Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-22
THE DOODLE PARTY.
Few Plain Words About President Harrison
and His Party.
New Work Herald

New York Herald.
Everybody who ready the Herald knows
I that we never crit!cise a public official
| because he is a Republican or favor him
| because he is a Democrat.
When Mr. Harrison took the oath of
office we gave him our hearty good
wishes, and were among the very first to
do so. We worked against his election
with might and main, for we distrusted
| the high tariff policy he was pledged to
| enforce, and felt that it would bring
! commercial sorrow to his country
| But he was the choice of the people by
! fair vote and an honest count, and our
| theory is that the man who does not ao-
cept the decision Of tle.people in good
natured way is either crank or a knave.
! The Herald therefore laid down its oppo-
sitlOn the moment the case was decided,
and has kept its promise to assist the ad-
ministr alton in every measure which eau
be regard ed as beneficial to the interests
of the nation.
1t is our right. however, to look man
and q policy squarely in the face and tell
what we think of them very frankly and
without measuring our words for polite
ness sake. We are apt to be blunt; it
Is cur characteristic. We lack reverence,
without doubt, for earthly potentates,
and would just as lief dissect president
as cut up a New York alderman.
Our criticism of MIR. Harrison is that
he is too much OF politician. He is
trying to build up a party at the ex-
pense of the country.
We are told that the point which a
bullet will hit can be determined by the
direction it takes in the first five feet
from the muzzle of the rifle. We can
also tell the result of a political policy
FIVE months after its enforcement has
been begun.
Take this Tanner case as an illustra-
ton That man is q national insult His
official action would be a roaring farce if
it did not entail such serious conse-
Quences. He hash t the mental breadth
of lucifer match, and can't see any
thing on this broad continent except the
reckless expenditure of money. No
man ever dragged the sacred cause of
patriotism in the dnst or trampled
on the honor of the flag as he has DONE
He has converted the army of noble vol
unteers into a horde of hirelings, and
thrown a shadow over every battle field
which has made the last pages of our his
tory glorious. This willing tool of pen
selves out of his folly, he has slandered
the fair fame of every soldier that ever
marched at the tap of the drum.
Why was he chosen--a man supremacy
unfit for his position, without any record
that could give promise of the faithful
administration Of an important depart
ment? Because of politics. To win the
votes of the veterans for the party TO
which Mr.. Harrison belongs and with the
hope that it would make his renomina-
ton more easy.
And now that Tanner has become an
intolerable nuisance and the common
sense of the country has repudiated him
as a fool, why does Mr.. Harrison let him
down easy by providing for him a fat
office where he viii be less con-
spicuous and do less harm? If
Tanner were clerk in Mr.. Harrison 8
law Office and should run riot with the
funds of the firm, what would happen?
He would be shown the door, and if he
didn t start at once he would be fired
through the window. Why doesn t the
same thing happen now? Because of
politics-party politics. The country is
nothing; party politics is everything.
Or take the situation in Virginia The
Republican campaign in that state is be-
ing conducted on principles in contrast
with the high moral ideas which the
party claims. AS an example of
the most corrupt elements in the
politics of the day it is pre-eminent
At the head of it is man, Malone, not
ed only for his trickery and his readiness
to sell himself to any faction that will
pay his price. The more honorable mem
in his own party have thrown him over