Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
ingalls, and Brown "A Memorable Eui.
s0de IN Senatorial Debate.
An Aggressive Campaign or Possible De.
feat-'The Sort Of Leader Wanted.
Tho Republican Placeholder In Wash
ington-1exas Well Represented.
Special oorrssroudence of,he Gazette.

guns inscription OF Joe Brown of
Georgia will live while the two men
are remembered. Brown has a habit
of rubbing one hand over the other as
IT practicing the part of Lady Mac
beth when dreamfully washing off
the damned spot" Ingalls,
evaded the rules, and placed an
imaginary Brown, even from Alas
ka, before the senate and its
crowded galleries. The description
Will be framed and suspended in every
caein In Georgia, to be admired way
after Joe Brown has clipped and gath
cred In his last coupon. At the con-
clusion of the angry colloauy, in
which ingalls, had certainly done the
Georgian injustice, charging him
wrongfully with interpolating words
in the record that were not uttered in
debate, Mr.. ingalls, asked:
How would II be If a senator should some
day app ar here to represent Alaska, and he
!dr. Ingails), after debate with that sena-
TO the effect that the senator from Alaska
was cunning and sauctim onious hypocrite
who Was forever washing his hands with In
they were not over clean morally after that
performance? suppose he were To character.
izs the senator from Alaska, after a debate
had closed, as the Urlah Heap of the senate;
suppose lie were TO say hs was the Joseph
Surface of American politics; that he was u
s snNn iii . TSl,s S peehsn who had been
had belonged To every political party In his
lifetime, and belonged TO none that he had
not betr ,yed, would that be within the priv
ileRe of debate, or in accordance with the
prophecies OF legislative proceedings?
The party leaders of Georgia whom
Brown has crushed beneath the
weight of his hefty piety, his devout
psalm singing, his original secession
ism, his revolt, as governor of Georgia,
against jeff Davis In 1864, his suisse
quent conversion to Republicanism,
his absorption of the Georgia railroad,
his strange accession as r quasi Demo.
crat to the senate, when Gordon re-
signed In his favor-the party leaders
of Georgia, who have been destroyed
by, Browns Vaccinations,
will contemplate with exquisite
satisfaction the inimitable picture of
the senator from Alaska" Georgia
is anything but Alaska. and Georgia is
thus cunningly spared the pain in
tlicted II the state had been held
responsible for the words and conduct
of self-willed senator "washing his
hands with invisible soap in imper-
ceptible water" The picture is as
clearly defined as that drawn by Eu-
gene Sue of the wandering Jew stand
| ing in majest solitude on the frozen
shore of the frozen ocean at Behring's
strait.
Brown has been making himself
especially odious in Massachusetts
He has been delving sedulously into
census returns in order to show that
the morals of Massachusetts are inf
nitely worse than those of Utah aud
that charity and reform should begin
at home. He has made Hoar
blush and silenced representatives of
New England who were especially
exasperated because of the Mormon
system of public concubinage. Brown
was delighted until the astute senator
from Kansas came to the rescue of his
native land. No special defence was
made of Massachusetts, morals or of
divorces hardly less numerous than
marriages. But 1T WAS insisted that
in Gov. Browns immediate
bailiwick. where lie had travelled most,
attending Baptist conventions one
day and Republican or Democrats
the next, there were an almighty lot
of mulattoes." Such was the substance
of Hoar's argument. But the facts are
exaggerated. Travellers in the South
see AL the mulattoes. These are col
lected in hotels and barber shops in
towns. villages and cities, and along
the railways, while the great body of
toiling blacks are never encountered.
They plant and pick cotton, and hoe
corn and dig potatoes and vote; but
are never seen by travellers in the
South.
All in all, the South has lost moth
ing during the course of this
debate, :, while New England
confessedly has lost caste.
Brown has sustained his cause well,
but Ingalls, picture of Brown will last
when Browns name and deeds are re-
membered no more.
BAYARD.
Bayard Is proper candidate for the
presidency, but Bayard has record,
and long one. His clndidature
would be the signal for the reproduc.
ton OF the bloody-shirt, and the party
must defend itself In Il political con.
test the party forced to defend itself or
Its candidate Is always beaten. When
ever Democracy Is aggressive it is vic.
torlous. Blaine is easily beaten If
Blaine may not lead an attacking
force, and Bayard would be assailed
and his conduct and history
blackened until his defense would
occupy all the thoughts of his
followers. Bayard would delight the
: gentry and those Republicans too
decent to support Blaine; but the null
utude cannot be elevated to this stand
ard, and Bavard's record would furnish
themes for Sherman's and Hoar's jere-
miads az endless as doleful, and even
heartrending among the sentimental.
ISIS OF the Republican party. The Sun
says Bayard's speeches are no worse
than Greeley's editorials. For ali that
they are Bayard's speeches and must
DO explained and defended and dis-
cussed, and would serve to divert popu.
Jar attention from the true issues in
the campaign. In each contest since
ls1e tue Democratic party has absurdly
suffered itself to occupy a defensi Va
attituoe. Iilden, more nearly than
any representative of the party.
waged the war Of reform and Tilden
was almost driven into resistance Of
violent assault. There was never n
lime when the Democratic party 30
needed worthy and capable but an
unknown leader, one worthy and
aoie, having no constructive or real
sins 10 be discussed, perverted and
pardoned or punished. While Bavard
deserves the presidency and wouid do
ionor to the Office he mag NOT he TIC
man 70 win 1t Webster and CLAY
,aiied Tor the very reasons that render
Bayard, perhaps. incapable. The
Deniocratic convention should nomi.