The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-01
A VERY GLOWING TRIBUTE.
tBY CHARLES A. EDWARDS. f,

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any other one thing The two congress.
sioral campaign committees are both harr
at work.
The republicans have political quarters a,
the NormaDdie hotel; they are flush Of
funds, as usual, and command all the
speakers they need. They do not want
for anything.
| They never do.
| They are always amply supplied With
money, with the sinews Of political war
hence they are always confident OF win
ming elections because the wheels Of tn
campaign, always we'll creased, run like
a new wagon In sand. Albeit the grease Is
In evidence as usual yet there Is not the
same cocksurs ass permeating their head
quarters as is usually the case. They are
! up against hard proposition and they
have begun to realize 1t. and it has put q
! crmp In their game OF brag
The democrats occupy modest quarters
around on Thirteenth street, where there
is conspicuous absence OF Brussels car
pets, mahogany desks and porcelain GUS
pdors Chairman Osborne OF Wyoming
| and Secretary Jim Kerr OF Pennsylvania
and Assistant Secretary Judge Fleming of
| Kentucky. he who was kicked out of the
| treasury department by Carlisle and Cleve-
| land for making Bryan speeches in Michl-
| gan in 1896. are to be found there early
and late plugging away and working harder
than anybody with crippled tools in the
way OF campaign material They are doing
the best they can with the ammunition
they possess and that is more than the
republicans are doing with lockers full OF
shells and bunkers bullying with coal.
Trpe, they have the rotten record OF the
republican administration Of the war,
and that is host within itself, but II
they had a little more money there would
not be the slightest doubt that the DEM
ocrats would win the next house Of rep
resentatives by fifty majority. There Is
not democrat here now that doubts that
we've got EN-, but there must be no thin
ming out along the firing ltne The battle
must be fast and furious from now on and
we must all join the hammer throwers
until the polls close next November.
The defeat Of the republicans simply
waits on time If we but do our duty to
the country ard the people. ana from the
way the calls are coming into the M
cratic committee here, the boys of the diff
forent congressional districts OF the coun-
try seem disposed to do it.
In this connection 1t may be stated
that the demand for Campaign speakers is
growing ana the committee is floo led with
requests for speakers of National repu-
tuton.
Among this number the name OF one OF
T Xas' representatives. In congress figures
oftener than that of any other single
speaker asked for and that is the Hon.
Reese Calhoun DeGraffenreld Of the Third
Texas district, the Black Eagle Of Gregg "
the Cicero of The piney woods, our own
DE" He has been called for In New
York, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio.
Illinois and Indiapa, and Secretary Kerr
is now begging him 10 take some OF his
time from among his own Texas people,
where democracy is indigenous TO the soil
and give the Nation the benefit OF his
fiery cloquence, his invinciblc logic his
sledgehammer home driving facts that hit
the hearer with the impact OF a solid shot
and where he viii never fail to beat ev ~
opponent TO his knees on the sands OF tn 4
political arena. in the sections where he is
I ost needed,
feel sure the people of the Third Texas
district will recognize the tremendous
compliment paid to DE" and allow him !
time 10 go into these democracy n edlng
sections whore he can DO 50 much toward !
redeeming the National house of repre- !
sertatives II makes a man who loves
Texas and her people proud to know that
ore OF her sons has taken such high rank |
In the entire Nation As an orator during
his first session In congress The Tam
many tigers found him out on July 1, 1897, |
when he made them raise the roof off the |
wigwam with their yels at his cyclonlc |
and volcanic eloquence; the congress and |
the country knew him when he walked
down the center aisle OF the house waving
his black hair, shaking his finger at Tom
Reed in defiance OF his gavel; there he
proved to the country and to his people
that he was the possessor OF an intellect
clear, incisive, luminous one not afraid Of
the knife. much less OF the caustic seeing
tbs entire Union unobscured BY partisan
ship, pontifital like a priests. aggressive
like a solder's-the he breathed burning
words of patriotic eloeuence that will live
in history long after he has seen the great
light that rever was on sea or shore.
| may not be an impartial critic of De-
Graffeireid because l am his friend and
admirer, but have thrown so many brick
bats during my newspaper career tina, it is
refreshing to- once in awhaie, throw
bouquet. The people OF Texas don't sknow
DeGraffenreld, | do, | have studied him.
have been close to him. One has 10 know
him we'll to sound TO it's uttermost depths
the vlr!le force aud power OF his many
sided character II Is not as worldly
moral or physical development that one
should know him, as he stands out IN the
open boldly. fighting the battles OF life
with LIES own weapons Then acd there
he takes such blows, full front as the sit
uatlon deals him giving back stroke for