The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-05
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Does this look like making the fight along the
same lines IL II takes all the rest Of his exist
cnce That threat seems TO have been put away
IN camphor
1t is queer sort Of craftsmanship that one day
drives ont certain men as unworthy and the next
day calls on them to take the lead National
Committeeman Johnston should eNplain.Woto
Times Herald
Committeeman Johnston has nothing to ex
plain. Nearly year ago in interview at
Washington he said that with the lights then
before him, and considering the conditions con
fronting the party he believed Judge Parker 20
be the most available of the several gentlemen
mentioned for the democratic nomination for the
presidency in 1904 He has seen nothing since
that time to change the opinion then expressed
on the contrary, time and events seem to have
strengthened II The point sought to he made
by the Times Herald that Committeeman John
ston has at some time or other been opposed to
Judge Parker is wholly gratritous, but strictly
in line with that papers usual unfair and under
handed tactics Neither Committeeman John
,ton nor he Post has ever fallen out with any
man Tor diderue with him it on any given
| policy, but they have opposed men who, like
the editor Of the s-Herald, for instance,
bolted and attempted to destroy the party. Judge
/ Parker does not belong to that class. His party
record is straight AS a string. lie openly and
Vigorously supported Mr. Bryan and the entire
ticket in 1896 and again in 1900 From a party
standpoint, at least there is nothing in common
between him and these so-callcd Grover Clcvc-
land democrats men who when they couldn't
control the party went in 10 destroy it.
The recent disastrous railway wrecks in the
Eastern States have set the new spapcrs 10 talk.
ing Here is editorial from the New York
World
III. i...I ~ A.. r-..,.i..- ,Sr-.tl 49,. .i...-
men be put on every locomotive Of the Wooien
/ or Mogul type IS most helpful and hopeful Sc
qucl OF the accident q Wcstneld II enacted into
law as proposed for New Jersey by the bill which
/ Senator Hudspeth viii introduced today, it would
I make travelling far safer.
,fwentysiN thousand New Jersey railroad men
asked az two sessions OF the legislature for such
law and defeated by the lobby What
arguments can the lobby advance against the
mute logic Of the twenty-five collins from the
Wcst6eld wreck
When the hremans post was in the cab his
presence gave some security, though his back was
often turned to the engineer and TO The track
the engineer is lett alone. tlc should NOT be. II
is too much strain upon him, too hazardous for
the passengers Put three mcu ON the engine
\
1t is becoming apparent even to the more on
timiste that the United States has trouble ON its
hands In the Venezuelan affair After all the
British protestarp9 about friendly feeling and
British criticism of Gtrman,'s aggressive course
SAYS the indianapolis Sentinel Great Britain
caolY uni,es with her allies 10 demanding prefer
enee over other creditors IN sny settlement Nen>-
zuel7 may undertake ~ make THIS nuts both
Venezuela and the rruca State. ,n position
There the must weld to th,s demsnd or asht
That IS th. ut,rAtum of the allies as rla,rl.
and Aaty it can be put
!
The New Haven Palladium printed at I'll. seat
o' one ~ Americas greatest institutions of ls,rr
ny tol1 eary d,stres,fu STORY last rA.i about
the unsrtn'h hehay,or Of some Of the PEOPLE Of
thar town 4 said
: The nunher Of r,pne girls "andeurt ~ >
drunken condition About the streets 81 Ntv Haven
az night is beginning 70 attract attention once
4 more II was only last rues4av night
that two youre S'fls neither over y wears Of
5 street when the Rev Ansor Phelps Stokes r..
: secretary az the Yale university passed them
Q Mr. Stokes had 20 walk near the fence Of the
Thselogiea school 70 avoid being struck by the
girls as they rolled and staggered about the side
walk About week aso people return
Us from lodges and society meetings saw a
\ disgusting sight on Church street Two girls.
both intoxicated were singing as they went in
2ig-zas path, leaning on their escorts one Of
whom was Chinaman and the other youth.
{ dressed IN student style The girls had their
arms about tho neck o. the Celestial II
was az recent dance given by military COM
: pany, that girl was knocked down in q fight with
q presence Of a crowd az students
4 Tho Charleston News and Courier comment
ns or The above is led to say; There is more
Of the same sort of testimony in the story printed
hy the Palladium, and by way Of moral. we are
+ informed sravely in the language OF a police
b officer that New Haven is the oeanest town
of rs size in New England ard, further. tina,
New Haven is as clean wholesome wel.con-
. Quoted and we'll policed a town as any town in
s America, We have no means OF showing lust
a exactly how dirty other towns in New England
may be but we submit that the testimony offered
y by the Palladium does not warrant the claim that
r New Haven is as clean and wholesome as any
: other town in America We are willing to adj.
y nit that some very good people live in New
Haven. and We should not be willing to Judge OF
the general character Of the girls in that town
u seventeen years OF age by the conduct Of the
girls who behaved so outrageously IN the streets
Yet, if We were TO follow the example Of the
p Northern partisan press. we would say at once
that the drunken girls sgzaggins about the streets
OF New Haven represented in fact the best society
, OF the place. and showed by the indeceney OF
their conversation the very low state into which
New England people Of the better sort have &c.
generated The respectable men and women Of
New Haven are as much 70 blame for the drunken
girls on their streets as the respectable men and
women Of this State are respousihl, Tor IN.
. crimes Of hloodshed and laNiessncss that hsv.
= brought reproseh upon our civilization We "A
= not GEEK 70 escape cur responsibility, bu, cut
New EnElan ssnlsrs are nst ~ position 10 ~.
> duly sxalt themselves Al eur expense