The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-17
METHOD IN ITS MADNESS.

METHOD IN ITS MADNESS.
Dallas. Texas. January ia prominent
Paris lawyer. visiting in Dallas. who was
opposed to free coinage at l6 to 1. said
TO The Post correspondent last night
1T Is the theory OF one OF the most
famous of the criminal lawyers OF the
| United Statos--one who has made medical
| jurisprudence in connection with crimes in
Nolvlng the question OF insanity special
study-tha method is one OF tho surest in
/ dl@uons Or madness Ot course. the mad
ness involved in this theory is the mad
! ness OF insanity. and not the madness Of
malice. But that the theory can be ex-
tended to embrace the latter, recent poll
! teal events and the course Of certain poll
/ ticians and certain political newspapers has
demonstrated beyond cavil. A recent il
| lustratlon is in point.
1T Is altogether unessential to the pur-
pose In hand that one should seek to dis
cover the reason for the hostility to the
present State administration Of tho double
ended News of Dallas and Galveston. That
| II is not bnsed upon the fact that Governor
| Culherson and the heads OF tine executive
departments OF the State government have
oltuly favored free silver coinage is mani
rest Tor two reasons. the FIRST being that
the News plants its hostility upon that very
GROUND, and the other that the News. pro-
testing the purity OF It's democracy and de-
votion TO principle. openly advocated the
election OF kearby and his ticket--thnt
ticket being moro intensely silver than the
CuInerson ticket. and going so far as to
favor tile ISSUE OF fiat paper money Gull
bersou has done nor attempted to do any
,hlns mat the News has not assailed re
lcntlessly and without reason. Failing 10
marshal a respectable democratic opposi-
ton 10 the administration or it's official
record. the News. since Cuberson's re-elee-
ton by largely increased vote and ma
lority, has been eXertlng its every energy
70 discredt tho personnel OF what IL de.
lights to term uhe official family and TO
provoke party discord by false and unfair
criticism.
Take. for instance. the letter OF Its Aus
tin staff correspondent OF last Sunday. 1t
goes without saying that that gentleman
is not only the especial conhdant Of every
public man in Texas. but the custodian of
every political secret In the execution OF
his mission to thwart the schemes of the
designing official family tho aforesaid cor
respondent announces, ex cathedra. that the
administration close corporation Is bent
legislature to the interest of tho senatorial
and gubernatorial succession. le notes
tho customary hlennial presence In
Ausiin OF prominent party leaders to charge
that their only purpose liz to attach them |
selves to dscroditable lobby schemos In
order TO boost their designs upon official
place. implicitly, II not directly, he charg q |
mat tho official family has rewarded poll
teal service without regard to merit or
claim. and hy drafts upon the State treas
ury. The official family he says. will NOT |
have this legislature all to itself Neither
will 1t control the speaker nor the president
OF the senate
I'm this cfIuson the News s,aff CORE
spohdeht is not adroit enough even to shad- |
ow his real purpose--or rather the purpose |
OF the News. since its correspondents are |
authorized TO give expression only to the |
Views of the paper. II would insult the iu- |
telligcnce OF members. nineteen twentloths !
OF whom are, ana have been. in political ac-
cora with the administration. by assuming |
that its groundlcss imputations can stir up |
strife between the legislative and eXecu-
tive branches OF the government. II mag
ines that Speaker Dashiel and Lieutenant
Governor Jester are weak. silly and vain
enough to accept its suggestion that Gov
ernor Cuiherson contomp!a,es an usurpa-
Less than half dozen members OF this
legislature are IN accord with tho political
views OF the News. 1t is doubtful II there
is single democratic member returned a:
tho last election who stood with the News
in voting for goldhug Mckinley against FREQ
silver Bryan on one extreme and on the
other for nat money kearby because he was
A moro intense free silverite than Culber
SON And yet. with degree Of sanctlmoni-
OTIS impndcncc that would excite the envy
Of Mr. Pccksnin, this great double ended
daily desconds TO the trick OF manufacture
ing condition upon which II can APP cal
10 tho imaginary jealousios of members OF
The legislature.
1.-THE truth Is. the Dallas Galveston News
IS a purely business concern Its stock In
trade is hostility 10 the gubernatorlal In
oumhcut II was never known to openly
advocate the claims of a candidate for the
democratic guhernatorial nomination. aud
rom Cole TO Culherson has consistently
opposed every administration Texas has
had |, floats at It's masthead today the
announcement that II by chance tt puh-
fishes an actionable libel on n citizen It will
-etract and apologize. Yet 1t broadly
charges that distinguished citizens pre-.
umptve candidates for tho Unite1 States
senate and governor. are banging around
Austin, and aligning themselves with lobby
chcmes for no other purpose in the wolld
han TO suborn the legislature. and achieve
uceess by trick ana trcachery. II is the
BUSINESS OF the News to be mad with the
dominant wing Of the State democracy. II
6 likewise the business oi the News to eN-
rcise method In is madness. And to give |
fleet 10 It's madness 1t is the business OF
he News TO resort to any means. however
Infamous they may be"