Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-28

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party, that its great lights are slowly
blown out" one after another, by the
collapse of Wall street. Jay Gould's
losses on the Goth inst. by the shrivel-
ing of his stocks are estimated ut four
and half millions.
on Western Union, 80. 100 600
On Missouri Pacific, 5x................... i,650UV
On Texas Pacific, 1...................... 220I0l
ON Union Pacific, A....................... 220OsO
Tofa............... .................... $4,000
These losses do not fall upon Gould
alone, but upon him and his co-share-
holders, his own losses on this one day
bring not less, in twenty-four hours,
than $2,00O,O0O. 1t happens that
Gould can weather the storm; but his
weaker comrades must 20 under. In
the end, Gould will own all that the
rest lose. He will emerge from the,
tempest-tossed sea of speculation
richer than when the cyclone was
only light breeze that drove Grants
balloon on the breakers. Suppose
Gould suspend payment for week.
Seven thousand miles of railways and
the Western Union Telegraph give him
gross revenues for this week amount
ing to ten millions in cash. With
such resources, and the coupons clipped
from eighty millions ofU. S. bonds, he
will still live to see the best stocks and
bonds reduced to nominal prices by his
own failure. Wall street will then be
veritable hell; but Gould's sanity and
serenity will be undisturbed. Then
besr, he will he slowly transformed
into bull. He will buy everything
worth the having on the market, and
everything will be for sale. He would
resume, at the end of another week,
worth thousand millions. When S.
S. Prentiss closed his wonderful ora
ton, in 1874, In the public square at
Nashville, he fell swooning in the arms
of Gov. James e. Jones, his ardent
friend and sole rival as popular ora
tor in the South. Jones ex-
claimed, "Die now, Prentiss Die
now. There was never such an
opportunity for immortal death. !"
Gould should "fail' now. There was
never such an opportunity for the
birth of an immortal Crnsus. Then
let this Cresus put a period to the In
sane struggles of petty millionaires,
who would buy the purple for the
harmless Arthur, and have himself
crowned. not only as the railway and
Geographic king, but as the autocrat of
the empire. He can then buy both
the conventions at Chicago. When
the crown of the Caesars was sold AT
auction, Didius bought it for SIS ,0O0,0 900.
Gould can secure 1t for half this sum.
GoULD's RIVALS.
If Gould does not pursue this
wise and patriotic course, some
poor fellows like Blaine or John Sher-
man or Payne, having only five or six
millions, or Arthur staked by Wall
street, may get away with both nomi-
nations of both parties, and instead of
having the contest settled by one
simple transaction in Wall street, we
will have newspapers and politicians,
oblivious of Beecher's instructions to
vote for Arthur as the rich mans can
didate and as the candidate of the
fashionable churches of New York, all
spending money and breath and
printers ink in behalf of one of these
fourth-class millienaires.
The Black Friday people, whose
mouthpiece is Beecher, have dis
covered you observe, u proper can
didate in Arthur. They have
not consulted Gould. He
did not appear in the great
concave of capital and of Cuisines in
terests of the country gathered to in
struct the common people in Coopers
institute. can't help thinking that
old Peter Cooper, once the impersona-
ton of the toiling millions of America,
grOaned and turned over in his grave
when Wall street, in old Peters sanctu-
airy, undertook to advise republican
freemen to make this namby pamby
dude and elegant representative of the
government = aggrandized nobility
the next president of the United States.
DoRSHEIMER AND JOHN HANCOCK.
; was telling, in dispatches sent some
days ago, of the negotiable and
market value of votes, at this hour, in
the Republican Chicago convention.
The uninstructed delegates are special.
ly blest. A vote at Chicago Is worth
the pardon of the thug or defaulter
having 1t. 1t Is worth an Office, If the
delegate be not a place-man, or the
promise of an Office after the nomina.
ton. All delegates to Chicago from
the South wanting offices or retention
In Office, make Washington point la
the journey to Chicago.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE
Again, II is said of delegates to the
Democratic national convention, that
they have commonly been instructed
to vote for Tllden, and this, that
, they may be left free to
, sell to Payne or English or some
Democratic Didius, in the event OF
'Iilden's probable refusal to become
the leader of the party. A free-lance,
In either convention, whose motto is:
"lfyou didn't come here to get offices,
what the I'll did you come for ?" is es-
timated to be worth $4,000, even In
the Democratic convention. In truth,
the nomination Of any millionaire, or
the nomination Of a puppet of million
aires. like Arthur, will so arouse the
suspicious of the common people,
plucked, plundered and Impoverished
by the millionaires' tariff code, that
there can be no possibility Of his cleo
non. The next president will be
one OF the people or one
OF the government-enriched nobility.
therefore have l insisted that Nor
rison aud John Hancock, or Dor.
sheimer and Hancock should be the
leaders OF the Democracy.
JNo. HANCOCK.
"A week ago an editorial appeared Ia
the Sunday Gazette of this city, as
serting the peculiar propriety and wise
policy OF Jno. Hancock's nomination
as a candidate for the vice-presidency,
he had been named as proper can.
didate for this office Oitener than once
IN the pages of the Fort Worth GA.
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