Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-17
,obD Sherman Made His Fortune
' Sor the Icy Statesman Lives
n His Ohio Home
villas. whitney Gaining Pres
E |a~s' Garland and La
mar on the Decline
tn. from the Empire and Bay
n,,ocrats in Hopes of Sc
curing the Senate
..ondcnce of Tho Gazette.

p VV'is' IN, pa, Jan. l3.-lt is Il
HLA DELI . ,hat All the members OF the
U.s. I, n," r administration, VINO en-,
q y uei S with secure ana Weli ,lIl.i
,, o,IS have lost prestige III the pun
l .lI airce March of last year, Whlle
}lhu s.u M vent in as untned men
l0res WI va.tly In popular esteem.
n GAM rord. il is true, has not made
y. 81 he premier OF the caoineV,
w rgndepiable that he has made some
y Inn INA that be has at most added
ls.s p his already great reputation.
ps " IN Garland aud Secretary La
4 sa0! No higher to-day than they ala
'sps 400 No one thinks them any
!. ,@sn N, n they thought them then.
y y D NAV we're perfection before they
VA "a ~ cabinet, but rather that they
Il I 70 and the opportunity in their
ILL., rosiiions to distinguish them
Inst the opposite is true OF Man
Il WAS and whitney. Last March Man
w 81 Looked upon in many circles as
< I,,ht.weight man for secretary OF
,.asnry of the United States, but his
.ion was acceptable 10 his party be-
h VAS recognized that to hlm IN
n,rt Democracy owed its success in
yort which meant success in the
AZ for the opposition, that was
nd mans wife who dled--she had
y 4 rssiqned Villas was recognized
n y an able thinker, lawyer and col
n hut wholly without experience IN
rsI affairs. After nine months in Of
! il reckoned, next to Whitney, the
+ [,o., man IN the cabinet. He has ef-
4 reforms 10 his department, Just as
s mo has in his, and like Mannin he
srestled with New York money kings,
4 II come out the best man. For that
n be stands to-day, like Manning,
\ IN the public estimation than ever
nnp whitney was new and untried
ID national politics previous to the
I: baign Of 1884. He had, to be sure,
led IN New York state matters to a
M derahle extent, ana was the first to
) hands with Manning in selecting
IN Cleveland of Buffalo for the
matorial nomination in 1888. In
Aember of tie following year, when
ssme man Cleveland was the Demo-
c presidential nominee, and, from
Of money, tue national campaign
Xauarters in New York came near be-
L losed, whine, went down into his
Ia pocket and the Democratic cause was
W|i over the shallow financial water.
Hnow from personal knowledge that
Wuey's act saved the national head
iE5ters from being closed up six weeks
1re election day. Yon see the Demo-
Mcparty had 10 army oflicehOlders to
u as did the Republicans, and repeat
eisats were beginning to have their
i Well, Whimey saved the day and
eeretaryship of the navy is his re-
Wgardi Yes, reward, Why shouldn't
liant political general be ~ warded for
Ming up national administration as
as 8 gallant war general for tearing
Mi great city? Whitney entered Office
mg aud untried man. He was mex
ncsd and almost unknown. To-day
The most popular official IN Washing
the president only excepted. He has
pnly shown marked ability Ia treating
asl subjects tnat come before him in
IOWA department., but his ideas are
g sought Tor by other members of Mr..
Glands political household and by
lb* prominent in the councils of the
oefatic party in the nation. BY the
bis accomplished wife he has been
. launch himself upon the sea of
Z, not as follower, butas leader.
On excellent sort OF tenant to have,
has already expended $4,000 on
% srelinghnysen mansion, and yet
pius only four years lease of it. II
'nis house that some of the magniii.
RECEPTIONS are 10 be given which are
-Ae llle present administration a So
Recess
=.
! ABSURD 70 say, as so many do, that
\ men are worse now in character
stmeriy Those who say so are moi
nsu Is 70 the facts. Modern oiilcia
lsisi DAD as some Of them have beer
t ule past twenty years, are nowhere
\ nv WIN the high old times thai
Wy kleked mp Ia congress. Cheat
1sl ".hi on right and left. ] was
l 4 ,ss'eraay with John Bach Nc Mas
Il Is historian whose great work i
III; la,s1a'iy completed, work in whict
~! SEEKS to portray not the public
\, m 4, rlsSte acts OF the American people
','aasuiaglnn down. He told me a stor,
RI enAs thompson who was secretary
as 1872 When that body used to SIT In
s1'puls Thompson conceived tn,
y "flung q history of congress. O
y, y. history as it at that early day
1sissueo ~ making. He collected
I s,sfyNherc, and his work WA
~ WITH considerable interest
\ M Ie public men who were So
! III cpples were assured by hin
y would do well to have thei
IA ss as'N ioT, after his book appeare,
\, htis M M became known, they woult
4, y se not heed the warning how
~ iac1 they did not feel hali :,
y ,ioSs vi ~ disclosures as did the con
Iguesa ..nsolhpson One day it wa
cafon 'nsI lhe book was ready 10
r.. - properly celebrate tn
.ntos,, psoh, who lived ii
Als suburb of Phil
gisr 4, invited u number o
.|nne, SSuussfessmen out To his. hous
tse, Nnen they came near his res
y saS aerest bonfre in the doo
a cSs ,a '4 gsusuming great quantitie
. Ter IN. ll,apsrs, Somewhat aston
aoss 'ssslfed what it all meant.
psos s, goples 1t my hooks,'' sai,
bsen j sl,Ansly. "Yes, the work
VI, /. II ivng At work upon. 10,
ahIss1 y y ~fflele POSITION. / coul,
M ~ ~, aud II. | told the trntl
y ~ ssnglrsssmen every mother
, Z. ,.i essia bring up iniai. Thin.
- a., ~, n. i, 70 me bonfire, twas N
n IN ~ s,,, q The dilemma
eesev FsS the Character Of the az
81 snlan has imDr wed
q ,s, s',eFe the consideration,
AZ N. , ". and writer's has
na lhonpsons to-day NJ l,.a.
shS ,s 9per men, or anon
sAs Il W. eos. 9 late years held ofiicis
VA tlAtI, NH. ~. 80.