Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-11

| majority of its people refuse TO vote Re-
| publican tickets, and whenever that ma
iority chooses to combine its forces it may
destroy the ascendancy of tariff brigand-
age in the state.
Chicago Herald: The 60 900 900 peo-
! pie of America are not individually pos
sessed OF wealth. They cannot get rich
| selling votes. Their safety and the safety
of the wretch who would buy American
ballots lies in that very honor of the peo-
| pie which lie wishes to destroy. The an
archist is better man. He does not
conceal his ultimate design. He
does not hope to enslave man
kind, though that might be the re-
suit of his triumph. The vote buyers of
Indiana with their 81 200 ,000-their
$3.50 200 as officially accounted for-went
into open market and sold their country
for gold. Crime of this unspeakable
character has excited the horror of men
since the pastoral age. The interests of
the campaign which has just ended were
sordid enough without tine reproach which
now falls so heavily on Indiana, the home
! of the preSideut-elect.
New York Evening Post: Why did
Wanamaker and Quay, when they had
finished their noble work, burn their
books and accounts? Missionary, tract
and Bible societies, societies for mutual
| improvement and for aid TO home study
| lyceums and featuring associations, not to
! speak of charitable and philanthropic as
sociations, no not, after six months of
| unusual activity commit all their papers,
vouchers and books of accounts 10 the
flames. No such thing is ever thought of
| i'll Wanamaker's Bethel Sunday-school. .
| Why then raS II dpra by +bp oI
committee? Religious and educational
organizations, such as the advisory COM
mittee seems to have been, on the con-
trary when they have raised a large sum
of money and spent it in worthy ways,
are usually eager to preserve and spread
| the record of it, that others coming after
| them may be encouraged to do likewise.
| In fact, the more one reflects on the
Wanamaker-Quay holocaust the more
mysterious it seems.
Boston Post: As general proposition
it may be maintained that the political
divisions of our western territory are on
a scale too large to endure successfully
! the test OF entire settlement. They must
drop apart of their own weight as their
Development passes the stage in which
widely scattered communities have yet
certain general interests III common, and
in which there are developed the special
ties incident TO difference of location,
climate and nei@hborhoOd. With the
varieties of condition which are found in
a territory covering more than 100 900
square miles-as is the case in four of the
states now in the CniOn-there must arise
differences i'll the character and needs of
the population which can be served best
by Il closer local government. It is the
part of wisdom to learn when this point
has been reached and to make the separ-
alton when it is clearly seen that homo
gemeity OF interest requires it.
California has been steadily approach
ing this condition, and the progress has
been rapid of late years as the several
distinct forms of industry incident to its
varied resources have developed, each i'll
the section to which it is appropriate
Whether it is yet ripe for the act remains
to be demonstrated. 1t is certainly pos
sessed of Il territory of sufficient extent
to warrant Il division.