Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-07
Qa0K'S RECORD.
The Judge in Print in Connection
With the Strike Of 1886.
The Knights of Labor Not Held in Very
High Esteem by the Anti-COm-
mission Mems Candidate.
Williamson County, the Home Of Land Com
missioner Hall, VIII Send Hogs
Delegation to San Antonio.
LOOKING BACKWARD.

DALLAS, TEX, June CIV. A. Shaw
of the Texas Farmer, has been looking
up Judge Cooks record, and particu-
larly that part of it wherein he put him
self in print in connection with the great
railroad strike in the spring of 1886.
The following extracts from the writings
and utterances of Judge Cook, taken
from the files of the Galveston News
will appear in the next issue of the Texas
Farmer. accompanied by spicily- written
comments by Mr.. Shaw.
In a communication to that paper of
March "a, 1886, Judge Cook said:
"The Knights of Labor is an organI-
cation formed for the purpose of formu-
lating and enforcing demands against the
rights and property of others, which are
not maintainable nor recoverable by the
law OF the land, and is, therefore, nee
essarily lawless and revolutionary.
In connection with the above Judge
Cook admitted that the great evil was
caused by the "exactions, heartlessness
and tyranny of Incorporated capital. -
This drew from the Galveston News an
inslnuation that Judge Cook was
troubled with a gubernatorial bee in his
bonnet, to which he replied in the same
paper under date of April l, 1886:
''I am not "a candidate for gevernor) :,
and have not the most distant idea that
any emergency can arise which would
make it my duty to be candidate for
either the nomination or the office.
My lack of personal popularity and &C.
quaintance, my comparative poverty,
my unfeigned disinclination to politics.
the wishes of my wife and children, the
great and unavoidable responsibilities of
the position. and my aversion TO the
fearful abuse and criticism, not to say
{s1anslers, heaDed upon all men who have
'the hardihood TO take high places, deter
me from any ambition thai way. If
were able to do SO l would pay the SAL
airy and add bonus of $40 900 to any
other gentleman who would hold the
office rather than hold it myself. -
In this communication Judge. Cook
found it necessary, also, to explain his
abuse of the Knights of Labor. He said:
~ am neither a Knight nor capital
list, and wrote of their quarrels without
bias or prejudice between them and with
the solemn conviction that unless the
people take hold of both of them, and in
the exercise of their just rights in this
matter, compel both parties to respect
the obligations they are under TO the
state and her citizens, they themselves
will be the sufferers. -
On May 8, 1886, another article from
Judge Cook 8 pen appeared IN the Gal
weston News, suggested by the Haymar-
ket riots in Chicago, the responsibility
for which he attributed to the Knights of
Labor. Among other things he said:
1nrlrT hn 10 80
hypocriticai fraud, comes to the front
with an indignant denial of RESPONSE
bility for himself and his followers of the
direct, immediate and necessary conse-
quences of his and their lawless precepts
and examples. In my opinion he is a
liar, because he is q coward. He and his
Irons, Blacks, Goldens, Vasmers and
other coadjuto-s are the instigaIors,
movers and expectant beneficisries of all
this communistic devilment. When men
organize to starve and torture people
into a compliance with their one-sided
mankind, and deserve to be treated as
such. No people or government
can afford to treat with incendiarlas,
assassins and plunderers, while they
hold in their hands the blazing
fruits of their robberies. Surrender,
and complete, should
be first demanded, and after this
will be time to discuss their claims. Tn
til they do surrender, let such force as
will compel it to be brought down upon
them, and let the contest be short, sharp
and decisive. The knights of Labor
cannot shirk the consequences they, and
I haV QlOnn houo hronorhG q =
Not drop of blood has been shed; not a
groan has been wrung; not pang has
been suffered, in all this miserable BUSH
ness for which the Knights of Labor are
not directly and Immediately responsible.
If knights OF Labor have not
done these devilish deeds, then who
have? This cowardly disavowal
Of the responsibility is a travesty upon
the title they have filched from honor
and chivalry. They have stolen the
livery of heaven to serve the devil in. -
HOME OF LAND COMMISSIONER HALL.
Special to the Gazette.
BARTLETT, TEX, June 6. Interest in
the gubernatorial campaign continues to
increase in this (williamson) county.
This county, although the home of Land
commissioner Hail, Will SEND Hogg
delegation to San Antonio. Ninety-five
per cent. of the farmers of this county
will vote for the commission amend
nent.
Judge Cook has some strong supporters
here but even they admit, that without
/ change in the tide of affairs, Hogg
will be nominated on the first ballot.
ATToRNEY-GESERALH oGG AT BoNHAM.
BosHAM, TEX, June 5, 1890.
EDITOR Gazette:
sehe friends of Acknowledgement Hogg
re somewhat surprised at the very
neager notice appearing in THE GAZETTE
his morning of his able speech delivered |
lere yesterday. 1t was grand ovation |
or Attorney-General Hogg from the
ime he stepped from the train yesterday
morning until he departed from our city. |
lie was met at the train by q committee |
nd escorted to the hotel, where he was |
net By many citizens anxious to take |
i'm by the hand; and from 10: SO 20 Has
q the forenoon he held an informal /
svee or reception in the halls of our