The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-09
Mr.. BARNEY GIBBS TALKS
He Replies TO Critics and Hits 0ut
Straight.
lie IS AFTER THE OLD PARTIES.
Foruii,,s Can No, BE Worse and Should
he Given the Ben-fi OF The Doubt.
1t Means Fight
Dallas News, January s


/ democrats all over Texas we're dlssatizae
( WIKI the present order OF things and In
/ different 20 party primaries, was published
/ n The News. there have been numerous
I criticisms al his expense and much com.
men; OF ths views he expressed. A repre-
sentative OK the News yesterday called en-
/ Air Gibbs to see what he had- g. sa,
( abou, it. lie expressed hirsel. as fol-
( lows:
1t used 70 be that a democratic plat.
I form was no longer than the ten COM
( uarHwerts and as easy Of cou1preh eusion.
! Nov il takes Roger Q. Mills ana Horace
( Chiffon two hours each 10 tell : crowd
2 wha. & .s, ard when they got through
ia4kinC the eldest democrats are AS badly
fiiS-l IS K they had been alternating bs.
{ tween eret and red liqu1r. Mills SAYS that
/ gold vlth just q litts silver mixed In
. makes j mocracy. Chiffon says that Mills
I IS wrong, that democracy consists Of an
i al1latttc instead 81 a homeopathic dose
+ 90 silver. W hitch IS the right prescription
4 ior dtmQcrais7 They dlnsr on the size
/ 81 the dose. Which VIII SM OF cure9
/ WheE it comes TO the tariff, Cleveland and
I Nls think that ii is democratic for the
( men. women and children who herd sheep
and roundup cattle to do this in the teeth
] % the rcr.her and the competition Of the
( world tut that 1t is also democratic for
/ cory 7ratons who manufacture wooden
/ goods and shoes in big brick buildings TO
( have - ger cent protection
"Qld Bll Morrison Of the old line demo-
I Gratis was retired to a soft i3h on the in
( ter-iate commerce commission because he
/ Thought the tariff ough, to be on
/ strictly revenue basis, and while 4 was
/ getting there that all should have the
same amount of protection. he did not
! believe that the sheep and cattle indus
| tries ~ the south and West. pursued hy
/ Individuals for a livelihood, should zoe laid
! OUT go hold The campaign fund and votes
/ Of Eastern corpora tons. They Killed old
( Morrison and She fact that he was choKed
( 10 death ~ soft official butter doesn't fool
/ a man ~ ,he forks Of the creek
! eve know that republication stands for
/ pro.' Use tariff al extrayaEant appro-
J priauaus every day In the week and sun
/ day. too We know that IL stands for DIG
( pensions 20 the rich. when Texas looking
! TO the condition OF those who had 10 pas
! pensions 20 us grand veterans. provided
( that who're one Of these heroes was worth
more tEap sip0 that he should draw no
( pension, ana those grand veterans left out
/ frcn reasons OF Justice and equity. never
| complained. When the democrats had con-
gr,as they never had the nerve to pass
such an amendment to the pension law
! o. the J1tei states. bus Left the coun-
/ try O. pay more than one-haif of the I'M
~. r4 "a, - -
'-' guy .-' ~ ~ IN We tool
| rv~i'' t"' -"o NC. Ol tl''9 ~ SUI MONEY
n urln', fe,s "a ho1 'alhIe ms ana
o'i.er u.A"-'ts, A"eSes u suNtl n'nrht oe-
eause ul.S Wahlea 20 W.u WIN hcas'eril
votes ana se' appoiN'1'e4's 10 ier.ieu
missions ana "1her iat oihae7. IN ther
eANletF 20 set ana hoid oIhce 'heY nave
H~IV pi'liorl's AlC 'g.I @.'i-l' 'ecot. rs
tnat 'oqK rs oaa ana contradictory as some
old wonan's crazy quilt made OF rags just
as they cono % nand. Free per iumery
and taxed WOO! hats is more iu1itroua
political sight ana smells worse 70 an
educated political nose than the oft-ridi-
cled populat pumpkin In the government
/ sub-treasurY. \ man wanting office may
/ swallow al nausoain all his hybrid tariff
and financial polyparous jost as child
/ VIII take sheep suafHe tea when he has
the hellyache. The democracy now dished
out by the lers has as many ingredients
as Rio Grande hash, hat the smell Of Off
clal garlic Is tie only distinctive quality
whether II is Horr OF Clark hash, OF
cleveland and Mills hash. The receipt for
making this hash is so complicated that
even our governor understands II one way
the day before and another way the day
after TIN. uncertainty OF what cousti.