The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-09-17
PREMATURE PLgAsANTRY.


THE following pleasantly" says the Brooklyn Times
recently appeared in the New York Herald
why did you desert the democratic party?
f" I didn't. l to Europe few years ago anc
when got back couldn't find the party No truer WORD
said in jest"
This is of the jests however, to which the
proverb The wish is father to the thought" applies;
also HE who laughs laughs best; and there is
Biblical text Let him that puteth his boast
himself he thai putteth 1t Off"
At the election 695S1sS democratic
were cast. The shrewdest political observers, even
the republicans admit that the democratic party
today is far stronger than It was in 1900
This result has been brought about not little by
dissension in the republican ranks No public
is dearer the presidents heart If his repeated utter
the subject candid than Cuban reciprocity;
the republican State conventions California Mchi
gan and Nebraska have declared against IT, The presi
dent has been conducting what he is pleased have
people call crusade against the trusts, yet many
members Of his party unwilling to have the trusts
assalled, in sham battle Secretary Shaw, the
stump has been pronouncedy anttarin reform in his
utterances yet the republicans of Iowa. with considerable
backing from of the republican press have demanded
the repeal Of those duties which afford shelter
nopoly."
The entering wedge OF sound democratic doctrine has
split republicans wide open on many issues Score
ary Shaw and Secretary Wilson rdicule the idea of
checking by aboshng the duties on live
stock and meat while this is the very remedy a demo
cratic remedy which Senator Lodge the leader of the
republicans in the senate proposed speech Maine
the other day.
After the fall elections and again after the election
Of 1904 will he the time iests pleasanries if the
republicans then have sufficient stomach for such amuse-
ment The Brooklyn Times and the New York Herald
are hulloing before they of the woods.
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TIE tight squeeze in money York would lead TO
suspicion that Russ Sage had his clamps it. your
Uno Russell the coin little bit harder cider
press could do it,
The hack regulating ordinance be at sandsti
and the hacks are at their stands still
IT possible that Houston has succeeded in
dismissing of her policemen After few months thew
will doubtless for and hundred dollars Of back
salary
TE hotel bill of the shah of $sooo for eighteen
days The shah has evidently cultivated iondnes beef
THE negro has been eliminated from republican politics in
Alabama and this is swat which they
are preparing for him all along the line.
Tur Alkal Eye man says that since hearing that the
spindle Top tanks suffered the he glad not
there
PEOPLE interested situation seem to he putting
IN full time comforting OF late 1t would better they
would confer less and concur
Tnr hacks beauty to the street they glitter passine
well and beauty is not all they add they also add smell
Phewl
lF will do he promises heed the real wants
of his people the world may expect to hear that he has
orawled OFF and died.
BEING given her Of an ambassador Germany will
have only herself thank he out not to be fond Of
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