The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-04-28
HOUSTON, MONDAY, MARCH 2s, 1902.
aTHE RUNAWAY GAIT"

Theodore Roosevelt has been president Of
the United States for seven montas. At
the beginning OF his term of service he
had greater good fortune in the prosper
Gus condition Of the country and Of his
party than had fallen to the lot Of any
president for very many years. The party
had polled large majority in 1900 at the
election of Mckinley. The house was re-
...JAlican. The senate wns republican. with
a leader N the right caliber, .hc repub-
rcan control of congress was sure 10 be
continued in 1902 and. If the president
would prove himself such a leader,
nc would undoubtedly succeed himself
In 1904. The country had put itself TN
reservedly in the hands Of the republicans.
1t looked to them and above all 10 the re-
publican president, admiringy pointed to
by the republican shepherds as the flower
Of the flock. for o prosperous administra-
tion at home and abroad.
Now all OF this has been changed. Where
is the confidence Of the people in the re.
publicans now? The yeriest tyro in politics
Is enabled to predict democratic success.
Mark Hanna refuses to conduct the re-
publican congressional campaign in the
fail The republican leaders hang their
heads. From the West come mighty rum
hiings of republican discomfort New Eng
land has found her conscience again and is
pointing a long and bong finger Of scorn
straight toward the White House Why
this mighty change in the short space OF
seven monthsi 1t Is because the repIb-
lican president has proved himself a lePdcr
Of shreds and patches.
In the senate. on Friday Senator Car
mack Of Tennessee. one Of the younger
senators. with the ready wit that is his
American brthrght, hit the nail on the
head. There is many a truth that "a
spoken In jest The president, Senator
Carmack said, reminded him "of the Tenn
essee horse whose natural gait was a run
away" That Is why 'the wonderful one
boss shay" Of republican organization has
broken down and gone to pieces before it's
time.
Consider the American inquisition in the
Philippines. the policy Of Herod with a
wholesale slaughter of the innocents. a tor
ture that recalls Toruuemada Of men. and
Of women, TOO. with an agony more c1cru-
ciating than the thumbscrew or the rack.
See the Ere rolling MP TO heaven from
farms and villages and follow the progress
of the American army by the flames 1t
kndles as II goes. Think Of the thousands
Of homeless families, many Of whom when
oyeItaEeL by our soldiers havo no need
FOR any other home than FIVE feet Of earth,
the shudderlng, hunted little brown mon
for whom he'll has. no horrors as they have
met the Americans Read this rcd history
In the press dispatches Of today and under
stand why the republican prestige has dis
appeared. The American people are Of A
religious stock and are horror stricken at
these orgies OF crime.
Nor is the administration at home ruch
better than the administration abroad.
Dewey. Schley and Miles can tell an IN.
pleasant tale of the insolenee OF office"
that the American people have holly re,
sented Who is Theodore Roosevelt 70 ,r.
suit the bravest officers of our navy and
the ranking officer Of our army ana wish
upon their honorable gray heads his m
hnmor? Cuban reciprocity has been dear
20 the presidents heart and the sugar
trusts. hut the oppression of the neonle
by the legion Of trusts In all lines OF busi
ness ana Industry has seemed to him 4
very insignificant thing Tie has given ne
me promise. hut not the performance. Has
ne "shaekled the cunning" OF Morgan ar
innzzled the greed" of the beef trustq
Cruelty abroad and avarIce ar homa
these are the vices that have damned me-
republicans with the citizens of this conn
try. The American people repudIate an
administration as greedy as pbaroab and
as cruel as Nero Just as we would with d
morse we must get rid OF president
whose natural gait IS a runaway