Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-04

Special Correspondence of the Gazette.
Washington, January 29.--Blaine is
certainly the strongest and by all odds,
intellectually, the most respectable
leader of the Republican party. He
can make the best bloody-shirt speech
and most effective, and however ear
nestly he insists that he Is not candi-
date, the country refuses TO give Gre
dence to his assertions. To.
day his staunchest friend,
Bob Ingersoll, said that
Blaine is not in the field. He has had
enough of politics and of office and
chooses to devote his life to literary
tasks. IngersOll seems TO be earnest
in this statement of the purposes of his
friend, in whose behalf he pronounced
in the Cincinnati Republican conven-
ton, when Hayes was nominated, the
most brilliant, effective and finest
specimen of mere personal rhetoric
ever uttered in such a body.
THEp. NJ. GENERAL.
But II Blaine be not candidate 1t is
because IL were wiser to be unknown,
at this juncture, in this contest. He
has no patronage. He cannot dis
pense offices, MS doucerS, among
those whose support he would buy.
He has no facilities for the solidlilca-
ton of Southern rotten boroughs in
his behalf. To accomplish results
which cunning cabinet officer or Mr..
Arthur may achieve by the judicious
use of public plumber, would cost
Blaine many millions, Therefore
Mr.. Blaine shrinks from competition
in this business of purchasing South
ern delegations to be used in the Re-
publican convention of 1884. Blaine
wisely stands aloof, and witnesses with
delicious insouciance, the struggles of
aspirants more fortunate than himself
in having the means of buying the
nomination with resources furnished
by the government itself In other
words the presidency buys and pays
for the presidency.
HOW II Is DONE.
j would Illustrate my meaning by
showing how, TO use n technical phrase
common among these party leaders,
Texas is worked up,n President Ar.
thur must be cognizant of the fact,
and since he seems TO give assent, am
almost persuaded that he does not pro-
pose to succeed himself, but would
transfer the succession TO his iavorite
cabinet officer, Gen. Gresham of the
=. O. ID. In that "podn are the
seeds from which may spring the
great wine and fig tree,' beneath
whose branches the country must re-
pose through another four years of
Republican domination, and in this
"podn we may discover the otla
"pOd"-Tidd of all our woes.
THE WHEEL WITHIN A WHEEL.
The excellent gentleman who shares
with the wharf company at Galveston
the delectable privilege of levying con-
trihutions, through the custom house,
upon the wealth and resources of
Texas, was brigadler under Post
master-General Gresham in the luck
less Interstate war, fought, il seems,
that the South might b. given
over to the tender mercies of
carpet-baggers. Gov. Davis having
stepped down and out, ut the very
moment that Russell was removed"
by Brewster Cameron, the Office of
federal grand almoner for Texas,
through the intervention of Gresham,
was given to Malloy, the custom house
officer ut Galveston. Tom Ochilt rec
aspired to this position, but made u
little giddy by his elevation, Ochiltree
thought he could "play u lone hand"
and audacionsly entered upon the role
of an "lndependent," and the GUS
tom house man instantly rose up
from the sea like an aphrodlte,
and Gresham instantly embraced him |
Venus. There was no reason after
Tom went of to constitute a "grand
old partyn by himself, why lie should |
N o., fIaral 10, gp,..aaH Inv nauiG and |
the president and Folger agreed, II |
seems, that the Galveston custom
house keeper should disburse public
plumber in Texas, and Gresham was
exceeding happy. Malloy was Ores
hams man, aud he Ii doing Gresham |
noble services He Is stocking the |
harbor of Galveston and the seac0ast |
and all the 1900 or 1900 postoilices |
Of Texas, with loyal adherents OF
Gresham. Whatever the fitness or
honesty or personal and private and I,
public worth of Federal place
holder in Texas his head goes of rs
soon as he lisps the name of Blaine or
Logan, or any other man. than Gres-
HAMS, with the least degree Of tender
ness. DeGress, the gallant postmas-
ter at Austin, has been kept Of late in
perpetual hot water because he has
The int0lerablc audacity to swear and
believe that Gen. John A. Logan
was The author of Kirkham's gram
mar and of NVebster's unabridged.
POstofllce inspectors understand their
business, and no mans books or ac-
are straight In their eyes, who
10 not dance TO the music of the pres
dental bee that Is humming In
Greshams bonnet and singing In his
night-cap and buzzing In his. breeches
and singing him fore and aft. Every
where in Texas you will find that
every postmaster and every mail agent
and every inspector chants the praises
Of Gresham, and everywhere the
soft heads of stupid recusants
fall into the busket beneath
the guillotine driven by Greshams
electrical battery in the postoiiice de,
partment. IL Is a wonderful piece OF
working us perfectly IN
every state as In Texas. ! only give
the facts affecting Texas, because your
readers everywhere, in this great com
recognize the absolute
verify of my statement.
POOR BLAINE.
He Is paralyzed by the contempla-
ton of these facts. The less
noise he makes the less vigorous
will be the efforts Of the brigadler OF
Galveston who served under Major
General Gresham. III the average an
nual value of Texas postoiiices be 5000
each Gresham has 100000 with
which TO buy the vote Of the represent
atiyes of Texas In the Chicago poIiii-
mating convention. No wonder " i'm