The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-16
THE ISSUE OF 1902.

The feeling of confidence of the democrats concern
ing the congressional elections in the fall still
tinues, The corresponding dependency of the repub
licans is great The democrats have the
issue upon which to win which is the absolute proven
incompetency of the republicans in their management
of affairs both at home and abroad.
There at first some disposition the part of
the democratic leaders not to make special effort for
the control of the next house. 1t thought best to
have President Roosevelt and his party remain in com
plete control of the government give them plenty of
and enjoy the sport of seeing the engineer
hoist with his own petard But the dynamite has gone
off than expected and upon all questions
of governmental policy the president and the republic
ans up in the air.
There has been election in any country in
the world which registers the peoples will by the ballot
where there has been clear cut issue This issue
is republican incompetency. The incompetency is of
two knds-incompeency at home and incompetency
abroad. At home we have the trusts; abroad have
Imperialism.
Again these two kinds of incompetency each
OF two kinds, positive and a negative At home and
abroad both in their trusts policy and in their impe
ralism policy the republicans have those things
which they ought not to have done and have left
done those things which they ought to have done.
First to the trusts, the praise and encourage,
meut of the captains Of industry bad policy,
was also the donothng policy of the administration
and the Northern RAILROADS. merger, two out of the e
gion of trusts The republicans have prevented the
removal to the dungMl of the rotten old tariff carcass
in which the waFmth of their encouragement breeds
trusts the syn breeds maggots in a dead dog. The
decent and Seanly American people demand the re
moval of ~ carron and the maggots and will to
it that thf counuy is cleaned out
/ Th2f, to the Philippines, should leave them
to th6 Filpinos to whom they belong. The republic
adS made disastrous misadyenture in the islands in
{ which we have lost money and we
are fast losing our good name Why should we redden
our hands in Filipino blood pour down the little
brown mems throats till they nearly burst burn their
farms and their cities and make their land bowling
wilderness? It costs money, and make none in
return There is glory in it, All this aside from the
humanitarian side of the case.
This is the issue for 1902, the utter republican in
competency at home and abroad Our own people are
oppressed by tue trusts The Filipnos oppressed
by Imperialism abroad, and people paying for
1t and getting return but harvest OF hatred and
shame. Upon this issue the democrats will win in
: 1902 and again in 1904 after which America freed
from the trusts, will blossom like the and the
! Fiipinos will be allowed to possess their distant
islands in peace and will no longer be a nightmare
to them and they will longer be nightmare to us.
,
WITH volcanoes beching and the bottom of ocean
sinking around ST. Thomas the Danish landsthng should
hurry up there will be nothing deliver and Uncle Sam
will refuse to pay.
FUNSTON doesn't see anything funny in Mark Twain.
II MISS STONE had iectured the Bulgarian brigands
she doing in this country, would they have
leased her without waiting for the ransom?
SENATOR DoLlyFa speaks of Samar if he peri
at the gate OF Paradise.
Mrs KNox the wife of the attorney general is the only
in the who does become angry when she
sees her husband Phlander
Mr. BRYAN says he will he Aaron the democratic Moses
however is still in the bulrushes.
THE Philippine atrocities investigating committee
before through will the Root OF the whole
matter
Now Roosevelt only had way of putting the gag
r to Iilman much would be forgiven.
J. PERHAPS the Almighty sends calames like that at St
Pierre occasionally just remind mankind that they
kin
e THE inhabitants of Martinique lucky; they have
capped American benevolent assimilation"
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