Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-23
CASTING SHADOWS.

The boys at the cross roads, country
schoolhouses and the general roundup will b
heard from this fan in favor Of Jim Hogg TO
goVernor.-[Texas Lasso.
Those who are essailing Mr.. Hogg a
| demagogue and anarchist are perhaps
not aware that they are firing the prairies AM
s con s tiPRaE o' anu 0H''
Commissioner Hall having TESTED
| Hogg's ability as a letter writer, is going u
| test his popularity with the people. The Wisl
may be parent to the thought, but we predict tina
1 both will be consigned to 'tthe inconceiVabl.
| depths OF innoccuous desuetude,' whateve
that may be- Oisco Roundup.
| Hon. j. W. Throckmorton has retired
| from the gubernatorial race. Would 1t not be
| good time for Mr.. Wheeler to come down of
/ the perch and let the issue OF commission Of
non-commission be settled by the two scknowl
edged leaders and their followingH-Is PringtowI
| Newsdealer.
The Democrat is all torn ND and sad al
heart this week. Our candidate for governor
| (Hon. j. w. Throckmorton) has withdrawn
| from the race, leaving the wild Hogs of the
piney woods to recklessly root up and deyastats
the grand old Democratic potato patch that oul
| dadies planted IN years gone by. Levi, o!
Levi; what hast thou done.-TMontague Demo
crat.
A man like Peter Smith of Fort Worth
or Henry EEaIl of Dallas should al the guber-
Material chair. We do not want the business
and social future Of Texas in the hands of men
who would not hesitate 20 sacrifice any and all
interests for the sake of their swn political ag-
randizement.-[S Sherman Register.
There can be no question that the
necessity for commission is so deeply rooted
in the minds of the people that the result will
inevitably be the election of the amendment by
a large majority. But aside from the commits
sion question, we believe that Hogg's personal
popularity SO exceeds that of any other candi-
date in the field his triumph is a certainty.
1t is stated that Ex-Governor John
ireland will probably be q candidate for con-
gress to succeed Mr.. Moore in the next congress.
John Ireland made Texas one of the best gov
errors she has ever had, and the best thought
of the state viii endorse his candidacy for q re-
turn to public service. He has brains, courage
and integrity, and Texas needs just such men.
-[Weatherford Constitution.
Now that Mr.. r. N. Hall, the present
land commissioner, has announced himself as a
candidate for governor, there are four in the
field, including Hogg. Wheeler and Mcdonald.
cations are that he will stay there. This is an
unprecedented opinion, because the Herald does
policy for the welfare of the state. Luling
Herald.
Commissioner Hall has announced
himself as 3 candidate for governor. He says
he runs in the interests of Texas and Demoe-
racy. We would like to know what the gentle
man calls Democracy, there are so many grades
OF this material on the market now. Texas
wants nothing but Jeffersenian Democracy, and
hRs.-[Belton News.
The farmers of this country recognize
in Mr.. Hogg an extremist They do not regard
him as a safe and conservative counsellor. They
driven to him for self-preseyation by another
extreme. 1t is not their enmity for railroads.
They would like to have more railroads. and are
willing to encourage them, but they think the
time has come when they should have more
liberal freight rates. They see that the true
prosperity Of this country is being retarded,
hat fEa ltf1ro int 10
pered, and that millions of dollars are annually
being lost to them and the country by freight
rates that are unreasonably high.-[Lu
Signal.
The candidacy of Land Commissioner
Hall for the governorship is the gauzieGt, most
transparent thing in recent politics. George
Clark is at the back of il, and Hall is simply graf
flying spite and suffering himself willingly to
be used as q cats-paW, at the same time to rake
somebody else's chestnut from the FIRE. Hall
says he regards Hrailrosd legislation absolutely
sion To- be the insyila5iep erpedisat foT the
regulation of the railroads." This is right
where Hogg stands, and will give such suckers
as sided with Hall in his controversy with Hegg
on the question of issuing land patents to the
railroads, but who believe in q commission, .
chance 70 vote for Hall. The small personal
following Of Hall, however, will have no per-
ceptible effect on the strength of Mr.. Hogg
among the people Of Texas BRENNAN Banner.
The commission idea cannot, strictly speak
ing, be vital issue in the gubernatorial cam
constitution must be decided at the next sikc-
ton. II the amendment is defeated, there viii
be no commission; if carried, it will be incam-
bent upon the legislature to pass laws in con-
formity with the views of the people
SO expressed. The duty OF appointing
the members OF the comm. commission will
ment carry, and as the effects of the commits
sion, we take ii, depends more on the personnel
therein may lie the vitality Of the commission
issue between the opposing candidates. What
ever be the fate of the commission amendment,
bone. brains and bigness to believe that the in
terest of the people will be in good hands when
ever he is elected goVernor.-LRunnells County
Ledger.
A large Hogg club has been organized
at Rayner and the following preamble was
as the Hogg Democratic club. It object and aim
shall be to work for the interest Of the Democ-
racy and Gen. Hogg's candidacy for governor.
to sign their names to this preamble, and fur
Their agree to work for and support all nominees
of the Demoeratic party from constable up.
Hogg clubs throughout the county. stih the
good work goes on, notwithstanding there is q
howl going up from the anti organs that West
Texas is against Hogg. "-lTexas Lasso.
Most persons who listened to Mr..
Hogg's speech here were very favorably inn
pressed. 1t was feared by many that he was too
radical in his views on the railroad question,
but his public uItefanceS anu private converse
lions show that he has been misrepresented.
He does not desire to combius all the powers Of
the state government in the control of three
men, but he wants these men to be subject TO
the law, and proposes that rates OF freight and
passage fixed by them shall be prims facie
evidence that they are reasonable, but says
that the courts should be open to the
railroads to Determine whether the rates
established by the commission are just
Mt. Pendleton as announced through the Jour
nal some time since. It is the right position 1t
viii be notification 10 the railway corporations
that the people have rights which must be re-
spected. There is no disposition to confiscate
railway property, but there is a popular demand
that these corporations be regulated by law, and
the state will create the commission TO see that
Injustice is not done to the people. The COM
mission, to be effective. must have power to es-
tablish rates. and the railways, in common fair |
ness. must have the right of appeal to the |
courts Otherwise the Federal Judiciary would |
intervene, and while we might doubt its an
thority to do So still its mandates would have |
to be respected, and the whole thing would |
come to norg ht.-lBelton Journal.
Booms a Blessing.