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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-31
HI MAKES n PLAIN.

Ex-senator Hill, in his speech at Madison
Square Garden Monday night thus sum.
marizes the things that the democracy Of
the country is lighting for;
"a victory Of the democratic party at the com
ing election will mean relief 90 the people from
numerous public burdens and eNactions II will
mean triumph of revenue reform and the secure
ment 20 the people Of coal and beef and other
necessaries OF life free from tariff duties u will
mean reduction Of taxation all along National
and State lines, bring happiness and plenty TO
many households and want and hunger 20 none.
Il will mean that official robbery heretofore
prevailing under the guise OF unnecessary taxa.
ton, shall hereafter be regarded as an official
crime against the best interests OF the com
munity. Il will mean that an era Of commercial
freedom has been reached and that the period Of
National exclusveuess has been passed. never,
II is hoped. 20 return again. Il viii mean the
beginning Of better days for the republic where
all men shall stand equal before the law with
equal opportunities, equal privileges and equal
rights
1t will mean that a strict and not loose CON
structiou OF the Federal constitution shall deter
mine the dividing lines between State and
National authority, between the duties OF citi-
zenship and the PreroEatives OF government.
Finally q democratic victory will clear the
Political atmosphere from the stencil OF corrup-
ton which seems 10 pervade almost every depart
ment OF The State government and relieve the
people from thc further domination OF the most
odioas and autocranc political machine that was
ever fastened upon the people OF this State.
This IS putting It so plain that every man
can understand There is no evasion of is
sues. no ambiguity OF expression designed
purposely to confuse the honest voter who
earnestly desires to cast his ballot for the
betterment of his country,
The republican party, through a long
lease Of power. has grown not only insurer
ably arrogant in it's administration of af.
fairs, but has gone the fun length in con
verting this government of and for the
people into a government solely in the in
terest of the favored classes. It needs to be
checked
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-31
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Frau Friedrich Materna, the original Brun-
hide has lost all her money and is obliged TO
give Music lessons in Vienna.
Henry NJ Flager has had built in his new
home at Palm Beach, Fla, the largest pipe
organ ever placed In a private house in this
country.
Dr. lager Of sanitary wooden fame, has cele-
brated his SEVENTEEN birthday at Stuttgart. He
is known in Germany as a writer on philo-
sophieal and natural history subjects.
Joseph Shirk, formerly of Lancaster, Pa. the
man who made the first revolver. died the other
day. The present generation hardly remembers
a time when there was revolver but in truth
it is a modern weapon and in its real efficiency
only few years old, not to exceed forty.
Fishermen in and around Gloucester, Mass
are firmly of opinion that Rudyard Kipling has
the evil eye" He wrote book about them
some years ago and named twenty fishing boats
therein Every one OF these boats has met with
disaster the last two having foundered in
recent gale Among English soldiers there are
not few who also think that there is something
rncanny about Kplng's eye.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-31
10 the EdItor Of the Mereury.

To the Editor Of the Mercury.
Dallas Texas October ss.--The candid op-
ponent Of populism must coneede that II repre-
scnts an earnest and an honest effort TO better
the average condition OF the people, and that
il relies for its converts upon persuasive appeals
70 reason. II has not the means even II It had
the inclination to blaze its way to power with
the allurements Of gain as rewards for devotion
10 its cause. II would seem, therefore, that
popuism would instnetively champion any
movement the tendency Of which must he to
increase the potentiality OF reason, and to d.
minish the strength OF haser influences IN poli-
tics
The poll tax amendment to the constitution,
If adopted by the people of the State at the
coming general election will preserve the purity
and integrity OF the ballot in this State and
unless it or some similar measure shall be
adopted, we are in danger of falling into the
methods OF barter which wholly control the
politics OF many OF the States Of the Union.
II is narrow. not to say bgoted PARTISAN
ship which holds it TO be the fault OF the demo
cratic organization Of this State that over 500
900 is said to have been lately spent in one
congressional district in the contest for the
party nomination for congress, or that other
party honors OF more or less importance have
been obviously disposed of by sale and purchase
thinly yelled. These things seem to be the in
evitable fruit of party success wherever at
system as a whole rather than the tendencies OF
any particular organization. II IS the supreme
duty of the patriotic citizen to resist with a '
his might the aggressions of sordd interests in
politics. and that duty is in no degree lessened
by the fact that he acknowledges no RESPONSE
bilty for them. Ii our positions of public trust
are to be put up at the auction block and sold
to the highest bidder. and policies of State are
TO be dictated by givers and takers Of brides,
II will matter but little to the average citizen
what may be the title and pretensons of the
ruling clique. All are equally interested in main
tanning an honest government, whether it shall
be administered by republicans, populists or
democrats. Sustained honesty in the admins
tration of public affairs is incompatible with
palpabe dishonesty in the methods by which
control of them is attained. The recent and
rapid growth OF the influence of money in Texas
politics as surely presages harvest OF political
corruption, unless promptly and sternly re-
strained, as that weeds spring from the I'M
disciplined soil. Public Offices will not yield d.
vidends upon traffic in votes without artificial
stimulus of one sort or another.
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(From the Charleston News and Courier)
The indianapolis News makes the latest lynch
ing affairs in Texas the text for sermon upon
Grimes OF Violence" in which It is argued that
the murders committed in these two cases we're
only evidences OF pure blood lust, a Satirnaa of
cruelty and not OF any desire to enforce the
law
In these two cases three negroes we're put to
death one Of them apparently under the form
OF law, and the other two by the mob In the
FIRST case negro who had been convicted of
murder and condemned to be hanged consented
that his execution should take place Immediately
instead OF month after his conviction, as was
fixed by the court because, in spite of the fact
that he would be under the protection Of the law
while under sentence OF the law, the law could
not protect him from the fury OF the mob. In
the second case two negroes who had been tried
and condemned to death were taken by mob
and hanged.
There was no possible escape for the con-
demned criminals in these two cases they were
negroes, ali OF them; they had murdered white
people; they were convicted by juries az white
men and BY white men sitting on the seat Of
judgment, we're sentenced to be hanged There
lNss no possible chance for their escape from
V penalties prescribed BY law, It was not 70
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
chlrnro Dale News.

Chicago Daily News.
But few are able to see sea serpent unless
they are half-seas over
Conversation is a dead art says a philoso-
pher. Talked to death, perhaps.
Some men never realize the true value OF
money until they try to make touch
Men set themselves up big gun--and the
smaller the caliber the bigger the bore
From the fruit preserver we get our jams
and from the wet goods dealer our jim-jams
Any man who depends on wages will acquire
lot more money than the man who depends
on wagers
II you compliment some men they will never
forget yo,i--unless you overdo the thing by lend
ing them money.
After sowing choice lot Of wild oats the
Young man in the case hopes that something wiz
come along and destroy the crop.
II is easier to know where to spend your
vacation than it is to know where to get the
money to spend IL with.
Some men will get out of bed at o'clock in
the morning and run to FIRE who can't be in
duced TO get up at 7 o'clock to start one in the
furnace
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SOME PosTscRIPTs.


New York woman has been married seven
times.
Australia finds homes for moro than 10000
Germans.
Frances Society Of Dramatic Authors collects
for its clients some $sso,ooo year.
The cathedral of Gothenburg, which was only
built in 1915, threatens to collapse
The present population of Greater Berlin ex-
oeeds ss5oooo-just 100000 more than Mu-
Mich
The best record made on picking hops was
that Of young lad who picked 4sS pounds in
one day earning $3.50 by so doing.
The average hay crop of the year is placed by
the department. of agriculture at 1.4s tons per
acre Oregon shows up with the largest crop
and Pennsylvania with the smallest
One of the most magnificent ball rooms in the
United Kingdom is in Lord Invcaghs house in
Dublin. It is seventy feet long and forty feet
wide, and the floor has delightful "springness."
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-31
The Poll Tax S9s Gsg Strong f 5: %gs

The poll tax amendment will !,
gree, eliminate from politics the ~ iaise d,.
requiring the poll tax to be paid ~ seller by
arc made Up and candidates. are des;son'se Issues
few men, and least Of all prac,;rs, gsy
viii let their dollars take lssn polittanl.
i will be rare case in which in,s.. 'ns dsfk
be made in poll tax receipts in order y viii
late the votes Of the holders Of ~ aanpu-
eoVery ana alsgrace val threaten such "a '''
TOO seriously TO Justify the risk Of Ma, Ssnsss
Another and, II possible ~
reason why the poll tax anendrrs,, weighB
adopted is that Il means the elimins,,sN loud b
race issue IN politics, and until tbs, - 2 tts
other issue Will ever be SERIOUSLY ma Ines %
considered in the South Win ~, uysg
parties in Texas today, the negro 49, s'foHg
the balance OF power and while ~. u had
exists there will be virtually but a. .'ilnon
Texas. II the white voters Of tbs pa'Y p
at liberty to mock where their inclinators .' sss
lead them, all parties would have eon...
opportunity and IN the natural course ~ ~,
would reach something akin to eous,;,, y.
strength nat political monopoly Is NJ &. y
TO be desired than trade monopoly. ever, ~ Nos
full student of history must admit n s"vugul.
ton and discussion OF live public issrss Ssla'
South waits upon the passing Of tho ~, VN
One by one our sister Southern States ~ 'uus
ing for the practical emancipation Of ths;S la,
voters, and the intelligence conserva,isn, 3nls
virtue of the world applauds. Texas =. sle
afford to lag behind in this movement Il -. a'
be any popuist who fears that his nat, 'u .sN
be a sufferer by the withdrawal Of A. ~. Wy
from politics, let them try to recall wS.. 'Ssle
where the negro ever gave aid or enro,,r, aua
ment to the populist cause Whatever ,n.,'
the reason for it, the apparent truth !. ~ =
there is broad and impossible gulf b.,w s..
populism and the negro whenever the W.. :.
the latter has been needed to defeat the form. =
it has been given.
Any cause that stands for clean method. A
a clean government ought to rally to Re .rs
port the conscience of the State witbort r.ssM
TO political ties and affiliations. This Is a nori
issue of infinitely more Importance in lis ~
nant consequences than any present ADVANTAGE !.
be derived from it by any party. Republics,
populists and democrats who believe that Il,
unpurchased and unpurchasable vote Is ~ o.ls
safe and legitimate vote, who would scourse M.
bribe-giver from Office as we'll as the bribe.tst,,
from the ballot box, and who desire 10 81 :,
healthy and natural division Of political forc.,
in this State can we'll afford to unite IN an.
port of the poll tax amendment. Z. G. SEvrEs
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-31
EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS,

The Wichita Times has just entered upon ~
fourteenth year. The Times is a seven-colrni
qaurto, owned and edited by Ed Howard, 10
whom Is due its progress and prosperity.
No doubt Teddy thinks he did it all by himself
alice Sun.
The great joke is however, that be has sue
eeeded in making few others think So
Give bad niger gun to tote and give ha
little bad whisky and he soon be OUT WIZ
mob hunting a telephone pole.--HoastoH KY
Let's prohibit both the gun and WHISKY
Merid Meas
And keep the bad Niger busy or run him ''
of the country.
An Eastern editor complains because he N;''a
Boston girl and caught the measles. w ..n.si
might have been worse. Suppose ne hau 'sSs@
the girl f-Sdntd dina Meas
Or suppose he had caught bothf
The great coal strike has ended ana NY
sigh of relief has gone up IRON tns 1899 ers
country 1t was settled along the lines pOpsrT
by President Roosevelt.-MeFid Ledger
And approved by Morgan
They catch EN-, hang EN- legally ana iliss :.
and still the devilment goes one. VINO
Corpus Christi Caller,
Mary Jane.
Mosquito bites in October are bad en sss Z. h
mosquito bites so numerous ana viruleett...,J q
excite fears for the victims safety IS m, s;ae
at this time of the year. 1t is pretty nsa A:.ts d
the entomologists offered something su'S-
the occasion.--CdmdeH ReT1e'p. ia
Residents of New Jersey should DC p'''~
to carry side arms
Smith, Elliott & Potts shipped three T,. Wv wes
fat cattle to Houston last Saturday Wusa
accompanied by Joe Smith and Charles MA H.ai /.
Joe saw the two negroes that were nO1iT;5 r1
Hampstead, while they were hanging
Hin Index - rsAf
Well Joe, didn't you consider them -
highstrungl
We don't know what We have done W. Una 4
sorry for it, that the Paris Advoea's s f,shsa
The Post from its exchange list ~ 'A''
20, {s4&slRn
It is stated, as one of the straiss A sl,s hs'i
Of this year. that the COZ mon heus n pIsss
abandoned the nty Of London apa Srrs6n CpF
Of aeas have taken their plaee'--'1"''
Havins. ~. a specific to make ' 3. AS, D.
they shire slisss seek one to make II
consultation. = 4 .,sdf
sor ON Blanks. ~ the cement age Z = r.
That Dr.. j. I. GLAEa Times-h''s'''
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WANT ADS will In.
Il are looking Tor a tss
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>1@mpe"i~q 0Httk 1"tkle4.

Said: you may think I'm laughed
But f you knew why laughed
I'll bet you you'd be lot daughter"
y = y
TO WIN HER LOVE.
If you love a winsome maiden
Feed her, feed her, on ice cream;
Take her where the oyster stew !,
Giving forth its tempting ssSta;
Buy her maccaroons a-plenty,
Bon-bons, too, and costly fruit.
If you'd make a maiden love you
You have got to feed the beaut
= 4 =
FILLUP FILLTPS.
A temper is bad thing to have; but vcfs.
thing to lose
Always lie on the right side, unless yoa arr
a lawyer, when it is permissible to lie on either
side
Be very sparing in your meat det--undl
is cheaper
Keep your bedroom window open and you
mouth shut.
He who liveth by the sword shall be retired
on half pay for life,
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Houston, Yeas, Friday, October 81, e
AN ExcIrEp clTlzEN.


A Houston afternoon paper contains the
following communication from an interested
and apparently excited citizen;
Were the news flashed over the wires that the
State legislature had decided to amend the State
constitution without FIRST submitting such amend
msnts to the people OF the State we should hrst
doubt the correctness Of the news. Should the
report however be suhstantiated, we would doubt
the sanity Of our State legislators. But sane or
Insane, we should promptly hurl defiance in their
teeth and give them 10 understand in no I'M
certain tones that they were the servants and not
the masters Of the people We should inform
them that we had elected them to be guided by
the constitution not TO amend 1t or give us .
new one.
The same line Of reasoning applies to our city
council We are informed through the press Of
this city that charter is 10 be so extensively
amended that II will practically be new char
ter. And who is IT that is to do all this The
people No, the city council The city council
who were 70 be governed by the charter. who are
in fact created BY the charter Tn short the
creature has decided 10 create its creator Won
derfull But have they perhaps counted with
out their host? Are the people dead 20 their
liberties and rights? Or are they only sleep
ing If mistake not they are neither They
are but gathering strength for the hnal blow
which will forever shatter the hopes OF the
woud-be usurpers OF the liberties OF the people.
BY all means let us amend our charter, which
at present tissue of Inconsistencies, but let
the people, do It, and not refuse 10 perform
\ duties nor allow our rights 10 be wrested
" us. In other words let us demand that no
pdment be adopted unless first ratified by a
witty vote Of the people. A CrTzEN
Nn reading the above one unacquainted
he facts might be led to suppose that
pbers of the present city council are
in some unlawful or irregular or
Nrecedented or unfair transaction
Investigation will show that the
Ntle is entirely misleading
I, IT Is, the present city council has
f. the matter of amending the city
h( precisely the same manner in
inns pr councils have proceeded There
VA &c lrture from precedent, except. IN
couiSS the board has ordered the sug
me nges printed thus giving wide
you such changes and inviting crit
advai Njection. This IS something that
est e Post believes, been done be-
The "a present board therefore. IN
aent pg chargeabe with some dire
Tep! the liberties Of the people
aue p disposition to deal fairly IN
dis
~ Is neither law nor precedent
eli : submission of the proposed
m Y the people, there is no good
y FShould not be done. and The
y TN Of such submission. Mean
j can citizen quoted above should
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-31
MR.. sRYANs PARAGRAPHS.

(From the Commoner)
Senator Depew says the trusts good
things, They are, for men like Depew
It seems high time that the people struggled
few schedules into tariff law.
Doubtless Mr. Henderson will recover in time
to accept something equally good.
That Moro sultan talks like man who has
his winters supply of coal in the bin.
The election Of a democratic congress will
mean a severe jolt for the divine trusteeship"
idea,
Republican demolition of the trusts has al
ways exhausted itself in the campaign assess
ment period.
The miners who asked for bread and were
given a bayonet should not forget that they have
remedy in the ballot.
All this feverish desire of the administration
TO settle the coal strike may have been due to
lively recollection of Homestead
Senator Spooner admits that he did not know
that anthracite was in the protected list. Per
haps the senator burns wood
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esteem, despite his notorious and aggres
sive agnosticism.
In other words. religious liberty has
come to be a fact and not farce in this
country. If this were not true. Dr. Hills
would be driven from his pulpit for daring
to speak in such high terms OF one who is
popularity regarded as the greatest Amerl
can inndel since Thomas Paineg
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-31
TALKING ABOUT HOUSTON.

Frog went courtin'
He did ride
With pistol
BY his side"
That frogs home was in Houston,-MeGyegor
Observer.
Houston is a booming town, even its jails are
would not give that as a boom instance :.
GreerviHc Bonner.
Carrie Nation was in Houston for few
hours one day this week, dsnouneing rum sellers
and selling souvenir hatehets She didn't fail 70
stir up the usual amount of fun for the excite
ment loving publie,--Cdrisor Signal.
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CURRENT POLITICS.

The republican campaign in Indiana is evil
IDENTIFY in a bad way Gentlemen" Chairman
Elliott, OF the Marion county committee, is re-
ported as saying to the State committee, II am
being candid with you. thought we we're in
good shape. We are not 1t is not politics to
deceive you The election is too close. The
workingmen of indianapolis are in a worse con-
diton so far we concerned than ! have
ever known them. / have been in every pre-
cinct in every factory in every ward meeting
in the city. We are beaten unless something is
done at once And this after the republican
party throughout the country has made cam
paiPn OF special appeal to the workngmcn, UNI
precedented in the history Of demagogic cam
-CorierJoVHdL
AS showing how much more powerful the sub
sidy-tariff-trust combination is than public
opinion the indianapolis Sentinel says: "Sena-
tor Fairbanks stood up in the senate at Mark
Hannas dictation and voted for the $Isooooooo
ship subsidy steal So did Senator Beverdge
Public sentiment in Indiana was overwhelmingly
against the job Both the morning and even
ing republican organs OF this city denounced
it. So did a number Of the most important re-
publican papers Of the State. We do not know
Of single newspaper in Indiana that advocated
The Fond Du Lac Reporter finds little in Sena-
tor Spooner's speech in that city that the La
Toilette men can congratulate themselves upon
and much to convince the oid-lne republicans
that he considers the election Of La Toilette and
the State ticket OF minor importance this fall.
His flat refusal TO ndorse the populistic State
platform OF his party has increased his pretige
in his own party and added to his reputation as
lawyer and statesman"
In view Of the possibility that republican
congress might enforce the fourteenth amend
ment and reduce Southern representation in CON
gress the Atlanta Constitution calls upon every
democrat who can he reached by our words to
go TO the polls on November g. urge his neigh
bors to 20 with him and together roll up the
fullest possible vote for every one of our con-
gressmen.'
The New York Evening Post declares that
David B. Hills total failure as political leader
Is proved afresh by the present campaign and
adds III he ever becomes a National leader he
will rival Bryan in driving from the democratic
party men of intelligence and character"
Contemplating Mr.. Roosevelts various eharae-
terstics, the New York Tribune thinks he has
not yet encountered the severest test to which
president is subjected. Legislation is not
in his strenuous line He has discovered no
method yet equal to Cleveland's brute force or
McKinley's gentle touch. But that may come
with his second term"
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orssesu., sh0ss raksn on 4 NInh.-

New York Sun.
One Of the things that interested the horse
shoers IN their recent convention at Philadelphia
the champion trotter OF the world Cresre,,s - =
easy on his shoes, but they are removed svsr -
few days to give his feet rest. s''
They are taken of at nigh, and renlao.d i,
the morning. Meanwhile the horse sts,5s -. ~
soft bed of straw. Under his front 49, ="
always carries rim of felt which mtiestes ; aT
on the track 's'
rear shoe only shout four, s"u H's
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San Aneelo STANDARD.

The newspapers of town are like looking
glasses. and you see yourselves as others see you
Ii your town Is doing business the local paper
will show Il in its advertising columns but il
the merchants are scared, spiritless men, with
stores OF goods all iumbled together and no husi-
ness doing, the newspaper will show il BY the
lack Of space they take. II you want settlers in
your town or II you want 10 make your town a
live town, the best way to do It Is 10 keep your
advertisement constantly before the public IN