The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-20
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.
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From the Atlanta Journal.
The Houston Post quotes with cordial appreciation the
Journals recent statement that neither Governor Cander
nor any other governor Georgia has failed hesita
ed to exert his full official authority promptly possible
TO prevent mob violence"
The Post says that the Journal might have gone further
and included the of all the Southern states IN us
commendaon So we might and take pleasure in doing
While the earnest and fearless of Southern COVER
nos to maintain law and order and to prevent mob violence
are recognized and onoed in this section and in most parts
of the North the gross and reckless Misrepresentation OF
the spirit of the Southern people continue to come IRON
class of Northern whose chief aim to be to
circulate lies about the South
The great majority of Northern newspapers hold them
selves this dsreputabe and dirty business and the
who engage in it grow more spetu as their
numbers and influence decrease.
The Houston Post says
ct remains whether the reckless profession
al sanderers the South living in the North and publish
ing papers there will give Georgia credit for preventing
ynchng there the expense Of life Of one of the
citizens in the mob 1t is than likely that the affair
will be dismissed with its where the lynching
would have had columns of lurd comment"
The prediction OF The Post has precisely true.
We have seen in many of the fair-minded heightened
Northern newspapers high praise of Sheriff Merrill for his
heroic of the mob and Of Governor Gambler for
prompt and effective which he adopted in support
that brave officer We failed find in of those
newspapers which notorious for their ISLANDERS
the South word concerning the affair Carrollton
beyond the mention OF it their columns They are so
blinded by prejudice determined in their enmity to the
South that they will not recognize of the highest am
hopeful illustrations of the enforcement OF law that has
ever been in this country.
II it had occurred in their part of the country they
would have exhausted their of eulogy it. The
spirit which anmate newspapers OF the class have re-
erred coming to be clearly understood where they
published and their power nure the South
spondinsly decreasing.
! ArLyr
From the St Louis Globe Democrat.
The case of Thomas B. Reed-'forgetting the world
perhaps but certainly by the world forgournishes strik
illustration of the heeng character of political fame in
this stirring age There is something remote and
elusive aredy in the name Of Thomas B. Reed although
only years have passed he of the biggest
figures the continent One Of Cays earlier bogapher
said that Clay made the speakrshp the pres
deney Thomas Reed invested the office OF speaker with
powers undreamed of in days Clay of any Clay
for generation He spoken Of oftene and
with greater than other in the country in
his time except the president himself lie made de-
partre in the system of procedure popular legislative
! sembles. Under his plan power made hand
hand with responsibility He gave government the ability
govern His name ofener in the newspapers and the
tongues of men than that OF other parsonage in the
United States, not excluding the president
Sometimes retirement from public Life for a time aids
of presidential Clay resigned from the senate
in Is4a his enemies charged of insurng for
himself the presidency two later He gained
nation but defeated in the election. Isolation as minis
ter TO England helped the old presidency Buchanan in
1850 to gain the nomination and the election But retire
ment IS hardly expected by himself anybody aid the
eNspeaker in this direction He will be 90 years of age
which very close to the dead line in the age presidential
aspans when the president naugurated No nres
dent was old that assuming office except Buchanan
and the hrst HARRISON and the latter died when he was only
month in office Mr. Reed safe to say is not looking
Tor the presidency though remuneration of ambition of that
sort for who presidential possibility for many
a Law and pbcter
and so did Douglas Seward and Blaine This swift efface
men OF Thomas Reed this sudden severance of the con
necon between him and the Of events while still he
politics.