Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Teller and Hill--The Colorado Senator
ship Jim Belford's People.
How Teller is Helping Himself Hill Has
the Inside Track.
Tellers Patronage Appointments An
Old Texas Veteran Bumming
Round the Capital.

WASHINGTON, July 2T,--Teller, the
secretary Of the interior. who has quit
transferring the peoples land to bogus
backbone aud other Blaine and Bar
mum railways, is now candidate for
t.e United States senator's place be-
coming vacant by the ex-
, piration Of the term OF SEN
ator Hill. Teller's aspirations
In this direction have been eDlinently
serviccable to the people of the United
States. The people OF Colorado were
watching their representative In the
cabinet, and when Teller was convey
ing the public land right and left and
to every railway autocrat that de
manded IL, the people Of Colorado and
the potent newspaper press OF that
vigorous common wealth quietly but
| firmly said To Mr.. Teller that IL he did
not put period to land stealing by
corporations he could never be ele-
waited to HIPS place In the senate.
Teller Il not blind or deaf or dumb
He shut down ut once on Kellogg and
Barnum. Van Wyck and James A.
George and the anti-moDopolists were
NO delighted that Teller, government
creature, had the courage to resist a
corporation and stand by the people,
that 1t was agreed that Teller should
have fair showing for the United
States senatorship. Red-headed Jim
Belford, who Is the impersonation OF
the morals, tastes, civilization and In
telligence OF Colorado. MAS delighted
that Teller had backbone en-
al. A m
assaults not only of Kellogg and
Barnum but OF Gould and Hunt
ington and Belford even, pitied and
pardOned Teller when Teller could
not Withstand the Establishments of
the delicious Senator Plumb-so ripe,
n Juicy, 30 roseate and glistening in
the sunoeams OF matchless Oklahoma;
there are none to resist the fasciua'
lions of Plumb. Therefore Teller suf-
fers Plumb TO moDopolize Oklahoma
aud squatters and common people
must not deiile its winds with their
breath or press its soil with their
feet. The courts have their instructions
and no poor man can have hearing
while the mighty Plumb would fatten
his countless nerds upon the property
of the people. This bliud government
was instituted for the Plumbs. IL was
once peoples government, but now
IL IL the property OF lords OF looms and
mines and tariffs aud banks and OF
monatrous land monopolies like
Plumb, whopayA neither for title nor for
use. But the people Of Colorado could
forgive Teller for this concession to
| Plumb, because Teller dared to block
the game of Barnum and Kellogg and
, stop the progress of the steal that
required 80 much backbone that the
= world still calls 1t the louisiana Back
bone railway. But Teller is not con
tent. Hill. the Colorado senator
whose seat Tellery earns for, has devoted
all his energies for the past tw,
years 10 the purpose OF defeating Tia,
Vaccinations of the land pirates. ii,
Z has been faithful in this behalf, "A
q earnest as Van Wyck and unpur
. chasable as Holman or Sunset Cox
Hin deserves well OF the people. IL,
: IL honest and Teller only unfortunat,
: that he snccumbed to the iuiciness O
Z Plumb.
= "DEApENING TIMER"
!, Teller seeing that Arthur must x
u and that there Is little probability o
T. Blaine's accession to power, and tina
II Blaine, II elected, will turn over tn
II interior department To the eyer-faith
- full star reuter-, Elkins, who must hav
charge, directly or indirectly, of Ia
y bureau of public lands-Teller, seeini
all this, is ''deadening timber every
ot where In Colorado. Elkins has al
imperfect claim or title TO about on
Il quarter of New Mexico. 1t Is asset
~ of the star route conspiracy" Blain
u il supposed to have stock in it. II
81 any event, the title must Ice perfecte
and II must come through the interio
u department, and Teller, though secre
n tary OF the interior, can't fix it withou
uniixing himself in Colorado. Tn
N people there watch Teller. The
T. seem to think he needs watching
In fact, no sooner had Teller begun I
organize the party In Colorado so tina
he might win Hill's seat in tn
ut senate than the people began to nudg
ly one another In the short ribs an
At tip sly winks, when one neighbo
IL would say to another: "ah! lack.a
j. day. see how yearnest the devotion G
ne Mr. Teller 20 the country. There ain
much timber In Colorado but Mr.. re
Ter intends TO have il TUX keer NV. III
IL uppin,ing inspector for nigh ont
every tree and saplin In the state"
r. The more trees the more inspector
and the more votes for Teller. 1t look
So 10 n man Cllill) up tree-treed b
be Teller,
u A GLANCE AT THE TREASURY.
vs. Folger puts up Jobs of this sort yer
ne beautifully, as did John Sherman
th When one of Folger's favorites woul
make a jaunt In summer months
the Pacific coast Folger appoints hil
special agent of the department an
the lucky clerk makes the gran
tour, including the big tire,
Of and Mormondom, at the cost of Il
rs. people. Congress furnishes Folg,
nd S25O,000 to be expended In this maj
ner OF course II Blaine would ha,
the cards stocked In any distant sta
Ia. he need only apply TO Folger u deta
a sharp fellow. The government pa,
$40 per diem to them and expense
There Is one good fellow, fastened a
Ter the treasury by Pennsylvania NJ
30 who has been constantly going on tn
". so-called Especial treasury service"
ny sl2 and SIS per diem. for the past eigl
III, or ten years. These travelling iii
spectors" and agents OF the several q
partments are selected with special re
-. erence 10 their shrewdness and tact ,
~ party managers aud organizer
'm They are all good men aud al
mustered Into public servi,
without any over-righteois puritanicl
II respect for civll.service rules In truti
| don't believe that Mr.. Teller h,
subjected any one OF his countless II
=, sp,ciors of Colorado timber To any ril
" orous botanical examination, and Per