Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-01
THE EDITORIAL IDIOT.
A Sample of the Drivel Upon Which Northern
seetionaIlsm is Fed and Patterned.

Sample of the Drivel Upon Which Northern
sectfonalism is Fed and Fattened.
DETROIT, Aug. 28-Col. Elliott F.
Shepard was interviewed on political
matters Inasmuch as Col. Shepard and
large number Of Southern Democratic
editors are the city's guests the kindly
Christian charity that is manifested in
the talk VIII be appreciated. Speaking
of Mr.. Cleveland, the great ethical edi-
tor said:
Cleveland's idea was to strengthen
himself with the South even more in his
second term than during the first. His
plan was to secure control of congress
and then divide Texas into four states,
admit Utah and New Mexico, but
to shut out all the Republican
territories. The bargain was made with
the MOrmons to admit Utah if they would
elect Democratic senators. Thus the
senate would have been Democratic and
we would have been ruled by the treason
able SOutherners with whom Cleveland
was already in alliance. Cleveland
planned that he could then be elected to
a third term without a single Northern
state. The result would be that the
South would, through Cleveland, control
the nation. The negroes would be re-
subjugated, the poor white trash of the
South would be driven out and the North
would be at the mercy of the Rebels.
These plans would probably have been
covered up by some pretended political
issue of another character, but [ think
that had Cleveland been reelected we
would have had another war during the
four years of his term. The South would
no doubt have been anxious to withdraw
FROM ftle Union again, and the North
& 5Esi1fu not stand it. But the Lord God
almighty i'll his benefcient providence
saved US the calamity by defeating Gro
yer Cleveland.
When the gallant colonel had recov-
Pered from the outburst he tackled the
SfIthern question with the following re-
suit:
often dine with Gen. Sheridan, and
he agrees with me that the Southern peo-
pie are as traitorous as ever, and that
there is no patriotism among them. He
does not think that they will take up
arms again during this generation, but
that it is only the sturdy ,, unfiinchipg,
patriotic spirit and superior strength of
the North which keeps the country to-
gdpher. The negroes now have no politi-
cal rights and many are practically in
4ACS Gail bOl0 unl6SS tuSJ
asaskaxpayers, and when without means
e6f support can be sold to prison contrac-
tors TO prevent them becoming public
charges. Should the South gain
control, as Cleveland had
planned, the different Southern
states would repudiate the last three
amendments, claiming that they were
ssfeaced upon them while in duress, and
that in law such action is not binding
They would then practically appeal the
amendments so far as they were coR7y
cerned, and say that slavery still existed
and that the negroes have no rights as
citiZeas. insist that the people8of the
sirwill never become patrIOtic& Look
at the way they idOlize JEFF Davis W4seH-'
lever he appears in public. You notice
: that the men who are the most
popular in politics in Southern
states are those who were the most de-
voted to the lost cause and who insist
that the lost cause is not lost but is yet
alive. The South viii mot haze liberal
sentiment. They send home all our
Northern men who go South to stimulate
the productive industries of the country.