Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Republican Saints Broom-Jump
ing Kentucky Marriage-Butler
Cody Protectionist.
A Congressman Talks on the Situation
and Gives Reasons for the Faith
That's in Him,
The Blunt Governor Of New York
Preferable to the Creature Of
Impulse from Maine.
Special Correspondents OF The Gazette,

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, ID. g., Sept. p II
have heard It said that Blaine's gener-
osity and impulsiveness would assure
him the support ofmany 5outherners.
The South has studied Blaine's charac-
ter and remembers salient facts.
Whel ClevelaDd's personal fame was
assalled and his acts were to
be Investigated, he only said,
"Tell the truth and ! am con-
tent When Blaine's private con-
duct and history were harshly criti-
clsed he rushed impetuously into the
courts with the air Of hero of
injured innocence. II the allegations
had been untrue and unjust he or his
son would have visited Indianapolis
and wreaked deserved aud summary
vengeance upon the editor. Blaine,
always sensational and always tlmid,
not to say cowardly, boldly bluffs and
Institutes suit. Instead Of this he
should have stated that because OF his
original relations to her, he could not
regard the editor as the traducer of his
wife, and therefore that neither he
nor his son, Walker Blaine, could
avenge the wrong. True, no trial in
court could occur, but all facts would
be evoked, and even before the election.
At last, therefor @, Blaine confesses all
and the worst that has been alleged.
He admits that his original marriage
was sort of "broom.jumping" Ken
lucky affair Of which there IL no record.
II there had been no denial, no suit for
libel, no turning up of The whites Of
the eyes, no ordinations made by
Blaine's organs designed to horrify the
godly because such charges were pre-
ferred against such saint the coun-
try might have condoned the facts,
ascribing Blaine's conduct to his ma
tive 'impulsivenessn and his Wanted
"magnetism.n But Blaine's double
dealing, his denial of the truth, this
institution Of suit TO mislead the
country, all serve TO show that
want of honesty ascribed to
the man who Is alleged
TO have used the Office of speaker for the
purpose Of gathering riches.
CLEvELAND's CONDUCT.
Cleveland's course, when his private
conduct, affecting an unfortunate wo-
man, was inquired into, differed toto
coelo from that OF Blaine. "Go,n said
Cleveland, to those who sought infor-
nation on the subject go, investi-
gate thoroughly and then tell the
truth. | have nothing TO say.n am
reminded lust here OF Sterne's MEM
orable reflection when he discussed
one of his youthful aflaires du cmur.
"Ye whose clay-cold heads or luke
warm hearts can argue down or
mask your passions, tell me what tres
pass II Ia that man should have them
or why his spirit stands answerable to
the Father of spirits, but for his con-
duct under them2n Admit that both
Cleveland and Blaine did a wrong, we
must also admit that Blaine acted and
spoke n lie and Cleveland the honest
truth. He prevaricated In nothing
He sought to conceal nothing. There
was no grand theatrical flourish In the
courts or in the newspapers. There
was no pitiful appeal to
the Mulligan of public
opinion, There was no sunstroke or
fiinting ut at church on Sunday that
the investigation might be suspended
till the witness could be reached and
ailenced. The plain, blunt, bluff gov
erner OF New York did none of these
things, and honest, upright people
prefer him TO the creature OF sim.
pulse" and magnetism from Maine.
ANOTHER ILLUsl RATION.
When, last week, another batch of
Mulligan and Fisher letters We're pub.
lished and one of Blaine's editors did
not know how TO explain these con-
fesslons of splendid rascality, Blaine
again enacted the part of bully, and
ia desperation said, Let every Repub-
lican paper publish every letter have
written.n In other words, bully the
mob. Ifmy organs boldly and de
family print these letters, showing
how was bought, the innocent people
VIII imagine that these confessions.
because thus fearlsssly printed, signify
nothing.
UNPUBLISHED INCIDENTS.
a great preacher said yesterday in a
great sermon: "The unroOfinR OF
banks and disappearance of admins
traitors with the funds of large estates,
and the disorder amidst the post-office
accounts and deficits amid United
states officials has made q pestilence
ofcrime that solemnizes every thought
ful man and woman, aud leads every
philanthropist to ask, what shall be
done to stay the plague? There IL a
monsoon abroad, typhoon, a sirocco.
Things in this regard are worse and
worse.n
And shall the people at such a time
elect matohless impersonation of the
worst vices Of the age and country the
country's chief magistrate? We want
reform, and would have the simple
honest, unpTetending republican gov.
ernmentand social system of our faith.
ers reproduced. / would prefer Ben
Butler, who inveighs against Southern
people and supposed Southern morals
and panders to sectional passions with
a degree OF sudden vlciousness
that becomes significant of his purpose
to make as great lSnave as himself
presldent--I would prefer Ben Butler
70 Blaine. Butler never pretended b
honesty, He was sincerest OF Demo.
Gratis, even JEFF Davis Democrat, as
long as he monopollzed the dispense.
ton OF all federal spells of New Eng.
land under successive Democratic ad.
ministrations. How he loved these
spoils was shown when he adhered tc
Jefferson Davis In the Charleston con.