Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-22

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infamous trio who bring this memorial
here and some of their vilest coadjutors
This report of the committee has been
laid before the country in the Congress
sional Record of this morning. This viii
neeessitate my placing through the same
medium before the country the exculpa-
tory testimony, and propose to do it. /
shall show by the testimony in this vol
nme the bad character and want of cred
Utility of the memorialists
They aliege that they are exiles from
home, the victims of persecution because
of their Republicanism. l shall prove
the falsehood of the allegation, and that
they left voluntarily, and if they were
driven away that they left a country
where they were regarded as moral lep-
ers, unfit for decent association, and
they left in order to avoid the effect of
their own record and character, although
they were as safe in Washington county
from personal violence as any other men
in it.
/ shall prove by testimony in this vol
ume that Washington county is a county
which casts some $500 or 5000 votes; that
about third of the population is German;
that less than third is white American,
and the balance negroes; and that this
county of Washington is a reliably Re-
publican county upon state and national
issues 1t has voted for every Republic
can president since the war up to this
time by good round majority It has
voted for every Republican candidate for
/ governor by a decided majority. It has
voted for ever Republican candidate for
congress by a good majority
Notwithstanding this, shall show from
this record that these memorialists,
/ Schutze, Hackworth and Moore, having
made themselves leaders of the negroes
and of the Republicans generally OBJ
tanned possession of the offices directly
after the war and held them until 1884,
and plundered the tax payers through the
forms of law to such an extent that the
Republicans and Democrats all joined in
a Peoples ticket without reference to
politics without reference to party, end
expelled them from Office and placed
honest men in power, some of them DEM
ocrats and some Republicans. All the
time they were doing this, IN 1884, and
1886, as in 1888, these same Republicans,
black and white, German and native
American, voted the Republican state
and national ticket, giving large ma
jorities to both III Washington county
The record shows this, and the report of
the committee on privileges and elections
simply fails to show it or mention it.
shall prove by the testimony in this
record, which propose TO lay before the
senate, that these men, Hackworth,
Schutze, and Moore, the memorialists,
have made false statements i'll their me-
MORALS, to which they have sworn, in
every material allegation made.
shall show that they are men without
character, without property, without an
chorage in that community; that when
they were expelled from office-Hack-
worth, covered all over with indictments
for all sorts of Official malfeasance when
they were expelled from office, had no
other means of support-deprived of that
source of livelihood they had to leave
there on account of the baseness of their
characters and go elsewhere in order to
make q living, and that they went be-
cause Of that compulsiOn, and not
because of any danger to them in remain
ing in Washington county, or because
they were Republicans.
Mr. President, L invite the perusal of
this testimony by senators. They can
come to but one conclusion from it, and
that is that these memorialists, leading
the vice and ignorance of that county,
were making war upon everything that
was decent, everything that was honest,
everything that was laW-abiding; that
they were making war upon the property
interests Of the county; and that the
people were compelled and driven, re-
gardless of party, into the formation of
the Non-Partisan people s ticket i'll order
to get rid of them.
shall show by the testimony I will
produce from this volume that the dis
disturbances at the ballot boxes, three of
them, believe, Flewellen, Lott Store
and Graball, were committed by men for
whom the people of Washington county
cannot be justly held responsible, men
whom every effort, so far as this testi-
mony shows, has been made to discover
but who have not been discovered, men
who raided the ballot-boX in the night,
and whom public sentiment in Washing
ton county thoroughly condemned.
I ask the close attention of the senate
TO this evidence. 1t does not appear in
the report submitted by the honorable
senator from New York as the organ Of
the committee on privileges and elections,
but it is here; and when this testimony
comes to be considered, make the as
sertion that the witnesses whose testi-
mony ] viii lay before the senate are the
men of property, the men of character,
the men of intelligence, the men of
influence IN Washington county, while
the great majority Of those on the other
side will be found of the opposite charac-
ter. In any country in the world when
the witnesses on both sides could be
known the testimony l will lay before the
senate would utterly oyerwhelm the tes-
timOny relied upon by the report of the
honorable committee on privileges and
elections.
call the attention of the senate to an
other fact, which is that while member
of congress was voted for in 1886 in the
election in which the disturbances oc-
CURED there was no contention over the
vote cast for that official. The whole
trouble arose out Of the contention over
county officers. The fact that Q member
of congress was voted for, think it was
admitted by the senator from New York
yesterday, certainly it is shown without
any conflict in testimony, to have excited
no interest whatever in the election
Technically because Il member of con-
gress was voted for in this election it may
be said that there was Federal jurisdic-
ton over the subject, not, however, in
the senate, but i'll the house, which
judges of the elections, qualifications,
and returns of its members. There is no
jurisdiction over the subject either IN the
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