New-York tribune., 1907-06-19
BANoUO'S GHOST IN TEXAS.

When Senator Joseph w. Bailey was 'vndi-
Gated" last winter by the Texas Legislature
that body having wisely taken the precauton to
reelect before 1t set to work to 'vindicate' him
the Senator and his admirers vocferously con-
graduated themselves that anarchy and social
ism" had been stamped out and that con-
spiracy against all that noble and stainless
| in Texas politics had been successfully frus-
trated. Like Othello cashierIng Cassie with the
dread sentence. Never more be officer of mne!'
Mr.. Bailey mounted the rostrum in the Texas
Capitol and told the baffled conspiratOrs that
they should never again draw salaries from the
public treasury so long he and they both
! should live. If molten wrath could slay Mr.
Bailey's enemies-whom he also classified as
enemies of society'-they might Just as we'll
have admitted themselves TO be as dead as Ban
quo. They were communicated and prescribed
and their political rights and assets were seQues-
trated as a warning to infdels and scofers
Lese majesty is still a crime not TO be commit
ted with tnpunity in the imperial commonwealth
. of Texas.
You kill the wicked and the heret!cal but
you cannot always lay their ghosts. The ghosts
, of the unregenerate ThomaSes slain by Mr. Bal
leys bull of accommodation to be still
walking at odd hours in Texas and trying to
make things uncomfortable for the excommuni-
Gator. We judge so, at least from accounts
published in the newspapers of reasonable
gathering the other day at Dallas, where, on the
pretence Of eating Jeffersonian dollar dinner
certain obnoxious spirits effected an organza-
tion for the purpose of further challenging the
decree Of ostracism issued against those who
failed in or out Of the Legislature to subscribe
to the doctrine that Texas Is represented at
washington In the person of her senior Senator
by pure. hawless, patriotic and absolutely pub
lie spirited statesman. This gathering had the
hardihood TO pass certain resolutions suggesting
that Mr.. Bailey's ''vindicatlon" at Austin last
winter was vindication only In name and as
sertlng the disturbing neutrality-suspicious. ad-
vanced however, by no less Democratic au-
thority than Mr.. William j. Bryan in dealing
with the case of National Committeeman Roger
Sullivan, of Illinois-that no legislator or party
Official elected by the Democratic party shall ac-
cept employment "at the hands of monopolies
Trusts or public service corporations or their
known representatives, while in such employ"
These Banquo-llke visitants went even further
IN their defiance Of good order and constituted
authority. for they passed the following resolu-
ton declaring their intention to resist and annul
the decree by which they were sent irrevocablv
into limbo
we resent the threats often made and re-
peateo mat no man shall be elected to any office
In Texas who denounces the admitted confessed
practices Of Senator Bailey in connection with
m ieICS Oll company and opposed the
re-eIectlon OF Senator Bailey to the United
states Senate and we announce our fixed pur-
pose 10 continue this opposition until such un-
patriouc and corrupting service is discredited
and abandoned.
Ihis is evidently lamentable attempt to re-
open old sores, to revive cruel lnsinuations and
TO SUR up malice, envy and all uncharitabIeness
IL is u1e business of the dead TO stay dead and
not Interfere with the peace Of mind of a live
and "Vindicated" United States Senator We
are inclined to agree with the Judgment passed
on the dollar dinner by THE Houston Post" a
stanch defender of Baileyism and orthodoxy II
says with pardonable indignation:
The people Of Texas will appraise the Dallas
dinner for just what 1t is. q revel in political
depraVity and an orgy of envy hatred and
malice, and all for the purpose of discrediting a
senator of Texas and as far as possible dIr1in-
ishing his influence.
The Texas Banquos should go back to the
graveyard They are an offence to piety and
public tranquility. They jar the brooding calm
or great state and still greater statesman.