The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-13
HOW DEMOCRATS VIEW IT.
From the washington Post.

THE END OF A USELESS FACTION"
Thus the New York Sun heads an article.
which we here reproduce, relating to the
downfall OF the cuckoo movement In Ken
lucky:
Kentucky having been carried by the
democratic party on the Chicago PLATFORM.
the Courier-Journal Of Louisville. whose
brilliant fight against Bryanite transforma-
tion OF the democratic party VIII long ne
remembered, yesterday surrendered and an
nounced that 1t Is again to be democratic.
with little dissent. perhaps, ana h''ie
remonstrance against the party DEGREES pu.
oppts ition, never! The national democratic
party of the So called gold democrats VIII
soon lose even It's name.
1.-THE republican party. the party OF pup
lie credit and conservatism. and the demo-
cratic party, of radicalism aud revolution.
whose limits are unforeseen and unfore-
seeable, divide all serious political senu-
ments in the United States. Dinerenees
of opinion must be expressed through one
or other OF these organizations. ana the
debates OF other parties. or candidates WITH
cut parties. will rank in public importance
with the prize speaking In colleges and
schools A man must be republican or q
democrat; and a democrat is a Bryanite.
| "Mugwtimls, cuckoos stuffed prophets.
| inifylng forces. and their like. take no.
| tice!"
| We do not know SO much about the
Courier Journals fight having been
| brilliant" one. In our opinion 1t was
demonstration Of party treachery and dem
ocratic folly. There was nothing brilliant
| about the INDIANAPOLIS movement OF iast
year, or about its authors and prophets and
apostles. The only honest and consistent
men who broke away from the democracy
because of the Chicago platform went into
the republican party. Those who refused
to do that, and contented themselves with
pretending to be democrats and to repre-
sent the democratic party, were mounfe-
banks and humbugs. They polled nothing
| bur crank vote, and succeeded only in
making themselves ridiculous.
| We quite agree with the Sun. however
| when 1t proclaims the disappearance In
Kentucky. at least. of this absurd and pes
| tiferous faction, and we heartily congrat-
ulate Kentucky upon SO halcyon consum-
nation. There has not been In the whole
history CT American politics so offensive
and deplorable a chapter as that which
records the impudent pretensions and
abominabe mischief making OF these So
called national democrats" They have
been National nuisances and charlatans.
and all right minded men will rejoice when
they are snubbed and dlscredited and set
aside.
From the Memphis Commercial Appeal
Y. JACK. REPUBLICAN. Our prefer
naturally sapient contemporary, the New
York Press, has made the discovery that
Yellow Jack is good American democrat;
but we must take issue with the Press for
it is demonstrable beyond the possibility
from tt,. III
that the introduction of the Yellow Fever
into this country this year is due to the
Dingley bill
In the first place the republicans claim
that prosperity has been restored by tbe
plhgley tariff AS the deficit during the
iirst four months of the fiscal year has
been over S3S 900 900 it is eyiden that pros-
PETTY mas not been restored by making the
expenses equal the receipts of the gov
ernment. 1t is also evident that nrosne,itv
mas not come through 5-cent cotton. Such |
prosperity as the country has had is I'M |
questlonably due to the wheat cron. Dut |
uhusr normal conditions it is evident that |
'"rse wheat crop means a low price of |
80 Renee by simply creating large |
crop tne Dingley tarf bill could net have
solved the problem. We are perfectly will |
i rlg 10 accept the republican view that Mr.
Dingley legislated cereal plenty into ex.
lstence. We admit that the republican |
party produced the great wheat crop This
~" ever necessitates certain supplement-
"a! penels without shortage abroad our
wheat would have been an elephant ON o,,r
hands and we can readily SEQ that ME-
Diheley work WAS not done So be waved I
MS miraculous hands. made the necessary
u.oult passes, and there was a shortage in
Europe famine in Ireland famine In India
NOW II follows that If the Dingley tariff
-. 20, iespohslpie for the great wheat crop in
tnis country and the shortage abroad. to-
sether with the famine in India and Ire.
laa'' II Is responsible likewise for the great
.u.ton crop with it's low price. for tbe
urouth this fall. for the Cuban war and
lasuy ior the yellow fever The policy of
On ntnation IN Cuba. together with the
a, nas.a.ion, ana the extension Of unsani-
,ary conditions has greatly encouraged ~.
Iever Then 1t Is supposed thai ,bs so,,a
was introduced into this country nv some
~ ureents who came to Ocean Springs
= 'n.n ,ne republican party is the reguja
~ VI the sun. moon and stars; II II Is
~ . VI tue seasons and sultan of the tides.
,d,,o goa OF the winds and managing I
'uitor OF the weather: il it causes crons
y grow here and blights them vonder. r.
u snor.. IL Is Ceres. Aeolus. Jupiter Tonons ,
lhu faAas Athene, all rolled into one ~ :
y lotiows' as the night the day. that Yeiion,
"eh is good republican ,
M .'neT Iact pears out our contention j
emnt.s. r'sllations from Yellow Jack the \
0 vS ,C-o mas 4n ever had were in 1867. 1874
~, na ress-L9, and the republicans were in
, n noua curing those years Just as they are
y power today AS a matter az eaot VI,
ow JACK never feels at home in this conn
~ I'M aha h any other than republican re-
ne n aena we repeat that instead of be-
TX COED democrat. he is a membsr T.,
ooa standing CT the republican party. - c
rom the Louisville Dispatch,
~. "i'Nr IL MbANs.-Tuesdays victory a
vas stunning blow to the administrators II
.u a glorious vindication Of the posr,ion h
49, 's'ic party on the Issues pre- a
, ~ the Chicago platform of 1896 o
i,,", sn'ieah' OF the strong trend of po- a
'ueah opinion. and it foreshadows ~ L
aerwheiming success OF the democracy =,
$40 ana In 1900. The administration would
U uouDt Profit by II If II ,o,,,s