The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-31

party that can not do better than adopt
II and make Il part OF this address
| want to admonish my friends agains.
the danger OF allowing themselves 10 re
cnticed away from the real issues OF TINS
campaign. your state, your home industry.
your present and future needs and wants.
Do not permit yourselves TO be frightened
from the living, practical issues OF the
hour by the ghoullsh cry OF imperialism,
the venerable Monroe doctrine, that sane
tined paradox OF governing a people with
cut their consent, this pretended skirmish
over trusts.
Mr.. Bryan and his followers tell us tnat
the republican party VIII destroy repub-
lican form Of government on this con-
tlnent. This, TO me, is the sublimty Of
partisanship and political blindness, All
history is forgotten and the credulous
present is made to bury the dead past,
The only organized party in This Nation
that ever deliberately shot TO death an
American flag was the democratic party.
The only organized party that ever dis
frauchIsed citizens by the millions, thai
ever enslaved its free born. is the dem
ocratIc party.
The democratic party forced the war on
Spain and then obstruoted the appropria-
ton to pay for II.
treaty Of peace with Spain and 10 pay
Spain 500 900 600 for the Philippine Islands
and has since been clamoring TO turn them
loose and shirk the responsibility o. our
charge. Is party capable OF all this
dupllcity to be entrusted to administer the
affairs OF the State or Naton2 Both %
he old parties have outllved their use
fulness. The crying need of the hour is
for new men, new blood. A few mo 9
years and changes In administration WI
be much harder to accomplish. Each
party, in the caucus OF few, now names
its successors in office
The people have but little to do with II.
No man can be elected to office in Texas
without he spends from two to FIVE times
the amount of his salary. II these condl-
lions continue in few years the young
man ambitious TO serve his country. WHO
is without money, had as we'll be declared
by affirmative law Ineligible. These evi.s
can not be corrected within the democraua
party. l know II every loyal, intelligent
and honest voter in the State OF Texas
could be gotten together and could ac.
to gether on next November on State Is
sues, this puny apology that sits enthronad
in majesty and power all over this State.
can be driven to private life and can be
made to earn one honest dollar and Texas
with her possibilities, stimulated by con-
fidence at home and abroad, would burst
into sunlight OF prosperity and happi-
ness hitherto undreamed of. Loosen that
milestone from around her neck; strike
those shackles from her limbs, and one
more decade will double her population
and triple material wealth Let us. how
ever, stick to State issues. shall cheer
fully support with all my energy a State
ticket composed OF the purest and best
sr1au In ri Of syIo AZ
politics may have been. | am not fusion
ist. / will support my ticket, my party
nominees. II 1t be honest and capable. 1
desire above all things 10 live long enough
TO celebrate one victory over the machine
in Texas, miscalied democracy" to get
one look at the books. You have n good
platform. conservative and progreysye
and a ticket to which the mad and Jealous
ordinations of the Waco convention can
not apply.
I now come to what is to me the most
painful part of this letter. My health has
been for the past two years very poor. II
/ is now such that ! could not possibly en-
1 dure the labor or the excitement of a cam
pagn. ! owe some duty to my wife and
daughters. They have always with a res
/ gnation characteristic alone OF woman,
encouraged me and and aided me In my
public efforts to render some service 10
my country. For two years they have
done lEUe else than nurse me. They
now appeal to me to save them from the
anxiety and unrest that my candidacy
would secession them Were to do other
wise than crafty this wish of theirs 1
would at once distrust myself. | indulge
the hope that our people may gather wiz
dom from past experience and labor earn
estly to secure n ticket that Will command
the support of every element In Texas OPP
posed TO the present organized democracy
Let us have such a fight for Texas and
victory will be your reward. | am, with
great respect your friend,
j. c.. Kearby