Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Bete-Noir of the Republican Party
at the National Capital.
Why Local Government Is Withheld IN
the District Of Columbia.
An Old Memory Revised Rossuih'
Literary Piracy.
Blait's School Bill aud Its Manifest
Destiny.

Blais's School Bill aud Its Manifest
Destiny.
Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
Washington, March u do not fall
to observe the conduct OF the Wash.
ington newspapers. Not long ago and
up TO the date OF the meeting OF con-
gress, each new spaper, and especially
the National Republican, was never
silent and never failed 10 demand the
acknowledgements of the people q,
the capital. II pronounced the
sway Of the triangular syndicate,
that administers public affairs and
shapes the destinies OF the capital,
anti-republican In theory and Ia fact,
aud suhversive OF all accepted theories
OF American government. II demand
ed the ro-investiture of the people
with the right OF suffrage. Father
Clapp and his colored man and broth.
er douglass made counties, speeches.
full o. Indignation, because Africans
cannot vote In Washington, and white
men are shut out from ballot-boNes
and seif-government because negro
suffrage here would be intolcra6le.
But no sooner had congress assembled
than Ciapp and Douglass and the
Republican,, fearing that their de-
mands might be deemed serious
ana earnest, became 81
lent and solemn oysters, and
not wave of liberty -lauding oratory
rolls from the mammoth cave OF
Douglass abdominal rotundity or
from the cavernous depths OF Mr.
Clapp's Republican philosophy.
Silence hrooded over sweet.sreiited
Samson street, reigned In the rosy
junel s, of Happy Hollow aud hung
like pail OF sorrow over the fumes of
HELPS Half-Acre.
Sherman and Malone and Ed
munds and Hoar find the negro an
angelic suflragau in Virginia and
Mississippi. His Acknowledgement
there Is chiefest of human crimes; but
here, II IS not only right
but eminently wises and proper
to exclude from participation in
Affairs of local government u people
most intelligent as whole inhahiting
any city on the continent. And all
Tins Is done simply because. II would
be criminal in paftisanship to illus
trate here in Washington, on the very
confines of the blessed North, the ter
rors of negro government in the
South. And yet, in tho face of these
facts, Sherman and Malone do cling
the Lloody SHIRT, and Southern people
are reviled because the white people
of the South, however they NAV
differ from one another on great ques.
lions of public policy and OF par
tisanship, are an unit in elections. AL.
WAYS voting the white mama ticket.
sacrrrv rv w.eu,xoroy
"'' ~" ''N'
twenty-five years ago the govern
ing pody In society ana III local pnblic
aliairs IN the District OF Columoia
We're Ni'eihiahs ana mary iahuers.
iouuy u"o,thifuS vi ,he white ci'i-
Hehs vi WusiiiiiE'on are rom Unio or
I'm All ~ ,ha.aa"a na,'a,iai ,,A.
,ynr.hino,s Hnt tba 'i,,,o,,si,',e "
tha;r d.vntio, nrnws With 'ha dIs;yana.
AZ ,ho co,orad iess Thnra H. r nn,i'i,,'S
va i,hor,aJ 49, 10 ,n,or ~ lit s
annia1 iiaa ~ ia nanra ~, T., Ivna,,i,,
amd nat,,i'n,r sn ,,ad ,it 80 w ", ',,.i
as samhn s 81 9o i sa "'u n a' annai
~. I ,an,a or ~ oonoe",
t ,no P iao., SJ ~ ~ a'.eioe VI
o onu isep"o n,,a anu " capP "neai
o era Snn, ir.1.in, - yuaa,,i
~ s. uG:,,1 80 hon liz ns.on, n
a s ,rans,,r ~ 49, nae and Er ao J ln.uu
Il avtILi,.:J I IN nn,,iin places ond yI s,'
ston, a sharp-featured white man. We
neered with mahogany, is minister 10
Hayu. Here endelh the chapter and |
yhe Northern conscience Is soothed and |
Blaine in his philosophical book only |
,lludes incidentally TO the grievous
instead of separating the OLD Wings
md Unionisls of 1900 from the ultra
Democracy of the South, undertook
he impossible task OF suboTdiDaling
he South to negro and thus 10 Repub-
lean mastery.
FATAL BLUNDER or THE PARTY.
IL il too late now TO retrieve tho fatal
.rror Blaine confesses this nh MI, mia
when he silently assents
O concurrence With .tal.
and when he abandons
liz original nurnose of securing Son,h-
I'm su5norl ne candidate for ibe nrns.
iencv II the North approves nm ex.
Iusively white MANS royernment In
Iie District OF Columbia Clam ond
DOUGLASS and the Republican, and Mn.
one aud Sherman assentlnv. Tie
hole question I'm issue IL cnncedad'
nd The whole North must annrnve tha
solldarityU of the Soulh.
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