The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-06
RATING THE REPUBLICANS.


The republican badgers have been baited They
will out of their holes Mr.. Lodge and Mr..
Spooner and the other champions of the admnistra-
ton in the senate broken the seal of their silence
and have spoken affairs in the Philippines. and
they will speak again. 1t is marked triumph for the
democrats Senators Teller Rawlins, Patterson, Till
man, Carmack, Culberson and other democratic sena.
tors have poured hot shot into the republican strong
hold until the garrison has determined sorte.
How long" asks Senator Tillman in that pic.
turesque language for which he is famous, ARE we
going to hold to this bag of cats?' And then SEN
ator Cuberson adroitly leads Senator Lodge to ex.
press disapproyal of General Smiths order and next
OF General Bells order. Then he floors him with the
question a will ask if the senator does not also re-
member that the president of the United States has
very recently sent his congratulations to General Bell
for his vigorous prosecution of the in that prov
nce under the very order which the senator has just
condemned?" Senator Lodge does not know. He so
confesses and subsidies.
Next Senator Spooner is knocked out. Senator
Teller and Senator Carmack floor him with the report
from Baangas which states that 100000 out of popu.
lation of 100000 have died since the advent of the
Americans. Mr.. spooner, however is up again and
tries to make out that the inhabitants of Batangas died
of malaria and dysentery. Senator Culberson reads
from the report and shows that war; malaria and dys
EMERY had caused the mortality Senator Bacon
shows that disease resulted from destruction of
and lack of food which could be imported by rea-
son of the blockade. Senator Spooner when cornered
by Cuberson the cross-examiner can find no more to
say than Il Will the senator later and in my
own time"
The truth is the republican senators graveled,
not from lack of matter but from surplus of matter.
no scuttlng their favorite parrotke cry until
the Gardener report and the Baangas report General
Smiths kill and burn" order and the scathing com
ments OF the democratic orators silenced them But
tho ,f;o
that silence could not be maintained defense of the
administration is to be attempted. The country will
be interested to learn what that defense will be.
The republican senators have not the power to do
what the republican papers do when the of Phil.
ppine atrocities accumuates, Papers like the New
York Sun and the Tribune discuss wireless teegraphy
baseball college athletics the Rhodes will bridge ter.
minas, trolleys, asylums and college clubs. Some.
times, when Senator Simmons arraigning the
administrations policy the republican senators absent
themselves from their seats, but when they come back
the democratic senators upbraid them for running
away Most of the time they have to sit in their seats
with their burning from the fiery denunciatlons
which continue to from the democratic side Of
the chamber.
KING EmANrrls granting OF pardon those tars who
disturbed the peace OF Venice not necessarily imply
friendship for Uncle sam. 1t may have been just Vene-
uan blind
OUR soldiers will doubtless jakesmithng the Fill
pinos until the verdict is rendered anyhow.
THE way Minister Wa has kept the peace since Senator
Teller roasted his recent speech indicate
man with the queue took the
GENERAL Miles will be permitted to round ont his Of
heia career ii he will promise to remain ncommuncado.
FRoM the those Memphis people treated scbley re-
Gently one is led to conclude that they heard the
suit Of the court of inquiry.
CAPTAIN PUTNAM YoHE STRONG says that he isn't broke
yet This goes without saying for May is still with him.
THE pension commissioner should write poem en-
titled We Just kill and burn the natives cause need
their islands See?"
WHOEVER is nominated for president the kill and burn
ticket will have number OF very embarrassing things to e
plain,
RUSSELL SAGE says Be vruous and you will be wealthy
There however lots of Texas newspaper men who can
give him the lie