The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-15
soMR LEADING EDITORIALS.
A FOOLISH CHALLENGE.

A FOOLISH CHALLENGE.
From, the Kansas City Times.
S1 renubliean newspapers lately have published this
kind Of query TO the democratic papers, Why don't yot
saw the things about Mckinley that you said IN 1900
The challenge is both foolish and eowafdy IN inc cam
,; f 1000 President Mckinley stood for things that the
party opposed He severely criticised but the
criticism was directed against Mckinley the politician moi
Mckinley the man In the heat Of the fight the politician
doomed above the man in the public eye and every bio"
aimed at the politician intended for the republican par
TVS policy of running the government
M sane newspaper would the dead with dsrespeet
II would have been the climax of ndeceney for paper e
have attacked McKnley policies after his ASSASSINATION IN
the case Of Mckinney the opposition papers coud speak OF
his honesty his integrity his loyalty, his morality and ms
eros heart II he had not possessed these virtues the
papers still would remained silent about his policies on
the broad ground that the dead should be allowed to rest in
peace.
who said the things Mckinley that they said in 1900
and in nearly every case the offender disciplined by his
neiehbors regardless OF politics This was not done because
the things said untrue but because the people
being fair and decent insisted upon proper respect beng
shown the dead.
The democratic papers which opposed Mckinley in 1900
have nothing to take back They honest in their belief
the ideas he stood for not the best for the American
people and they made fight which was their right and
duty the people that they ought to defeat him
The democratic paper which would express regret for its
in 600 simply because of the late presidents death
would lose the respect of every reader on its list
Let's reverse the for the sake of the argument
Mr. Bryan had been elected president and assasnated would
the republican papers reracted what they said about
him in 1000? Not word of IT, and it would not have been
expected them But with exception prove the rule
they would have ignored the differences of opinion in the
campaign and spoken in the highest of Bryan the
The exception would been those yellow papers which
ask the democratic press, why don't you say the things
about Mckinley that you said in I9ool They would
have traduced the dead and insulted the living.
A DISGRACE TO INDIANA.
From the indianapolis Sentinel.
The Plymouth News in commenting upon the Sentnel's
expression of surprise that Governor Durbn should harbor
the notion that in the of Henry Clay John C. Breckn
ridge John J. Critenden, John G. Carlisle, James B. Beck
and Henry Waeson any citizen accused of capital crime
can get a fair trial, says
Reflect also upon the fact that democratic Judge of Ken
ueky said from the bench that there such thing
fair trial for the accused of Goebes murder that Henry
that many democratic and democratic lawyers in Ken
lucky Endorsed the statement and the trials themselves
to Governor DuGbn Immediately after the assassination of
President Mckinley accompanied by comparison of the Goe-
bel murder with that of the president indicates depth of
political depraviy in the State of Kentucky such has
hitherto been suspected The Goebetes who been
coaed by papers Of their party and in their State
fully much by republicans the to seek political
capital in the great tragedy at Buffalo.
All Of which, in far it pretends state facts is
doubtless false and in far it gives opinions out
rageous
We venture that democratic judge in Kentucky
ever made such statement the News alleges from the
bench elsewhere and that such opinion
pressed by the Louisville Courier Journal any other rep-
table democratic newspaper lawyer in that State
AS to the relative degrees of moral turpude involved in
the assassnaons of William Mckinley William Goebel
It IS the opinion OF the Sentinel of every decent
paper and decent and the land that they
were equally infamous Murder murder and assassination
IS assassination whether the victim democrat or a repub
Iean governor president 1t is shameful but it is
true that republican poit clans making claim TO re.
speeaby to be found in Indiana ndorse and re-
Joce over the murder of Goebel that republican news
papers Of this State apoogzed for it one republican
governor refused and another is about refuse to honor
lawful acquisitions for duly indicted completely in
the awful crime and that scarcely republican voice has
been raised in denuncaton of this shameless and wicked
violation OF right and justice by under oath to enforce
and defend the constitution and the laws.
Ot course, pestientia sheets like the Plymouth News
edited by ignorant and bgotd parsans may be expected to
sory the assassination of democratic officials and to pdors.
the protection OF men implicated in the crime
But there ought be republican editors and preachA-
and Judges IN the State with conscience and COURAGE
to make themselves heard in denuncation of those
oheias who are making Indiana refuge for assassins and
thus bringing shame and disgrace upon the State