The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-12-02
THE HOUSTON POST NOMINArES JOHN
HANCOCK FOR SPEAkEH,

COCK toE speaker oI the nSAI LiNHSS III SAS w
lowing style:
There is third gentleman whom The Post
would suggest as presenting an admirable
compromise hetw cen the kentuckian and the
Pennsylvania, and who has qualities that
would make him generally accePIable-we al
lude 10 the Hon. John Hancock, OF Texas.
Strong as Randall and Carlisle Are as politi-
Clans and debarers, Hancock is easily their
peer. OF a mature age amt great experience
in men anu affairs, Of unblemishsd personal
Character and OF genuine manly stamp.
There need be no surprise AZ the expression
ou part Of the Post Of It's preference for Judge
/ Hancock. We claim 10 be Independent.
During The canvass for Congress the fost re-
manned neutral SINCE il had determined 70
taAe no active part in the campaign. save in
! favor OF Col Wash ZONES. The Post was
pleased at the issue Of the contest in the Tenth
! District, ami can with good conscience CON
graduate the state on having 50 able ami prac-
heal man as Judge Hancock as one OF lis
congressman.
II is very appropriate for the Pos, 10 make
this nomination. Hancock is a fraud on the
democracy and the Post is fraud on the IN
dependents. The Post essays 10 give John a
an ''umblemished personal character We
don't know what kind OF character passes
for "unblemished" with an ''independeni
concern like the Post, but We stand ready 10
furnish the points in his history that 10 all
other persons except the above concern will
not be considered as furnishing IAN unblem-
iShed character If long career of sharp
practice as lawyer, as a lobbyist and corrup-
zionist about legislative bodies, and as
bIiber and corruptionist in elections, the re-
cent one being directly in point. furnishes the
kind of character the Houston Post calls ''un-
blemished" why then Hancock is their man
for speaker.
The above quoted extract from the double
loaded leader also contains the confession OF
treachery on the part Of the Post that ii was
in the league to defea, Gov. Davis and TO use
Wash Jones for the purpose. The Post lost
Col. Jones thousands OF votes 10y It's miserable
position in the contest and has robbed him of
all the fruits of good fight.
In order to make good our assertions as TO
Hancock'S character we stand ready to prove
that he used money to bride voters, and TO
deceive them with false tickets, and to intlu-
ence the counting of votes in the late election.
That in this role of bribery liam
cock is not fresh hand, rs will
be shown by reading the evidence OF
his attempting to bride state senator
in lS7o-see the testimony, Senate Journal
1870, pages $40 to 34S, where this is proved
distinctly on Hancock by the testimony of his
friend Gov. J. w. Throckmorton and Others.
and where it is further shown that Hancock
actually perjured himself in trying to
escape the connection he was shown TO have
had with that transaction.
Even the acquisition Of the fortune he now
has is tainted with sharp transactions, illus
trated in the matter of the Dufield estate.
The back salary grab Of $1,000 for which
he voted, and has always refused to return to
the L. S. treasury, where il belongs, is the
only important business he transacted while
in congress, except fraudulent clam he
urged before the Mexican commission OF
which his share was half the plumber, some
500 900 One Of class Of claims that
has caused demand for a reopenlng Of that
business on the part of Mexico. lie was
never heard from in congress during the whole
Of his six years service there except as back
salary grabber, which he has the shameless
ness to try to defend.
For twenty years Hancock lived out Of the
pale Of decent society in Austin as mcscig
inatonist.
Most certainly beautiful candidate for the
speakership!
We are glad his nomination comes from the
Houston Post and not from any honest demo
cratic source.
One Of the giant trees ofthe CalaveTa, grove
in California is named Otto Won Bismarck.
An admirer OF the German premier, resident
10 San Francisco, has just sent him a iVe-ioot
photograph OF the tree, expressly taken ior
this purpose, and enclosed in an elaborate
frame Of native woods.
The Philadelphia school boys who en-
barked in silk culture two years ago have en-
larged their cocoonery in the city to accommo
date 5000 worms, with branch al Swcdcs
boro, n. ., for the cultivation Of Mulberry
trees. They have invented a machine for
winding the silk from the Cocoons, which they
have been exhibiting at public fairs.
The empress Of Austria, though grand
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