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GATESVILLE.
TERRELL DELIVERS n HOT
PHILIPPE AGAINST
HANCOCK.
CONVENTIONS HELD THROUGH
OUT THE METEOROLOGICAL
DRIFT.
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Special Telegram to the statesman
GATEsyIILE. July l1.-Judge Terrell spoke mere
this morning for two hours to CROWDED hVuse'
lie discussed at length the tariff, ana exposed th
,vsvs and dancers OF corporate power on the one
hand. and the folly of violence as reneHy luI any
evil orn-eiiing Organization anu hJHf,lclous uee
of the ballot Ne the only remedy Tor pnEc MIohEs,
or security for private properly helelInE ~
Jndge Hancock he said: For two months past IN"
name OF Junn Han ock for the hlted slales sen,
ate has teen conspicuous az the ilhsthehu vi az.
Anstin paper His intended candidacy was not
conceded and when the Travis county people,
among whom we both live, instructed Tor me- ne
was not happy thought saw symptoms OF mr.
discontent AT MeXiA, where we buth spoke lhht
,raek hnt If the Fort Worth Gazette reports him
truy IL developed into rage at Fort worth TWO days
ago. lie is reported as being courteous 10 "tneis'
but severe on mi cnarg'n Nth '"'' and
partner and stakeholder with Jay uohld IN ran
roads and partner IN Il large cotton compress NJ
Austin, the head of which was Jay 20 ~ hht
nv onslaught ON railroads was lnslncere. ana ma
had long been the paid attorney oil the galveston
Wharf company. ,, II All
in warp wool or fitting owned tio niiI ~
dollars of stock in an Austin compress ana sofa II
for EIGHTY cents on the dollar and do not own one
dolars interest in any corporation on earth.
am not the attorney of the wharf company winch
Irenresented but once only, ara that was eleNeh
wears ago. not before court, bnt before the con
sttutional convention to prevent contsCaloh Oh
the vested righ's which, even If attempted, would
have been IN NlDhllbH Vi llt l'u'lh
II Mr. Gould ever had any interest In any enter
prise with myself am ignorant OF II.
| might safely rest all questions between Juuee
Hancock and myself a. TO my sincerity, PATRIOTISM
and ntness for public trust to the recent aclon Oh
the democracy of Travis county, where we nave
both lived On long But his unproy0ked mdlenltY
has its root in an ingratitude 80 phenominal as -
require exposure, and leaves no room ior plty'
Twenty.four wears ago Col. Wash Jones come To
me one morning at McCullochs tent, In Arkansas,
and said: "Terrell letters are in camp saying tat
Hancock will I've killed unless he can ne projected
/ cannot get furlough. VIII you, as my trlehd
90 10 his rescueg' In twenty minutes | was III
the sadde, and rode that day fifty miles through
snow storm, and fifty miles each following day ior
five hundred miles, until reached Austin
The first time ! ever entered John Hancock
home was the night of my arrival In AUSTIN. i
afterwards, through gentleman then nVing IN
BnrDet and who saw only yesterday, turned away
the wrath Of southern men who sought Hancock
life for what they regarded his treason To the south
For a month afterwards Hancock remained In Tex
a. / reported 10 Wash Jones the means used to
save HE, ther friend. Hancock ana myself dld not
differ about that matter.
When peace had been restored nut oppression
fingered | thought that this man who left us dur
ing the war could do no more good ior texas tnah
during our struggle and disregard the charges
made BY Degner, Governor Dayis and hers that
Hancock had desired command OF negro troops NJ
trenham. worked in the convention MS MS friend,
he,ped secure his nomination over Col Giddihgs.
Hancock and myself did not diner that ulpe, Wnen
he sought, against seth shepard, the nomination
for Congress l went WIN ann 10 Ian phsas'
where he delivered speech that promised no re-
ents with no other business than TO help him,
remained for several DAYS, aud addrefs ed the con
yeptiCp In his behalf Let Browning and Rector,
both living soy who secured tue vote oi Lampasas
county for Hancock.
| afterwards sustained him In the congressional
convention where he was nominated, crucltylhS
the Young ambition of Seth Shepard, a true ana
noble man. Hancock and myself did not difiJr
hat Tim. Whan he candidate AGAINST Coke
for the United States senate | refused to grow
angry, like others, over his filings at southern men
and voted for him, solitary and alone on the last
ballot HanC ock and myself did not diher That
time When he sought the nomination tor con
press, against Colonel Epson, went To William
son county to reconcile old democrats to his sun
mort Colonel Sessure and others know now
earnestly interceeded for him.
John Hancock and myself did not differ on that
occasion When, afterwards, Governor Davis Oe'
gan his canvass against Hancock, there was no
one 10 answer him (fOr Hancock was in Europe.
took the stump and answered Davis at Georgetown,
at Round Rock aud elsewhere, and Hancock, on
his return, circulated thousands OF my pnbilshed
speeches before he began that CANVASS. Hancock
and myself did not differ on that occasion wash
Jones was the bosom friend of my early MANHOOD,
and when time and again. at Florence, NJ Iaylor, ~
Liberty nil, and elsewhere Constrained ny porti'
cal differences, | answered Jones In Hancock IN
terest from the stump. felt that had struck
brother Again Hancock and myself did not differ
when that service was rendered.
snow. lrlny Ill these years II nave ever hshtu
or received from that man one favor, either poll
teal pecunary, or personal, do not remember
IT, These things were not done in corner, nut
were known Of all men; and now say to you,
citizens of Coryel county, that II ever dog shall
save my life by even barking when an assassin APP
proaches me. will feed that dog, not strike him.
The right of Mr. Hancock to run for the senate
do not question, but an assault unprovoked, and
utterly grOundless accusations would have come
with better grace from some other man.
"And now gentlemen the time has passed when
any mans sympathy with the north in her struggle
with the south shall constitute his one qualification
for Office here II should he urged against no man,
for we must bury the bloody shirt But we are
not vet ready to degrade our southern manhood on
southern soil by making mans loyalty tn the
north in the late his own passport TO favor in
Texas.
am the only candidate for the United States sen
ate who has thus far proclaimed that the lawless
WAYS of monopoly and of incorporated capital
must be made TO cease, or that free government is
doomed | have time and again pointed ont tha
remedies and for this course the shafts of mag
nifty will fly thick and fast around me. know the
desperate methods of the powers have provoked
and that neither accusation nor proof of my UNFIT
ness for popular favor will he lacking, II 10 manu-
facture them becomes a necessity. llencetorth, my
time will he spent in assaults, not defendng: for
in every Islander against me, behind the hand of
Jacob, | will hear the voice Of the corporate Esau