Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-02
FIRES KINDLED.
Hogg and Mccall Open the Campaign in
Frio County with a Vim.
The Attorney General Believes the Commas
sion will Get Bigger Vote Than Any
Nan on the Ticket

Nan on the Ticket
Correspondence of the Gazette.
AUSTIN, Ten. Sept. 27.-Gen. Hogg
and Comptroller Mccall opened the
campaign in Frio county this week
where the faithful gave them a Rrano
reception and the fires were set roaring
under the political cauldron.
On their return Gen. Hogg expressed
a great deal of satisfaction with the
cordiality of his welcome at Pearsaii
and the enthusiasm manifested, but de-
cliDed TO be interviewed touching the
political situation. about which he IS not
losing any great amount of sleep. After
a short talk with him, one can easily
see that he is anything IN the WorIo put
q victim of insomnia. There is no call
for opiates when the hour arrives LOT
him to WOO the drowsy god
Asked what the outlook was for the
commission. he said that in his opinion
It would get a bigger vote than any man
on the Democratic ticket. 1t is the sole
issue. the dominant idea, the engrossing
NAV be said by gentlemen who are OPP
uosed to it the masses want it and are
bound to have it. About that there can
be n O doubt. "Carry,' said he, 'of
course 1t will, and with grand
hurrah.
A regularity noted by the general
among the people of Southern Texas is
disposition
TO HANKER AFTER PROTECTION.
They have somehow become tainted
bv the heretical doctrine, and have q
dim and misty idea that in some
strangely and mysterious manner there
is in it potency for good to them, II
ONLY they could acquire the knack OF
utilizing it. Such credulity and sim
plicity of faith was equaled in the past
only by the confding souls who looked
TO certain alohemists for the discovery
of the philosopher 8 stone, or the patent
elixir that would perpetuate youth, and
anulhilate death and the grave.
A leading citizen and financier of this
| place recently returned from tour OF
| the East and South, was asked what the
| people whom he m ct, and who knew by
! experience what q railroad commission
was, thought of it. 'Think OF 1t. SAID
he, "why sir in Tennessessse ana Geor-
gia two state In which | know
a great many people, aad where L
travelled lately, they have but one way
| of thinking about the commission.
There are no two sides to the question
with these people. They are unani-
mous!v in favor OF commission, and
| would not be without It. In Rome and
| Macon. Ca, l talked with all sorts OF
| business men, bankers and others, and
all said I'VE could not get along
rr;,hont commission No
where in these two states
did l hear an objection or murmur
against the commission. But every one
with whom talked on the subject was
full of facts and circumstances OF a
conclusive nature, which he poured ou'
volubly in proof of the assertion that
the regulation of railways by commission
was by far the most satisfactory solu-
tion of
THE RAILWAY PROBLEM
that bad been offered in late days. Even
If II did nothing more than remove the
( yeyed question from the domain OF poll
tics and put 1t beyond the reach of the
kcorrupt politician. the demagogue anC
n the SINISTER, 1t would accomplish vas
III amount of good. But that Is only
single item in the catalogue of blessing
conferred by it. 1t will prevent rulnou
overcharges and unfair discrimination
by the railways. 1t enables dstan
communities who desire to do so to buiic
branch roads connecting them will
trunk lines, and secures for them fail
treatmen and just rates from the trunl
lines. 1t does a great multitude of thing
of helpful and beneficial nature for bot
roads and people and, above all. re
moves the denoralizing question from
the legislature, where it is regularly. il
states having no commission, the play
thing of the demagogue, AM
a yeuisou hauuch for the wolve
that manage always to break into law
making bodies. The commission, sir,
all right and am especially glad tina
at last we are to have one in this stat
wheK%we want and must have NOR
| railbads. No fair minded man can &
toAeorgia, where 1 was the other day
S{d having investigated the workings o
.Ane commission, say that commissio
! IMPROPERLY constituted is not good,
N EVEN THE BEST THING,
al in the way of railway regulation. tn
81 facts are there TO prove it, and whs
more does a man of sense want tina
thst?'
"Then, - said I, "no one in Georgi
looks upon a commission as paternallst
and so forth?'
nWhy no, of course not. This tai
about paternalism IN railway cemmii
sion they regard as the silllest baldel
dash. Does anybody suppose th'
Robert Toombs, who gave the railwa
commiss ion to Georgia, did not kno
what paternslism was or was not? III
idea of supposIng that such q man wou
indorse and not indorse but conceive ar
plan, and yet adopted by his state 6
obnoxious scheme of paternalism, is Il
absurd and preposterous to talk abou
am truly glad THE GAZETTE sometin
ago let the wind out of that paternalist
bubble. 1t was the veriest nonsen
imaginable, and too prepostero