The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-16
THE BIG RALLY FOR HOLT.
Fully Two Thousand People Asse mbe on
Court House Square.
TO HEAR DOCTRINE OF MUNICIPAL REFORM
Preached from the Stump-A Revolution OF Public
Sentiment Demands Change in the Affairs
of the City Government.

, clpal ownership when Il takes them all
winter to get q heating apparatus located
in the Fannin school capable OF heating ina
building, when day after day the children
had to be sent home TO keep them warm
He referred to the bankrupt condition |
Of the city when Mayor Brashear resigned,
because he had gastritis from which dis,
and put Wooford there to take his place.
In getting down to the legal department
sSTrEw&SiRRTP," V WHO G5'1 FILED IA TAX SUITS
IN EIGHTEEN DAYS AFTER THE LAW
WAS PASSED ALLOWING HIM . PER
rRREEvyioMTssi l 70 THE HR PAsS&SGB Of or Tri
LAW HE HAD FILED But FIFTEEN
SUITS. This law gave him per cent on
| a million dollars OF back taxes.
tie read the records OF the district court
showing the Ming Of these tax suits On
the second dry 1888 was paid an afternoon
! paper, and they decided TO buy a yacht,
| and on the eighth day suits We're fled Civ
| Ing that paper Si440 When the tax iudg
ments for the city amounted to but SiSi.5o
In eighteen days this paper was paid an
aggregate sums Of 5000 So For the year
! ths same paper received $1,000 from these
| tax suits which was paid by the people
This is tho record upon which Mr. Stewart
| expects to he elected mayor This record
had TO be gotten from the district court
as the city records were not to be found.
Mr Coleman referred to tho loss Of the
| city books The Post the day before their
! abstraction charged deficit OF $685. coo snd.
behold, that night the books were spirited
| away.
He charged that the weapon Of the op-
position was calumny and abuse They
were afraid To stick TO the record.
Ia conclusion, Mr. Coleman referred 10
| the proposition Of the Stewart faction ~
tho dcmocratic executive committees to
give the presiding officers If election pre-.
cincts tire right to appoint Judges sud
clerks
TWO years ago MIR Coleman charged that
| Mr.. J r, Browne WAS robbed Of the cleo
| all others were honest until he dtscovered
| tbat bn vras vohbad INT ,btg ,.o,r ,aiI bc
we We have cap9idate and ' pgbnS ' Sapf nj
,no,t bahtnd bjn, 10 ,.iu ~ t.ior.ta
renstiticn ~ tbo fr,md ~ 1000 ''''''' ."
Nr Colomen's en"crb Of which tho ohove
Is but a hare svnopsis was a splendid Of
FORT and was Delivered vim mogni6ront
affect 10 an audierSe tbot vas th6rnWgbIT
resnorsive and heartily onthnsIasti, Ia
was interrunted time and erain NV tine
,yntov,o tbnt s.,Ia,..1 81. - MI, ~
"d1r59ntion and ,,i,inna vou - ~ 6o,,n
"Sf5v WITH 'sr Goler6n . bclnsJ 20 tocn
tho Sr5,nrra IN ,nian5i5 ,.rIpo wv N'''
~ the conclusion Of Mr. Coleman's nd
| dress Mr. ice II Eagle was introduced
mn su..~,... - =.
Inc ioiloWihg are some OF the points
made by Mr.. Eagle in his speech
"This ia really Seth Low against Tam
r,.,v hou nm , .,,.lto, sc,lo. 4. a. enc
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rights OF the citizen against the bosses
thu rights Of the people against the poll
. ucians public office Is a sworn trust
. not "A private privilege Officers are serv
+ ants-not masters Rotation, change, look
= ing into the books. are necessary to pur,
= | administration. Long continued power
. grows arrogant, iusolcnt, corrupt
There are sham issues and there ar,
:. real issues in this campaign. Lot us sepa
y rate tho chan from the wheat The shan
/. issues have been interiected by Colonc
" Holts opponents In an attempt TO hide the
* real issues upon which they arc weak
What ARE the sham issues, and who ar,
r Responsible for themf What arc the rca
L. issnesl
r The first sham Issue is an attempt D.,
R the Stewart forces to derciye tho pcopl,
s by saving that Colonel Holt is only
IL ngurehead being used by others. All %
t. }ou who know him personally know tha
s. nero never was more nrm reSoIute. w
right. honorable man, n has lived hort
twenty i've years and his name Is syno
nlmn Tor strength, courage, virtue, honor
s without shadow on his honorable
lie and no one who knows him is fool enough
- to try. --.,,.-
me persensllly OF one or our most re
s spectacle citizens md his business PROS
n psrity nre hauled into this controversy be
=, cause he Is one OF a dozen men once on
II committee 10 visit Colonel Holt TO solicit
IS him Ia hc candidate. rsfer to Mr
e John II, Kirby. An afternoon daily take
=. rs daily text upon him and his cuisines
2, does his personality amount 10 in thi
10 campaign? n what IS charged I've true
10 where is its application 10 pending issues
v II is n poor attempt to obscure the issues
Q i SAYS Mr. Kirby is r miitorist hecaus
Z. he made an address before the Iigh
q Guard club IN which he remarked that +
!, he had forty hoys he would desire then
!, all to belong to the local militia Thi
e paper saws thereby ne meant that h,
= favored a great standing army to shoe
- down the workinEmaD. What do YOU thInl
4 Of that interpretation \ local iniHti.
p has been ! democratic plank since the DAY,
~ Jefferson
d. at says Mr.. Kirby Is plutocrat Well
n " plutocrat is one who was reared II
a the rural precincts, whose old parents We
live on farm in Tyler county. who In,
=. made a great fortune oy building an desc
n late pine forests into busy cams and mill
n and homes and gives hirh wages anC
"a shorter hours to $500 mon who love Mir
~ personally to a man who never crushed ,
:. rival, but always brings iovs and bless
- ings 10 others, who lives as one Of m,
y boys daily In our midst ms a nIoin pen
- tieman who heIps and trnsts ana t6va
II men-fbsn s,ipnr,sa 10 nIu . NV
D This paper saws he smoke in New orIesn
o the right 70 vote This nsner CO., ~ az ~
% a property test he did nor cav tbat No
y think that nor feel thar Tbs STots. y