The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-24
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.
THE BLOODY SHIRT IN OHIO.

From the Nashville News.
The hosting Of the bloody shirt the republican banner
in the presidents State of Ohio must cause ieehns -
wellness among those Southern partisans OF his VINO
been gushing so much oil his supposed love o. W.,
South Mr. Mckinley had filed up the bloody enasm WIZ
his hand He had reunited the late warning seto''
simple twist OF his lip and bestowed upon the u''on
oleagnous benedcton II therefore meet ana proPe
that Southern orators OF certain stripe should shed tears
and saliva and drink champagne and munich hot pus "
gorify William, the benevolent assimator OF his country
But alas this benevolence that sobbered SO proley "
the index takes on quite another form in the book u - w.
TO be supposed that the platform adopted by the Ohio re-
pubcans under the tuteage Of Mark Hanna, was nteu
rebuke to the president intmation tnal "S ,4
pointment Of niger hating godbugs in the oouh was
tasteful his party 1t simply exhibits another oil 'nose
lightning changes of policy for which Mr. Mckinney mas
come famous He tried reform South Carolina by a.
lowing the niger hating Mclaurin to distribute Feu
patronage but he that the game would not "o'
He through the South, butterng the earth as he went
with expressions of love- but chilled to the bone "
the stony stiffness of the crowds. Then he went back
thought it all for seven seconds and SAID TO hmSe'
we can't move these proud sefrespeeng Southerners
with hattery with postofhces we must give CT"
hell"
And so the Ohio republican platform framed de
nouncing Southern against the in the good oo
fashioned way demanding that the Souhs representation ~
congress and the electoral college should be cut down
nothing and brandshng bloody shirts with all the Vgo o.
the oden time Foraker there OF course and on sucf
theme was his best-or his worst He brought out one
If HE old sneecbes Of 1870 and II cracked like new whip
He never hated the South better in his life and neve
damned il with more hearty fervor in his palmies days
over the moor negroes who are sometimes hanged rape
the soutb-also alas in Ohio-and who under the maig
nan rule If the white man are engaged m the degrading
naton Of making cotton instead of making laws Joel Ben
son Foraker went loud and long OF the 10000 Flipno
butcbered n make oapebapger holiday loci Benson sale
never a word
1t was many years ago that distinguished republican
leader said that there was one more president in the blood,
shirt lis nocal contents were supposed to have beer
exhausted long since there vet another president fodec
in the tail thereof Mckinley and Hanna and Foraker seen
determined to find out
MLAURIN AGAIN.
From the Indianapolis Sentinel
In the July number of the Worlds Work John h. McLau
rim makes another Aimsy attempt to justify his contemplate
treason which either brands him superficial isnoramu
the dangerous sort OF politician AS Introductory
his plea for the adoption OF republican policy he claims
with Justice doubt that the practical unanmiy OF polt
zeal action in the South has been due to the fear OF Negro
domination the whites should divide their strength be
the parties 1t will be recalled that during thu
last campaign the republican press waNed eloquent in dc
nouncing the Acknowledgement Of the which it fase
laid at the door of the democratic party At that time tn
democratic press replied that the action one OF TIL
Southern whites rather than that OF the democracy and tina
the dsfranchisemen OF the would, by removing tn
fear of negro domination result in the accession to the re
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