The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-07-08
BELTON.
ANOTHER GREAT AND BRIL-
LIANT SPEECH BY HON.
A. w. TERRELL.
SCATHING REBUKE TO MERGE.
NARIES--MAXEY'S RECORD
Is SHOWN UP.
Special Telegram to The Statesmen

Special Telegram to The Statesmen.
BELToN, July 6.-At the opera house this morn
ing, hon A. W, Terrell addressed one of the larg-
est audiences that ever assembled here. The house
was crowded to its utmost standing capacity. Hun
dreds of people crowded around the entrance and
sidewalks, unable to get in.
The Judge spoke as follows: The political Sian
ders against me have become so nll-
merous, and without excuse, as to
show that we have a new crop of extempor-
lied newspaper men who have all the instincts of
coyote except his magnanimity and sense, step
across their slime and refer fair men to the recent
action of Travis county, where Judge Hancock
and Judge Ireland both live. Every device that
man could invent was used in that county to defeat
me, and though | refused to open my mouth in
answer to the vile attacks of the press in that
county, the people instructed for me for the sen
ate by four tlfths vote against the whole of them
including the executive trash-gang. Austin, where
live, is, as you know, city of good people and
great statesmen, but the statesmen are not always
happy, for, unfortunately, there are more pigs
than ieats there, and so 1t happened that the sate
lites of these great men could be seen pacing up
and down Congress avenue like summer cOons
for two months past, announcing my defeat in my
own county, and poisoning the
minds minds of those who came to the
of the city and county admonished them by four
ffths vote, that they were not the people.
And now, gentlemen let me ask you in these
days when the growth of monopoly 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 as | have
heen, | have remained silent too long, On the
18th of February, 1876, placed on the journals of
the senate protest against bill which gave to the
Texas and Pacific railway over four million acres
of land, In 1876 | voted against the. general law
which gave railway sixteen sections of land
per mile and never voted to give one acre of Texas
land to railway corporations
How was it with Gov, Ireland? Az member of
the Twelfth legislature he voted to give land to
sixteen roads, marked here on the map, and II
would have required sixty millions of acres to
satisfy them If the roads had all been built. The
excuse that he wanted to get roads for the west
won't do; for majority of those roads were east
of the Colorado. Why have the land corporations
been permitted to usurp the forty counties of the
Panhandle for the last three years, and
fatten their herds on Unbiased school lands some
times sitting on the land board and sometimes re-
fusing to sit! Your chief executive has been
backing and falling from the calls of duty, like
mule from hot branding iron, while the usurpers
have remained happy on millions Of acres of
school lands unleased Let us tenderly commit
him to the embrace of the friends of monopoly,
who should net forget him.
Senator MaXey is entitled to more tender consid-
GRAFTON, for we have no evidence that he ever
wanted to be called "OX-Cart" Sam, nor had any
special trouble with the powers of mo-
nopoly. Even after the credit Mobil-
was not deferred from asking a land grant and
money subsidy for another road long af er CON
gress refused to grant such favors. On the 18th
day of February, 1873, he introduced bill requir
Harrisburg Il San Antonio railway enough money
and give enough land for extending towards the
Pacific coast to almost buy state. Indeed his
anxiety to get rid of the public land was phenomo
nal; for on March q, 1878, senator Maxey offered
senate bill No l003 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 amounting to over eighty million acres to
purposes of education and to divide it between the
states on the basis of illiteracy If the land was
not money, II was bought with money raised by
taxes and was secured by treaty. This bill Of
Maxey's required the state to report from time to
time about school matters and made failure to re-
port work forfeiture of any future benefit under
the bill. Here was step towards centraliza
ton t hard to surpass and considering which the
Blair bill perhaps had its birth in the contest i'm
peding between unrestrsaned corporate influence
and the people. Can any man doubt in whose
favor the right of corporate influence will be cast
in Texas! Will they assist the private citizen who
now addresses you, and who for ten years has lifted
his feeble voice OF warning against the ways of
corporate power, or these who were 80 liberal TO
aid railroads with the common property,