The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-14
AS VIEWED AT WASHINGTON.
fBY Q. A. EDWARDS

commission until midsummer, ana the
senate committee on interoceanic canals
will have nothing to say that will hasten
action on this matter.
This shows exactly where the admin
istratlon stands on this measure fraught
WITH so much interest to the people OF
this country. They would delay this
legislation demanded by over two-thirds
OF the people in order to sell out to John
doctrine. II that is good Amerieanism
then want none of it In mine The
democrats have the whip hand in this
thing and they can force the repunlica $
into such position that they will be
compelled to show their exact status with
regard to this matter. 1t rests with
democrats OF the senate to say whether
they accept the issue thus laid down by
the republicans.
II the democrats do accept the issue
then they will have the republicans in a
hole from which they will never emerge
except in defeat at the hands of the people
at the polls. They could not ask a better
others already prepared by the idiocy and
the cupidity of the republicans in this ad-
ministration.
II the committee reports the bill at this
session, the democrats can force test
vote on the bill or else tie up all lesisla-
ton for the balance of this session. II
they force the test vote 1t will clearly
show the attitude OF the administration
towards this canal and it's connections
not only with Great Britain but with the
great transcontinental railroads of the
country that have been fighting this
measure so violently in the past.
II the republican majority in the SEN
ate should, at the bshest OF the admins
tration, vote to defeat the bill that would
be tantamount to saying to the people
the congress OF the United States un-
less it pleases the people and the powers
''of the British empire. 1t would also dis
close the intimacy that exists between
this administration and the big railroad
interests of the country, and also lay bare
the trade with the Hanna Payne ship
subsidy good thing" which has been
claimed as existing for some time. In
short. that there Is not only niger
in the woodpile" so far as Great Brit
ain is concerned, but that there is big
bundle of campaign Doodle in sight II
the bill Is smothered, and not a red cent
II It goes through.
That the republicans will work hard
to prevert report or a test vote goes
without saying, because they want this
money. Without 1t they would not be
one, two, three in the campaign and they
know it. II they do prevent the report or
the vote in the senate on the measure the
people will know how it came about and
they must explain on the hastings tn $
fall why they flouted the peoples will in
the matter of this canal legislation and
they can't do 1t satisfactorily. They are,
therefore, again between the devil and
the deep sea. II they prevent this bill
from being considered at this session the
people will demand an explanation that
will be very awkward, and the admin
istratiou will stumble and fall over IT,.
If they do pass 1t at this session then
the railroads and the shipping interests
VIII tell Mr.. Hanna to take a running
jump and go to, when he calls on them
this summer with his campaign pouch. :.
If they go forward they will run into
moneyless campaign, which Is virtually a
hopeless one for the republicans, and II
they crawfsh they will jam Into the peo-
pie at the polls. Either horn OF the
dilemma Is disastrous to the e. o. p. K
the democrats do but play their cards
right and not try to overorop Themselves
49,
With the arrival in this city OF Teddy
Roosevelt, the vice presidential talk on
tho republican ticket is revived Teddy
has come over here at this time to at
tract some attention to himself He
wants to impress upon the people of the
country that the republican leaders are
red-hot to have him take the
second place on the ticket, when
l firmly believe they have
eliminated him entirely from the list,
unless they think that 1t is imperative to
have some New York man on the ticket.
He also wants to pose as man who
does not want the place ard is being
forced to accept 1t against his will
Teddy wants to be at all the time
or he will not play in the backyard of
anybody He ought to write a book
entitled Alone in Cuba" because he
can not talk of the war down there with
out nausestrg everybody with his in
bufferable egotism The whole thing
SIMPLY narrows down to about this: il
Tom Plat says for Teddy to run for vica
president because the republicans want Il
New York man, and decide that he Is the
most available man, he will run like u
iittle msrionette that he is; II they do
eide that they can get slcrg with some
other man as well as Teddy they will
shunt him off. IL would not surprise
many good people over here to see Tom
Platt pick Teddy up by the scruff OF the
neck and drop him into the dark back
ward abysm OF time, so far as the New
York gubernstorisl nomination Is con-
cerned II ne does that will hold the
teethy Teedy for some time to come.
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II may interest some Of the people OF
Texas to knew that there is every probs-
bility that there will be a republican
elected to congress from the Memphis,
Tenn. district next fall to succeed the
Hon. Ed carmsck, who IS candidate ios
The Jailed States senstorship from that
Safe The situation at this time ia
about this, One Ham Patterson. son OF
the noted gold bug Josiah Patterson, who
contested the seat OF Mr.. carmaek in the
last congress and got mashed in the poli-
teal earth for his pains, is now a candi-
date for congress and says he will abide
bN thu nNfipu Of IA (itV