The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-25
SOME POLITICAL NOTES.

Hon. w. J. Bryan has advised Mr.. r. NJ.
Johnston of The Houston Post that be voted
| for Mr. Crisp for speaker of the lower house
| OF the Fifty-second congress after Crisp be-
came the caucus nominee. This. however.
does not answer the charge that Bryan re-
| fused to vote for Crisp before the caucus
| nomination and for the specific reason alleged.
| In quoting the statement made to New
| York correspondent by some OF the friends
of Mr.. Van wyck at Saratoga. the EXPRESS
said It would be difficult for Mr.. Bryan $
such narrow prejudice as to refuse to vote
for a, fellow democrat solely on the ground
that he was an ex-Conieaeirate pun .ns
and 1t la due not only to MT Bryan put
to his ex-Coniederate support; that me charge
should be authorita,lvelv refuted. false re-
mort can do not harm after II 10 proven 10 De
false. San Antonio EXPRESS
The Express will not add to Its reputa~
ton for honesty and fair dealing by this
meanly insinuating comment on Mr..
Bryan's straightforward denial OF an alb
surd lie. If Mr.. Bryan had opposed Mr..
Crisp for any such reason as that alleged
by some hired liar in the East, would not
the same objection have prevailed with
him in the house as in the caucus?
~
Joe Bailey has convictions and he would
not hesitate to express his opinion If he
knew that 1t would cause his defeat
Signal
1t is this characteristic which makes
Mr.. Bailey strong with the people.
~
The Houston Post is great newspaper;
there is no doubt of that; but 1t can come
nearer being all things to all men ana an
Issues than any other paper that was ever
printed. AT the beginning of the guberna,,
torial campaign last year. that paper could
.,rith tha
kind of respect. Now it is ready to 'slobbor
on him every time they meet at any old place
This is inconsistent and undignihed, and me
Post don't have to do 1t. II IS bigger thHn
any ofhceholder. and the oficeholder knows
it, If he does BLUM at It now and them.-
Teneha New Era
Will the New Era please point out
wherein The Post has at any time
changed front on any public ques-
ton? This charge has been made
at various times by various indi-
viduals of different degrees of responsible
ity and intelligence, but always in gem
eral way What The Post would like 10
have Editor Bowers do, as he has on sew
eral occasions charged this paper with in
consistency, is to specify any one such
instance. In 1892 The Post supported
Clark in the primaries. and then
supported Hogg after the latter became
the nominee for governor, as every honest
democrat should have done. So far as
Governor Sayers is concerned, while The
Post did not advocate his nomination, he
and his friends know that it did treat
him with proper and becoming respect
not only that. but it gave his managers
riub NJ in for
in his favor emanating from respectable
or responsible source. If The Post has
warmed up to Sayers since the election it
is mainly because he has shown himself a
democrat and man enough to refuse to
be run by soreiaads and bolters But |
what of Editor Bowers? He was editing |
a paper in East Texas and made red |
hot fight for Sayers. No partisan in the |
entire State surpassed him in the warmth |
of the support rendered the Bastrop cand- |
date--it was the hot stuff" But listen |
to Editor Bowers now. Here is what he
says:
Not satisfied with multiplying new fat Of
fees for the people to maintain, the Sayers
administration will convene the legislature
Ia extra session this fall, to consider the
proprioty OF raising the peoples taxes: all of
which will be another heavy expense TO the
people without corresponding beneht. OF
course the money power and the ring democ-
racy will secure Savers reelection next year,
but that don't prevent the New Era from
elHng the people the truth all the same.
How can such things be? Is this in
consistent and uniignifed" on the part OF
Editor Bowers?
Conditlons now noint TO the growing peces- |