Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-25

AUSTIN, TEX, Ang. %, 1890.
Editor Gazette.
1t affords me great pleasure to adj
dress THE GAZETTE, paper which did
such trenchant work in the late can
vass among the combined cohorts of
capital led on by men OF acknowledged
ability, piercing their center and scat
terIng their sophistries to the winds.
The nomination of Gen. Hogg for
| president in 1900 may be considered pre-
mature and unwise by some; but now Is
the time to call attention to his wonder
full success, popularity and ability, so
that the minds of the people, the pillars
of government, may consider the facts
which induce the writer to place him be-
fore the American people as one alto
gether qualified for such an exalted po-
sition. Gen. Hogg has gone up by bounds
to the highest place in Texas, the en-
pire state of the Union. AS county and
district attorney he discharged his duties
so faithfully and well that he, abo We all
others, was considered worthy and well
qualified to discharge the important and
onerous duties of attorney general. In
this position he stood out as great pal
ladium of the state, and filled his oppo-
nents with CONSERVATION as they saw
their pet schemes assaulted by legal
acumen and unwavering courage, until
they fell before his determined and un-
compromising assaults. The conse-
quences would have been disastrous to
any man of less ability and heroic
courage.
Before he had determined to en- ter the
list as q candidate for governor his ene-
mics were busy formulating and CONT bin
ing their forces against him, recognizing
the fact that he would be called upon to
stand before the Democratic nominating
convention for the guberuatorial @ air.
He made his canvass, beginning at
Rusk in speech so replete with facts
and figures, demonstrating with logical
power the imperative necessity of COM
mission to regulate railway charges on
freight carried from place to place
within the limits of the state, that his
opponents were aroused to make the
most determined and bitter attacks upon
his positions, using every argument that
corporate power and capital could for
mulate into plausible and fine spun
theories and sophistries, as the expound-
ers were pleased to style it, in defense of
private and vested rights and personal
liberty, as being inviolable and not sub
jeot 10 regulation by any commission
which might be created by the legislature
in which the power was delegated. But
all in vain. Gen. Hogg had already
captured public opinions; a commission
and nothing less would satisfy the peo-
pie.
Even counties where his strongest OPP
position was located, led on by the most
astute and able defenders, wheeled into
the popular column and stood by Gen.
Hogg and a commission.
At last the opposition saw that all was
lost, and that thev were beaten all over
the state.
The convention for nominating state
officers met at san Antonio on the 18th
of August, 1890, and as soon as organ
lied, Gen. Hogg was nominated on the
first ballot by unprecedented vote of
S39 5-12, the largest ever cast in any
convention for any man.
His ability, honesty, courage and in
tegrity fit him for the highest offioe in
the gift Of the people. Therefore, as
soon as the prejudice and sectional feel
ings of the North shall have given away
to reason and a inst appreciation of the
talents and fitness of the men of the
South upon terms of equality and frater-
nifty, Gen. Hogg will be recognized as
worthy and well qualified to unfurl and
bear aloft the standard of the Dsmoo-
racy in these United States. The trend
of public opinion demonstrates the future
political status of the country and 1t will
be in vain for his enemies to oppose him.
The year 1900 will witness one of the
grandest triump hs Of political rights and
material prosperity. R. F. Cook.