Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-02


joriiy In the lower house Of congress.
The power of negEtion involves respen-
sibility but little less onerous than that
OF party control. AS 1t has BEEN, what
ever was wise spd commendsble in leg
islstion WAS claimed by both parties,
while each has made s scaregoIs OF the
other in answering for the sins and omis-
sions of congress. No duty Is well done
with divided responsibility. 1t is bet>
ter that the government should be wholly
Democratic or wholly Republican. A
sufficient check upon dangerous party
tendencies is given by large and vigilsrt
maj ority. Msiorities in opposition to
the administration are likely to prove OBJ
structionists. The desire to prevent q
party advantage too often oyerleaps the
patriotic instincts of q minority with a
negative power and causes 1t to obstruct
measures that are demanded By the
country.
The fear has been expressed that com
plete control Of the government by the
Republican party will result in harsh
and oppressive policy towards the South,
and the perpetuity Of the party in power
II rough the admission Of the Northwest
ern territories into the Union as new
states. The first suggestion is, THE Ga
zETTE believes, III jussifable; the second
is cowardly. II has been
conclusivelY demonstrated that DOM
insnt Northern sentiment does no: sp-
prove sectional policy In the federal
government. More than oIce has the
Democratic party profted BY the Sec
tioral folly Of Republican lesdere, and
the repetition Of that folly ct this late
day would be sure precursor Of Demo.
cratic triumph in 1892.
Timid and fearful creatures should re-
member that the Republican party has
the power to hsIrsss but not to Cypress
the South, and that reconstruction is 8
thing OF the past. Use South is neither
an alien nor dependent with reference
to the Union. Its internal affairs are IS
far beyond the review and criticism of
the federal congress IS they are OF the
French chamber OF deputies. The
Chambers and the Hoars may insult;
American freedom Of speech permits any
citizen, high CT low, to do that, but they
cannot make laws 10 regulate matters of
state concern in the South any more than
they can invade the Jurisdiction of
Western or Northern CT Eastern states.
To put the matter csndidly and plainly:
the agitation Of the "Southern Question"
from Penobscot Bay to San Francisco can
. feet no practical result other than to in
me the preiudices Of men. The "South-
ern Q uestion" is race question, local
question, because 1t concerns and con-
Germs only the people of the South. The
South will settle 1t, and settle 1t without
seeking the counsels OF the Forskers and
BlsInes and Ingells. That is all there is
in ii, and that ig all thst can be
made cut Of 1t without another
to the federal constitution
that will revolutionizs our system of gov.
eminent. ---.
As to the creation Of new states in the
northwest, II the results should prove
to Democracy, they will be
the natural and legitimate fruits OF
selfish and irconsiderste policy. 1t wss
Is unjust to deny statehood to Dakota as
to refuse the rights of statehood to Ken.
lucky and Georgia in 1866. II was never
that territorial conditions should
be obligatory upon community 8 moment
longer than they were Necessary. The
government at Washington should have
no control of the local affairs Of any PEG.
pie who are fitted to manage them for
The domins nt party In the Union should
te the party which has the confidence OF
3 m, Gritty of its citizens. We believe
thst able and conscientious leadership
will commend the Democratic party to
that confter ce, but II 1t should fail to do
so, or II the party should fail of such s
leadership, then 1t is proper and Demo-
cratic that the party should remain in The
minority.