Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-06-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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Virginia. Certainly half the state Is
for sale and even 30 Ia Maryland.
Farming il worse than prohtless.


When the president refused, rs the
papers state, to recognize the claims Of
| O Kentucky senator and denied him
favorB such as have been lavished upon
other representatives Of statehood, the
reason assigned was that this senator,
In 1S61-5, wrote bilious, ferocious
letter to his wife. He then wanted to
murder and hang all the Yankees and
was IA vicious and bloodthirsty as was
Ben Butler In his last campaign speech
In New York city. Butler was then
exesperated by consciousness Of ig-
noble defeat. even as was the senator,
Blackburne, by Confederate disasters
Butler was talkin Z, as Blackburne
was writing, under great excitement
that beRotten Of inevitable defeat
Senator BlackburDe, however violently
he talks and however fierce his words,
is kindly as a woman and generous 10
the last degree. He would not
harm fly. Then how strange that
men are not held RESPONSIBLE for most
damnable crimes and only for words
during the war period. Only last
week most amiable, modest and
kindly gentleman was made Gus.
toms officer, and yet this self.same APP
pointee, when at the wlne-table in
1865, made himself notorious by utter
Ing the CHASTITY toast:
Here's TO the man that pulled the trigger,
That Killed the man that freed the niger.
He who toasted Wilkes Booth, re-
joiced In Lincoln's assassination aud
deplored negro emancipation all In q
breath, holds office under the govern.
ment and this place man honestly
ahhnra nj tIta 10 I,1Jn
and reveres Lincoln's name and
memory. Lamar, the most conserva-
tive member of the cabinet, as he has
been OF the senate aud house since
1872, was foremost and most earnest OF
secessionists.
OPERATIVE CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
"Whon the ciyil.service law was
about to 20 into effect the various
chiefs of division in the several depart
ments held council and subjected
list of employees to "a rigid scrutiny,
with the manifest intention that no
Democrat should be shielded by It,
Why few of the few were left In of
fee will some time make pleasant
reading, but all will agree that such
an unfair Introduction OF civil service
Is apt to weaken our respect for II, and
the question now il whether Demo-
Gratis will submit to forced coustruc-
ton to keep in office people who
have hated with perfect hatred
Democracy, its principles, exporents
and leaders Among the thousands OF
oifice-holders in Washington, men ana
women, there Ia perhaps one illy-paid
Democrat permitted on suflerance to
take a crumb from the Republican
table, and by the grace of sufficient
ly strong backing whom they
couldn't kick OUT The rest have
piously wished that they could stamp
every rebel man and woman into the
earth, or, In the language of a certain
woman In the postotlice department,
famous for her command of Billings
gate, that she would like to see every
low, Southern woman drummed out OF
office to the tune of the Rogue's march,
Among other choice spirits the same
department has among its precious
possessions u woman born and brought
up In New York. but accredited to
Louisiana. She belongs to that de-
lectable class that testifies volubly
before outrage committees.' She
once averred that she herself was COM
PEELED to sleep on shot.guns to keep
from being hanged by Southern Dem
ocrats. She claimed and urged her
own promotion for valuable cam
paign services and now she poses as
a Southern woman The devil must
smile when he thinks of the
hereafter and gives his fire an extra
punch. 1t is edifying to degree to
see these old hardened departmental
wire-pullers, interruptions hypocrites
and sycophants fawninR upon the few
new Democratic bureau officers that
have been appointed. An inexperi-
enoed man, not familiar with Wash
ington scheming, no matter how level
his head or acute his intellect, Is quite
likely to be fooled. These people,
many OF whom have literally been
pensioned by the government, running
political machinery instead OF attends
ing to their legitimate business, now
sit back, perfectly complscent,
and Talk about civil service
Oh II the Initial step OF
reform wo'' Id not be to turn the ras.
Gals out" There have been cliques in
the departments headed by these
wretohes whoee chief employment hrs
been to hound and persecute, TO lead
regular crusades against any man or
woman who came out of the hated
N1tAhAs Az hNs uStu DuL SNORT Time
since one Of these sneeriugly remarked
OF a lady who holds one Of these POSI-
tons, while discussing the chances of
having her dismissed, Oh, she has no
influence hut Lamar. She little
dreamed then, when Republicanism
was supposed to be In the hey.
day OF It's power, that Lamaris
name was soon to become key-note
to national power, before which "all
the peoples should bow. Blatant
tow-psth boys aud fanatical New
Englanders, even the plymouth
Rockers now plan and smile and
sweetly woo the powers that be; IL is
better than the best transformation
scene OF spectacular drama. Only q
resident OF Washington and one cogn.
liant OF what Southern women have
borne in clerkships here from
the outrageous insults of
their associates, could take IL in
In all it's depravity and enormity. The
few tnat are here, Us rule, repres mt
the best families OF the South. Robbed
OF fortune, without fathers, brothers or
husbands, often an entire family de-
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