The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-04-19
NORTH TEXAS VIEW.

Sppnuencc. )-Since ttVctuoi iu'hVS ~''""'
conversion to populism his Office mas been
bcsicsed by the followers of that school
OF politics.
The office is in keeping with the visit
ors A bale of hay stands where one
would expect 10 lind library; The visitor
is informed by the janitor that the GOV
ernur cut the hay a few days ago at his
ranch, but this Is not hay-cutting tune.
Well. II matters not when the nay was
cut 1t Is a presage OF victory, an III noe
grow 1, In hot house at ms rancn or
bought II at feed store. II Is his prop
erty to use as he pleases. Iheres an
air OF neelige about the office ana an
eternal iitness OF things on the fioor ana
on the walls which indicate that the gov
errors conversion is genuine
Among his visitors this morning was
Andy Faulkner, which fact at once. gave
rise to the report that that Gentleman
was being slated for one of the railroad
commissioners. The names most promil-
nenily mentioned for the fun board of rail.
road commissioners are John NJ. Moore OF
Fort Worth Captain Poor of San An
this trinity representing, the legal, agri-
cultural and business interests OF the
state.
one OF the most. If not the most in
teresting Of the free silver candidates for
congress IN this district Is j. c. Patton.
He casts himetallism to the wind and
says. The dollar OF the daddies, Is good
enough for me. hut he ads: Whatever
may bc--let II be goldhug, If you please
win fa9d on A. VII no, bS'r s,iEyo my
Bailey. little Ike DIN wellborn and
not al all like 10 Abbott. The present in
cnnmhent from this district: ms free
iuise Il the / onr,e nth District; Hon.
Edward Gray Judge OF the Fortyfourth
district. ana ex- Mayor Bryan T. Barry.
In n ..ff "
may not he regular bots u'arc congress
siona timber. hut those who have read
onr biographies .ay that am AS as ven zen
girls say .hat on my looks they would
take me for a congressman before they
would any one Of tho others If nominated
! promise to die. sword In hand. m the
rainparts with my back to the field ami
my face to the foe or plant the demo-
Victory II you democratic voters all go
20 the primaries End help me lay out my
friends In becoming style. | VIII take
care Of your enemies ana and mine
am the only Hat footed democrat In
! this congressional race who has always
as a private with n loyalty unsupported
| hy official pie. But the old war horses do
not oant colt to craze IN the same pas
| lures with them.
Vow. want you voters to take a
steady gaze at all four OF US and decide
which OF us looks most like a congress
man, We all four Of US are for. free sill
| yer but while we are agreed so far. there
| T. a difference between us. If the Ma
tional democratic platform declares for
| the gold standard. although 1t would be a
hitter pill, will Yield to its wisdom. and
In or ont of congress. vote n accordance
| With the demands. I defy my competitors
to answer this short question; VIII you
| vote, n Or out OF congress, In accordance
with the National platform IL its demands
are for a gold standard, and viii you
support the nominee on the gold platform
the primaries and before the Nationa!
convention. In their announcement and
n their Garland speeches am told that
acts on tho bond issue and the tariff hill
| of the democratic congress, and criticized
| the decision of tn" democratic Judge
Shirss, on the income tax. I repudiats
our democratic leaders could do under
| the unfavorahle circumstances and en-
| ernor Gibbs attack the party on thest
things will defend It all over this con
rressional district; and shall not either NJ
the opening or closing of the campaign
plead guilty for the party. its presilcu'
or its CONGRESS. am smart enough t.
go as y@ s9rySn1 to to-, 'qnsrsss sc ana y3t
| mp myself to be smarter than your presi
dent. When repudiate their acts vii
follow my friend GoTernor Gibbs into tbs
camp Of tho philistines."
While some Of Mr. Pattons opponents
| regard him as GulNotic. and pretend tc
ignore him at ogcther. II vii, he observed
that he Is n hard and scientific hitter
| He places his party above his COMPRESSION
al district and thinks that the reconcile
;ipn AZ differences nj the cost of swa How
ing n bitter pill is preferable to disntegra,
ton.
or all the sound money men Mr.. j. r
Trezevant Is. perhaps, the most outsroker
as regards the Dudley letter. lie re
marked to me this afternoon Dudley;
| letter, II correctly quoted. seems to he
very lame AFFAIR TO- wheedle sound money
democrats into free silver conventions
whore trap is already prepared 10 utiliz.
| their votes In tho election of Dudley IL
congress and the governor to a sccont
term. Hence the cooling style Of Dudley
circular as compared with his forme
flamboynnt style and the trucoulent man
ncr Of his effusions 10 sound money people
| which reminded me more of "A Mississippi
Steamboat mate driving roustabouts t,
their daily work than what should cha rae
tcriZe the leader of A great party roundiu.
up the cohorts into solid mass. w,
sound money men must haze "A squar,
deal. Before we go into "A free silver con
| vention the free silver men must hlnC
themselves equally 10 support the nomi
ntes OF the National democratic party
though nominated on gold platform
That we must have or wo will not homo
| logate.'
1t remains to be seen what the grea
body of the sound money democrats vii
say or do about Mr.. Dudlcy's manifesto
| of course | have been quoting only tn,