Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-28

live to see the full fruition of their
labors.
The co INVENTION also displayed the
ability of an administration
TO PERPETUATE ITSELF
by pooling its issues, and arranging
everything 'in caucusn one month
In advance. The seven state
official = who make up the executive
department OF the government may
| form combination az invincible In its
way as one composed of seven leading
railroad kings would be in Wall
| street. No matter how weak aud
powerless each may be separately, like
| the old marc bundle of sticks in the
Third reader, vixen arranged In a
bunch
THEY ARE INvINctBLE.
Ii will hardly be questioned that in
any instance in when there was con-
test, the fight would have at least been
much closer Ii the balance of the "insp
had not ipterfered. The opposition
msde its first stand against Walsh.
With all the backing OF the machine,
he had a margin of just nine
votes above a nomination, and had
John Ireland kept his finger out OF
the matter, as 1t was due the party
and the people he should DO, Mr..
| Walsh would be
PREPARING TO ENTER PRIVATE LIFE
to-day. When his prime minister
moved down the aisle to second
the nomination of Walsh
and as the trumpet Of his boss blew for
the sold ticket" everybody recognized
at glance that the convention was
hopelessly entangled in the .tentacles of
devil fish more grasping than that
which floats in brine. In
each succeeding nomination
the same influences were
exerted, and their potency Is told in
the success of the old ticket.
UNMARKED by A SINGLE SCAR.
This OF itself is conclusive evidence of
the Interior forces which moved the
convention. If the old ticket as unit
had embodied any particular state
policy its triumph would simply
have been the triumph of that policy.
But to the contrary, it represented III
itself every phase of belief which
found representation In the conven-
ton. 1t was not
A MATTER or PRINCIPLES
at ALL II was men. The convention
recognized il as such, recognized that
1t was the old ticket against the field
aud hopeless of struggling against the
machine, YEARLY accepted the newt
able and adjourned. But what OF those
who, through the treachery
of iaithlesS friends, were sacri-
feed TO the office holding
greed Of the machine! Let them
wait.
TIME BRINGS IT'S SWEET REvENGES
AS In the past why not in the future?
ls the Democratic party doomed for
ever TO lie helplessly within the grasp
of men who owe their honors TO IL: If
it be urged that only n weak
administration would find it
necessary to invoke this common pro-
lection the reply is that Judging from
The status of present affairs this is an
additional reason for corrective party
influences. The improbability of re-
form under existing circumstances
suggests the necessity of the
ADJUSTMENT or THE CONVENTION
SYSTEM.
itself. Surely nothing could be worse.
y far more economic and not more OBJ
jectionable plan would be to delegate
10 each administration the power to
name its own successors There
would at least he the tinge of
honesty about it, which would 90 far
to allay the worst features of the pres.
ent system. And what is it that it
should bind the conscences of 200, 0eO
voters: Five hundred men are the
real electors; the duty of the balance is
supposed to be simply
TO RAriFY THEIR CHOICE.
1t may be said that the fault lies in
the political apathy.of the people. That
Is true; but it is fault that will con-
tinue to exist at least rs long as big
naJoIities, and it il the bet
ter part of craftsmanship to
apply a remedy rather than deplore
The evil, II every asplraut were COM
PEELED TO submit his claims directly 20
the people, trickery, bargain and cor
ruption would become
THING OF THE PAST,
ana men would seek TO gain the
favor of the whole people rather
than OF few presumptuous bosses.
Let II require majority of all votes
cast to elect, and the arbitration of
political affairs will be quickly trans
lerred from the caucus and convention
To the ballot-box. The people will
once more become
THE RULING FACTORS,
ana bossism VIII suffer an unwept de.
cay.
There were present and participat-
Ing In the convention
HOST OF POLITICAL PECKSNIFFS.
animated by nm 0verweeniny desire
10 lurther their own interests and
VINO measured every proposition
oy that yard-slick These
oecame the willing tools OF
me bosses, and contributed their
lungs ana infiuenceto secure the dom |
lnation OF the machine. Hoping in
,he course OF human events To become
bosses themselves, they set themselves
hrmiy against the decline of the ma.
chine, desiring unrestricted inner.
Lance when IL is bequeathed to them
The horizon of their ambition rises
no higher Than the acquisition of
power and for no hands Is 1t less fitted.
Ihey are the sharks which follow
closely after
THE SHIP OF STATE
ana eagerly snatch up every scrap
laiiing overheard. and would, were IL
within their power, destroy the craft
Itself to fill theirown capacious maws.
These are but incidents of the con.
Vention system, coexistent with il.
ana VIII not disappear until its epi.
taph Ia written.
These are the plain and
uNvARNIsHED FACTS
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