Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-04
SENATOR Chiffon.

| The resignation of Senator Reagan of his
| seat in the senate to accept place as rail
! way commissioner will greatly complicate
| the senatorial question. Il may also affect
| the prospects of Mr.. Mills. first for the
| Speakership and next for the United States
senate, at the end of his present congress
| sional term. Governor Hogg has appointed
! Mr.. Horace w. Chiffon of Tyler TO the sem
| atOrial vacancy. If the appOintee should
| claim presumption on the office for the
next term it would be with the presump-
| tive support of the present state admins
| tratiOn. On the face of the matter this
| would make him q formidable opponent to
| MIR. Mills or any other candidate for the
| Reagan uccessiOn.-! Galveston News.
The appointment of Mr.. Reagan to be Il
| railway commissioner and of Mr.. Horace
| Hilton to succeed Mr.. Reagan complicate
the senatorial situation. Mir. Chiffon is Z
much brighter and stronger man than either
| Reagan or Coke. and has one OF the most
devoted fOllOWingS in Texas. There are
rocks ahead of Mr.. Mills, and rocks and
| stumps and snags and rapids and whrl-
| pools and blind reefs and Sandbars and
other things ahead of Mr.. y. ". Terrell
- San Antonio Express
! The comments onathe appointment of Mr.
Chiffon as United States senator by Gov
ernor Hogg from purely personal motives
i
of all claims to that high position of those
| who might be thought to deserve the place
because OF having rendered the state some
service, is thought by some TO be an impo-
litical move on his part. But it must be
remembered that Governor Hogg has al
| ready declared that he has reached the sum
NIT of his political aspirations and is not in
the political hereafter at all, and hence he
makes no appointments with view to his
own promotion Houston Post.
The appointment of Horace Chiffon TO
succeed Judge Reagan as senator from
Texas, viii not win for Governor Hogg any
TO be captious. Mr.. Chiffon is young
man, vigorous in mind and body. honest.
able courageous and full abreast with the
leaders in scope of information, facility of
thought and power of expression. He is in
every way amply fitted for the position,
and will make 4 most credita bic and Gigni-
fled senator. On the score OF his usefulness
then, there is nothing ut which to cavil.
Viewed from the standpoint of political
policy, Governor Hogg is certainly not open
TO censure for the appointment. Horace
Chiffon was the friend and companion of
his bOyhood, and has been his faithful sup
porter in every race which he has made for
political preferment. IL was to the power
of Chilton'S personality and the adroitneSs
of his management more than to anything
else that Hogg owed the nomination for his
first term as encouragement, and il is
Chiffon who has been his safeguide and
wise counselor ever since. The rules OF
practical politics would not have allowed
the governor 10 make any other choice
Some will grumble, of course, that men,
Der of the alleged Tyler ring should
be selected to represent Texas: but Tyler
is still q part Of the state, its people
are still OF the efficiency of the state,
and there is no good reason why they should
be disqualified for holding Office It was
long Gov. Hogg's home, and 1t is natural
that he should think it contains the ablest
and best men to be found in Texas, There
viii De some of course who will find fault
with the governor for appointing railroad
attorney to the senate. The presence in
that body of so many representatives of
railroads has been for years the cause of
comment and criticism, and there will be
those who will think it strange that gov
ernor who was carried into Office on an anti
railroad wave should seize upon such an
early opportunity TO swell the number of
corporation counsel therein. But there is
no reason why the lawyer who takes railroad
fees should not be all honest man, and such
carping Will have but but little weight with
those who think. The appointment of Chill
ton will complete the race for this sena-
torial seat for the succeeding term. Mills
has been for some time declared candi-
date. ana II was thought he would have his
chief adversaries in Terrell and Culberson,
in which event he would have great advan-
tage Now however is added a new candi-
date young. vigorous, and possessed of the
respect of the people: shrewd in manage
ment. and of strong. magnetic personality
The older candidates have q hard task cut
out for them to beat the eloquent and able
Young senator from Tyler The Day,
Waco.
Mr.. Chiffon has more than one reason to
feel proud of his elevation TO the United
States senate. 1t was certainly a compli-
ment 10 be given the preference over such
men as Mills. ireland, John Hancock Cul-
berson, Throckmorton, Stewart, Terrell.
Maxey and host of other eminent men
and Democratic veterans Houston Post. |