The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-25
TIE PLANO POW WOW
The administration fiereely Attacked
by S,nAiOg IRu,abagal johnson.
Mtssrs. Gibbs and Craig Rush TO the
Rescue.
An Overwhelming Popular v.ndica,ion

lLshhi MY 81 aptClhl l--o'hAtof JNhN
Johnson, OF THIS county, IA pursuance Of
m appointment here TO-DAY, met quite n
lArre crowd NJ the Masonic hall, In his
speech, lac b, gan by ofitieslng ire legis ~
tive policy with reference 20 the rtyoking OF
the penitentiary lesse, lie also attacked
the administration on the unblio free.sohool
question, referring long and lusuy 10 Ire
lands speech before the negro INVENTION
at Austin in which he charged directly
that Ireland represented TO said conven'
ton ths, our ,tsts was the best
on GODS green earth Tor the
colored mar and charged that he virtu ally
invited the whole Of Africa TO our borders
TO be educated out Of our mHgni d go ttchoo
fund accumulated aud ! aid by the poor
white men o. the state, who, he said, were
unable 10 avail ihems, Ives OF getting the
benefit thereof. IL. accused Ireland oi be-
ing tender on the land fraud board matter,
for the reason that he (lreland) was afraid
their investigation would develop some.
is, full investigation OF said
frauds might implicate Ireland,
He C.lic I'D the action and policy OF the
board OF education, particularly with rhier-
ence TO the appointment Of the tour pupils
for his (Johnson's) senatorial distric' 10 the
state normal school, und denounced as ar
bitrary and unjust their appointment
OF the Galveston man 10 teach the normal
school At Mckinney instead Of Professor
Looney.
X. Il. Craig. of Mckinney, replied 10
Mr.. Johnson In brief and pointed manner
IN defense OF the administration. He noiy
acquitted himself and from the rounds OF
applause that followed him II would seem
that the friends OF the administration ire
in the ascendeLcy here.
Hon. Barnett Gibbs, o! Dallas, at the
close OF the johnson uDd Craig talk arose
and announced his candidacy Tor lieuten-
ant,governo' and In brief ana eloquent
manner gave an account OF his policy pur-
sued in the last legislature on the revoklng
OF the peni,srtisry lease and the leasing OF
the school lar DE- to stock men, concluding
In IN eloquent and eulcglslic tribute to
Ireland aud his predecessor Roberts, Coke
and Hubbard.
SECOND DI'PATcH.
PLANO, May 2l.- Special l-Thtrs were
ov' J. 600 persons IN town today TO hear
the speeches OF Johnson Craig aud Gibbs,
Senate Johnson spoke Tor an hour and n
bali against Governor Ireland, charging
bin with being social tq1alil ist, and too
great friend TO the "niggor,' and having
oorrupily and knowingly misl ID him (Jthn-
SOM into the support OF the penit 'ntiary
lease, and having corruptly refused
author OF tie bill upon the land fraud
committee, and for having corTu1ilY, as
member OF the educstion board, iutsrfered
with the students Of the normal hoo!s OF
his (Johr sons district, appointing man
from another part of the state TO teach the
normal school there. He accused Superin.
tentent Baker and Secretary Baines with
being In collision with these latter schemes.
Mr.; Craig, OF mckinney, replied
groundlessness OF the attack upon
Ireland, and attributed them to personal
pr' udice, and failure on the governors
part TO comply with personal requests OF
johnson. He showed that the peniientisry
lease. which had been revoked by the legis-
lature, was executed by Roberts and Lub.
book, before Ireland was governor, and in
pursuance OF the same system followed by
their predeces, ors, and that there could
have been nothing dishonest In 1t by the Of
Ulcers OF the government.
Senator Gibbs then for over
an hour held the audience
With clear, exhaustive review OF
state afiairs for the past two years, showing
that the government had been as honestly,
wisely and economically administered in
every respect as II hsd ever been In any |
state, or could possibly have been hero, and |
that II had been more In the true interest |
OF the people and less in that OF syndicates. |
corporations, etc.; that the peniteptiary |
management bad been wonderfully success
iul, it having cleared SOS 600 In one year
from April 1888 to April 1884.
showed that tho school land ought to yield |
Q revenue 10 the government without sales
Of public lands to the detrimsnt OF the
state or its citizens, and that this system,
even In lis infancy, was now producing |
more lease money than arose from the mil. |
lions OF acres sold. The crowd was evi |
IDENTITY with the thoroughly posted and elo- |
q uent senator on all THESE questions, and |
evidenced tner hearty appreciation of the |
manner in which he had, in the senate, |
looked after their interests.