The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-14

cotton should have voted for the repub
lican cand adaite, approving thereby bounty
to sugar planters, and to the republican
candidate individually of l and 95-10o OF a
cent on every pound produced, a prosec-
tive duty on the bagging and ties used
to market his 4-cent cotton and a pro-
hibitive duty on the Importation of salt, and
compelling him in each instance to pay
prices made artificially high by legisla-
ton. Nor was it for want of warning, for
Judge Robson forcibly Illustrated such
farmers condition by telling Of the Texas
republican farmer, who, finding himself
in hell and not coming across any others OF
his kind, at length asked his majesty II
he had no republican farmers, whereupou
the devil taking him to a remote part of
his domain, pointed TO row hung up by
their heels over a slow fire, and in response
to the prayer that they might be thrown
into the fire with the balance and spared
this needless cruelty, replied: 'Oh, no!
lney are so green tney have to be kiln
dIteil before they will burn
That the Galveston merchant, whose In
terest lies in building up an import trade,
who can not otherwise reap the advantage
tc his port OF the deep water that has been
obtained there at cost of S7,000.o00
to the nation. or of inter Oceanic traffic
through the NicaragUan canal, should vote
for republicans representative specially
devoted to the beauties of a system OF tax
That the Galveston ship agent, who
charters foreign vessels to come to CAL
weston, should vote for republican rep
resentatiye who advocates a policy of re-
straint and prohibition against impos.s
compelling him TO bring vessels over in
water ballast while paying freight both
ways.
That the Galveston railroad man should
vote for the representative OF policy of
taxation on imports SO high rs either alb
soiutely to prohibit or largely limit the
importation of those products Of foreign
countries that would give him return
FIRE. gbts for his cotton and grain cars, and
thus erisih.e him TO compete In his tariff
on cotton and grain with the lines to the
Eastern seaboard.
That any citizen of Galveston, laborer or
other whose future depends on his indus
try and intelligence. should vote against a
eounii money policy based on the
frat will sustain and maintain an
equilibrium between The prices Of
labor and its products and the value of gold
and silver, and will by the greater album
darce of sound money infuse life and con-
fdence into new industries and enterprises,
and vote for gold monometalist who
knows no more Of tie use of monetary sta
tlstics than to speak of all the coined gold
in the country as money in circulation
(when at least third Of it Is absolutely
withdrawn by the treasury and bank and
private hoarding), no more than TO at
tribute any increase of the per capita 10
Tie insignificant increase of S4,0oO,000 in
production, when due in fact to payment
for our excess of exports, arising mainly
from the high price received for wheat on
account of its failure in other countries OF
export.
That a Galveston politician should be of
such small mental caliber as not to see that
whatever honesty there may have been in
the claim of two years ago that the Chicago
convention did not represent the democracy
and that the party had been betrayed by
1T leaders. becomes dhamefully dishonest
defense for political apostacy by one who
votes for q republican representative In
congress when the American people, after
an exhaustive campaign CT education
against all the Establishments OF wealth
and power. have affirmed that platform
with unparalleled enthusiasm by vote
CT $500, 900.
The moral Indignation of the Galveston
merchant who voted for the republican can
didate at the suggestion that democratic
legislature and State government and an
Otherwise Solid democratic delegation in
col gress may not be disposed to embrace
with enthusiasm the various projects that
may be submitted for their action as in the
interest OF Galveston, when his own polit-
sicaI action was confessedlv not only not
directed by political princinle. but contrary
to protested political tendencies and rest
inE only on the low gro,inif that ire can1i-
date belonged to TIER Glass" was their
brother merchant and being a republican
would. under republican administration
be better able to secure appropriations In
their interest.
That the republican candidate should
have been able successfully to urge hts own
support independent Of party without show
ing or even protesting such independence
himself Had the democratic candidate been
ypptipg in character or capacity, surh a
claim might still be allowed. but neither
was the case, nor was 1t so charged.
II will be appropriate for the white people
~ Inc Senegambian counties whose CONF
dence the merchants Of Galveston iAave be-
trayed to send TO the first legislature thaf
Ssau assemble after the census Of 1900 a
netition praying to be delivered from their
tender mercies. titizsh.