The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-06-27
THE IRATE AICAIDE.
Hc Again Dedncs Hi-PosirIon.
statesman, ~ sunday.

statesman, ~ sunday.
AUSTIN, June %, 1882
10 the Editors Austin statesman
must ask the use of your paper to
make another correction.
About the time the legislature nd.
louruod, 1t was stated in the Galve ton
News, that had sent for gentleman
to come tn Austin, and had selected to
be my successor HH governor Of the state
That WIS false and without any toundn
tion whatever, nnd / denounced II as
such.
In the Galveston News Of the 22d in
stRnt there pears whHt I,urports 10 be
an interview of me hy IA reporter Of the
News during my late visit to he A. Il NJ
/ college. deny that was interviewed
upon any consent given by me. An elnb.
orate speech, purpurtiug to have beon
made by me to the reporter contnins
some OF the private conversations thHt
! had with gentlemen, including the re-
porter, during my said visit. Whether
the report Of such convo sutions bo
made accurately or not, the habi Of
publishing them as m interview IL an
outrageous fraud upon the privacy ni 80.
cial intercOurse,that uuldnut and prob
Hb will not much longer be tolerated.
alleged inte view, as the manner Of get
ting it, the perversiOu in stl ling it au
interview, aud the use mHdr OF il in IA
sinister purpose that cousti ute it's evil
Significance. 1t was necessary for aud
was made the predicate Tor the leading
editorial IN the same piper, headed
"Koberts by Acclamation.' The News
advising the democratic party What
have done lately that tho News should
sug est my nomination Tor the office OF
governor by ncclamat'ouP What haye |
done lately thut an attempt should he
!nnde TO boost me by this disurgHnizing
newspaper, that has filled its columns
for the last three years with disrespect
and abuse OF me and OF my administrn-
ton, and during that time has never ns
may well he supposed, uttered wOrd of
commendation under Hny other than the
mercenBry motive ot increasing its sale
and circulation by little unexpected
diversity--a paper whose uttorances are
made only as objects Of commercial
value, responsive 10 the ring OF the dol
lar7 The burden of this remarkable odi-
tOrial throughout, IL "THE RonRRTs
POLIoY." That itself, undor we'll known
existing circumstances, is ringing tocsin
calculat, d 10 arouse jealousy and disor
KlnlLhtlpn III lllt utHlbtEhllC lhTtls 1
ropudiate IT. l never had any policy
other than that dictated by the interests
OF all the people Of the state, as gener.
ally represented and proclaimed by the
principles laid down in the platforms
Of the democratic party of this state,
under which | WAS nom ma cd. This
reckless attempt to instigato and Rtim-
ulRte an effort to force me into the
convention, az an active contestant
for office, after | had declined to be-
c me n candidate for the office OF
governor, is an evident movement Tor
the disorganization OF the democratic
party. Those who conduct that paper
must know, that placing my name in
nomination before the convention, with
even silent acquiescence, would place
numerous friends oi mine IN wrong
position, friends who may have, on nc.
count Of my having declined, fixed their
choice IN some one else, which would
not only result in the improbHbility OF
my being nominated under the two
thirds rule, but would be Just cause OF