Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-20
Talks Politics to Gazette Re.
porter in Kansas City.
HE is RAMPANT FOR BLAINE.
Republican Conventions Are Howling Mobs
and Away Nominate Weak Men.
He Points Out the Party's Course Since
1876. and Remarks What Should
Have Been - His Opinion of
the Peoples Party Given.
Ex-senator stephen w. Dorsey.

Special TO the Gazette.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. 16.-Ex-Senator
Stephen W. Dorsey, who has been Irving IN
New Mexico since his retirement from pub
lie life. giving his time TO overseeing and
managing his landed and other properties
there, Is in the city on business connected
with those interests. In answer TO the
question, what is your opinion of the po-
litical situation at present in regard TO the
Republican party. especially as to its sue
cess at the next election!' Mr.. Dorsey said ::
The success OF the Republicans at the
next election will depend almost entirely
upon the Republican convention itself. II
the convention pursues the ordinary course
and picks up candidate because he is
LITTLE AND DoDGEs ISSUE
because they might hurt somebody, it will
be defeated and ought to be- The Repub-
lican party hasn't nominated 4 man of rec
OgniZed ability. a fearless and aggressive
man, nor the choice of the people. the choice
of the rank and file of the party, with a
single exception. i'll eighteen years. With
d straight-out, hard talk on the tariff. clear
and undoubted declarations upon silver, and
a candidate that not only this country, but
the world recognizes, like Mr.. Blaine, the
Republicans will have an old-time ma
jority in every state that ever went Repub-
lican. The great mass of the delegates of
.ne Republican conventions
LIKE ALL MoBs,
follow unwillingly leader or drop him and
run at the first shot. Look at Hayes nom
iuation in 1876, Garfield's in 1850 and Har
rison's in 1855. In 1876 Mr.. Conklin should
have been nominated, then we would have
a great president. In 1850 Gen. Grant
should have been nominated and in 1883 Mr..
Sherman. 1t is hardly worth while to talk
about great men being chosen for presiden
tal candidates. 1t will never be done until
demagogues and chaps who go to national
conventions as stepplng-Stone TO office are
left at home
do YOU suppose the reign of the dema-
gogue in the convention will ever end
''How do you suppose the reign of the
demagogue in the convention will end, when
great Republican state like Kansas is taken
possession OF.
BODY AND SOUL,
by the most indefensible of that class
Think of it-Mrs. Lease prancing about
the country, announcing to whOmsoever
will hear her that she is the person that
defeated Mr.. Ingalls,: and Mr.. Ingalls, sue
cessor, PETER, down in Texas preaching
for sub-treasury loans and government
loans on land and SO far as / know, the
government will be called upon to make
loans on shoals of mackerel. You can
Judge whether this demagoguery is insanity
or idiocy."
wen. surprising tldb tuc uGHidSOSuo
Should not control the next Republican con-
vention!"
In that case" said Mr.. Dorsey, enthusi-
astically. james G.. Blaine will be nomi-
mated for president if his physical condition
will permit, and enc one will be named
against him. In the event of his health not
permitting and Major Mckinley being elect
ed governor of Ohio, the major is more
likely to be nominated than any other man
in the country, and
MAGNIFICENT PRESIDENT
he would make. The conspicuous half-breed
Republican paper that always has knitted
the party, when favorable opportunity of
fered, is the Chicago Tribune 1t began its
free-trade TRADE under the management of
Horace White, the present editor of the
New York Post, who, in conjunction with
MIR Medill, was also the author of system
of election in Illinois by which the legislat-
ure will 90 Democratic when the state goes
90, 600 to 10000 Republican.
Coming down to Kansas, what do you
think of the reputation or record it has
made politically during the last year or
So?''
Worse than MISREPRESENTATION
in every possible respect to the prosperity
and future greatness of the state, in my
Judgment. E-Vii the last year or so Kan
SaS has stood the equal of any, if not the
foremost, among the Republican states. Its
delegation in both houses of congress, and
notably in the senate, has been pre-emi-
nently recognized by everybody
"Do you think that the claims or COM
plants of the Peoples party are in any way
based on reason
If reason has ever had anything to do
with the manifestOs and public speeches
that | have heard and read | am
SORRY FOR REASONS.
All the talk and derision of past legisla-
tion and of monopolies owning and controll-
ing this country, is. it seems to me, the
merest rubbish. Both old political parties
have always been and always will be
largely controlled by the farming element,
and they always have and always will be in
the interest of that element, and defend it
against encroachments-ten fold more than
2 l,..,LS md ..L.r.,an,lt ions ,,