The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-06
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FALSE PROPHETS or TROUBLE.

The conflict which Ii now going on between
certain distinguished leaders of the demo-
crate party and around whom arc being mr.
raycd their respective friends and adhercnts,
and tho chickering's that are being INDUCED In,
nrc evidences that what. was once grand
old party and that had done SO much excel
lent work under Jefferson Madison. jackson.
Monroe, Polk and the rest is dsintegratng
an. AMI giolng f. pieces by the intcrnocine war
tho democratic leader In the house, Hon Joe
Bailey. on the one Side and the goyereor-
eject OF TonnesSaa, lion. Benton McMilii,, are
at secl violent war with each other that they
arc calling very ugly names. and SO ugly that
pers, hallties may have to be followed by per-
scnos conflict And then comes Editor Hearst
OF the New York Journal, who is firing his
iuslladcs into the bailey wing. And then @e
hive the Ill feeling between Bryan aud son
utor AIIep, Ana 30 on to the end OF the list.
Dallas Times Herald
Such comment ns the above is simply
amusing. II looks like a case of hunting
trouble for the democracy and Is, possibly.
another instance Of the wish becoming
daddy to the conclusion.
If we once established the fact that the
clash Of personal ambitions. or personal
dfsapDolntments, within party. or even
the divergence OF personal views on many
questions, were evidence of the "disintegra-
ton" and going to pieces" of a party we
should not find any strong. aggressive
political organization holding together for
year--for these things are common and
perpetual
That Mr. McMillin's head became sore
when Bailey beat him for the democratic
leadership OF. the house. and that he and
his friends have since been throwing every
possible obstacle in the Texans way. is no
more an indication that the democratic
panty Is engaged in "internecine war" than
that the enmlty between Foraker and
Hanna presages the destruction of the re-
publican party or that republican oppose
| ton a few years ago to Reed for speaker
meant the "disintegration" OF the rnpub-
ican organization.
There have been no more intensely bitter
personal and factional contests in any po-
| lltical party than those that have occurred
| inside the republican organization within
the past ten years. The party has, how
ever, not only not gone to pieces, but
| appears to have thrived on the inferno
| cine strife II anything could have dis
rupted tho eemocratic party the bold deser r
tuns from it's ranlcs in 1896 would have
accomplished such disaster. but the de-
| lection left the organization more compact,
moro homogeneous and more enthusiastic
than ever
There are not only now no indications OF
"dislntegratlon,' but the democracy is alb
solutely free from factional disturbances.
To magnify the natural rivalry between
democratic chicftains for leadership into
evidence of party decay Is supremely
ridiculous, and could come only from a
source utterly hostile to the democracy
nv this same reasoning every fight for a
party nomination, every clash of personal
ambitions would he the sure indications
OF party ''dsutegration,
1t Is almost a waste OF time TO answer
such n proposition as we have quoted. but
tho enemies OF the regular democracy are
so persistent in their use OF this KIND OF
twadde that it is perhaps we'll enough oc-
casionally to point out their ill-disgu'sel
motives The democratic party Is depend-
ent upon no mans fortunes for either It's
perpetulty or it's vgor, and IL in AS excel
lert fighting trim at present as at any time
| In its history