Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-30

urged by dOnn sherman ana senator
Hoa- and fiaunters OF the bloOdy-shirt.
but 10 compel Southern whites to pay
more generously for negro toll. And
yet Butler knows that negroes never
toll in the gulf states from compulsion
OF hunger and cold, and only when
bribed. Therefore their adherence Of
Kansas and other Northern states to
which they olce exodusled.
I Butler IRE HiHED AGENT or BLAINE
This invective OF Butler against the
people Of the South, designed TO repro
duoe sectional antipathies and re-
excite the passions Of the reconstruc-
ton period, was never uttered simply
to win votes for Butler The negroes
will never hear OF this speech IL was
made in New York. IL will give not
one additional vote TO Butler, and only
serves to make A. NJ. West, Buffers
vice presidential candidate, detestRble.
But It does inflame the passions OF
crsdulous idiots, and optimists aud
negrophilists Of the North. They
give credence to Buffers lies. They
have seen Ben Buffers people driving
out of Massachusetts,, by reducing
wages, all native-born laborers Of the
state. They have seen Canadians,
| Irish and Italians substituted till the
foreign-born of the state are a major
ity. Well may they believe, therefore
| that we, too, rob the negroes, when
| they. through the tariff, rob the whole
country anu then by robbery drive
into exile the toiling multitudes of
Massachusetts,, in whose behalf fools
vote for tariffs. The tariff does not
pay penny into the hands of any
laborer, hut only into the tills of en-
| ployers-of Ben Buffers, and Ben But
Ter is a cody proteetionist. The
South Is tired Of being plucked to
create millionaires like Blaine and
Ben Butler, and therefore Buffers
hatred OF the South and therefore
the absurd assertion that Southern
whites rob, remorselessly, Southern
blacks. Gods laws of soil and climate
make the statement simply absurd.
A mans wages in Massachusetts, are
defined by laws of hunger and cold;
negroes wages in the gulf states are a
premium above the cost OF negro
tropical luxuries, melons, fruits and
the spontaneous products of the soil.
More than one-thiTd Of the negroes of
the South never earned penny, and
yet outside the great cities there was
never a hungry negro.
BUTLER DELIBERATELY ----t
aud the ignorant workingmen OF the
East, seeing how they themselves are
robbed and cheated, readily be-
lieve that Southerners, In like
manner, rob the blacks. l
as masses, save to the extent that "A
harsh climate and sterile soil make a
! people selfish and penurious, those of
A n n ~
the South; but 10 so happens that God
interposes in behalf of Sambo and we
can't rob or wrong him, as a laborer,
| If we chose. Despite these and count
less other facts, illustrative of Buffers
depravity, he Is holder and honester
man than Blaine, and therefore 10 be
preferred.
made this little speech, because of
Buffers latest etlusion be-
fore body of the knights of
Labor, with which | am associated,
and when / had finished the simple
task, believe everyone of them
thought as / did.
WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SAYS.
was talking with the Hon. Benton
Mcmillan of Carthage, Tenn, to-day,
who Is a member Of this and Of the
next congress. He has been in Denison
soiourning with Mr.. Maughs and Mr.
| Munson, school-fellows of his in Ken
lucky. He has loitered Mt Waukesha,
near the north pole, and on the shores
of the great lakes. He went down in
to Massachusetts and among the work
| ing people of Boston and New York,
and here, in Franklin square, he tells
me and Howard of Lebanon, Tenn,
that people won't throw away their
votes on Butler They like to hear the
bald-pated imp speak, even as they
would listen to "old Nick,n never
dreaming of browning him king. The
man who prefers Butler TO Blaine pre-
fers Cleveland TO Blaine, and Butler,
Mcmillan says, will harm Blaine
more than Cleveland. "Moreover, y
said Mr.. Mcmillan, sin contest like
this, In which classes are arrayed
against one another as well as politl-
cal parties, Cleveland alone OF the
three candidates has the sympathies of
the masses. Blaine and Butler both
are milllonalres, Both have palaces
even here before our dazed eyes in
Washington and both, as representa-
tlves of the great body of the Ameri-
can people, can have none of the sym.
pathies OF the multitude. Every friend
| VI VIZ AeNS N2ONitAal1 Holktlt
Blaine betrayed In New York, Is now
for Cleveland and the great body of
the common people gravitate naturally
toward him.
Continuing, Congressman Mcmillan
said:
III think the prospect of electing
Cleveland decidedly good and bright
ening every day. He gains strength
hourly, and this in geometrical pro.
gression.n
Upon what facts do you base your
opinion?N asked your reporter
"Well,n answered the modest gen
tleman, ut is difficult TO overlook so
broad country and speak with conf
dence of results affected by go
many remote and conflicting
causes. It must be confessed
however, even by Republicans,
that while Blaine has ardent personal
friends and enthusiastic followers and
admirers, the rank and nile OF his party
do net cleave to him as they did to
Garfield. His status before the people
is not so good as Garfeld's. Garfield's