The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-17
HOT TIME ANTICIPATED.
.sablicsus Are Now Involved In a
Magnificent Dlscord.
VERY LEADER HAS SOME FOLLOWERS
|. There Are Several Ambitious
leaders There Are Likely 10 he
several Pieces of Party.

chairman T.. H. r. Green to meet in
: city Of Dallas on Tuesday, October 10.
~ Indications are that that day will be
smorable in the history Of Texas re-
,blcanism. Every thought from those
Xiv appraised Of the situation leads an
bulder to believe that October 10 will
day Of dramatic political climaxes and
artling surprises
There is little doubt. to begin with, but
lat the hungriest, angriest horde of Texas
An be here. All parts of the State and all
etions will be represented. They are
oming with pot hooks and axes and scalp
II knives all the way from Red river to
hck and tans and lily whites will be
ere In warlike abundance. every one log
bling for an office and eager to throttle
hose who would like the same Job.
old veterans who have been attending
e1as republican conferences for years
redict the coming pow-wow will be a
hade hotter than anything even the Texas
ontlngent of the 6. o. p. ever put up
etore. 1t is not alone the clans of Green
nd Grant who will be ready to fly at
ach others throats, but there will be
Hawley adherents and Marshall supporters
nd Ogden hackers and Clifford admirers,
III anxious to see that every other leader
roasted and fricasseed to state Of de-
Ightful inactivity.
To an observant democrat 1t looks like
be clans OF Green will require less
reckoning with than those Of any Of the
barty moguls. Chairman Green has been
b intent in his manifest purpose of war;
ling on DR.. John Grant that he has not
kept an eye on his own forces. While he
bas been trying to crush the Sherman
nan his own men have been rebelling and
)ssertlng. He has used the same methods
of running Texas republicanism he en-
bloys in running the Texas Midland rail-
Dad. He has given peremptory orders and
has expected men to obey them. He has
sed the bludgeon when the rapier would
bave been more effective. The plain truth
old about the result must be that he has
&lienated many Of his former supporters
from himself. He and his faction are weak
fr today than at any time since he was
made State chairman at Fort Worth
little over a year ago.
More than one prominent Dallas repub-
can. foreseelng the Inevitable end, is
predicting that Chairman Green will re-
fign at or after the committee meeting in
October and let politics go to perdition.
The Post correspondent has suspected
What the republicans are now prophesying
Pr weeks. The query: Does Chairman
Green intend to resign?" was asked his
political secretary, Major w. M. O'Leary.
yesterday. O'Leary is very loyal to Green.
He hooted such an idea. Yet there are
many things much more improbable than
Green's resignation.
The Post is the only Texas paper that
has kept up with the Texas republicans.
n has told Of the Green Hawley fracas
Pyer the North Texas marshalship and Of
Fhe yawning gulf that has been dug be-
tween Green and Eugene Marshall.
Marshall has managed all Of Green's
politics for him. Marshall's is skilled
band In political manipulation. Green be-
came painfully impressed with this fact
purng the recent negro republican caucus
Pm Dallas. In that meeting Green wanted
pin Mcdonald to run things with ease.
Marshall made w. e. King of Dallas
Fight Mcdonald. Marshall engineered the
|king programme and Green and Mcdonald
were downed. That started GOODNESS be-
Tween Green and the chairman of his ad-
Fsory board that ended In Marshalls
declaration that Green and his faction
might go TO purgatory SO far as he was
concerned.
me Post correspondent told Marshall
iast night that he (MarshalD would soon
JON forces with DR.. Grant and help re-
''ganize the party in the State. Marshall
smiled significantly, but vouchsafed no
answer.
chairman Green has done his utmost to
"eeu out all anti-Green men from the
su,ire state organization. He has beheaded
,,ounly and district chairmen right and
. r lie swung the guillotine blade and
cocii A. Lyon, G. NJ. Ferguson and other
, msnt men dropped from the State COM
All these will present themselves on
, uv'oper IL for admittance into the room
~, The State committee meets II adj
.a,ssioh Is denied them, which is consid-
nv certain. they will, in all likelihood.
ANU ah meeting of their own, elect State
a.. man and open the war on Green In
~. au earnest. This course is being advised
~ ~ ureen's opponents and it will prob
NY ny De adopted. The split in the de-
, ~ last year was as childish quar-
,ba compared with the strife that will
Aen ensue.
.nere is practically double republican
me ni%ation in the State already. There
M De three or four after the October
rs,,t One thing is an assured fact. the
~. ny IN Dallas next month will be red
H. number. One year ago the 6. o. p.
n, Iexas gave promise of doing some
~. Now 1t Is the worst split body on
~, rr continent. There is nothing they agree
NJ ssn' oh October IL its dissensions will
NJ. msde manifest to the world. They can
ns eject a county chairman inside their
M. party. They will not be able to do
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