The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-25
AFTER THE vANDERn1I1rs.
The beimonts Have Started Funn,

The BelmoDts Have Started II Funn
Paper Nviih nm object.
New York. December 22.-Oliver H. p
Belmont is the latest Richmond to ente
the field of journalism. He comes wit
s"ord unsheaIhed, and his mission is part.
ly social, and will be seen later on.
Mr.. Belmont is The proprietor and editor
OF new weekly illus rated paper, Iar.
termed alter Puck and Judge, called TN,
lendici," uae first numDer of which ha.
just been issueu.
The real power behind the throne, how.
ever, Is Mis-. belmont, who. it VIII be- re-
hismbered, ob,ained a divorce MON VIII
!am Ia Vanderbilt several years ago unual
sensational CIRCUMSTANCES. The altitude
OF me Verdict toward uhe Vanderbilt lam
ily rs evidenced by the leading cartoon IA
The fiist number of the paper This car
toon shows Cannelius Vanderbilt as an or
gan grinder with j. P!erpont MORAN
stanuD1s alongside with d ,ambourine In
one hand and string in the other At
tached TO the surng is moakey, bearing
the face of Chauncey NJ. Depew. The me~ !.
Key is looking up At Thomas c. Plat, who
leans from q window w!uh a penny In his
hand isibeled "Senatorship."
referring editorially to the Vanderbits
and DIR, Depcw, the paper says;
As becomes wealth that Is wide awake
and aware Of itself. The Vanderbltiau
Treasure enlisted an army of footmen, but-
lers and Wallets. Among its front rank
door slammers was and IS Depew. t5e
candidate for senatorial honors"
Mr.. Belmont is member OF the banking
firm of August Belmont * Co Alfred
Henry Lewis Is the active editor of TIE
Verdict, but the saluta;ory Is the huni-
work of the owner. The following decla-
ration of policy is madey
In politics The Verdict will stand for
the principles OF democracy, as II under
stands them, and for truth, as the latter
finds display. It Will. bafOre an election,
care more ror man thfn u measure. II
Will read list OF candidates twice before
II reads your platform once The Verdict
will be a democrat. But no one need col-
strue that to mean that 1t will support a
bad nan for place.
This paper Is against free silver l6 10 /:
put pin there--Ngainst free silver at any
ratio 1t Is not for Bryan in 1900. 1t will
10 all that truth ana honor may TO prevent
the selection OF either the man or the
issue IN the next National convention. But
there are worse things than free silver IS
TO l. and worse men than Bryan. who is
himself worthy enough and comes Only to
be menace rs the exponent Of free silver;
and The Verdict is free to saw, as t stands
on the threshold OF an existence which
shall at the worst be an. honest one, that
should Bryan and free silver again find
democratic adoption, Vt will support them
both.
The Verdict favo-s an in@me tax, as
measure at once h,nest fair. equal and
ius; % all. An Income tax is as direct as
3 hrl'et
Those trade deadtalls end dollar trars.
The trusts, The Verdict believes. Fhorld he
smashed. Thev make the rich richer and
the roar rooror. The locusts OF Egypt
we're a niouthisss brood 70 them. On half
me streets of New York City the citizen
Is no better than n tolerated trespasser.
while tho telepho1e ari TELEGRAM and
street RAILWAYS ere the true. real lords
II the soil. Such should hive their claws
cut nni tNe manlcur'rg should be short
md sharp and gone about at once"