The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-08-05
TERRELL.
HE POURS HOT SHOT INTO
JUDGE HANCOCK-AN
EXPOSE.
A sc ATHING REBCKE TO INGRATL
TUDE-MA LIGNITY--HANCOC
ROUGHLY HANDLED.
WooTEN WELLS, July 30, 1886.

On visiting this place two DAYS ago, 1
found In an Austin paper what purports
to be speech delivered at Georgetown by
Judge Hancock of Austin, ON the DIST inst.
IL covers five columns, and is devoted to a
Misrepresentation of myself. crave the
indulgence of the public for what am
about to write; for in the discussion of
the great politico COMMUNICATIONS
now challenging thought, 1 will find little,
If any time, to devote to this man, when
l address the people. have not referred
to him when speaking, except to correct
Misrepresentation of myself attributed
to him by the press, and 1 can poorly
afford to do even that in future. While
pretending to deprecate canvass before
the people, for the United States. senate
as wrong, Judge Hancock has thrust him
self before them in speeches devoted to
unprovoked attacks on me.
At Mexia we spoke from the same stand,
and he was as courteous as his nature
would permit. Afterwards when he had
visited Dallas, (Which 1 believe is sort
of railway headquarters, and where he
seems to have received some fresh inspira-
tom, he went to Fl. Worth and INDUCED
(if the press reported him correctly in
statements about me which in Gatesville,
| proclaimed to be untrue, warp, wool,
and filling.
My exposure at Gainesville of his in
gratitude was not soothing to his feel
lngs. He has reminded me in his George
town speech that the mention of kindly
act cancels the obligation it imposed. He
forgets that | never asked, expected or
received favor at his hands, and never
even suspected his acquaintance with the
sentiment of gratitude. That he should
utter the truth concerning me, is the only
tribute L exact for past services.
When thus assailed with his malignity,
l revealed my efforts once made at great
discomfort to myself to preserve his life
and since this is denied, l will fasten on
him its truth until the brand of ingrati-
tude shall cling to him like the shirt of
Noesees. His tive-column philippe against
me at Georgetown, was before a people
among whom we have both practiced
law for thirty years. and their estimate of
this man was seen in their primary meet
ing two days after that speech, when they
instructed for me as their choice for the
United States senate, Judge Hancock re-
ceiving but eighteen votes out of 369--as
l am informed by letter. If the instruc-
lions for me by four-fifth vote, in the
county where we both lived, and after this
mans name had been hoisted for the Sc
ate for weeks by his itinerant organ
Austin. could not convince him that he was
not needed as public censor, the George
town rebuke will be equally unavailing.
His charge that was the author, or in
spired the articles rejecting on him in
The AUSTIN STATESMAN, the Dallas News,
and the Galveston News, in May last, is
so utterly untrue, that can only regard
it as subterfuge to excuse his attacks on
me at Fort Worth.
His dwelling nonsense about compress
stock-about my argument before the
constitutional convention, eleven years
ago, to prevent confscation of wharf
properties-his statement about what his
wife told him, and his effort to mix me
with his cotton speculations during the
war, all indicate mind and conscience
ill-at-ease.
The Travis county democratic conven-
ton held at Austin, he characterized as
the result of the midnight action of pri-
maries" attended, as he asserts by the
''class of persons who are usually abroad
at that hour" His partner N. G Shelly
and every known democratic friend of
Judge Hancock's at Austin were among
those 'abroad at that hour" and attended
those primaries. This sneerS at demo-
cratic convention is characteristic of the
man, and measures his estimate of the
party.
1 can afford to disregard his venom,
which is powerless at home, and which
like the Parthean arrow, wounds only at
distance; but he has forfeited all claim
to forbearance, and what must now say
of him has become at once, personal
duty, and public necessity.
| desire now to say
l. That whenever the democracy of my
county shall instruct for another, as its
choice for Office, when my name is at the
masthead of paper in my county for
that same office, will not ask an endorse
bors refuse to give me.
2. l will not receive the help of any
gentleman for twenty years, as this man
has done, and then fish with dirty fingers
amid the garbish of dimly remembered
conversations, ten years old, with that
gentleman's personal enemies, to prove
that he did not absolutely belong to me.
g. Not only on the stump, but in con-
vention twice at Brennan, and on all oc-
casions, while we lived in the same dis
trict, during republican national rule. l
aided this man to official position, be-
lieving that his known sympathy with the
North during the war, would enable him
to exercise an influence for good, with
republican administration, which no war
democrat who espoused the cause of the
South could possess. Whatever may be
either charged, or intimated to the con-
trary, is false. In thus sustaining this
man, sought the security of the people,
not the advancement of the man, and
when lie sat dumb as an oyster in con-
gress, and heard his section denounced
and our people slandered, and yet uttered
no word in their defense, though 1 felt
Inundated did not, like others, denounce
him, for had helped to place him there.
4. When Mr.. Giddings was nominated at
the Turner hall convention, left my seat
in the senate, and visited the Williamson
county delegation, who refused to unite on
Hancock, and | was unable to reconcile
their objections. The present county
treasurer of Williamson county, will state
that he was under promise to me, not to
permit my name to go before that conven-
ton, and to withdraw it if offered. l
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