Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04


the ''crops are laid by" and dispute
over this thing ''to fodder pulling time''
and then win in lope. No threats of
more poverty to people who now only
have scaut living by the sweat of the
brow, no garbIed extracts from opinions
that were never rendered as read, or
rendered by q court that has drawn more
in salaries from railroads than from the
people and elevated to the bench more
by these than other influences. Courts
change, both in personnel and opinion,
but the right will live and prevail. The
people can t be hoodwinked by the rail-
roads as to their earnings, or by the
politicians IS to their rights. This
fight is going to be won in the
primaries aud county conventions,
and the delegates are going to be
as true as steel if they have to walk
to the convention. There will be no
proxies ,efor when the fight is won in the
primaries, the fruits of the victory shall
be not only in the adoption of the COM
mission, but also III the nomination of
the governor and lieutenant governor
and comptroller in strict accord with the
successful policy. There-should be no
doubtful delegates, no dark horses, no
compromises. If the commission men
don't carry the convention it would do
them no good to carry the state, for it
would result in q milk and water COM
mission. If any good is TO result, the
victory must be an overwhelming one,
and extend to the Observation-Disclosures Let
the voters force the Issue from now until
election day. Railroad regulation is the
crying necessity of the day. If the COM
mission is not good. thing, we will
never know it or get anything better
until we try it. Whether man be q
politician or a plowboy, make him face
the music squarely. on one side or the
other of this question.
JAMES BoGG FOR GOVERNOR.
am going to SUPPORT Jim Hogg for
governor not because it is Jim Hogg.
Not on personal grounds, for have q
more intimate acquaintance and
stronger friendship for other candidates.
am going to support him as part of
the issue and because the most bitter
opponents of railroad regulation are his
most bitter enemies. Because l know
that Jim, by education, raising and
habits of thought is thoroughly in earnest
in his support of the policy of regulation
of ailroads. Because [ know that he
is mentally and physically vigorous and
has more back bone than spare ribs.
Because as attorney-generalh he has made
an effort to have every law enforced and
to see that railroads complied with stat
utes that before this, have been more
ornamental than useful. He may have
made mistakes but he hasn't taken his
salary and in return for it looked dig
nified and dined out. 1 believe he is
the equal of any other man in honesty
and ability. He may have joked
the drummers too much in
speech, but the boys wouldn't have
minded that if done privately. He
might have given several delegations
soft-soap where he gave them cold facts
and straight law. One society leader
says he eats with his knife. Well, saw
the old alcalde eat with his fingers, and
he was good governor. Another man
says he ought not to have sued the rail-
roads for school lands. If he believed
the railroads or anybody else had lands
or anything else belonging to the state or
any of its funds, he would have been
perjurer and no better than thief him
self if he had kept quiet. If Jim Hogg
was either fool or a knave it was not
discovered until he trod on somebody's
toes. They say that if he is elected no
more money or people will come to Texas.
can turn you to back numbers of those
same papers and show you where they
said the same thing of Governor Roberts;
where they said the homestead law
would ruin Texas. The Kansas people
are fleeing from their mortgaged farms,
while the Texas farmer still owns his.
The people of Texas had better not
have any more capital if they are to sell
themselves body and souls for it. Polit-
ical independence may not be worth
anything in the market, but upon it the
safety of the country depends. If we
are to have no governor, EXCEPT one who
knows how to dine society gentlemen and
do the bidding of railroad magnates, land
sharks and schemers, we have had no
governor of this kind, and never will
have as long as Texas is Democratic and
the people know themselves. The OBJ
jections to Jim Hogg in these matters
will apply to every candidate for COVER
nor, for none of them would have let the
state be beat out of land.
Yet there are 1000 good men in Texas
for governor, and each one in this roll
are worthy, but the fight is for princi-
pie, policy, and no man is as big as
the issue. They make dancing masters,
not governors of Texas, out of perfect
men.
FALSE CRY.
There will be all sorts of false issues in
this canvass, aud cries of anarchist,
etc. This country is in no
danger from the anarchists, for they will
always hang them as fast as they breed
them. The danger is from the arrogant
who has no limit to his grind
ing of the people except his capacity to
grind, who thinks the people have no
rights that combined capital should be
made to respect, who think that consti-
buttons, courts and legislatures are but
adluucts of corporated power. This
spirit, emboldened and unchecked, has
wrecked more nations and smothered
more liberties than the ignorant mob.
The downfall has always come when the
rich few owned too many slaves. A
slave by reason of the protective tariff as
the railroad tariff IS just as much a slave
Rs il he was owned by reason of bill of
sale. Why condemn man who wants
eight hours lahcr rs nine and faRn upon
the railroad that wants more for short
haul than for long haul?
Some men think 1t is all right for
to charge US twenty-one
cents hundred for lumber brought to
Dallas from our Texas mills, when the
same lumber is carried TO Kansas and