Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-09
WASHINGTON,
4 Great Corruption Fund TO Aid in
Shaping Legislation.
John Browns Scail'oid-A Platform for
Bloody Shirt Orators.
The Morrison Tariff Bill-'Lanham's
Courage and independence.
An Attractive BO0k-Great Inventors
of the World

special Correspondence of the Gazette.
Washington, March 5.--The amount
of money collected by John Livings-
ton. president of the Railway Share
holders association, is variously esti-
mated at from one to ten millions of
dollars. The fund is to be used in
shaping legislation and in buying leg
islatures, that proper persons may
have seats in the senate. y lobbyist,
when this subject was discussed last
evening at Wizards, said sneeringly,
"Jem George and his gang think that
the Texas ~ Pacific and other rail
ways have lost their forfeited grants.
Wait till you hear from the senate.
There are no lIolmans or Sunset
CoNes in that body, and no bill of
forfeiture can pass the senate. Vest
and Coke and MaXey and perhaps u
Il dozen others will make Id fools of
themselves and defy the railways aud
the banks and the mills and mines,
but the anti-nlonopolis!s have
run the full length of
their tether. Henceforth the cor
poratious will have their own way.n
y VALUABLE RELIC.
When the story came that John NJ.
Coyle, in tearing down the back porch
of dilapidated house in Charlestown,
West Virginia, had discovered that il
was built of the tinIbers that consti-
tuted old John Browns scaftnld, full
instructions went from this city that
it was to be carefully preserved and
reconstructed. 1t is TO be transported
from one to another Republican meet
ing place during the com
ing presidential campaign, and
used, like the cross in Catholic
countries, in inspiring Republican
orators, like Malone and Sherman
with unwonted zeal and eloQuence. 1t
seems that these death dealing timbers,
after the sainted John Brown had
gone 10 glory, were sold to simple
farmer who attached TO them no spe-
cial value. He left on each joist and
plank and support the marks made 10y
the builder of the scaftold and thus il
is identified. The relic is valuable,
and may be hereafter stored away, for
aught know to the contrary, at
Mount Vernon. or, with Guiteau' s
bones in the government museum.
don't think, if it he taken as a great
moral show into Virginia, that Malone
or John a. Wise will be
found fooliug around it. That
gallows, properly 'spiritualized
might renew It's old tricks and hang
plotters against law and order and
personal security, rs are MI flaunteIs
of the bloody shirt, higher than the
crazed lealoJ who supposed that Nir-
ginia ,negress:woull welcome him as
their Savior and put TO death every
white man, woman and child, and
burn every home in the Old Domiu-
ion. John Browns philanthropy was
perhaps divine; John Browns meth
DDS were simply Internal. Even so OF
the honest men, if there be such, who,
in eXasperating the North against
the South, arouse the passions and fire
the enmities of the collocated races in
the South. 1t was once supposed pos
sible that the races could live together
peacefully and prosperously in the
South; but while recklessly ambitious
party leaders like Hour and Sherman
and Malone survive, leading multi
tudes after them. John Browns gal
lows must ever be fit emblem of de.
monism dominant among these parti-
sans and esteemed most valued of all
relics gathered in the holy of holes OF
Repubilcanism.
THE TARIFF BILL.
Morrison g straight cuti ,aritf bill
VIII pass the house, Randall leading
OIL perhaps twenty-five Democrats and
all the Republicans, except two,
against it. In the senate the vote will
be partisan. There the Democrats
will vote as one man for. and the Re-
publlcans ms compactiy against Morri-
sons bill. Then the question goes be-
fore the people TO be determined in
the presidential contest. 1t is the
great economical question of the age
ana country, and sane, practical peo-
PIE Will vote solely with reference to
II; but sentimentalists and dreamers
and enthusiasts will be drawn OIL
by all sorts of subordinate questions,
ana 1t Is this floating vote which prac-
llcai, sensible Democracy most dread.
lhere are devout honest anti.moDopo-
lists and especially ambitious office.
seeking members of this party who
propose to have candidate of their
own in the field. OF course they do
not dream of electing him, but these
leaders, while the contest progresses,
can trade votes for places and hon jrs
ana emoluments. 1t signifies nothing
70 Them how the people are
plundered by Republican sue
cesses and Democratic defeats.
Very certainly the Democratic party
can lose nothing and only win pop
ular confidence by approving the Nor
rison scheme of legislation. 1t would
lessen greatly the cost of living, and
especially Is 1t beneficent to the poor.
L. trees from taxation all those articles
Oh food and clothing, and raw mate
flals, used by the puor and the work
ing classes. The common people, If
Morrison's bill be the platform, will be
drawn by resistless force into the
Democratic party.
LANHAM's PLUCK.
The time will come and is not re-
mote when Mr.. Lanham's courage,
illustrated when he voted against the
donation of 100000 of the peoples
money TO sufferers by the floods Of the
o ,, VIII be approved by honest
nnvn everywhere. Trainers OF the con-
situ,ion never dreamed that in instl-
aInang government, having clearly
s sa,,i,eu and limited powers, they were
slsa,s up grand charity ball OF
eean,,eaiosyhary institution. But II
,hos TO this nj last
n unas thls central government
iu ,i,a ''boss every job,n little on great
anr ns y one'horse chancery or other
N, ISL ~, y never questions the extent o.