The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-09

rot Is always being talked lust az nv
friend talked today. Mr.. Reed win not NJ
dethroned. y
he is there for purpose. He Is simn.v
'ne man who Is willing to take blame for
things his party wants to do He has M
courage to do what the greater numho,
OF his partisans want to do. Does ~.
sensible person think for a moment ,ha,
Mr. Reed could kin any bill in the house
u majority OF the members OF his own
party desired that bill to passg or courss
not Mr.. Reed is simply the man who j
not afraid TO stop things that seem 10 ~
popular There are many men who 49,
contrary to Reeds rulings ami int,uenca
VINO are In reality in sympathy .hars.
win. IL Mr.. Reed were to onnoss d..
once any measure which the Marty n.
represents wanted to nut throuob -
could, and would, be thrown nv, =,
piace IN jiffy, and the wheels Of leg,sla.
'iph would pass over and crush hin, n,
IS all Stiffness to assert that Reed Il h,v.
ger tnan the majority which creates hin,
mere is not much doub. that peea 4,
.pposeu 10 many measures advocated by
'ne administration. as all his currently re-
ported wittlcisms indicate, hut n i,
strange to me that In every case in which
ne has exercised bis czarsh,n he sbo,ta
nave stopped something which would. he
ussd against the party or which Would
nave been mistake
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lie had the nerve to choke M ,he
CUBAN resolutions until the administrator
was ready for war, and Mckinley know.
@hat 1t would have cost his administration
IL 1t had gone in wholly unprepared ua
mas never killed anything the ma,oritv
OF the republican party wanted. He an
pears to be the man who Is Willing thai
inc mass of his colleagues on the repub-
iioan side shall play to the galleries"
while permitting him to block their doing
anything that the party may regret. Thu
republicans carry things with a whoon
until they bring the things to Reed He
squelches them. They say he is a czar. and
that he opposes their desire to crafty tho
populaoe. But secretly they say that Reed
is right and they are glad that they can
lay the blame upon him while they nose
before their constituents as desro,x of
executing the popular will" Reed is the
salvation OF the administration. He takes
the role Of ''the wicked partner" and he
is cynic and humorlst enough to enjoy the
denuncations of himself Reed appears To
be honest, while the majority in congress
has been afraid to be so. That majority
has catered to bosses and to public clamor
by rushing things along, secure in the
faith that Reed would kill than. That
majority has not dared TO carry tins things
that Reed has blocked. over Reeds head
II 1t was not willing to have Reed check
mate its game, the majority could pull
the chair from beneath the car at any
moment. Reed is the man who is not afraid
up before the country, and he kills the
things his party puts forward for bun
combe and brag. And the party acquiesces
in the killing and denounces Reed, for
the benefit OF the public.
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Reed is the party's conscience. Reed Is
the man who does the thing the little
congressman, locking to Hanna for fav-
ors, dare net do That is all there is to his
czarship. He is the czar because his party
wants him to be- because he has the cour-
age to set his face against the merely
popular, because he is a man and not a
cog in a machine. Is it any wonder that
Mr. Reed speaks cynically Of the admin
istration, or that he has contempt for
the congressman who denounce him for
things they are really grateful for? Reed
is q lightning rod to draw popular wrath
and the wrath Of the bosses. The little
fellows go ahead and vote for whatever
the bosses want and rely on Reed TO
protect the country from the results OF
such voting He is popularity supposed to
be the enemy OF President Mckinley, but
I am OF the opinion that he is the presi-
dents best friend in preventing the con-
summation. through legislation. OF the
schemes Of the syndicate that is so close
TO the president. will wager that Presi-
dent Mckinley does not hate Reed as re-
ported, but can understand that Mr..
Hanna does, because Reed is Mckinley's
big, fat smiling excuse for the failure
for so many things in which Mr.. Hanna
and his syndicate are interested. Reed Is
the man the party puts in place to check
the boss The party votes the boss WILL
but congressman have their tongues IN
their cheeks when they denounce Reed
as cZar.
The Round Hale Company
To the Editor of The Post
Jeddo, Texas, April l.-Having seer