Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Fortunes OF Newspaper The Fount Of
Pure Democracy.
Morrison and Blaine-Rival Leaders
from the East and West.
Fremonts Proposed PeEsion--A Scrap
OF French History.
Special Correspondence of tho Gazette.

lean Register, the most philosophical
of opponents of Jetlersonian Democ-
racy, and perhaps ablest of ex-
Founders of Democratic faith, was
owned in part by Sandwich islander.
He had invested money in this admira-
BILE weekly review aud was carrying |
1t on swimmingly, when one day he
suddenly dropped cut. Judge Bentley |
the writer of editorials that have made |
the paper famous, is nearly seventy |
years of age. His health Is somewh hat |
impaired and the SUDDEN secession of
the Otahetan parslyzed the Register
for the nonce. The judge had made
no provision for such an exit OF his
business associate, and l believe
failed f)r one or two weeks
to furnish the $3.50 required each Sat-
urday by the publishers of the Reg
lister. But the Socrates Of the Demo-
cratic press Ia on its legs again, and
this weeks number contains the ablest
indictment of Republican vices in gov
ernment that ever adorned the pages
of an exponent of Democratic faith
and unity. Tue suspension of the
Register at this junc,ure would he a
national calamity, and was only led
To measure the value of the publica-
ton by its brief absence from my
table. 1t is the wade mecum OF Dem.
ocratic political writers and thinkers
every where, and since it exchanges
with perhaps thousand newspapers
of the states and territories and is
studied AS "a Textbook of Jeffersonian
Democracy by journalists, they may
now congratulate themselves on the
reproduction of the Register in all its
pristine vigor. It's owners
will publish in conjunction
with the philosophical weekly,
Is cent campaign sheet, Of win Itch
$4,000 copi.s will TIE sent abroad AS the
first edition. This will cDntni n
every sort of Information sought by
the people in the coming contest, and
should reach half the homes of the
. continent. Perhaps it might be well
, to state that the Sandwich islanGer
, withdrew fIom the Register, thinking
, to own and publish u substitute emit
tied the fam, rican Recordn But
!, only one number of the Record APP
], peared. 1t was consigned by
TO the vast cemetery containing
, the ashes OF countless publications
- that have only lived to die in the ma
a larial atmosphere of Washington.
It MORRISON.
y The speech of this gentleman, pro-
, pouuced when he introduced his tariff
n reform bill, arrested the undivided at-
: tention of members of the house; even
II senators came aud heard the story told
j. by the famous Ilinoisan. Jno. Han.
a cock sat beside Morrison, while Rad
if of Maine stood before him. Randall
"A and Randolph Tucker were HARDLY
1t listening intently while the speaker
ii read in measured, distinct &C
at cents, hardly heard in the
N gallery, his logical, accurate discussion
of the revenue codes OF the country
10 The spe, ch appears in the Congress
IL sional Record this morning, and wa
Il. eagerly sought after in the papers o
lg to-day. Evidently, enough popular
pr interest in this great question, affect
ut ing the fortunes of every citizen, ricl
and poor, to an extent which the,
st last, and properly directed for the iirs
ur time since 1865. Dollars and cents
Ill monopolies, class legislation, the rob
cir berry of the many by the few
while the many were watchin,
OF the bloody shirt flauntet
iss in their faces that the,
he might be innocently plucked an,
St. plundered, constitute leading thought
re- of the whole country, and Sherman
he and Malone sink into insigniticanc
I'D and Blaine Of Maine and Morrison o
1t Illinois, as representative thinkers {
the Union, will lead parties to victor
he or defeat.
iv- The subject OF discussion in the hous
ny has been taken up in the senate, an
Id Morrill, invcighed against the uuas
vi free-trade speech of Senator Beck d,
i0t livered some weeks ago, az part AN
m parcel of his argument when Blair
Id school bill WAS considered
ANOTHER COMMISSION.
ie The expenditure of several million
Jus of dollars In the lower valley of III
~, Mississippi by the revenue commi
VA sion, though no advantage to the va
,,a' ley has accrued. induces represent,
he tives OF the district aLon
ie, the Missouri to ask COZ
Sts gress to give their conduit Of yello
'jn western waters supervising body
lis hydrodynamic philosophers If the.
-, be pupils of Esds and OF West Point 4
~ ,;a greater misfortune could befali tn
'' treasury and the valley of the Nj
souri, than the concession OF the III
mand OF these congressman
IL, however, Mr.. Van Hor
OF Kansas City may be chief of ii
commission, directing its policy an
IN shaping its practical action, gre
good may result not only to Il
, jewellers in the valley of the Missouri
noe but congress may be taught by result
80 achieved in the Northwest how fatal
M, unwise this persistent levee-buildii
,@a has been aud must ever be in the 10,
- lands OF the Mississippi. II
~ Eads' commission has q
,na pended so much, acc0mplishir
NV less than nothing, that Mr.. Holm,
and Democratic economists can hard
,ieh be induced to assent to the creation
''. ~ another device for the extraction
,rna millions from the treasury To
''p' dumped into raging floods, rushir
down In springtime with meltir
snow from Western mountains.
-. THE OHIO AND TENNESSEE RIVERS.
emf Then why not subject the Ohio a,
,ied lis tributaries to the domination OF
son royal commission? This river will ,
and peat It's tragedy each year. Nobo,
ndo proposes to levee its crooked ston
tier rugged banks, and yet the soil il an,
ord that liked, indestructible wa
I'd a might he built, while the soil
,he lowlands Of the Mississip
Is an impalpable powder, and &
earth constituting the base of the
ievess Is as light and porous aud a
ater stable as the levees themselves. III
sest ONO, IKE the Mississippi, can only
ware uiaue innOcueIs by fha "A veraior AZ ;