Show DISGRACED TEXAS In the tile Texas T senate chamber ch the tile other day the portrait of f old Sam Houston I was taken down and that of Senator ex-Senator Joe Bailey was put in its place A little history is recalled by that When Texas drew out of the union in 1861 old Gen Sam Houston denounced the act and retired to his farm and thenceforth was no longer known in the tile public life of or the state he did more to create than any other other- man His enemies did not kill him for they knew that while they might kill kiU him they the never could scare him and then they feared that should they kill him the act would rebound against themselves But they evidently have descendants de and and now after half a century r they strike e at the old man who has long been wrapped Tapped in the robes of eternal rest The old general can stand it casil easily casily his fame is not in the least dimmed by it But can Texas Texa stand it Can Joe Bailey stand it it f We We e do not believe that thai any old confederate soldier suggested the shame wedo we do do not believe that t man ninny many t of them approve it And if Joe Bailey is the the generous high man his friends g give gc c him credit for foi being he will se seek k kan an occasion where heie in a ringing speech he will tersely review what Sam Houston was to Texas in the days clays that tried Texan souls and then demand demand demand de de- mand that th the wrong done to his state s in the th attempt to strike at tI th the dead be undone |