Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-11
Tricks of the Hogg Opposition:
BoNHAM, Tex, June 9, 1880.

BOEHAM, Tex, June 9, 1880.
To the Gazette.
The 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 lGst Wednesday
than a couclave of his most bitter enc
mics, in order to check the tlOod-tlde OF
popular sentiment that is bearing him on
to the gubernetorial chair, conceived the
idea of denOuncing him as I'falsitier of
the records - and q f'Iiar. -. But
when the proof of these charges was de-
manded they most signa!ly failed, and
they now stand as self convicted SLAM
derers, and have to swallow their own
pills, though hitter they be.
1 also learn they Incorporating cam
paign literature TO be circulated on the
eve of our primary convention, l4th
inst. IN this county, to throw discredit
upon Geu. Hogg as man of honor aud
integrity. This will be met as it pro-
perry deserves-with contempt by all
heightened and honorable gentlemen;
and the boom for Gen. Hogg and rail-
road regulation will roll on with in
creased force and rapidity; and woe
to the ambitions 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 seif-constituted
high priest OF the "true blues, and his
co. Fol in he
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. 4,
is purile nd absurd. The people have
discovered that this is merely a raw-head
and bloody bones scarecrOT set up by the
political trIckster to deter the unsophis-
ticated and unsuspecting yeomanry of
the land from performing their duty to
themselves and their country. The peo-
pie, however, have been reading up and
studying the political situation of late,
and now see clearly that the self-asserted
and self-constituted high priest of ''tTue
blue" Democracy is but the exponent of
aggregated capital and the advocate of
the greed of corporate power.
The cry of paternalism. 'centrali-
zatiou'' aud the destruction of personal
liberty as applied to the constitutional
amendment to regulate railroads is most
absurd, and is but the counterpart of
the ''boody shirt'' cry as used
in the North to divert the stten-
ton of the people from the eff
fects of the robber tariff To adopt the
amendments merly the assertion of the
right of the people to control the greed
of railroad companies, and to defeat the
amendment is to deny to the people the
right to control. Mr.. George Clark and
his few conductors are asking the peo-
pie, in the name of "personal liberty, -
to riyet the collars about their own
uecks, that the great corporations have
been forging for years past, and should
these shrewd politicians succeed, the
people will find themselves, hen too
late, in the condition of poor Il. X.
White as pictured by Byron:
Like the struck eagle stretched upon the plain'
No more to soar through rolling clouds again,
Views his own feather on the fatal dart
And winged the shaft that quivered in his
heart