New-York tribune., 1908-04-04
TEXAS AND HER SUPERMAN.

We learn from The Houston Post, firm
believer in the theory that In the Hon. Joseph
w Bailey Texas possesses genuine super
man In statecraft and politics. that the Texas
Democrats are rallying in force to decree an
other .-vindication' for Mr. Bailey There was
q great gathering last Saturday al Fort Worth,
at which the junior Senator was put in NOM
ination for the post of delegate-at-large 10
the Democratic National Convention his enc
mics having had the audacity to challenge MN
10 contest for that honor in a Democratic pri-
mary Mr. Bailey has frequently asserted that
these enemies are socialists and anarchists,
aiming to discredit him a first long step
toward upsetting the present structure or so
ciety There were 149, 105 Democrats IN Texas
who paid their poll taxes and voted in 1906.
There are probably q good many more who
have paid poll taxes since, realizing that Mr..
Bailey would shortly have 10 be revindicated
or the pillars Of order would he rocked to their
deepest foundations We are not inclined to
think that there are many as 100000 so
cialisrs and anarchists in good standing in
the present Texas Democratic organization. so
that it is reasonably safe to hope that the
Empire State of the South will not repudiate
its Superman and thus begin the work of
undermining our social and political institu-
tions.
At this distance il has been impossible 10
reach any very clear understanding Of the polit-
ico-legal activities in which Mr.. Bailey has
been engaged and which resulted in his being
charged with undue intimacy with the Waters.
Pierce Standard Oil interests in Texas. Mr..
Bailey has himself given several versions Of
that intimacy. all intended TO show that, if
beneficial TO himself and to the interests which
he served. 1t involved no breach of political
ethics and caused no detriment TO Texas. How
ever this may be, the people of the state seem
TO have passed beyond the point Of weighing
and sitting evidence The socialists and
anarchists" will not be convinced Of the Junior
Senator's impecca bility, and his followers
seem 10 he worked up TO the pitch OF support
ing him not so much because he has been sue
cessfully vindcaJed q statesman as because
he was from the beginning a superlattve, stain
less masterful and only family appreciated
patriot and leader.
The Fort Worth convention gave Senator
Bailey testimonial which should silence all
but the most depraved of doubters and scot
fers Here is the picture il drew of the Texas
Superman:
Not Vet in the fulness OF his years, his splen-
did pow ers have already given him foremost
rank among those accounted the truly great men
Of the nation. No man OF this time has such
grasp Of the great fundamental doctrines Of the
Democratic party, and no other voice can ;"
proclaim them At period when there is ue-
manded the vigilance Of true Democrats Tor the
preservation Of cherished principles from the
faint Of plausible but alien creeds, ana "Ien dS
never before there lies upon the Democratic
party the patriotic duty Of resculng the Republic
from the blighting control Of RepubhcanisTn on
the one HAND and the debasing influences Of So
cialisn the other. no man within the party
more embodies the aspirations or animates the
hopes Of Democrats throughout the Ianc IMAM
does J. ". Bailey, OF Texas.
We unuualifiedly indorse hiss as q true man.
whose haracter IS beyond the reach Of the tur-
bid tide Of babbIinE runors; and as a great
statesman. who has never truckled nor sold the
truth 70 serve the hour, never ShTunk rom an
and everywhere has been a tower OF Strength
and has stood four-square TO all the winds that
blow.
No mind in the Democratic party so fitted
10 understand the principles Of Democracy and
no voice so far reaching in proclRiming them.
The Fort Worth convention strsyed so far
afield in the closing sections Of the address
which il adopted as 70 mention William j.
Brvan and n instruct Mr. Bailey and his
sociates if elected delegates-aTlarge, 10 vote
for Mr.. Bryans nomination at Denver. It
also indorsed the principles announced in the
platform adopted by the recent Democratic
convention of Nebraska" MT. Bryan, it ap
pears may run indefinitely for the Presidency
and furnish the ideas TO be used in his
vases But he Is the supreme and orig
Inal source Of Democratic inspiration the
fittest and most heaven-born spokesman of
Jeffersonian truth From the Texan point of
view there is only real Superman in
Democratic politics. and the heart Of the Lone
Star State Democracy never beats Loyalty
and so ecstatically as when il is "vindicating"
him against the aspersiops Of socialists and
anarchists"