The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-20
The FIGHT ON LEADER BAILEY

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ing hasr-ra.sing editorials ON him and ms
Leadership OF tire minority on the tlo0r a ~.
all cf them are predicting his deiea' ~
the same position in the next aouse.
The wish is father 10 tho prediction.
They want him defeated because they
don't like aiis brani OF democracy. 1t Is 100
| democratic foa them and they want man
| in the position Of lsader wao Is a trimmer
on all party questions and one whom Vnes
oan either c1jole or bulldoze into uo'nh
! things after the fashion OF the effctc East
They have got no use for sure enough
stiaight-out. Incorporating democrat
and one that bows to the line ana ire
| quentIy sends chip In Their dlreeV'Un
with more velocity than courtesy.
| have said any number OF times that the
| Egsa is going to seek TO control the des
TIMES of the democratic party, TO donll-
! nate it's policies uni endeavor to gran inc
next National convention and tell the
/ West and the South to take run ana
| jump TO l,ades That is the game ana ehey
are beginning It carly.
They have tackled Bailey because ne Is
the most conspicuous figure in the demo
| ocnatic party except William j. Bryan
| Because he stands for every true oenio-
| cratic principle the majority Of whio0 are
obnoxious to the plutocratic tendcncies Vi
| the East.
Everybody here seems to think tnat
| Balley's name is mud" simply because
they read nothing but the Eastern papers
and consequently nouHiug but vicious az
tacks Oh him.
They are mistaken. These attacks on
Bailey will help rather than in1ure hlin
in his ambition to succeed himself as 'he
leader of the minority on the floor OF the
house These attacks all come from goli-
bug sources, with the exception OF the New
| York Journal, which viii stand for croker
| ism in 1900. whatever that nsy be- and OF
the Washington Times, which is democrat
| ic SO far "a the Chicago platform Is con
| cerned but Is such rampant anneNa-
zionist that it can not brock the idea OF
refusing to grab everything in sight re-
gardless of the responsibility of governing
| millions of semi -barbarous people involved
| in the proceeding. 1t also mas an oiu
grudge against Bailey that it wants to even
up by defeating, If possible, his ambition.
Now what will be the result of all this
bitbsr Eastern opposition to Bailey? 1t VIII
suggest at once to the Western and South
| ern democrats in the next house that there
is combination OF Eastern or goldbug in
fluence 10 grab the leadership from the
true democrstso element ami shove the
Chicago platform and the fight on the Ma
| tional banks into the background and
pitch the key Of the democratic tune on
| tariff expansion or some other issue, thus
multiplying all the good accomplished by
democratic education in the past two years
| This, the WEST and South will not stand.
Members from those two sections who
love democratic principles better than in
dividuals will get together. They will make
| individual preference subordinate TO prin-
cple and concentrate on the strongest man.
MIR. Bailey ia by far the strongest man in
the race from the West or South and he
will receive an united support because
democracy will be asserting the first law
Of nature-self- preservation.
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Bailey will win, not only because he is
the best equipped man intellectually, but
because he is constantly growing stronger
personally with members OF congress when
they come 10 know him we'll. A man must
know Bailey well in order to become his
warm personal friend. lie has overcome
certain brusqueness OF manner THAT was
offensive to many men; he is NOT now so
uHcompromislng except as to principle and
has got over thinking that man is his
mortal enemy because he honestly opposes
his ideas. Those were all things that mill
tated against Baileys personal popularity,
AID l can testify that they are all mats
rally mltigated and practically eliminated
from his personality and mental makeup.
Observation, experience, contgct with the
world and with many men have broadened
Bailey wonderfully have smoothed off tho
angles, rubbed off the rough edges until he
is now IN my opinion and the opinion OF
many Others better able to Judge than /,
the most polished intellectual diamond in
the congressional arena,
His superior mental equipment over those
who VIII probably oppose him as candi-
dates for the caucus nomination is con-
coded by even some of his bitterest oppo-
nents. They are fighting him solely on ac-
count of his old-fashloned democracy
what they are pleased TO term his bourbon
| ism, and many of them know naught of the
meaning OF the word bourbon, except as an
piled to something you can get out OF a
jug and into jag.
The critics OF MIR. Bailey's leadership ON
Che floor of the house during the last se.-
/ sion of the present congress are neither
honest nor fair. They want scapeyea,
upon whose shoulders to lay the blame for
defeat this fall and have picked out Bailey
as a likely-looblng victim. They forge,
that. under Ba!ley's leadership last snrinr
40 minority Farty In congress in time a,
war ever got out with 50 few scratchas an,
with such whole hide as the demoe,,t,
party, aud that u few more such yicio,i..
as this just won by the republicans .,v1,
rip that party from waistband collar h,,-
ton. They forget that Mr.. Bailey never On.
en- his feet during the last session 30 a.,
gress. when engaged ia controversy w,a
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