The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-17
HANNA SCENTS DANGER AHEAD
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i ndu IL announcer at oicNeldHu thdS hS
J 90 enter at once upon the campaign OF 1901
A wise man Is the senator He may not
a statesmIn, bur he knows politics, an
: while the rainbow chasers OF his party ar
clarifying In the magnificent victory 9
Tuesday and are proclaiming thas II show
the democratic party aud the silver issu
have again died, Hanna IS wise enough {
see that the results OF Tuesday mean tina
the campaign of 1900 is already on, and tina
the democrats enGor upon 1t Ia infnbe
! better shape than they went into shat o
1896.
He sees thak mis- idea OF splitting tn
democratic panty on the silver issue ha
gone glmmering. All bis hopes of elm
inating that issue from the campaign hav,
been wiped thway. The democrats OF th'
East as well rs those OF. the West and ga'
South arc the party. and the misplAeg'
standings which grew cut of their mls.n-
depreciation OF the real pti'porl OF the Chi
cago plttfonm have been wiped away.
He sees chat his hope of an ant-ropua-
l1can house which ne mud SOME OF his re-
publican leaders are credited with having
held--ther theory being that tf given
enough rope the silver mdn would hang
| themselyes-has not matcS lalized and that
the republicans must now show their hand
on the currency question which they have
been fighting shy of; and that ahe full bur-
don of bringing permanent prosperity to
the country IS on their shoulders
| All these Things MIR. Hanna sees, and be-
cause he sees them, he announces that the
| campaign OF 1900 is to be entered upon at
once
may be an Optimst. but VI looks to me
as II events are playing directly into the
hands of the democrats II ls no secret
that had there been an antl-republican
housia din which the democrats should have
TO assume the responsibility for organsza-
ton without having a straight democratic
majority, there would have been all sorts o.,
Trouble. There would have been a fight for
the spealyeGship TO leave lot of sorlsls; and
with "a majority so constituted there would
almost necessarily have been contin-
liotis performance of trouble
That has been averted. and in thu new
congress all the anti republican elements
can join hands and fight tho common
enemy. Had there been a democratic house.
thera would undoubtedly have been "A
epeakership contest with Bailey, DE Ar
norh ana Ittailardson as the principal
factors. AS IT Fs. there viii probably be
no fight for THE responsibility of ho,pso
leadership. Judge DeArmoud's friends
tt.lat nal.
probabAa that the judge himself will allow
them to Use his name Tor an empty honor |
1t isn't exactly that. either. for the lead |
efshlD of the muorty is a responsibility |
and an honor. but in such contest Bal
ley wcfcld certainly win and nothing would |
be gained by DeArmond or his friends by |
pnscipitiaUJng 1T. If thsre We're "A lot of |
new democrats ln the house DeArmcnd
might have chance but big majority
OF those who Will be members of the new
horse are Bailey men.
The republicans arc getting a lot Of con-
sohitlon ont Of the election results and are
tallG'ug of il as great victory
Is it?
turrs shows that there has been a great re-
publican slump almost all along the limo,
and that, too, m the face of frantic appeals
10 stand by the president because of the
eucceees of the war. The republicans majority
of tiftyN-two has shrunl1 until there is next
to nothing left Argue with themselves MS
tho republicans may. They can not avoid
the conclusion that the only thing that pre-
Nehted the hardest kind of tumiown NJ
inc han'is OF the people was the happy
chancc of war occurring just when it did
some of them talk OF an Endorsement OF
the policies of President Mckinley. That
Is al rot and nobody kupws it better than
tho president The war cut great big :
hsure IN shaping the results--snyed the {
congress to Ills party, in fact and that tells 5
Tue whole story. IL it hais not been for the
war the republicans would have lost the (
house by fium 30 TO 15o votes. Q
AS 1t is, they lost heavily in conerss. c
'loA% districts ami more heavily In tho i
-o'dl OF their vote AS compared with TN, o
presidential election. In tho face of the fact +
nat they had the record of a successful ana y
l'bn4y popular war to help them out tha n
'suieS SNOW steady and consistent losses
VI over the ootntry. OF course here ard
hole exceptions arc to be found but -
most cases there was heavy slumo in thn I
epublleaa vote. '''' -
study Of the returns must be- son. p
h'hs else than comforting to a man Of
'e'S''of H'nna S political sense. Aside ero,, d
no question OF the immediate posssssion u
mo congressional spolls. there is small h
'''l''oft to 90 got from sloh a study an,
nal is intiniteslmal as compared with tho 'c
lSoaiHioft that comes from a realizat,oo OIL
the fact that democratic chances for ~ ~
re''oer campaign of 1900 have undoubtad,, d
'ep pe'eered by the election results t.
from now until election day in Novem. OF
Dr. 400, every day viii have soma hoar n,
" UPON that great contest. AS the 70. =,
'oiieans have begun their campaign so m
III every move OF the democrats in con. g,
ess be made with the purpose of strength. q
ing the position of the party of the nee, NJ