Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-12
Tricks of the HoEg Opposition.
BoEHAsI, Tex, June 9, IS

BoEHAM, Tex, June 9, 1890.
To the Gazette
Tine enemies of Attorney General Hogg
seem to be growing desperate and are
reckless in their efforts to defeat his
nomination for governor. They are re-
sorting to every trick known to the
shrewd and inscriptions politician. No
sooner had Gen. Hogg left Bonham after
his great speech here last Wednesday
than conclave of his most bitter enc
mics, in order to check the f1ood-tIde OF
popular sentiment that is bearing him on
to the gubernatorial chair, conceived the
idea of denouncing him as ''falsifier OF
the records. and ''Iiar. -. But
when the proof of these charges was de-
manded they most signally failed, and
they now stand as self convicted Sian
derers, and have TO swallow their own
pills, though bitter they be.
l also learn they are preparing cam
paign literature to be circulated on the
eve of our primary convention, I4th
inst. IN this county, to throw discrediC
upon Gen. Hogg as man of honor and
integrity. This will be met as it pro-
perly deserves-with contempt by all
high-toned and honorable gentlemen;
and the boom for Gen. HOgg and rail-
road regulation will roll on with in
creased foree and rapidly; and woe
to the ambitious political Gspirant
who shall stand in the surf
and attempt to thrust back the
political wave. The people are alive to
the great question of railroad regulation:
and George Clark, the self-coustituted
high priest of the Htrue blues, - and his
comparatively few followers i'll the prea-
ent struggle, cannot stay this political
tide of right against might-of protect
ing the interests of labor against the
greed of aggregated capital.
The cry of personal liberty, "pater-
nalism - Capitalization, - etc. , etc.
is puriIe and absurd. The people have
that this is merely raw-bead
and bloody bones scarecroW set up by the
political trIckster TO deter the unsophis-
ticated and unsuspectinS yeOmanry of |
the land from performing their duty TO |
themselves and their country. The peo- |
pie, however, have been rending ND and |
studying the political situation of late,
and now see clearly that the seIf-asserted |
md self-constituted high priest of ''true |
olue' Democracy is but the exponent Of
aggregated capital and the advocate of
he greed of corporate power.
The cry OF paternalism, -" centrali-
.ation - and the destruction of "personal
iberty' as applied to the constitutional
to regulate railroads is most
bsurd, and is but the counterpart of
be ''eloody shirt'' cry as used
n the North to divert the atten-
ion of the people from the eff
ects of the robber tariff. To adopt the
meudment is merly the assertion of the
light of the people to control the greed
f railroad companies, and to defeat the
mendment is to deny to the people the
lght to control. Mr.. George Clark and
is few conductors are asking the peo-
lie, in the name of personal liberty"
D rivet the collars about their own
ecks, that the great corporations have
cen forging for years past, and should
lese shrewd politicians succeed, the |
eople will find themselves, hen too
lte, in the condition of poor H. X.
Thite as pictured by Byron:
Like the struck eagle stretched upon the plain,
o more TO soar through rolling clouds again,
Jews his own feather on the fatal dart
nd winged the SHAFT that quivered in his
heart ,