Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-22
ASPIRES TOO HIGH.
Reed Possesses Power Without
Popularity--His Leadership.
How He is Bending Every Effort to
Make Himself the Republican
Nominee for President.
The Present Congress has Battered Away Its
Welfare for Partisan Gain and has
Reaped Disgrace.
Tyrant Reed for President.

Special TO the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-Mr. Reed
undoubtedly expects to be the next pres
dent of the United States, and his ad-
imirers are enthusiastic enough to think
as he does. That part of the party ma
chine which comes under legislative ju-
risdlction is being manipulated in his in
terest, and he is bending all his energies
to that end, and it is not improba bic that
he will be the strongest man before the
next Republican convention at the hour
Of its meeting. But Mr.. Reed is not the
sort of growth that usually develops
into presidents. 1t is forced growth
which is apt to ripen too soon and the
fruit is bitter. He is already possessed
of all eagerness which leads him to be
eternally reaching out for more power
and to attempt to exercise 1t before
fairly attained. The White House is al
ready in the foreground of his vision,
and in his eagerness he has made his
object known too soon. At the opening
of the Forty eighth congress the man
who had claim to the leadership of the
Republican party By reason of having
been their speaker, and being their
nominee as minority was nonentity
Il few feeble efforts to keep his position
to the front and he sunk IN obscurity
Frank Hiscock assumed the position of
leader. But one day Mr.. Reed walked
down the aisle, shouldering his way
through q number of sub-leaders who
had assembled in the fore, and brushed
them aside with poor show at courtesy.
Hiscock was playing the part
of leader according to his powers. He
too was brushed aside by Mr.. Reed and
shouldered out of the way. Every man
who believed himself a leader was Of
Tended. HIscock's breath was taken
away and Reed had grasped the leader
ship by force. A few feeble efforts were
all Hiscock ever made to contend with
him. The man from Name grew from
that moment to the dictatorship of his
party in the house without gaining the
admiration of his followers, but by walk
ing over them and offending their self
esteem at every step in his prog
ress. He is still commanding
and bullying them. He possesses
power without popularity-a power that
is apt to be suddenly lost at some time.
Blaine is popular but he is in q different
position from Reed. He is member of
the cabinet and is, of course, not indie
pendent. Everyone comedies that Har-
rison will be q candidate for q second
term, but no one believes he can succeed
but himself. 1t is, in my judgment, po-
litical suicide for him to attempt
it. How far Reeds influence ex-
tends as presidential quantity is
of course problematlcal. Certain it is
that he does not possess the magnetism
of Blaine. Reed is cold, saucy and DOM
ineering. He is everything for Reed,
and he has made many political blunders
IN blind effort to boost himself and Gre
ate boom even thus early. Reed is
well satisfied man and believes in the
doctrine of egotism, but he ID in large
degree political fanatic, and like all
oranks, political or otherwise, makes en-
emies and keeps them.
OUTLINED ITS USEFULNESS.
By its acts and words the present con-
gress has condemned itself, and made its
self most repugnaut spectacle to the
public. 1t has fingered much too long
at the capitol and the coming elections
should determine that many of those
who are members of it should not be
members of its successor. This con-
gress has betrayed its most vital
interests, has bartered away
its welfare for partisan gain, and has
loaded itself with disgrace. The specta-
recently INDUCED in by members on the
Republican side is not one which the
country can look upon with any other
feeling than that of disgust and humilia-
ton.