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Show "You might say a Republican administration adminis-tration would not be unwelcome." "Witness, for ex a 111 pie, tin's quota t ion from the leading editorial in the Port Worth Star-Telegram, one of the Independent-minded and most Influential Democratic papers in the youth: "The course of wlt-dom for the Republican Republi-can party would be tc cooperate with the president in launching the United States as one of the dominant powers in world politics; dismiss the foolish idea that he expects to run for a third term and Invite In-vite his cooperation In solving the domestic do-mestic problems of the country during the nest two years. Such a course would he best for the country and host for the Republican party. For Urn whole logic of the present situation is that the country must choose that party which Is best fitted to carry on the country's business, both at home and' abroad. Whether correct cor-rect or not, the country has greater faith in the Republicans for the present to solve our domestic problems than it has in the Democrats. It remains to be seen ' whether the Republicans will destroy that ; faith hv showing themselves Incompetent , in foreign affairs." j Texas Is anticipating a Republican ad- I ministration, but it likes the Wilson , leadership in foreign policy and wants to see the ideals he has expressed carried through by succeeding" administrations. 1 For example, the same newspaper which i printed the above editorial so friendly to ' the advent of the Republican party in do- j rnestic affairs is on the same day severe j in its criticism of Senator Lodge's stand in the recent Italian controversy. It says : "The Republican party's alliance with the German-American alliance 'against President Wilson ?n 191 (j has been well-nigh well-nigh forgotten by the people, but It was none the less one of the most disgraceful episodes in our political history. If the Republican party is to follow Senator Lodge in forming a new alliance of this sort as his letter to the Italian societies of Boston would lay the predicate for it is starting on a mad career indeed." 100 Per Cent American. Generally speaking, Texas Is 100 per cent American. Even its Germans in large part sent their boys to war and supported sup-ported the government throughout. They recognize here the errors that were made in the management of the war and have no patience with the kitchen type of southern Democrat, and would gladly have supported President Wilson if he had appealed ap-pealed to them as against such leadership In congress. - Although Texas returned Democrats to congress, many people here thought the appeal for a Democratic congress con-gress was unwise and illegitimate. Texas wants it known that it never would have Issued such an appeal or elected to office men who advised the issuance of such a petition in the midst of "war. Texas is prosperous; grumbling, as are other parts of the country, about taxation: taxa-tion: likes the Wilson foreign policy very much; hopes Mr. Wilson will direct the return at once the telepgraphs, telephones tele-phones and railroads to private ownership; owner-ship; curtail the power of the postmaster general, if not remove him. and wants our government to negoiia te arrangements arrange-ments with foreign -governments at once whereby present embargoes against the introduction of American cotton into the markets of central Eurone may be lifted: and, last, but not least, if Texas is dominating domi-nating any administration, it would like to have people know it never would have chosen all of these individuals who have been elevated to positions of great responsibility re-sponsibility in the Wilson administration in the name of Texas. IT ;licism Bitter in Lone l ar State Against thej postmaster General's 1 lone Management. Smblican Administra-m Administra-m Anticipated, but ilson Leadership Is 1 Hearty Favor. By DAVID LAWRENCE. 3Q right, 19) by New York Evening , ' IJost, Inc.) JSTOX, Texas, May S. What do the ?C; of Texas think of Albert Sidney ;on, postmaster general and politi-nerai politi-nerai of the Wilson administration? do they think of the criticism which in Veen voiced in other parts of the I y concerning Mr. Burleson's man nt of the postal service, the tcle-i tcle-i and the telegraphs? e now visited El Paso, Ban Antonio, Forth, Dallas and Houston the five 2al cities of the state and have inquiries of editors and business ""fjrmers and people generally aa to attitude toward Mr. Burleson. ' I with men who had opposed him Mjliose who had supported him in ""polities, men who know him inti-and inti-and the opinion, almost unani-r, unani-r, seems to be that if Texas had ermitted to pick a postmaster gen-never gen-never would have selected Albert Burleson. SNT IMPUTATION )ESIRE TO DOMINATE. le here resent the imputation that has sought to dominate the Wilson atration. This has been frequently v :d because Messrs. Gregory, Burle-J Burle-J d Houston of the cabinet and Colo--T .win M. House of the supercabinet ) fiom this state. Rather do the , say, on every side, that fione of Li men could have been elected to fflces. They cTo not know much 0 Colonel House or Secretary Hous-. Hous-. (it are inclined to have , favorable 't is of them, but they do know ftte .ster general, and their views are e and unequivocal. It must be said less, however, to Mr. Burleson, that p irge that he used convict labor on nlation and was in some way a par-tie par-tie whipping of convicts on his land, . bo sustained. re's nothing in that," was tho way IT :dy answered -that question, though same sentence they might utter y' criticism of the r-ostoffice admin-m. admin-m. GNANT OVER STE MANAGEMENT. ems that ronvict labor used to be iut to plantations generally or used ns leased by the state. Mr. Burle-i Burle-i no more to do with them than any 'Iantation owner. For several years been prohibited to hire out state iabor on privately owned farms, he did years ao was considered n ' in business transactions in this Texas people do not harbor any tee on that ground against Br. Bur-Thy Bur-Thy are literally up in arms eff ; him, however, for his manuge-j manuge-j )f the telephone system. I havo more bitter criticism of the post-general post-general in bis own state than I l many other states in the union, (lance, in Kous.on the city council aied an application of the telephone ly for an increase in rates, but the ster general granted it. I am ad-moreover, ad-moreover, that a representative of artm-.nt wrote the city council 5g threatening to Increase the rates ?,3 cent if they resisted the 'o0 per 77WereaPc. Tactics like this are nat-wttrlbuted nat-wttrlbuted to the postmaster .gen-nself .gen-nself as the responsible head of his i&IHANCE FOR . ; :TIVE OFFICE. Jeditor of influence went to great o tell me that Mr. Burleson was a , gyff personality who got bio training imlnal lawyer and prosecuting ai- "T . and never ceased to tackle prob-the prob-the eame brusque, driving way . iiiei;i used when he harrangued in die ired.- courts. Favoring the wet side of eP:'er. hitition fight and jumping against ff.'- n. Joseph Weldon Bailey, he came bj congrccs again and urain from (l trict. I asked whether Mr. Burle-ni Burle-ni "'ljM be nominated for the United ..senate to succeed Senator P-ulbtrt-trrrr iOie feeble health may bring aboui p;;'- irenient, but I was told that the titer general had no chance to win -sctive office in this state, judging way public feeling is running him today. shrewd observer of affairs said he io champion of Burleson,' and bene be-ne ought to be removed, but he rather significantly that he did riot Mr. Burleson took over the cables jegraph and telephones and in-i in-i rates without consulting Presi-uson Presi-uson and getting his approval. y are trying to make Burleson tho was the comment of one editor, 1 was by no means friendly to the ster general. This sounds like talk Republicans and anti-Wilson men, u species are very raro in this the country. The Wilson admln-n admln-n still has a hold on the masses, 't on the business men of Texas. Hate would never go Republican, ,8 one man laughingly remarked, |