Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-27
HoGG AT C0RS[CANA.
His Carriage Drawn by Four White
Horses and Preceded By
Brass Band.
Els Twenty Third Speech In His Race for
6oTernor-What He has Done as
Attorney-Gsneral.
Special to the Gazette.

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nent citizens and escorted through tn
city IN an open carriage drawn by fou
white horses, preceded by brass band
At l 80 D. m. he spoke to nearly 500 PEG
pie at the opera house and held his audi
ence for more than two hours with
plain, practical and logical speech upol
the extortionate freight charges of tn
Texas railroads, and the impor
lance of a railway commission to reg
ulate the freight rates in the interest O
Justice to the people. Mr.. Hogg was in
troduced by Hon. R. 8. Neblett, anC
said he was proud of this demonstration
on his twenty-third speech in the raet
for governor, and he was always glad u
meet the people for they were the power
in the land and he asked them for the
gift of the office of governor. He re-
viewed his acts as encouragement and
said he had tried to do his duty. Hi
conscience was clear. He had not LOST
but two cases for the state during hi:
term of ONCE, He had destroyed, by the
| power of the law the insurance combine
and the Texas TRAFFIC association
which was the pct OF the rGfA
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 Texae, He had sued delinquent shsr-
| 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
mors important otice 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 railroad commission.
He has made and will continue to
make this great cause the sole issue
| of the campaign. II 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 indepsnd-
ence, and these great and important
possessions should be preserved to the
state wholly and inviolGte under the law
of the land. He reviewed his acts as at
torney-general against the Houston and
Texas Central railroad 10 make them
give up lands which they had held ille-
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.s6id
this matter was still inrcourt, Bat he
thought he had the road grabbed and
the result will prove it. He readSeopies
of the original certificates granthd to
the Central road and showed how 1auch
land IL had Illegally gotten from ttzsss
state under, misrepresentation and mis-
takes, and for which no patents had
ever been issued, and those lands be-
longed to Texas' this,sday. When the
Central road sold on this land to ehe peo-
pie they gave quit claim desdSsan not
warranty deeds for the same kand this
fact aroused suspicion and cSpsed tho
legal investigation which he hsS made,
which had resulted in SO mu5h good
He wanted tho 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 OF them HAD abused him because he
had beaten them on legal issues and in
great contests. He said the constitution
regulating railroad traffic, but the laws
were not passed, and the
roads were charging what they
pleased, and he gstve iIlustra-
tons of these facts. The legislature did
not pass 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 ttions 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
liShsd in THE GAZETTE. In fact, the |
bulk Of the speech was q reorganization |
OF sxceilenE arguments used by Mr.. |
Rogg 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 q railroad commission is
he would see that the Texas |
people got justice from the railroads.
The railroad companies are not robbing I
he people as some people say, for they
are simply acting under the law which
permits outrageous charges. They are
lot robbers when their extortion is legal.
zed. The only remedy for the people is
20 revise the law by creating a railroad y
commission. That is the remedy. R1
,losed his splendid address With
IN appeal to the people to
,roteet their interests by the strong
lrm of the law in the shape of railroad
commission. Mr.. Hogg made no effort
It oratory but spoke in plain argument
tive manner and won the applause and
of his large audience of BUSH
less men snd farmers. He laft for Dali
as this afternoon.
To- night thAsgrsas fscherche speciality
rtists, Miles Keeting, in their
'reat specially anement at Andrews
r-srf 80.