The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-05
Comic and Tragic Muses. in Politics.

Baltimore sun.
Senator Dopew of New York is the
funny man of the republican party, Just
as another New Yorker, Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt, is the tagodian oil the g o. p
Governor RoOseyelts specially Is blood
and thunder; Senator Dcpews is humor
u the good cid negro minstrel variety.
Governor Roosevelt is forever on the
hunt for TRAITORS at home and has al
ready campod OH The 'trall Of about i000.-
000. that being the estimated number OF
democratic voters at this early stage In
the campaign. Senator uopew goes
abroad to find enemies OF the Republic"
and seems to have been very successful.
50 far as numbers ara concerned. in dia-
covering the foe, In speech in New
York on Thursday night the senator got
OIL what he intended TO be the greatest
Joke OF his life-a Joke which Mr.. hanna
ought to have copyrighted at once aud
circulated among timld yoteEs.
The Europeans, said lhe senator,
ARE all for Bryan. They want us TO
cripple ourselves. because we are too
much for them in the industrial battle.
A uanic that would close the factories
az the United States would cause jublla-
ton IN every manufacturing natlpn OF
the old world We hold the balance of
power among all the nations because OF
Dewey's work at Manila and Mckinleys
( at Washington Europe has lost Interest,"
In our finances and ii now for Bryan.
/ Up TO this YEAR concluded the senator.
I'VE were not considered In European
politics. But now all that is changed. =
Senator Depew has the happy faculty
I of never cracking smile when he Is
4 Joking. and no doubt he delivered him
self OF this ancient Jest with all the
solemnity of u funeral occasion. HH
ought to have been ashamed OF himself.
however. for not devlsing something
new. The bugaboo of European inter-
est In elections in the United States Is
as old as the party OF which the senator
is a shining light When the republican
party addressed Itself to the tremendous
undertaking of saving the Union" II
trotted out the scarecrow OF European
sympathy with the destroyers OF the
! Union, although 1t sent recruiting agents
to enlist soldiers for the armies OF the
Union throughout the length and breadth
OF Europe. When peace came and parties
divided on the tariff, the European 0usa-
boo was again brought to the front and
worked overtime In the interest OF high
tariff benehcsres. No doubt Mr. Depew,
az a republican spelbinder. has often
worked Ia concert with the poor old buga-
boo OF European pauper labor ana
British gold" aud has exhorted the
groundlings TO build high tarlh wall
I around themselves III oIueI " hSNP NV
rope from invading and taking posses
sion OF our home market.
With 1900 600 traitors al home whom
the boy detective TEDDY" discovered,
and hundreds OF millions OF European
anti McKinleyites whom Mr.. Depew
found In his recent trip abroad. the ad-
ministratiou would suffer great agony OF
mind II II we're convinced that the peril
really existed. But those who have most
at stake in a political way do not seem
Ito be impressed with the seriousness OF
the situation Instead OF Eeeping troops
In this country to subdue the traitors
Mr.. Mckinley Is hurrylng them on TO
China and Manila Just as II the entire
Natian were in accord with him on the
policy Of imperialism and anxious 70
make mincemeat OF the Filipinos ana
Chinese no precautions have been
taken to put down a rising OF traitors
.. home or to prevent Europe from send
Ing over millions OF voters TO make MT
Rryan's election unanimous. Evidently
TEDDY" is not regarded seriously by
/, those OF his own faith. while MT
Depew's jocose warning has fallen upon
deaf ears--thus demonstrating that
Joke that IL used too often VIII ultimate
Is decorate into a state OF "innocaous
desuetude."
For man raised In a busting ana 10
tcliigert community like New York Mr
Depew has not come up TO expectations