Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-29
HOGG AT CORSMANA
His Carriage Drawn by FOuFSK bit.
Horses and Preceded by q
Brass Band.
HIS Twenty Third Speech in His Race for
GOEernOr-WhRt he has Done as
Attorney General
Special to the Gazette.

CoRsICANA, TEX, May 26.-Attorney-
General James s. Hogg arrived here this
morning on the Dallas train and was met
at the depot by committee of promi-
nent citizens and escorted through the
city IN an open carriage drawn by four
white horses, preceded by a brass band.
AT 80 p. m. he spoke to nearly 800 peo-
pie at the opera house and held his audi
! ence for more than two hours with
plain, practical and logical speech upon
the extortionate freight charges Of the
| Texas railroads, and the impor-
tance of railway commission to reg
ulate the freight rates in the interest of
justice to the people. MIR. Hogg was in
! troduced by Hon. r. S. Neblett, and
said he was proud of this demonstration
on his twenty third speech in the race
for governor, and he was always glad TO
meet the people for they were the power
in the land, and he asked them for the
! git of the Office of governor. He re-
| viewed his acts as encouragement and
! said he had tried to do his duty. His
! conscience was clear. He had not lost
| but two cases for the state during his
| term of Office, He had destroyed, by the
| power of the law the insurance combine
and the Texas traffic association,
which was the pet of the rail-
| roads, also other railroad projects and
! schemes which were made to Cypress the
| people. He had caused the railroads to
! put on new cars, to build new depots, to
| give up lands and to replace their shops
| in Texas. He had sued delinquent sher-
| ifs and forced them to comply with the
| law. His duties had been active and he
had discharged them to the best of his
| ability. He was now a candidate for the
more important office of governor, and
asked the nomination of the Democratic
convention, and if he did not get it, he
would stand by the nominee whoever he
might be, advocate his election and the
great cause of a railroad commission.
He has made and will continue to
make this great cause the sole issue
of the campaign. If he was elected gov
ernor he would secure for the state every
acre OF land she is entitled to under the
law. As a native of Texas he remem-
bered as boy the days that Houston,
Baker, Hemphill and other great heroes
fought for Texas domain and independ-
ence, and these great and important
possessions should be preserved to the
state wholly and inviolate under the law
of the land. He reviewed his acts as at
torney-general against the Houston and
Texas Central railroad to make them
give up lands which they had held lille
gally, which the railroad authorities ao-
knowledged they had gotten by mistake,
amounting to over 800 600 acres, worth
millions of dollars to the state. He said
this matter was still in court, but he
thought he had the road grabbed and
fna nil Ha mia
of the original certificates granted to
the Central road and showed how much
land it had Illegally gotten from the
state under Misrepresentation and mis-
takes, and for which no patents had
ever been issued, and those lands be-
longed to Texas this day. When the
Central road sold off this land to the peo-
pie they gave quit claim deeds and not
warranty deeds for theEsame, and this
fact aroused suspicion end caused the
legal investigation which he had made,
which had resulted in so much good.
He wanted the railroads to
have all they were lawfully |
entitled to, but not one acre of land |
more, and if he was elected governor he |
would carry out this policy. He had !
never abused men nor railroads, but |
some or them had abused him because he |
uau Debteu luSu on ieSdl ISSUES Auu III |
great contests. He said the constitution |
requires the legislature to pass laws |
regulating railroad traffic, but the laws |
were not passed, and the |
roads were charging what they |
pleased, and he gave illustra-
tons of these facts. The legislature did |
not pass a commission bill last session |
because it would not have been constitu-
tional, but they voted to submit an |
amendment to the constitution for the
lawful creation of railroad |
commission which shall have
the control of this great |
traffic question. He discussed the popu-
lar obje ,tions to the commission, chief
among which was that railroads were
private property and not public high
ways. This part of his speech was the
same as delivered in Tyler and fully pub
lished in THE GAZETTE. In fact, the
bulk of the speech was recapitulation
OF excellent arguments used by Nj.
Hogg in all OF his speeches made in diff
ferent parts of the state, and SO widely
published. The speaker read from the
railroad tariffs to show that Texas was
saddled with the highest freight rates of
any state in the Union. Texas had
welcomed railroads and railroad men
to her soil, and has always been
willing to do them justice, and all
we ask in return is for the railroads to
be just, and if he (Hogg) was elected
governor, and a railroad commission is
established he would see that the Texas
people got justice from the railroads.
The railroad companies are not robbing
the people as some people say, for they
are simply acting under the law which
permits outrageous charges. They are
not robbers when their extortion is legal
lied. The only remedy for the people is
to revise the law by creating railroad
That is the remedy. Re
closed his splendid address with
an appeal TO the people to
protect their interests by the strong
arm of the law in the shape of railroad
commission. Mr.. Hogg made no effort
at oratory, but spoke in plain argument
alive manner and won. the applause and
confidence of his lefse 7ldience of BUSH
ness men aud "a heEe1s He left for Dali
zas this afteru,15n