Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-02
Bl,inela Rankl,ns Arsartiong.

speeches that the election OF CleVe- |
land means that 1.-THE great financial
aud Industrial systems of the country
shall be placed under the direction OF
the South; that our currency, our
banks, our tariffs, our internal rev.
enue laws; in short, that our whole
system, upon which the business Of the
country depends, shall be placed under
the control OF that section. 1t means
that the constitutional amendments, |
TO which they are so bitterly opposed,
shall be enforced only so far as they
may believe in them; that the
national credit as guaranteed in
the fourteenth amendment; that
the payment of pensions to soldiers OF
the Union as guaranteed in the same
amendment, shall be under their con-
troll, and what that control might |
mean can be measured by the bitter
ness with which those amendments
were resisted by the Democrats Of the
South.n He said he felt sure Indiana
would protest against this bSneful
spectacle of Solid South.
Blaiue asserts propositions as fixed
facts, which are wholly suppostitlous.
He states "a facts what he supposes
will be true. OF future events he de-
clares positively what the South will
think and do. II he speaks falsely of
one or two of these propositions,
he may speak falsely of the rest. 1t
is nm absolute historical fact that when
Northern men sought TO invalidate
greenbacks and take away their legal
tender virtues a Southern senator's
speech, based upon one of these bayo-
net.made constitutional amendments,
prevented the contamination of this
Republican scheme of finance. SEN
ator Coke argued that the constitu-
tional amendment prohibited the i'm.
paiTment ofthe credit or value Of any
evidences of war debt and that
this constitutional amendment
sanetilled, in his eyes, the blessed
money of the people, and that with
his consent the greenbaek should
never be Invested of any property
value whatever. Coke, rebel, having
sworn TO support the constitution and
It's amendments, would not, like his
partisan enemies, stain his soul with
perjury in order TO double the
value of gold in the tills OF the
enormously rich. Republican sena-
tors were then legislatlng for their
masters, the pampered and protected
gold and bondholding class. A rebel
upheld the amended constitution, and
a rebel spared the greenbscks to the
people. An equivalent Of more than
, three hundred millions Of gold was
: thus kept in circulation. We re-
. eur TO this fact simply to
say that an honest rebel, having sworn
to support the federal constitution a,
1t is, will never falter in obedience Ia
tor pejure himself by evading OF
# stretching II as did Blaine and his Re.
3 publican coadjutors on this and count
i, less other occasions. A Southerner, II
Q Democrat, is strict constructioRist
s. and while the constitution IL
J. in esse and unamended he will enforce
!, it, even rs Cleveland executes, with
Q rigorous fidelity, laws and charters
d which should be annulled, and which
Q he desolses
o Blaine, therefore, candidate for the
presidency and addressing the 90, OoO,-
/ 600 people of the Union, deliberately
:. states as true not only that which ht
e does not know to be true, but that
o which we know to be absolutely false.
L Blaine does not stop here. but tells
= the people that the Democrats will re.
/ peal the pension code, when it is fact
= that Senators Vest and Coke and every
J, other Democrat from the South hav,
,, supported by votes and speeches
every pension bill ever enacted
They have uniformly gone with those
Il who have gone furthest. At the last
X session OF congress, when ii was sought
Z by Blaine's partisan associates to de,
is feat the Mexican veterans' pension
bill, by loading 1t with extraneou,
n measures contemplating extravaganza
Y concessions TO Union soldiers, these
ii amendments, designed to defeat the
t old Mexican veterans bill, were voted
5, down, II Blaine were honest, as h,
. is untruthful and unworthy of the pc
o sitlon he occupies, he would hay,
A. stated these facts and not THU
TO foul pervenion OF facts. Blaine
lg II an honest, upright gentle
3, man, would have said tina
n Southern Democrats resisted bitterl,
Of the purpose OF these Republican
to amendments, designed only to defea
IA the Mexican veterans pension blll
re If Logan had not been nominated
y for the siee-presldency 4s would have