Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-19
CUSSING JIM HOGG.
The Land Transac elton Between Abner Taylor
and the Attorney General as Told by
an Old Democrat

Editor Gazette.
We, the good old Democrats of this
| section of the great state of Texas, now
come forward and unanimously, and IN
equivocally demand of Jim Hogg, that
he take himself back to the piney woods
from which he came, and we, the afore-
said Democrats do hereby memorable
the next legislature to change his name f,
whether he wants it or not, so that our
boys, of whom we have ma y, and hope
to have more, to rise up and call us
blessed, may not be contaminated with
the very immoral influence of knowing
or having brought to their minds by the
mention of the word Hogg, that man
so mean, and so despicabIe land so false,
should ever have aspired to be governor
of this great state, and that he had. q
few fools and scalawags to back him,
and that even a few precincts claiming to
be Democrats have actually endored him.
Now, Mr.. Editor, we don t want to be
hard on anybody, and especially man
who is o stranger and has no friends,
like Jim Hogg; but we know something on
Jim Hogg that's too mean to tell, mighty
near, and TO prove it, we have evidence
we cannot doubt, and that we would be-
lIeVe though one should rise from the
dead and say it was false.
Now, Mr.. Editor, what do you think
Jim Hogg has been DOM? Hold your
breath! and keep your hands out of your
hair! He, Jim Hogg, that piney woods
upshot, tried TO sell some land TO the
Hon. Mr.. Col. Alb. Taylor, a man Texas
loves, a man Texas has done more for
than she has ever done for any of her
sons. 1t is true Mr.. Hon. Taylor is a
little eccentric, that is he is Republican
and lives in Illinois, but then we love
him even for his eccentricities. l say,
Mr.. Editor, that Jim Hogg tried to
sell him some land down here in
Texas. He asked $40 200 first and
then came down to $50, 900. Now,
ain It that meau7 Now. the land he pro-
posed to sell was not Jim g. Jim had no
interest in it whatever. 1t belonged to
,Jim's father-in-iRw. But that amt
half yet. To show the internal cussed-
ness of the man, Jim, he tried to make
the sale just at the time of the most
trienest hour Col. Hon. Taylor CHATS
the man we love) ever had, just at the
time when Col. Taylor was q doing Just
everything he could to get the state cap
itol off of his hands before the dome fell.
Oh, nv God We love Mr.. Taylor and
we hate Jiml Now, MIR. Editor, that
ein It all yet. About that time there
were some fools in the state mot US good
Democrats, but just about the same OUT
fit that is bakin' Hogg now a shown
at poor Mr. Col. Taylor and a hollerin
at him to prop up the sides OF the capitol
until the workmen could get out from
under it. Now, Mr.. Hon. Taylor knew
If this thing kept up it might affect his
and his friends homestead interest
in the Panhandle, and his nerves
were all worked up, anyway
a tryin' to keep the fools quiet till he
could get the capitol off his hands, and
Jim Hogg (that's the man We hate) made
him the proposition TO sell him the land.
He thought Hogg meant that if he would
buy the land Hogg wouldn't tell nobody
about the fraud he was putting of on
the people, and, sir, it inst worked on
Mr.. TayIor's nerves till he actually
bought the land and paid $40, 900 down of
good, hard-earned money; and Dir. Tay-
lor has been mighty mad about it ever
since he got the dome off of his hands.
Now, Mr.. Editor, ain L that mean? OF
course MI. Jim Hogg might never have
thought about forcing the sale, but
then he ought 10 have known how Mr..
Taylor was strung up in his nerves. Jim
of course denies that he ever had any in
tention Of forcing the sale, and even
sad be thought Mr.. Taylor was regular
IN the land bussasss in this state, and
was the right party to go to to sell land.
But euss Jim Hogg, what does his say
amount to, when Mr.. Taylor OF ''Eelor-
noir'' says out of his own mouth that he
was scared SO bad he took the land. Now,
OF course. Mr.. Taylor could have Just
a-spunked up and a-told Jim Hogg to go
to the devil, but you see he didn't know
then that the dome would stand up.
Now, Mr.. Editor, this is what We have
against Mr.. Hogg.
PETER HAMILTON,
One OF the Democrats.