The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-09
LEADING EDITORIALS.
From the Denver Post
SILVER Tie address which a


ganization Of their patty. Will be received
with enthusiasm in gme directions and
with doubt In others The action was
undoubtedly the outcome OF necessity.
Even those who stool rather closely In
the councils OF the boiling repuoiicaus
were somewha. at sea as to their own po-
titcal status. They had definitely iett
the old republican patty as exemplitied by
Mark Hanna and ahIor Mckinney. CIR
cumstances In the last campaign had
thrown them into Gfiliations with the
democratic party AMI under the Bryan
banner, they had dore faithful and con-
spicuous service. le this leader haSinS
been defeated they bund they were still
as little democrats as they had been before
events threw them out OF alliance with the
republican party. and while they had for
once worked in the ranks OF the democrats,
they naturally could have no voice in the
party management unless they openly al
lied themselves Will that organization
This many OF them we're not prepared TO
do. In, this contingency nothing was lett
for them but to organize as an independ-
ent party or to fall INTO dissatisfied help
lessness.
They have. therefor, decided to organ
lie and 10 perfect n new political tarty
based upon the single theory OF currency
reform, the old time republican ideas OF
vidual than an officiil sense. 1t Is quite
evident that this step was taken only at
ter the most careful thought. SO far rs the
future Is concerned the value OF this step
Will entirely depend upon the ideas which
govern the new Organization. Organization
OF itself is very advantageous from the
! standpoint Of official expressions aud con-
centration in every desired direction. The
unorganized body which has been known as
the silver republican party in the last Ma
tional campaign showed itself capable Of
the highest patriotism when 1t not only
accepted two candidates OF a party with
which II had always been in opposition, but
gave TO them an earnest. hearty and sin
cere support which could not fail to pro-
woke tho most favorable comment. If the
same principles are stl to govern the or
ganizcd party and those who compose 1t
are still determined TO sink every consd-
Grafton In the good of the silver cause, we
can SEQ that this step Will prove OF in
estimahle benefit to the struggling people
Of the country.
Organization under such circumstances
as these would mean much in bringing
about the reforms which are so eagerly de-
sired and SO necessary TO the welfare of the |
country. 1t is therefore 10 be welcomed. |
FOR as a way was found year ago to bring |
all the silver forces OF tho country, differ |
ing in many things Int united in this, |
Into harmonious and enthusiastic support |
Of a single leader. we take it that some |
thing similar will again be possible and the |
result through more effective organization. |
which will help TO disseminate the gospel |
OF truth. may bring about victory which, |
under the circumstances. seems to have |
been impossible to attain last fall.
From the New Orleans States.
ANOTHER STEP On the morning of the
IN THE birthday of George |
DOWNWARD Washington the letter
PATH. OF Governor Bushnell |
Of Ohio announcing his intention to
appoint Mr.. Mark Hanna to fill
the vacancy In the United States
senate on the appointment of Senator John
Sherman, by President elect Mckinley to
be secretary of State was given to the
country. This appointment of the biggest |
hess in the United States. and most cor
rupt politician In American politics to the |
United States senate will sharply mark |
the descent of the United States senate |
from the time OF Washington, When ii was
justly recognized as perhaps the ablest |
body of statesmen and patriots In the |
world. down TO its present depth of degra- |
dalton, when 1t has become the fecbest |
the most corrupt and infamous deiberativc |
body that was ever entrusted with the |
legislation OF great and free people
We do not we'll see how the senate can |
now sink lower In the scale OF deliherative |
bodies. The blackguard Tillman has been
member OF It. The anarchist Altgeld. no |
doubt not without reason. asprcss to Its /
honor. Mark Hanna is Row TO become II 5 |
master spirit, and to the high and states
manlikc orations OF Calhoun Benton, Clay. |
Webster and their illustrious compeers |
have succeeded the demagogic rawlings OF |
Blackburn, the ferocious jngcism of Nor |
gan, Lodge, Bin Chandler and Vance, and |
even the most careful reader OF the Con- |
Tessional Record, through a whole session. |
viii scarcely find single passage OF a |
single speech that rises In dignity, clio |
quenco and craftsmanship above the Cheap
seek sibberish. pasquinades and diatribos
OF hack-woods stump speaker.
MARK Hanna 8 accession TO its mem
bership viii oaly add to it's degreda-
Ton. This man has not a single quail |
hcation OF the legislator. He has no pre-
tensions to craftsmanship: he has neither
cultivation nor experiences he has no ac-
quaintance with public affairs except as a
monopolst and extortionist. He owes his |
prominence solely to his success as cor
ruptonist, and as u public man he is as
base an emauation OF ring politics as the |
witches OF Macbeth were OF the DEVILS cal
dron.
Governor Bushnell, we are told made !
inc appointment Of Hanna reluctantly. as
he desired to possess himself OF tho "a
oancy. But the republican party required n |
man like Hanna! a controller of trusts: an |
organizer OF immense combinations of cor
ruption and corruptionists and a builder I'm |
Of schemes of tariff robbery. Such master |
OF corruption is worth n million votes TO
mo rotten and debased republican PARTY |
ana he was necessary TO complete the dogs
rotation Of that party. Governor Busn- |
hells obedience to his masters order to |
appoint this invaluable man TO the senate.
therefore, Will, in the end, rebound to the |
reputation, If not the glory of the supple |
Ohio governor.
We all remember the story Of Herostra-
tus, tho fellow who fred the glorious tetn |
PIE or Diana at Ephesus only that his |
name might be made immortal by idenii |
hcation with the destruction OF the most
beautiful temple OF the Greeks. The in |
rondiary fully realized his ambition. GOV |
ernor Bushnell will not be gratifed with |
the possession Of the senatorshlp himself. |
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