Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-02-26
sense of Justice, we would fall by the way
and out of the fight. -


FORAKER DEAD.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Ex-Governor
Foraker of Ohio is dead duck. The
recent Investigations of the ballot box
committee, although quite an expensive
luxury, having cost the government
over two thousand dollars, has served
the purpose Of showing up Mr.. Foraker
aud his methods 1t may be well to re-
call the circumstances which led up to
this investigation. Mr.. Foraker learned
that his Democratic rival for the govern
orship, Mr.. Cam bell, was to secure
from the United States fat contract for
the supply of ballot boxes of a certain
patent make, the contract TO be secured
parties who would remain behind
the scenes. The gentleman es-
peciallY designated was MIR. But
terWorth, and Mr.. Foraker employed
a go-between to secure a copy of the
document relating to the agreement be-
tween the parties, the pay for this serv-
Ice TO be q political office. 1t seems that
the document he required was forged to
order, and supplied the signatures of Mr..
Campbell, Mr.. Butterworth, 5. s. Cox,
Senator Sherman and other prominent
men of both parties. The signatures
even did not arouse Foraker's suspicion
as to their genuine character, as several
of the Republicans thus put forward as
engaging in this rascality were either
lukewarm or unfriendly to his own
election. MurRt Halstead, editor of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, con-
cealed the forgery and published the
contracts, although discreetly suppress
ing the Republican signatures in issuing
the document as an election weap-
on. Mr.. Campbell at once de-
nounced the forgery, which M.
Halstead publicly admitted in his COL
umns, while Foraker kept silent for sew
eral weeks, the collapse of the business
largely contributing to the defeat of For
aker, and the election of a Democratic
governor of Ohio. Foraker comes out of
the investigation politically dead. Aside
from the personal and moral aspects of
the case the willingness he displayed to
kill off Butterworth, Sherman aud Nc
Kinley and prominent Republican lead
ers who stood il his way was very evil
dent. He had better go home, hide his
head, and forever cease from endeavOr-
ing to put his name before the Repubii-
can party OF his state as q candidate for
any Office whatsoever. He has ridden
himself out of the party, which is for
tunate in having discovered the Judas
Iscariat who has betrayed it upon more
than one occasion.
WILL PUSH WORLDS FAIR LEGISLATION.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The only bust
ness transacted to-day BY the ways and
means committee was favorable adop-
ton of the house bill authorizing q free
entrance of Mexican exhibits intended
for the st. Louis fair this fall.
The Chicago people are res ting upon
their victory in the house yesterday, but
are making an effort to expedite legisla-
tive action upon the Worlds fair bill.
The fair bills, as previously stated, have
been recommltted to the select commit
tee in order to insure the
speedy insertion in the proper
bill of the name OF the site and for the
perfection of details which were neces-
sarily left open until the successful city
was known. There Is no expressed fear
of further opposition in the house or
senate to the perfection of the Chicago
bill. Mr.. Springer says that the New
York representatives have assured him
that they accept the situation in good
faith and will use their influence in the
senate to help along the Chicago bill and
do all in their power to make the fair
success.
MONUMENT TO GRANDPA HARRISON.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Pa bill was re-
ported in the house to-day from the
committee on library appropriating $685.
600 for the erection of monument to
the memory Of William Henry Harrison
grandfather of the president, at North
Bend, Ohio.