Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-31

invested WIFI
people OF Texas Il.
Republicans and u
and since their powt
growing, even among
voters, the decree went fore.
must be destroyed. Russen,
made marshal, refused 10 aps
u number of deputies designated
by the recognized appointing power
in Texas. He chose 10 select his own
agents. He was the best speech-mak-
er of the party. lie was even selected,
to the great chagrin of the party's
masters In Texas, to canvass thes
Northwest for Garfield and Arthur.
He won the plandits OF the mob every
where, and the afoent friendship of
Republican leaders like General Dud-
| ley and John G. New. These f1cts
sealed Russells fate and all the wealth
and power md courts and machinery
of despotism were employed to destroy
| Russell and Norton. They We're OBJ
structions in the path of that partisan
| absolutism which disposed of 10000
federal offices of high and low degree
in Texas and other Southern states.
a divided empire could not be tolera-
ted, and the governing cabal at Austin
decreed that Russell and Norton
should be destroyed,
THEIR INSTRUMENT.
| The cabal sent their chief to WASH
ington. Fortune blest them in the
discovery, IN the attorney-general's Of
flee, of the very agent for which they
searched. Catiline never used dead
lier dagger or the Borgias more cum
ming or fatal poison. Brewster Cam.
eron welded the power and the gold
of the department of Justice. Brew
ster Cameron is the practical head Of
this department., and the president
himself bends reverently in the pres
ence OF is fiery figurehead.
Fraudulent judges and prosecuting
attorneys and marshals and thei
countless subordinates soon learned
that their fortunes were the pIaythings
of Brewster Cameron. He moved the
whole vast resstless machinery of the
Federal Judiciary system ut Will, and
gray-haired judges trembled trucu-
lently In his desp0tic presence. When
Texas lawyer, in the Federal court
of that state, spoke hastily Of Brews-
ter Cameron's prosecution of penlI
less youth who had incurred Gamer
on's displeasure and been prosecuted
by Jack Evans, who, as u prosecutor.
knows no distinction between the inn,
PRESERVATION of innocence and truth
and that OF knaverv and
vice, and when the defendani,s
attorney in this instance inyejred
against Camer0n's ferocity, this truck
ling Judge interposed In behalf of the
potent Cameron, and silehced the law
yer with the statement that "This
court cannot suffer Mr.. Cameron. the
representative Of the great aud good
70 be assailed In Its pres
ence." Therefore this excellent old
creature OF the department of justice,
redolent OF nepotism, Is suffered 10 re-
sign and then resume his place aud
still administer federal Justice. and
still distribute salaries and pera,,isites
.'-where they will do most good,
Lawyers dare not criticize the inImac
ulate Cameron In federal court
Of justice and under Republican
form OF government. The sformu we
have; the fact Is q gorgeous flctiOn-a
splendid mockery and d living lie.
AN ILLUSTRATION.
II may be well, having alluded TO
his case, that 1 should explain that
,wO young men, one Of them rich and
he other poor, were accused of robbing
he postofiice ut Marshall, Tex. The
'ich paid for IN acquittance. How
much Cameron received, If any share
II the round sum, am not advised,
,ut the accused refunded the sum losr'
md how much more he expended i
annot tell; but this culprit, whose real
rhine was n ft Of drunkenness IN
which he appr priated money not his
'wn, went scot free; the other youth
10 be a poor mans son.
Brewster Cameron selected the x ,vern-
nent commissioner, Northern msn
md carpetbagger and Repub-
lean, before whom the youth
was brought by Cameron's
The fiery and rssstless
Evans did his best; but the prosecution
was an utter failure, and this Cameron
,hosen commissioner instantly RELEASE
ID the young man with the statement
that there were no grounds for the
The people Of Marshall
know the young man well and mani
Tested the keenest interest In the trial,
and there was great rejoicing when he
WAS properly acquitted. But Il may