Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-16

an eminently good man given his place
through the Intervention of the Louis.
lana lottery which finds here the
choicest market for its wares. Another
OF tneir commissioners, Lydecker. il
one of "Chet's chums'' who offered
the dicker, II Is said, by which .John
Kelly transferred the vote ~ W,
York in 1850 from Hancock to Garfield
ana Arthur. Lydecker, too, Is a now
erful good man. The third is n re-.
spectacle citizen Of Washington. How
or why he was appointed "no fellow
can find out.n
THE PEOPLE AND THEIR MASTERS
But the tax-paying, toilinp neon,e
IN the capital OF the republic, have
no voice in their own government
Of taxation we have enough. but no
representation.-no voice in any gov.
ernment and this local government il
triple.headed despotism.
The knights of Labor after
inveighing, as freemen should against
this lawless despotism, boldly present
the true remedy. They declare tina.
there is but one remedy. We demand
that we shall no longer be subjected to
tne alternative of no government at
all, or OF government chosen by the
Ignorant negroes of the Sixth Mary
land district, the poor white trash of
the Eighth Virginia district, and the
worthy but misinformed voters of
various provincial districts. We de.
mand the right which in theory is ac-
corded to every one, and in practice is
denied only to the citizens of the Dis
trlct or Columbia-the right of self
government"
The proposition is fairly and hon
estly presented. Let us see whether
hepubllcans in congress dare
to do here what they have done
every where IN the South. There, they
deliberately subjected, not towns and
cities alone, but states as well, to the
mastery of negroes. Here, in order to
escape the necessity of illuatrating
negro virtues and worth as n govern
ing force, the District of Columbia is
subjected to the merciless sway of in
accessible swell-headism, and red-tape
and triplicate-man power. And vet
Grant, the very day before he exploded
his plans, platform, banks and his Ed
munds in the senate, was telling
the country that foreigners should be
stripped of political power in America
lptiiiDO 10 a tilbutttiu lblu DEXTER lndu
they. Perhaps Hon. Finerty likes it,
and will cooperate with Grants pro-
| tectionists, but wise and sensible
lrishmen and foreigners will not.
But these knights of Labor are
holder than the politicians incongress.
The latter dare not, US demagogues,
restore Republican facts and forms Of
! government TO this city without re-
| o. all
The negro reigns wherever universal
suffrage gives him power in the South
why should he not govern in this
blessed District The knights of
Labor cut the Gordian not tell
privilege of suffrage TO free
pretend TO be honest and just men,
and can't help asking why exempt
Washington from the mastery of
Mississippi and South Carolina. Why
subject the gulf states to an unmiXed
curse, which we cannot ourselves toll
crate even in the country's capital?
Then if we give these blacks mastery
and knowing nothing of them, we
| will have each year here in Washing
ton, at each election, a dozen
Chisholm, Matthews and Dan
Vile riots. The bloody-shirt will no
more be worth penny to Sherman
and Malone. That being true, say the
knights of Labor, reversey our South
ern policy and disfranchise the negro
and enf'ranchise the white people
mo, no. cry Edmunds and Hoar,
In, pt,.h lopris "a inn
our own crimes"
WHAT MUST ENSUE-
There Is no help for it. The people
of the capital have no recourse save IN
open revolt not only against the rail-
ways, bat against this triangu-
lar local despotism. The rail
ways govern congress by money,
even carving in twain and destroying
the most magnificent park in the
world and desolating the homes of the
toiling multitndes of the capital. Dis
tricts of the city inhabited by the pen
stoned aristOcracy and ofllcial noDiiity
} are not invaded and violated by the
CORPORATIONS, and only squares and
blocks inhabited by plain working
white people. OF course these COM
mon 'toilers of the sea" OF humanity
have no friends at court, and their pro-
tests against the monstrous railway
nuisances are only derided by the
committee on the District OF Co
lumbia. Now and then these
; committees, in one or the other house,
prepare a terrible anti-railroad bill,
but it is only designed to soothe me
innocent multitude and quiet the
!; nerves of the knights of Labor. Moth
ing will or can be or is proposed to be
J done for the relief of the people OF
l Washington, either from the despot-
. ism of this triangular trlumvirate OF
from the curse of the railways pres
: ence in the great park and on the ave,
l nue. and at the street crossings ana
! under the windows, shrieking, howl
ing. rafting and roaring ny
day and night, and rendering homes
, yaIueless and even life intoleraole
But / do hope that the knights o.
Labor will force these radical congress
3 men to bless Washington with iret
r government, and if only for year o.
two. subject the city to the sway D
Sambo. They will wish they nae
: been trod upon by Jumbo, AM tn'
l South will be forever lauded tnat
+ has only slain dozen or two Kuave'
$ and thieves who have used the negroe'
: i'm investing themselves Win ioca
: power.
{; EVERYTHING wonderful and curiou
Il I'm Washington will be on exhipitioi
r i'm New Orleans. Each of the depart
II Inents will seek to outvie the other II
6 illustrating lis value to the govern
go, and naonIe nv showing TO In