The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-23
THE DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK.
tBY C. A. EDwARDs.)

Washington. October 2o.--(S,aff Specially
No- In four years has there been among
1emocratsc leaders and party workers here
In Washington so sanguine a feeling over
the outlook for the next election as now
Inc rooms OF the democratic corgression~
al campaign committee on Thirteeuth
street are every day full of busy people
elener holding earnest consultations or
haIn at IT supplying campaign literature,
instructions, appeals to party PRIDE warn
i'es aud predictions Of certain triumph
with a half-wuy effort to do duty at the
polls.
~ Ndoes democratic soul good TO go
there. The boys are working nobly and with
tremendous energy. They have been re-
oeiving comforting news from every al
feeton. Victory camps in The smiling
eheeks OF all OF them. And a whole lot OF
Tie cheerful appetite for achievement has
nesn inspired by Secretary James Kerr,
former clerk Of the house and once rep
fesentatlve from ore OF the most important
industrial districts OF Pennsylvania. And
oiess his heart he Is as loyal democrat
as any that ever stood by the people--in
Texas or any other part of Gods soil where
democrats are Indigenous. practical
business man, who Is an employer OF hun
dress OF working men, he Is ever aptly APP
precmtiye OF the neetis OF the unpretent Gus
and always an outspoken champion of their
rights. He has taken hold OF the work Of
the committee in a most admirable man.
ner, giving to the task his time ard money
to the utmost limit. He has accomplished
wonders and infused his own enthusiastic
spirit into every one about the f,eadquar-
tiers. The work of the employees around
there seemed half hearted at frst
There was for a time a sort of haunting
fear that fickle or unretlect!ng people
would yield all the palm OF whatever was
creditable in this war TO the republican
party; that it was inevitable that the party
which was In executive control would catch
all the glory coming Mr.. Kerr declared at
the outset and never wavered In his in
sistence that events would demonstrate
that the republican party would prove in
this emergency as 1t had in others that 1t
hai no sooner "thundered in the index'
than it outllved it's usefulness. He worked
and he made the boys work. He made every
democratic visitor who came to him go
away with hope; no faint hearted partisan
came to him and went away without re-
newed strength and courage.
SO much for the gallant Pennsylvania
democrat whose good sense and pluck.
whose far-seeing Judgment aud robust
energy have led our fighting forces with
genuine generalshlp.
That he has fertile and solid ground
for the faith and courage that are in him
one has only to get acquainted with the
situation as 1t is and as it takes new
shapes.
~
AS for the advices that come from the
$3.50 districts that elect the house Of rep
resentatives of the Fifty-sixth congress,
they ere, without single exception. cheer
Ing and sangu!nc.
From two of the most populous States in
the Union, New York and Pennsylvania,
which we must remember that together
gave to Bryan moro votes than any half
dozen Southern States--nearly million
democratic votes--fnom these two. tho EN-
pre State and the Keystone State, comes
riews of an aggressive fight ali along the
line for democratic principles In New York
the democrats are unawed by the gum
powder reputation of Colonel Roosevelt
the teethy and terrible Teddy. After de-
voting some OF the best years of his yet
/ frr, hsa 1pra g n y
that he possessed the highest courage oil
| honest convictions he comes back from q
reoklessly glorious field of honor and yields
himself soul, body and yaller striped cav
airy breeches to that past grand master Of
Machlavellian political mischief, Ton
Platt In this has Theodore Roosevei'
stuitified good record in which his com.
rades took pride. In this has he disap.
pointed the expectations OF all those who
love frankness ard honesty as well as
strength and daring. And be it remembered
too, if for the momert some had been car.
ried away In the enthusiasm OF patriotic
pride with all the dramatic pomp and cir
cumstance OF war to give him generou.
need OF pr'Jise, they have now had tim,
10 think and many there be who reaec
how his present attitlrAe comforts with hi
superseryiceable conduct as one of tn,
police commissioners OF New York. Thous
ands and thousands OF Germans who cas-
party lines to the dog pound when the,
deem their personal liberty imperilled. arr
going TO take occasion to drive into th,
ground with suffraglst maui the maj
and the party that, by stupid and fanatica
legislation, violated the contentment o
their homes and rudely disturbed thei
honest occupations.
Having looked somewhat on that picture
fet's turn to this: II credit is due the in
variable reports of those who have beei
from Washington to New York since tn
campaign opened, none was ever NOR
auspciousiy iuauguiated than that witt
Judge vsn Wyck as the democratic stand
ard bearer. His honesty. gentility, cour
age, decency and conservative good sens
ere populariy conceded. The mighty DO
jitical power OF Tammany Is welded a
never SO powerfully before throughout al
It's hold over the grand metropolis o
Greater New York, and ala the thousand