The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-01

house. ana STATE ssnat0rs md repsVsanta
lives ~ to b. CHOSEN who must send !
/ senator 10 W~shinstnn. The appeal vii
naturally be made % men 70 stand BY thu
party Ticket. from ton to bottom and tha
/ ticket must be consistent one. running
| upon I common platform. The nominee
for governor must be prepared TO defend
| the nominees for congress on National IA
snes. AZ well as TO support the State ticket
on local questions
| The requirements OF party organization
party sympathy and discipline and pariy
consistency. therefore. demand similarity
Of vIews in all the candidates upon party
ticket. 1t would be ridiculous and sui
cda1 TO place any candidate in the field
honesty to indorsc district platform and
yet rcpudiate State platform. or vice
versa And It would be an overnight for
a State platform not to contain declara-
tion OF faith az 10 issues on which Its party
nominees for congress- or candidates for
the Federal senate. wero 10 be chosen
Both expcdicncy and courage Of conviction.
therefore. demand State platform lndors-
ing the pnrty'a National platform ns we'll
ms containing pledges ais 10 local Issues.
And, of course. the nominees must be In
full sympathy with the declared rarty
fifth.
Put there ID another and special reason
beyond question. sound on the financial and
other leading National issues This reason
Us admirably set forth in the Parker Coun-
ty News. published at Weatherford. That
paper aayf:
Tho governor who Ia elected this year viii,
u he lives, hold his office for four ycare.
IN that lime, IL is tho hope of the democrats
shat free silver president and lower house
Of congress will be elected by then tho
complexion OF the United States senate may
he tho pivotal point which free coinage
must turn. and may be. MS Il usualiv Is, very
evenly divided. Senator'S like other mon.
sometimes, die and the governor Of tile state
mrnt that in 1901 the democrats should have
che president and good working silver ma
tority IN The house. With Tie In the sonata |
Oh tho cpinagc question. Suppose IN this |
CONTINGENCY one OF the Texas senators should |
die, and tho governor. for personal reasons |
holng himaelf indifferent on the coinaPo gucs- |
non should appoint some frlnnd 10 tho SON |
ate who would oppose free coinage. II win /
hn seen In 4 moment. that IN such n con-
ungency MS THIS ~ would mako all the dif- |
ference in the world how the governor Of |
TcNna stood on the question Of the free aud
Andent coinage Of both gold and silver
at the ratio Of 10 to l..
Here then we have both the abstract and
specific reasons for knowing tho position
pf qubernatorial candidates on National
issues and for plodeing them, through the
State platform. TO uphold the straight
Views In any and all cmerg
ancios that mar arise. The effort, there
ore of the Statesman and of others who
hink like IT, and who were In opposition
o the democracy In 1895, to eliminate the
,llver question from the State canvass, will
,ayc little weight with the democratic
MASSES The State convention VIII reaf-
irm tho Chicago platform, fully and ex-
'llcitly. and put only those on guard who
completely meet it's requirements.