Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-05
FROM WASHINGTON.
How the Negro Is swindled Ouscr
Ways of the Late DO r-kc. per.
How lie Became Door Keeper - A
Strange story Ouk's Jok-A
Newspaper Fraud.
Hon. Casey Young aud ParSon Brown
low-Ncw Years Day How Gel
DRAFTED aud Why.
Special Correspondence OF Tho Gazette.

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tigatlun of the charges against Waiter
u. Brownlow, eN door keeper, pro-
yresses with curious Developments. 1t
Is becoming the fashion o. Ippmbers of
congress who voted for this Brownlow
| 10 state that theN supuustd I've was the
son oi the redouhtaOle paisou. In fact,
the Post of this city, when Browulow
| was seeking the pluc after selling the
truth, that W.P IL. wasnOf HE parsons
son, publish ed an editorial advertise
ment asserting that he was the par.
sou = son and that he was "A famous
colonel in the federal army. There
| upon Brownlow was madc door
Neeper, and sud have been The results.
He was u soldier. He war fourteen
years old WHEN the war ended. He
mad no agency in the taking of of
Gen. .Jno. II. Morgan. Gu the con-
trary, he was the most proper sewing
machine agent that ever Went abroad
in the hills and hulluws of Elst Ten
nessee Colonel Juo. Il Browulow, for
whom convressmen thought they were
voling, when this Waiter =. Is. was
chosen door-ktep"r, IL n mod..st 3 SOL
clerk in the pustufllce department. MIR.
Huuk put up this job and executed IL,
amt because Jnu. b. H. mod
estly protested uga'nst il
Huuk waxed exceeding wroth and
did seek to throw this parsons
sou out of his clerkship; but the post.
master general could not see In what
j. Il. B, had offend, d. and Houk was
| baked OF his purpose. The ex-doOr-
keeperlcft the city the day his term ex-
pred, aud on the same day d ew his
DRAFT for all that Was due him, his
wife and family. Those five or six
| ~ IA n
pear on the late door-k,eper's payroll
have not yet been louud. Tue sup
position Ia that they are the men IN
| huckram we read about, But il is I'M
| j st 10 condemn the nOdeet, gentle,
| unas-umiug duor-ketper ii / lie has
teen heard, aud then. 100, he IL the
closest, most intimate personal hisld
| and as uciate of the distinguish, a Sir.
Huuk of Tie Knoxville district. We
SHOULD have no opinion until the I'M
happy business has been investigated.
| have adverted to it simply because IL
| furnishes confirmation Of, the state
| ueut | made some Tune ago that ii
wa almo-t impossible for dour. keep
or 10 execute his office with perfect
fidelity and dispose of his patronage
| in such manner that his enemies
would not destroy him.
THE EVERLASTING NEGRO.
| But did il never occur TO you thul
| this Browulow imbrugiio will bo EN-
bla2nned with the Dunvillc no ON all
the banners of the Republican party?
| This Bruwnlow was never I'll ye-
holder, but is of Southern birth. He
was a stilwart Republican after Huuk's
own heart He did love the hapless
CONS ut Ham Therefore did Brown
/ IN. 4,
insight of Office and one OF these re-
crived $50 per month, giving his re-
ceipt for 500 leaving IA monthly
| profit to Brownluw OF $40.
80 The story goes and The heart strings
of he cody party of grand moral
ideas are almost broken that innocent
S,nibu is thus pluck, Il by the ren0rse-
less East Tenucsseean. But then
there may be RI me mistake about all
this and the 'bogusn Bruwnlow, who
il not The pitr-un r son, and VIII was
never IN fhe f,drrai servic save a5
sewing machine agent, and get was
nudc duor-kreper BECAUSE uf his name
and heroic deeds, may have committed
no wrong and Hon. Casey Young, In
preferring char es against This Brown
low, may be wholly al fault.
HON. CASEY YOUNG AND BRoURLow.
You mu-t know thai peculiar rela-
tions have subsist' between Hon.
Casey Young, the representatives OF the
Memphis, renn., district
aud the Browulow family.
Hon. Casey, in 1901,
was u dev0ut uuherent Of stephen A.
Douglas. He was IA dyed-iu-the-u DOL
Uui mist. But ne wa- forced into The
military service and was Gen. VIM.
n. CAROLS adjulAnt-gen, raj, who
was in command for u time in East
Tennessee. In fact, Carroll, Young
protesting against il, signed the de-
or, of the cDurt-mgrlinl ordering the
execution of the bridge burners. Par
son Brownlow, under an agreement
with Gen George u. Criltendcn ofthe
Confederate states army, providing
for Bruwnlow's transit through our
lines, surrendered himself Gen.
L.dbetter. having temporary COM
nand while CrltIenden ana Carroll
were fighting AT Fishing Creek. con
signed BrownlOw % prison. Col.
tasey Young, ns soon n he returned
10 Knoxville, instituted general jul
delivery, aud Brownlow soon went
through the coni-H rute lines to NASH
vile Young having churgeofthep guard
Of en- MN which cared for the se-
cui ty Of the immortal parson. Their
PEI as mai r. laIiona were then and re-
iniiied, ever afterwards, TIL the par
son = death, of The eindli.st character.
/ mere Was never u service which the
'edoub,nble Brownlow failed 10 render
Casey Young. He WAS rs Loyal ~ his
riends IA implacable To his enemies.
THE sURMusg.
] have entertained d iuspicion that
Hon Jnsry IouUria devotion TO the
ntc senator Brownlow instigiled his
.cti0n All. citing the fortunes az Door
ireper BrownIow Perhaps Mr..
Young was unwilling 10 have u
hold office who il
lot "a Brownlow save ia
,ame. The nAme won the place
or he man. IL Colonel YsRng had
,oen Il member Of congress ~ Tue nsie,