The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-28
TIE PEOPLE WON'T FORGET
CBY c. A. EDwARDs)

Inauc IeuulSitlOH on the secretary Oh war
for $4,000, 900 to pay the so.laer boys.
The requislton was granted. Then he told
the secretary of war that 1t would take
months to pay the men with his present
clerical force. and wanted more men He
was told to make out his reauisition. and
1t was made ont and epprc, ed by the Sec
i'etary OF war.
Ills means that several thousand ad-
ditinaal men will be added to Uncle Sans
lay roll for a month or so Just before cleo
ton This is smooth and significant
move on the part OF the republican party.
1t means more Doodle and more party
workers. 1t means that the republican
party Will actually use the money paid
these men right out of the treasury for
campaign funds In ether words. they viii
,iae the peoples money to maintain them
selves In power. 1t means nothing else, |
for these men. this new clerical force will |
be taken from every section of the country. |
as Paymaster General Stanton has tele-
graphed to every paymaster in the army |
to employ all the additional help he needs |
TO atten5 to paying Off tie soldiers. Hows |
rhat fer smooth scheme?
There are lots OF ways Of using Uncle |
Sans money TO buy workers at the polls
without getting slammed into the bat
cave for doing So and the republican man
ayers are past masters of the art. tbs Is
only one of the moves upon the political
chess board. Watch for more
~
The president will get home today, only
to start off on another stumplng tour for
the republican party. They need him badly
In the sections where he Is going, and he Is
perfectly willing to be used TO pull party
chestnuts cut of the fire. This admnis-
tration has kept the mouthpiece OF the
| democratic party. Colonel william j. Bry-
an. in camp at Jacksonville. refusing TO
muster ont his regiment when they admit
they have no need OF it. while the presi-
| dent gets out on a stamping tour all over
the country. It is on a par with all the
other ltteness of this infinitesimal admin
lstration.
But speaking OF McKinley's hind gate
speeches over the country. did anybody
| ever read such drepry drvelo His plati
tudinous ponderoeity is something awful,
Even one of the leaders of his own party
said 10 lue the ether day that McKinley's
speeches were simply Intellectual ditch
water and inane rot That's what they are.
He leaves his hearers guessing all the time
| as to what THO means.
For vagueness and opauueness OF express
sion Mckinley is peculiar. What did he
, mean by eskng for solid front until the
treaty Of peace should be signed? He
| warns us that the solution OF the greatest
problems that confront us as a result of tine
war must affect other nations as we'll, and
that 1--WE must follow dusty even If desire
r opposes"
: Again 1--WE must avoid the temptations Of
V undue aggressions." Are these mere
Phrases without any meaning behind them
Or do they have reference to the Philip
mines? What is he talking about. anyway
A. end what does he mean? His rot abou
be prosperity having hit the country with thu
le impact of solid shot and that the lahorei
2" is no longer hunting for work. hut tina
he work ~ hunting for labor is wearisom'
u in the face Of The facts. II the nresden
by had gonc from st. Louis up to Virden. III.
to only n short distance. nc would ha7A foun'
I'd the practical application CT his remark.
lie He would have found tho employer hunting
~ for labor and hunting for It with a win
;, chester at that 7 wonder II he thinks n
can fool anybody with such twaddle?
no ~
or Now wonder II A'ger thinks he cam foo
payy anybody? Simply because the Nation wid'
r. cry against his incapacity aud its awful and
no horrible consequences 70 the army has die
Down since his retta' commission seft
an Washington to hunt suckers in the arm
no camns of which number William J. Brya'
'se refused to become one he no doubt. flat
oh tiers himself that the worst has passed an
- that he lis TO escape punishment.
"a, 1ut NE IS wofully wrong
mr. The mental caliber and uncomfortable
and insufferable eg1otism or The man max
it possible for him to thus comfort him
Tor self. He will be badly mistaken and disillu
'cp sfeued before he gets through with tn
ely game.
he ant. o.,,r.cx,,ra and ,coyuraacenev began {
md Tvs N"h'''N w.
lgs catch it's breath and get back 20 n norm.
condition wren Mark Hanna warnef Il
h's press OF his party that to attack Alger Wa
'',s TO attack the president since The latte
,,,a appointed the secretary and throughout tn
Az war and after was fully informed OF HI
proceedings. The failure OF the presider
to remove Ager. or even TO suspend hfl
of pending investigation indicates that tn
,s,. Hanna view is the one accepted at III
.ad White House,
op- Quiet follows the recent storm
I'M. The people OF this country are not pror
ron TO beat tomtoms and sound useless hew
-, gags. But they don't forget. They kno
,ho how TO be patient
an, The National mind is made up. The fact
the we're there for all the world to see
Test Bungllng transportation service TO Cub
= a hospitals without medicines and a scarci;
Gu of doctors and nurses;
Troops starved on filthy TRANSPORTS home
ward bound. and the sick and woundsd Dc
tea MED proper food. surgical treatment an
his care;
re Camps in the United States out of WIKI
!. favored railroads made fortunes and {
av- which the soldiers were killed by privs
tons poisnned waiter and general neulect