.
Ii squeerJargon which compels us TO
say that the speaker IL the only mem
Der OF the house who occupies u
"chair;p the rest, OF course, sit ON the
floor. Should we not say the floor of
the hall,p rather than floor of the
house" And when fellow "has the
floor is he "hoored, y and if hoored is
he necessarilya platform, aud when
he "has the floor must he fiji the
ceiling with his uproar? And why do
they call him speaker" who IL not
suffered us such to 'speak?" And is
a 'set speech" made standing and do
standing committees never take seats?
And when "a member ''rises to point
--of order" Is his head sharpened on
top like that OF Thersites as described
by Homer? There are other like
Questions to be propounded, but jam
salts. as Horace exclaimed when rain
fell steadily through two weeks on his