Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-27
Texas Will Retain the Flag for the
Champion Democratic Major
ity in November.
The Republican Suicide in the South
The Southern Office Holder
Merely Nercenary.
A Little Tonic in the Form of oppo-
sition Would be Invigorating
to Texas Democracy.
Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.

pion Democratic majority, at least this
year. While the figures Of the enthu-
siasts who are counting on plurality
of 100000 for Ireland are perhaps lit
tie inflated, yet sober estimate will
not reduce it below 10000, and as for
the national ticket, no one need be
If Cleveland gets majority
that viii remind him of 1882. There
will probably be polled vote of 3O0,-
900, of which the Democratic electoral
ticket will surely receive 1000
A POLITICAL sIDEsHow.
There is something genuinely ludi-
crous in the gyratlous of the Republic
can leaders in this state. Two tickets
clamoring for Republican support, |
when one could hardly achieve a re-
spectacle minority. One must con-
clude that there is either an uuaccount-
able supply of principle among some |
of the radical politicians, or
good deal Of plotting on |
the part of them all. |
The last is by far the easier to believe. |
The Republican party Is queer insti- |
tuition in Texas and all over the South. |
1t ought to be styled an incorporation |
for the perpetuation of federal patron
age. That is what it is, nothing more,
nothing less. Its leaders are the office
holders; some of them good fellows,
iovial, clever and free-hearted, but all
of them Republican for Office only.
There may be exceptions TO this rule.
l have never seen them. Ten to one
Republican who is kicked out of
office, through the jealousy of
his superiors or the usurpation
of a more influential appli-
cant these are the only causes that
operate in such cases heTe), turns up
within six months Democrat. There
is nothing to hold a man to the party
in Texas save financial benefit; that is
unless his associations are such as to
warrant all decent people in shutting
the door In his face. This fact is by
none so thoroughly appreciated as
those few Republicans in the state
who are not hunting office, and who
are really attached to the principles OF
| their party. One of these said to me
some time ago
DAMN THE NEGROES;
they are the destruction of our party
in the South. If we could only get
rid of them we could gain a foothold.
Let the Democrats take them and 1
guarantee that in four years we will
capture this state and several others
where we now have but nominal eX-
istence.h
And who will say that he was not
there was a good deal more
in the "lily-whiten Republican
movement in Texas and Georgia than
most people thought. There was ten
fold more danger in it to Democracy
than any of the Independent move
ments, whose leaders are bat meteors
that blaze out in the political firma-
ment and at their zenith sink into OBJ
security. Does anyone believe that it
is devotion to Democracy per Sc that
holds the South solid for IL? That
could not be in the very nature of
things. 1t is not in harmony with
the memorable law OF equilibrium.
, Religiously, socially and politically,
+ men must divide up into something
near equal parts. Any violation OF
this rule is dangerous to a democratic
J form OF government and leads to OPP
I preston on one hand and suffering on
the other. Fortunately mans in
stincts are so adjusted as to make him
/ the willing instrument of this law,
4 What man, if he be a man, does moi
Il sympatize with the under dog in the
=, fight, and this sympathy forms sort
of electric current that completes the
d circuit of humanity and conseryes the
e world.
n In the South after the war the
! division of political sentiment tool
: the phase of responsibility vs.. rascality
3 The rulers whom an inscrutable Prov
- idence placed over us at that perioC
n made il SO; the Republican party IL
? the South not only adjusted the hang
mans rope around its own neck, anC
d piniOned its own limbs, but it swuuJ
d OFF n gibbet of its own erection
o 1t may have been q freak of insanity
n but IL was a case of deliberate suicide
. In aligning itself with the worst ele
o ments 1t forced good people into TIA,
opposition from which they hav
,r never yet had cause TO emerge. Thi
l. is not healthy condition of things
Political issues are not clearly defined
80 and political interest decays wher
re party rule IS unchallenged. The safe
" guard around our political institution
OF the people and that Is nc
L. secured where the domination of an
l. party is complete. Whether he b
X Republican or Democrat imam Is
!, man for a. that and ii won't do [
y let the records grow musty withou
es inspection. That is why a little toni
ID in the shape of Democratic oppositio
If would be good thing for Texas nc
q enough, mark you, TO endanger il
- supremacy, but sufficiently active I
ii expose its sins, and above all keep
ar sharp eye on its leaders.
OF this day when it means political e.
- communication TO question the action
OF of man who through luck, aceideI
ey or some myterious dispensation
o, providence has been promoted to a
A. office, there ought to be somebody
keep tally-sheet OF his indlscretlons
NC else the Democratic party is doomed
OF the end 10 go to pieces on the san
d. rock ON which Republieanism was
10 dlsastrously wrecked It Is II,
~ the soldiers but the con
nc manders who give effleienC
to an army, and the character of ii
rank and file of party 90 for little
A Is