Arizona republican., 1899-05-11
THE TEXAS PATRIOTISM.
It Doesn't Take Kindly to MT. Bailey's
 Latest Bad Break.

There is a law of gravitation in the | fool worl5 as well as in the physical world, and when a man starts wrong he is as sure tcl go to the limit of foolish ness as he is to hit the ground when he falls from an eminence- The Hon. Joseph Wackhim Bailey of Texas, erst- while leader of the democratic minor ity in congress, and who is now a can- didate for the United States senate from Texas, is one Of the public men who have gone wrong and who persist in keeping up the pace. MT. Bailey was invited to Houston to address the multitude on San Jacinto day, which is a great day down that way, day on which Editor Johnson of the Hous- ton Post says his prayers twice and suspends hos'd,ities against the hated and hell-bred Galveston News. San Jacinto battle field Is only a few miles from Houston, and the people of the Bayou City usually repair there and celebrate the anniversary of the great battle. Here it was that General Sam Houston met the naughty Santa Anna with large army. Houston's handful of patriots resolved to fight against the overwhelming odds, and while the Mexicans were taking their noon siesta, bounced upon them and de- stroyed them General Santa Anna climbed a tree and hid, but the Texans found and arrested him The Alamo and Gcliad were avenged, and the inn perial domain of Texas was wrenehed from Mexico and placed under Anglo Saxon control. This vast expanse of territory, almost half as big as the thirteen original states, finally came under the stars and stripes, and the people who live there are loyal citi- zens, but their hearts swell with genu- inc pride cnly when they are reminded that their expansionislt forbears drove the Mexican myrmidons from the soil and claimed it as their own On San Jacinto day the speeches are blood firing and pride-indaming. The peo- pie are told of the deeds of their fore fathers, of the bloody march of the Mexicans from San Antonio through Texas, of their defeat in the river bend at San Jacinto, and of the sp.endid de- main that was won. The spirit of con- quest always rises On these occasions, and the thought of invading Mexico and conque-ing that, country is not an absent CT an unwelccme one. Any one familiar with the history Of the oc-
  a speech to make. Any one but Hon. Wackhfm Bailey. That gentleman had started wrong, and he had to reach the ultimate. Like Santa Anna, he had to find his San Jacinto. And he did. There was just one way in which Mir Bailey could have made himself ne- absurd, pi,larsofhercu- ridiculous, and he found it the 1 first reach into the gr2.b-bag. MT. Bai- | ley has hobby which he keeps bridled | and saddled, and which he takes with | him on all occasions. When he ap- peared before the audience at the Au- ditcrium in Houston he mounted his | hobby and for an hour and half rode | it a1H over the stage This hobby is anti expansion. MT. Bailey would not | take foot Of territory anywhere out side of the littora1. He does not want Cuba, Pc-to Rico, or any other island, i and he assaulted the expansionists and the idea Of territorial acquisition with every weapon in the armory of in vective
 He WAS listened to in sullen patience by the audience, but his speech fell like 3 blanket soaked in ice water. He is being roundly criticised all over the state, and the way the old Texas spirit will rise up against him when he stands for senator will surprise if not lismay him. His break is the break of the century among public men, Memphis Commercial-Ap ppeal.