The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-21
RgAssuRlNo OPINIONS OF ROOSEVELT.

public cleanness and good government
REAssuRlNe OPINIONS OF ROOSEVELT,
Mr. Bryen's paper the Commoner, thus refers to
accession to the presidency:
Theodore Roosevelt duties the presidency
under conditions calculated call the best that is in him.
conditions which will make ardent his natural desire to
p e 'n aeeod h Mr. MeKnv N regard to public aes
tons his strong individuality will doubtless some I'M
enters Office more free from political Obligations than he
could have done had he received party nomination
virtue and his opponents will probably find to ctcise
ton to preudge him wish that the govern
mental policies for which he and his party stand may be
The New York Journal of Commerce, which per-
haps more accurately than any other paper in the
country the sensitveness of capital to appre
hension under any given condition or outlook, and
which seldom, if ever, permits optimism to run away
with it, has very reassuring words regarding the sue
cession of Roosevelt
The Journal does not think that in its last analysis
Roosevelts freedom of speech the stump which led
many persons to suppose he lacking in balance,
amounted to Than the unconventionaly tolerated
and encouraged by method of campaigning 1t
recognizes that to foreign relations it may be
true that what is called spirited foreign policy would
be congenal Mr. Roosevelt, but this it is far
from implying disposition to pursue irritating and
unjust course toward foreign nations.
The Journal also lays great stress upon the reliance
we should place upon the SOLDERING effect Of the ire
mendous responsibilities of the presidency 1t
that these responsibilities not but be beenly felt
and appreciated by any man of sense and honor and
declares that Mr. Roosevelt possesses large measure
of both.
The Journals article is all the more calculated to
reassure the country and allay dstrus by of
the that that paper expects the president to
carry ont in accordance with his declarations certain
economic and financial policies of his predecessor,
which it antagonzes.
Now THAT an eminent medical authority has said
physicians attending the late president did all that human
beings could do bulletins all times
justified by the existing conditions would it be well to
stop the whole unseemy discussion?
THE British government should have pulled the Cobras
iangs'
The man who has announced desire to dramatize the
Congressional Record has his eye the journals of
Teas legislature 1t presumed that he is the
ousperformance line,
THERE was no North no South in the memorial services
Of Thursday.
WINE the legislature worrying about neposn it might
look about among members and ascertain what
practced in the appointment of pages clerks and
others in its employ
THE latest news from South Africa indicates that Kitch-
ener still regrets to state
THE sencng of the great telegraph systems of the coun
try respect memory the president was
tribute the like of which has been paid other American
Borm apparently does concur with Kitchener in the
belief that the is over.
THE honors paid President Mckinley when he visited
Houston last May ne greater than those paid his
memory Thursday whidh is saying much
be hoped that Galveston will not slip up on her
banana importation scheme.
GENERAL Woop says the Nicely case is ready for trial
Does this that the work Of preparing the necessary
amount of whitewash has been completed'
SENATOR WrLlNoroN evidently believes that it is better
to be late than to never get there.
THE fact that the handkerchief used by Czogosz to CON
eea his proved to be womans opens great
avenue of speculation for the detectives.
THE Beaumont oil well owners won't have any wells to
advertise if they continue to play with FIRE
UMPIRE JoHNs1oNE's suit will be for $4,000 Had the
suit he Little Rock been Of sheet iron there might
have been less reason for legal action.
WELLINGTON SAYS he didn't say it, or at least all of
it What he does admit saying was anything but gracious
THE Dutch cruiser Sommelsdjk has left La Hacha The
people of La acha if they had pronounce that name very
often, doubtless glad OF it
TuE announcement that Hon jeff McLenlore is candi-
date for place the railroad commission probably
canard.
THE that several Western railroads will
xpend $4,000 fans be used for advertising
appears be rather windy
TIKI party organized at Kansas CITY wants the niia
tive and referendum the imperative mandate and all the Of
fees in sight
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Give Justice Time.
Jackson ClarionLedger,
About forty years the OF Jefferson Davis was
Clipped from the memorial tablet concentrating the cree
ton Of Cabin John bridge miles from Washington the
act being at the direction OF the Of North
has begun the restore the name to its