Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-13

! majority month ago was nothing more
! than an expression of local pride in a
strong man. The masses share no such
| pride. and hence their emphatic and de-
cisive condemnation of the brutal meth
DDS that prevailed in the late congress.
1t is condemnation Of the riotous ex-
| travagance and wasting of the people s
money BY the party in power. 1t is a
| condemnation of its janus faced finan-
c!al policy framed in the interest of the
| silver kings and Of the gold bugs. 1t
| condemns the creation of four rotten
borough states, done for no other pur-
pose than to add to party strength. 1t
condemns Little Ben's shameful and
wholesale violation of the civil service
law, which he declared repeatedly should
be kept inviolate. And the Democratic
is q whitening condemnation of the Sun
day school and utterly Pecksniffian meth
DDS of the grandson of his grandfather,
and that other SNUG hypocrte, the friend
of Quay and political corruption, Cheap
John Moneymaker. It is a condemns
ton of the ship-subsidy policy of the
party in power that would pay
enormous sums to wealthy ship
owners for doing what. under
restricted and sitting foreign trade
policy, they now find Improbable. 1t is
a NAT a HpprH11-
ton aud Decentralization Of Quayism and
blocks Of fine craftsmanship which are
calculated to corrupt and debase the
elective franchise, and make of it
bowling farce. 1t is condemnation OF
pension extravaganza, aud of the whole
sale thieving practiced Systematically In
that department. And finally it damns
the force bill to an everlasting inferno,
and for that reason alone we'll nigh breaks
the heart of that most exemplary Chris
tian, and benevolent friend Of the abused
Senegambian, the president. 1t is an
overwhelming vote by the people OF
complete lack of confidence IN the policy
and methods of the party in power.
The result of the election shows one
South and West are getting together.
The South remains rs it has been for
years, faithful TO the principles of free
and uncentralized government. The
Democratic gains throughout the West
show how that section is breaking away
from Republication, and preparing TO
take sides with the South against the in
evitable tendency of the Republican
party towards the upbuildiEg and foster
ing of an industrial and political OIL
garchy in this country. What other
meaning can be found in the defeat Of
Joseph Garbage Cannon in Illinois, the
Western representative OF Reedism and
Mckinleyism in their most repulsIve
form? What means the political cyclone
that swept over the parched plains of
Kansas, and overwhelmed Republican,
lem in its securest stronghold?
OF ell that the election returns disclose,
the result in Kansas is the most won
derful ana slgnlncant. Although u GlO-
raltar ever since the war, of Republican,
ism in its most robust and virulent form,
the farmers there stormed, Quilted and
sacked the political stronghold, and suf-
fered only one out of seven Republican
congressman to escape, aud carry the
awful tale of rout and ruin to the next
congress. "Fog Horn Funston ap-
pears to be the only survivor. The
Democrats elected one, and the Alliance
five congressmen-a notable victory for
the farmers.
1t is interesting to speculate about the
effect of the election on Republican
policy this winter, as eaoh will find who
look ahead little.