Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-26
FAILED TO MAKE A CASE.
That's What the Plaintiffs Have Done in the
Ahner Taylor vs.. Hogg suit-Nothins
on Which to Convict.
Fonr WORTH, TEX, June %, is

FoRT WORTH, TEX, June %, 1890.
Editor Gazette.
Your splendid daily has treated tn
candidates for governor with such Impair
tial kindness and courtesies that ask
little space to interpose demurrer
to the indictment filed against Gen.
Hogg, by that great and wealthy corpo-
cate, - through Its general attorney in
Texas, the Hon. A. L. Matlock.
A demurrer, you know, proceeds upon
the ground that even if the facts alleged
be true, they do not constitute an Of
Tense.
In this case insist that the fact that
Gen. Hogg offered to sell another man S
timbered lands to a wealthy corporation,
who was at that time acquiring large
bodies OF prairie lands in Texas, and
must of necessity need the timber to i'm
prove the prairie lands, unless he made
the offer with intent to blackmail the
purchaser, is not an offense, either in
law or in morals.
If you will read the charge pre-
ferred by Mr.. Matlock against him,
he does not charge him with any
improper motive in eudeavoring to make
the sale, and when the main question
upon which guilt or innocence depended
was put to Mr.. Matlock by the reporter
of the Times Herald, whether he (Mat-
lock- understood that his (Hogg' 81
motives were bad. Mr.. Matlock declines
to state that he so und efstood them, but
answers by saying, 81 have stated the
facts. Well, if Mr.. Matlock stated all
the facts and failed, and refused to state
that Gen. Hogg's motives were bad,
then no offeuse is charged against him,
because the very fact the intention OF the
party that makes the offense is wanting,
and no fair minded court or fair minded
people will convict an honest man like
Jim Hogg is known TO be, of an infamous
crime, upon a totally worthless indict-
ment, like this great corporation and its
attorney has brought against him.
jim Hogg's whole life, as well as his
public services, is a complete refutation
of the "capitol syndicate 's' insinua-
ton, for that is all 1t can be called. That
Jim Hogg was not Influenced by any
improper motive is proved conclusively
by the fact that he did not
regard favor and courtesies shown
him personally or as states
officer by railroad companies, such as
him under any obligation whatever to
swerve from his true line of duty as 8
high and honorable officer, and we have
seen him, therefore, with free passes in
his pocket, like Ajax, swinging his bat
tie ak over the heads of the railroad
combinations, "traffic associations and
trusts formed against the people of Texas
and their prosperity, cutting of their
heads and driving them from the state.
II the "capitol syndicate" had bought
his lands he would still have per-
formed his duty as attorney
general like the true and honest man
he is without feeling under any obliga-
ton to the purchasers. The people Of
Texas will be proud of Jim Hogg as their
next governor, aud the rallsoads will
have nothing to fear If they will treat the
people right. And this fiimsy insinua-
ton against him, brought by this great
corporation which his sturdy honesty and
courage compelled to comply strictly with
their building contract with the state, will
have no more effect upon the honest,
fair minded men of Texas than a zephyr
has upon cyclone. Respectfully,
SAM J HUNTER.