Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-14
West Texas for Hogg and Hominy.
HASKELL, Tex, June IL, IS9


Editor Gazette.
We have just read and read again
/ GastaYe Cook s, the railroad and oorpor-
alton candidates opening campaign
speech delivered at Kyle, Texas, on the
7th inst. and just as might have been
expected his whole argument is based
upon the assumption that the adoption
of the amendment to the constitution,
the creation of a commission and the
election of Hon. J. S. Hogg governor of
Texas, would be confiscation of every
railroad now in the state, its
property and every other company
and corporation, and the suppression
and prevention of any further rail-
road progress in the state. This seems
to be the assumption upon which his
whole argument is based. He fails TO
suggest or in any way explain why the
railroads make so much discrimination
in freight rates in favor of peo-
pie of other states and against
our own people. He falls
to offer any remedy to correct the evils
and abuses now practioed by railroads
and corporations against the people of
our state.
Mr.. Cook does not reply to any of Mr..
HOgg's speeches nor try to refute his
arguments, nor to contradict his
statements, he does not deny anything
SAID or done by Mr.. HOgg, but he seems
to think that the people in Northwest
Texas are lighting the commission and
clamoring for railroads as their only hope
of salvation, and pretends to be in SYM
patty with us. The truth is, Northwest
Texas, and every other part of the state,
desire railroads, but thew also de-
sire them controlled. We will do
as much for the encouragement
of the building of railroads in this Sec
ton of the state as in any other, but we
realize the very great danger in too much
capital concentrated in the hands OF a
few unbridled and uncontrolled, and we
want the commission or other remedy to
protect the interest of the people. North
west Texas does not believe
that the establishment QfS
commission will check the progress
of the country nor hinder the building of
railroads. The people OF the state are
not yet ready to succumb to the dictates
of few railroad and corporation attor-
neys, composing the "seven county COM
bine, who meet and of their own Volt
ton and in response to the demands of
Gould, Huntington and corporation mag
mates nominate and bring forward a man
in total sympathy with them and against
the sfeat masses and labor, and prOduc-
ing classes of the people and their inter
est. Hogg Is the people 3 choice, their
candidate. He has shown him
self to be q man worthy
of their confidence and SURFACES,
who looks to their interest and is not
afraid TO do his duty in Office or out of it i
and the West and the Eastern and South
erh part of this state it is firmly believed
will see that Hogg is nominated on
the first ballot at the San Antonio
in August. Mr.. .Hogg's |
private and official record Ia before his |
opponents for investigation, from his !
cradle to the present time in all the va
rious positions he has held, and he has |
publicly challenged an investigation of |
the same but his opponents have thus far |
failed to find anything in him or his rec |
ord to condemn, save and except |
that he looks to the interest OF the state |
and people and protects the |
same. West Texas does not |
want Hall neither as governor |
nor any other position any more. Wheeler |
may be good man and a home man,
but IN this crisis the West prefers MIR.
HOgg. Let the people of the state who
l6el I'LL III tnlS matter
attend the primaries and county
and send their dele !
cations to san Antonio instructed
for J. S. Hogg for governor, and there
by secure his nomination. Messrs. Cook,
Hall and Wheeler are good men >. but
under the issaAs presented the people
want a man whSSean and dossl ,stand
squarely on the issue, and not one who
attempts to "straddle' the fence.
If there is anything the people of
Texas, and especially West Texas.
want more than Hogg, it
IS "more Hogg'' for governor of this
state. She wants no man who will pander
10 corporations and monied Influences,
but man whose sterling honesty and
bravery is such that he can not be APP
nor swerved from his official
lutY, but who thews to the line ,.let the
,hips fall where. they may. ~ Such q
nan is believed to>be j. s. Hogg.