The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-01
Clearing the Decks.

The Punishment of "Our Dick" to
ar away japan is one of those adroit
,ieces of human strategy which the
ongcr you look at them the more ma
" and bewildering they become. Dick
in state politics is massive
md ponderous difficulty. lie is an irri-
alton, acontinual threat and altogeth-
,r worry of the first order. Dick
8 heavy weight, almost an incubus
upon the managers of our party af-
fairs. The difficulty is just this:
Dicks eloquence and personal mag
netism have rendered him very strong
with the masses. This strength makes
him worry to managerial purposes.
There is no telling just when the peo-
Pile will become fools enough 10 elect
delegates TO convention sufficient
TO nominate him for governor, to the
lower house of congress, or members
or the legislature in numbers snili
GENTLY great to give him place IL
the senate. There are possibilities il
our Texas political problems mucl
farther removed from probabilii
than either one, or in time, than all O
these dangers. They, or either O
them would be dreadful, aud no mi:
take. 1t was great godsend whe
Hubbard let his foot slip little whe
at the head of the st ate government,
few years since, and even when i
was plain president of the senat
The circumstance placed cola
about his neck which has enabled III
managers to lead poor Richard abot
by the nose much as they please
But oven in that, AZ in almost all eartl
| ly matters, there is a gree
flaw. a weak spot al
rs is usual In such cases the streng
of tho blow is likely to be deliver
right slap upon the weak spot. II
this: While Richards lapses ha
been sufficiently grave in character
make rough water for him in coun
: in conventions and the like, yet til
are not enough to prevent him fro
getting fine second-class missile
Ofcourse this is done by and wi
the full consent of our party ma
1 ayers. Now II may happen that sor
indiscreet paper, not having the fe
of the sanhedrim before its eyes, W
conclude to formulate, arrange al
classify the solid objections to \
n Hubbard publish them ard mayh
send copy to Mr.. Cleveland. Il
grand sachem would call his chi
IS about him and say; Gentlemen, wi
: OIL why was not appraised of thu
things earlier in the action? III
: would prove very awkward int
rogatory, and for the life of us we C
not just see how II would be
swered.
z 1t is All awkward situation tru
Here is q man whose political reco
is such as to close the doors of a st
convention to him, receiving a so
= endorsement to the president for
important appointment. Now whe
err the president is sharp or world
3 minded enough to cipher out I
k problem unaided and alone we KIN
r not, but the thinking and well infor
ed masses of Texas will need but
l. tie furnishing to make them bril
! enough to "catch on" afterwhilc,
IS when ever the graceful and easy @
portunity comes along. Mr.. III
: bard, from his shady retreat at {
q antipodes, willdive into this little pre-
n lem. There will many queer
Elections rise up to him. He will c
the spirits of '73 -'7s around him, a
y while they dance in dizzy ma
d about him, he will rise in his gre
s wrath and calculate d-n it. ri
d will be all innocent enough III
great mind does not there aud II
form the purpose to come home, a
. apply the match which will hoist una
lofty ambition, cut down ma
: green aud budding hopes, viii
, though formed, have never
found expression save in the deep
= rccesses of the caucus.
v Now, If Hubbard had been Civ
# one of the many portfolios of the