Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-25

rs, your correspondent Sot Gus W LIS
reason for the silence of the News.
SAID one of the gentlemen: 'The News
received u message from a certain party
| in its employ to have nothing to do with
! the Matlock matter. This party told me
that he saw the letters with which it was
expected that Taylor 8 charge would be
| backed up and sustained. That Gen.
Hogg showed them to him, and that the
reason why Matlock refused to make
| Hogg's letter to him public was that the
date of it would give the whole thing
| away. The fact is the dates of the let
tiers show that the proposals to sell the
land were made after the capitol matter
was entirely cleared up, and the build
ing had been turned over to aud accepted
by the state. -
The other gentleman here said: 'fIf
my memory serves me right, Gen. Hogg,
at the time he entered his written protest
against the acceptance of tbs cap
itol building, was not mem
Der of the commission. A change
had been made in the law leaving him
out. When the commission met after
this Hogg g attention was called TO this
change, and he stepped down and out.
The building, however, was not ac-
cepted by the commission, but by COM
mittee appointed for that purpose. At
torney- General Hogg as Il private citi-
zen, ard not as q member of the
commission, filed a protest with the
committee against the acceptance of the
building. The committee, not knowing
how to get around this protest, finally
decided to send for an architect, who
made an examination, pointed out the
defects, and the result was the contrac-
tor was obliged to spend $50, 200 more on
the building before 1t was finally ac-
oepted.
''The land matter did not originate
with Mr.. Hogg. The capitol syndicate
had talked of building u railroad
from the pineries to their Panhandle
lands, and an agent of Mr.. Stiuson fur
nished their agent a list of lands in Wood
county, and that section including the
laud about which so much has already
bsen said The syndicate even went so
far as to send an agent to look up the
lands and report on them
1t will thus be seen that the railroad
idea brought out so prominently in SEN
ator Matlock s interview was not sug-
gestion of Mr.. Hogg, but was an enter
terprise then in contemplation by the
syndicate.
The party last quoted above added
"Gen. Hogg has been keeping quiet in
order to give these fellows time to wind
themselves up, knowing that the dates
of the letters will disprove the charge
they have made against him and show it
up as another boomerang.
STEPHENS COUNTY FOR HoGG.
BRECKENRIDGE, Tex, June q, 1890.
Editor Gazette.
Z priparv coD yantinns wera held at the
different voting precincts in this county
yesterday. That in this precinct, for
merly the home of Lieutenant Governor
Wheeler, was a strong one. resulting,
after a three hours fight, in an unin-
structed delegation being sent to the
county convention. The Wheeler men
in the outset captured the Craftsmanship,
electing Sheriff Douglass, and succeeded
in putting in their men as delegates, but
by the time this was done Hogg's forces
had increased by fresh arrivals to such
an extent that it was evident they were
largely in the majority. A motion was
made to instruct for Hogg but the chair
man ruled that the motion was out of
order. This arbitrary and unheard of
proceeding raised a storm of indigna-
ton, and the chairman soon peremp-
torily declared the meeting adjourned.
Thus the Will of the Democracy of this
precinct was stifled. The Wayland box,
the next largest in the county, instructed
for Hogg by a vote of SO to II. Gun
sight and Eureka also instructed for
Hogg, aud it is believed he has carried
the county by large majority.
FoREsTBURG PRIMARY.
Correspondence of the Gazette
FoREsTBURG, TEX. June 23.-Forest-
burg Democratic precinct convention
held Saturday, June 81, instructs for
Hogg for governor; J. d. Mccall,
comptroller; A. d. Sadler, treasurer.
SITUATION AT THURBEE.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
THURBER, TEX. June 23.-Polltics is
warming up in this county, but the all
absorbing thought is the defeat of the
enemy at home, hence not much is said
in regard TO any choice for governor.
This county is the home and headquar-
tiers for all of the lsms in Texas and these
isms are bitterly opposed to the organi-
zation of the Democratic party. Next
Saturday the different precincts meet in
convention in order to send delegates to
the county convention at Stephensville
on July 18th to determine whether or not
we shall have primaries. At Thurber,
out of about 200 Democrats, only one
opposes the primaries, and there is no
doubt of the Democratic party holding
primaries and thereby demolishing next
November the ism party.
HUBBARD CITY HoGG CLUB.
Special to the Gazette.
HUBBARD CITY, TEX, June PA
Hogg and commission Democratic club
was organized here last night, with
seventy FIVE members. The club will do
all in its power to nominate Hogg for
governor, but pledged itself to support
the nominee of the party should Mr..
Hogg fail to get the nomination. We
believe in party fealty here.
HoGG AT M'GREGoR.
Special to the Gazette.
MCGREGoR, TEX, June 24.-The |
spacious opera house of our city was
crowded last night to hear the first
speech in our section OF Attorney-Gen-
eral Hogg. The distinguished gentle |
man was introduced by Mayor Walton,
who, in happy little speech, presented
Gen. Hogg as the present attor Iey- |
ger eral and the next governor of Texas.
In his address Gen. Hogg alluded to |
several questions of moment, but con- |
fined himself principally to the discuss
sion of the proposed amendment, and |
for two hours, with the mental grasp Of |