The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-17
GIBBS ON THE RESULT
Don't Look for Much from the Populist
Party Hereafter.
WANTS 4 GOVERNMENT BY INDEPENDENTS
II IL Rumored Gibbs, Kenrby and
Tracy win Announce Allegiance
TO Democracy In SIX Months.

Dallas, Texas, November 16.--For tn,
! first time in his life Barnett Gibbs today
announced that no would not talk He had
just returnea homo from his ranch a,
Grapevine, wlerc he has been stopping
since the late election. The muisiller chief
, tain. the brightest leader TEXAS populsnl
ever knew. takes things philosophically.
After dlsposing OF the mail that had ac-
oumu,ated at his Office during his absence
from town. he turned cheerily on The Post
correspondent aud despite his assertion
that he would not talk discussed the cleo
tion and politics of all kinds for half
hour.
II never had any idea I'd be elected"
he said but wanted to stir the boys up
and have some fun, and did. The election
in Texas reminds me of an experience l
had back in Mississippi when l was boy
on the farm went out one day with one
OF my fathers old negroes and yoke Of
oxen. We came to steep hill ana the
off steer baked. He wouldn't bulge an
inch
g Twist his tail, joe l said TO the oil
he was out of breath, but it did no good
That old COW stood there like a rock.
Young marster Joe said. looking up
AT me, dis yere steers tails been twisted
till II don't Inconvenience him d-n biz
What Joe said of that old steer seems to
be true of the people of Texas That's the
moral the election points to me. 1t is un-
a., ~. thn
position OF tho steer and the democratic
party takes old Joe's role.
II don't look for much from the popullst
party hereafter. To tell the truth, ] ain
no more of n popullst than / am dem
ocrat. There are some things ks both par
Ties that l like and some things in both
parties | dislike. What I'd like to see in
State and country by independents. be-
lleve the next organized movement against
The Texas democracy WIN be by an inde-
pendent party and / believe my relief rail-
road proposition will be a leading plank III
the independent platform
I'm the country at large the republicans
seem to have treated the democrats mucn
Texas popuGsts. / guess the thing was
eyened up. But ] am out of the political
business now am tired of saving the
going to save Gibbs here
alter"
These are significant words in any con-
nection. Especially do they look full OF
meaning when compared with reports going
nall
The Post correspondent was told today mat
within six months Gibbs, jerome G. Kearby
and even Harry Tracy Will announce their
return to the democratic party. II is said,
and on good authority, that uaese three,
Milton Park and other leading North Texas
populists have held a conference since the
election that grew warm, indeed. 1t is re-
lated that Gibbs declared he was sick and
.lred and disguised with the populist party
and meant TO get out Of it and take every |
me he could with him. Tracy and Kearby |
sided with Gibbs, but Park demurred and |
, wordy war followed The caucus ended |
with all but Park, it is said, resolved TO |
,ome back TO their old democratic home.
Park "cussed" democracy. and said he
le knew how
This story came from one who says he
vas there. an entirely reputable man. and
s generally believed by all who have heard
I. These men know they have been in
sinking ship, that the populist party Is
lead and damned and are only showing
something of the intelligence with which
hey are accredited when they want to
cave it to its fate. Gibbs wanted to come
,ack TO democracy last spring, as was told
II The Post at the time, but the hope OF
ffice that springs eternal in his breast,
anne UP before MIN and lured him on to
he Austin populist convention against his
ober judgment. He wants 10 reform"
through THE democracy now, and will seek
he first favorable opportunity to gather
lear the old hearthstone and tell his
ioubles to men who admire him despite his
agaries and political shortcomings.