San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-07-15
Current State Politics Spicy Speech OF
Terrell.

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standing capacity, and hundreds Of
people crowded around the entrance
and sidewalks unable to get in. The
Judge spoke as follows;
The political slanders against me
have become 30 numerous and with
out excuse. as to show that we have
n new crop of extemporized newspa-
per men who have all tho instincts of
a coyote except his magnanimity and
sense. / step across their slime and
refer fair men to the recent action OF
Travis county, where I have lived for
thirty years, and where Judge Han
cock and Judge Ireland both live.
Every device that atmalice could invent
was used in that county to defeat me,
and though 1 refused to open my
mouth in answer to the vile attacks
of the press in the county the people
instructed for me for the senate by u
four-ffths vote against the whole Of
them, including tho executive trash
gang. Austin, where 1 live, is, as
you know, o city Of good people and
great statesmen, but the statesmen
are not always happy, for unfortunate
ly there nre more pigs than teats
there. and so it happened that the
satellites Of these great men could be
seen pacing up and down Congress
avenue like SO many coons for two
months past announcing my defeat
in my own county, and poisoning the
minds of those who come to the capi-
tol on business until the property
holders of the city and county adj
monished them by four-fifths vote
that they were not the people, and
now. gentlemen, let me ask you, in
these days when the growth of mon
opoly must be checked or we perish,
to compare the record of my public
acts with that Of my competitors
Badgered and abused by their organs
L have been. + have remained silent
too long. On the 10Th of February,
1876, placed on the journals of the
senate protest against bill which
gave to tho Texas & Pacific railway
over four million acres of land. In
1876 I voted against the general law
which gavea railroad sixteen sections
of land per mile, and never voted to
give one acre of Texas land to rail
road company. How was it with
Gov. Ireland? AS member of the
Thirteenth Legislature he voted to
give land to sixteen roads marked
here on this map, and it would have
required over 50,000,000 acres to sat
isfy them had the roads all been
built The excuse that he wanted
to get roads for the West won't do,
for q majority Of these roads were
east of the Colorado. Why have
the land corporations been permitted
to use mp the ten counties of the
Panhandle for the last three years
and fatten their herds on the un-.
leased school land? Sometimes sit
ting on the land board, sometimes re-
fusing to sit, your chief executive
has been backing and failing from
the course Of duty like mule from o
hot branding-iron, while the usurpers
have remained happy on the millions
Of acres of school land unrented. Let
us tenderly commit him to the en-
brace of the friends of monopoly
where we should forget him.
Senator Maxey is entitled to more
tender consideration, for we have no
evidence that he wanted to be called
COX cart Sam, and had any special
trouble with the powers of monopoly.
Even after the Credit Mobilier infamy
was exposed Mr.. Maxey was not de-
TERED from asking land grant and
money subsidy for another road long
after congress refused TO grant such
favors. On the 18th day of Febru-
ary, 1878, he introduced a bill requir
ing the government to advance for
the Galveston, Harrisburg & San An
tonic railroad enough money and
give enough land for extending to-
ward the Pacific coast to almost buy
a state. Indeed, his anxiety to get |
rid of the public land was phenome-
nal, for on March 27, 1873, Senator
Maxey offered senate bill No. 1908,
which hold in my hand, in which
he proposed to appropriate all the
money from the sale of all the land
Of the United States, then amount
ing to over S0,000,000 acres, to the
purposes of education aud TO divide
Il between the states on the basis of
If this land was not mon
ey, il was bought with money raised
by taxes or was secured by treaty.
This bill Of Mr.. Maxey's requires the
states to report from time to time
about school matters, and made a
iailure 30 report work q forfeiture Of
my future benefit under the bill.
Here was a step toward centraliza-
ion hard to surpass, and in consider
ng which the Blair bill perhaps had
Is birth. In the contest now i'm
pending between unrestrained cor
,orate power and the people. can any
nan doubt in whose favor the might
II corporate influence viii be cast in
rexasi Will they assist the private
.iizen who now addresses you, and
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