Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-24
AUSTIN LETTER.
Secretary Boynton Ultra-SOuthern
Enough to Suit Lovers of JEFF Davis.
Comment Regarding COmmitteeships-Two
HOIdover SenatOrs-Blighted Eject of
Bill to Open Greer County.
Special Correspondence Of the Gazette.

him on the ground Of his paper s having
contained an editorial speaking disre-
spectfulIy of Jefferson Davis. The sena-
tor either failed to fix the responsibility
for the article upon Mr.. Boynton, or else
majority of the senators were of opinion
that Mr.. Davis was the proper subject of
criticism, for Mr. BoyntOn was elected
by handsome majority. A copy Of Mr..
BOynton s paper, the Huntsville Herald,
bearing date May ), 1886, fell into my
hands the other day and it contained an
editorial which Mr.. BoyntOn wrote, and
which he now endorses. 1t shows what
he thought and thinks of Jefferson Davis,
and is surely ultTa-Southern enough to
satisfy the most ardent lover Of the Lost
Cause. 1t is as follows:
CRASHING THEIR TEETH.
JEFF Davis Grafton delivered at Montgomery,
Ala. on the occasion of the laying of the corner
stone Of monument to the Confederate oead,
has aroused the slumberng patriotism OF the
New York Republicans, and they have brought
out the bloody shirt again and flungit to the
breeze. meeting Of Republicans of Albany
met soon after the delivery of Mr.. Davis speech
and passed resolutions execrating the '-arch
traitor for his reasonable utterances and his
people for the homage they paid him. 1t is use
less for Northern Republicans TO attempt TO rem
der JEFF Davis Odious TO the people of the South.
After twenty years OF unceasIng effort they are
compelled to say, as Balak SAID TO the prophet
BALKAN. - called thee TO curse TINS people, but
thou hast blest them altogether. twenty-five
years of malignant persecution have demon
strated that the old man was only an
exponent Of the sentiment Of his people
ard they would deserve the condemnation of
all the good. were they to basely desert him and
tanely permit the man who had sacrificed every
thing for their cause to be overwhelmed with OBJ
loquy in his declining years.
Those who protest that the results of the
branded the cause of the COnfederaCy as a con-
suiracv against human liberty and free govern
ment, forget that thelarbitrament Of the sword
never settled the principle or demonstrated the
tn merit OF an action by an individual, commun-
ity or nation. Thomas Carlyle said:
My friend, if thou hads ali the artillery of
support of an unjust thing, aud the right
thing be trampled out Of sight, buried fathOms
deep, yet it shall come up from the grave at last
and triumph over injustice, and yet you call this
temporary dominion of the false over the true,
success! What kind of success is that?''
Jefferson Davis represented Southern civil
izatiOn and Southern ideas Of free
government. He made = grand political
mistake. For this he has suffered. Now, in his
declining days ne makes his last tour over the
beloved land that was the scene Of his temporary
glory and finally of his browning and over
whelming disaster. BE grasps for the last time
the hands of those who shared with him the per-
lis of the battlefield, and sheds unavailing tears
over the lost cause and the brave souls that
persisted with it. The sympathetic children
true to the cherished sentiments and traditions
OF the ueODle streyy flowers for miles along his
pathway, and his aged heart melts in this last
CrucibIe of flial affection But what discordant
notes are these borne to US by the north wind
Chech lne spontaneous ouIsusiilIhSs OF mutual
love and affectionate regard2 They are the harsh
tones of the Albany Republicans screaming ike
the angry demons OF the storm, Treason, trea-
son. ." They would rob a tottering old man of
the last soIace of his declining days. They would
snatch from his aged brow the simple chaplet Of
love and affection placed there by apprecia-
tive people. Shame! Shame!
That ought to settle it.
A good deal of comment has been
caused by Senator Glasscocx s kick over
L., 4,l
Wheeler in forming the committees Few
people sympathize with Glasscock. He
Is here as the triumphant opponent of the
Democratic nominee for the senate, and
he was given a fairly good Craftsmanship
and high places on number of good
committees. There are two members of
the senate-both hold-Overs-who did not
fare so yell in the division Of hOnors as
did Glasscock They are Senators Sim
kinS and Field. Simkins was made chair
man Of the committee on enrolled bills,
a position that is rarely given to
old and experienced members, but
is usually filed by some young member
serving his first term. 1t requires the
same kind Of ability that is demanded by
the position Of copy hOlder'' in a news
paper office. Senator Simkins promptly
resigned and is now chairman of no COM
but, as there are more than enough
chairmanships to 90 around, and as there
are enough good ones to give each of the
hold-overs one, the fact of a senator of
Simkigs' ability being lefts ont causes
some comment. Senator Field is chair
man of the enrolling committee, a posi-
ton similar to that of chairman of the
engrOssing committee As Senator
Field was one of the ablest and
most useful members of judiciary
No. ! at the last session, and as he is one
OF the most distinguished lawyers of the
senate, il was thought by many that he
would be placed ut the head of one of the
judiciary committees at this session.
That he was not can be no cause of COM
plant to him or his friends, for those
positions were filled by men equally dis
tinguished, but that he should be left out
entirely is u matter Of some surprise to
all who do not know the reason therefor.
The fact is, both he and Simpkins were
worse than left out so far as chairman
ships are concerned To put men of their
experience and ability at the
head OF the engsossing and
enrolling committees is like
rich father who remembers child in his
will by leaving him a shilling. Senator
Field is on a number Of important COM
mittees, and he is doing good work on
all So far as know he has never ut
tered a word of complaint; but 1 looked
over the list with some interest to-day,
and / could not but be struck by the show
ing made. What prompted Lieutenant
Governor Wheeler to pass them by i'll this
way l have not asked and do not know
Thereasons may be satisfactory to the gen.
tie man concerned land would probably be
TO the people, if known by them. l
simply speak from the face of the record.
The bill introduced by Senator Stephens
not Senator .Kimbrough, as The GA
zETTE had it-providing for opening the
lands in Greer county TO settlement I'M
der the homestead donation law, is de-
signed 10 strengthen the title of Texas to
the disputed territory. AS the matter
now stands the lands viii not be settled,
the United States government viii not al
low them 10 be sold and nobody wants to
buy. But if Texas should open them to
settlement, as Senator Stephens proposes,
the county would be rapidly settled and
IA.