The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-16
FARMER SHAW.
HIS VIEWS ON THE MUCH DISCUSSED
INTERNATIONAL EEo.IE .aSHIP
INVESTIGATION.
He Thinks the Evidence Introduced Proves
Conclusively That There is Some
thing Extremely Rotten in
the East Texas Me-
tropOlis.

Texas Farmer.
The committee has for the time ad-
journed. Texas Farmer coneratulates
the people of Texas upon the result.
1t has laid out more chronic place
hunters and manipulating demagogues
than anything which has happened
since the war. This paper had little
hope that more than this would be ac
compllshed, and yet, in the hope to do
this much, used what little influence
it had to bring about the investiga-
ton. No impartial man can read the
evidence as given and not reach the
conclusions:
1. While Judge McCord has not been
convicted of dishonor, it is plainly
evident he has been at least used as a
tool.
2. To escape the verdict that moth
ing positively dishonorable is traced to
Gov. Hogg, it must be concluded that
he was also used as a tool; and
permitted the state to be so
used. No man can for
moment doubt that his Intervention
was solely in the interest of those ma
nipulating the receivership Mr.,
Charles Bonner's evidence, upon strict
construction, might not establish this
according to technical legal rules, but
no man is such fool as not to under
stand that Attorney General Hogg was
fully posted as to Mr.. Bonner's re.
lations to the road, and as to the mo-
tives which prompted him. This is
more fully established by the evidence
that Col. Tom Bonner, one of the in
terested receivers, brought about the
interview between Attorney General
Hogg and Mr.. Chas. Bonner; by the
further fact that the Supreme Court
has virtually pronounced Mr.. Hogg's
actions legal absurdity; and by the
further fact that Mr.. Hogg used thinly
disguised duplicity in securing Mr..
Chas. Bonner's services to dupe an uu-
suspecting citizen into making the com
plant that interested money-grabbers
wanted made. Another point upon
which Texas Farmer has information
not brought out enforce, if true this
conclusion, to-wt: That it was the
request of Acknowledgement Hogg, as
personal favor to himself, that the
Bonner bank was made depository of
the Cotton Belt Railroad. Texas
Farmer has this information from a
pretty reliable source, but is ready to
publish any denial of it from Mr..
Hogg. 1t is now matter of general
rumor, too, and if untrue, ought, in
, Mr.. Hogg's interest be so proven.
} The inference to be drawn from this,
if true, is very suggestive in view of
} the premiums offered by other
, banks to secure such patronage.
which adds to the necessity for Mr.,
Hogg to explain.
(0 While those engaged in plumber
ing this railroad were proven not to
be either personal or political friends,
it is plain that for the purpose of ex-
tortion upon this public property they
temporarily buried all differences. 1t
is PLAIN their one end was private gain.
(4) Mr.. Webb Finley accepted $40
600 for few days work. While Judge
McCCrd cannot perhaps be wholly
condemned in this, it was plainly
matter of bargain among all con-
cerned to secure a representative OF
Mr.. Gould in the receivership,
(5) The extra allowance to Mr.. Camp
bell as master in chancery were with
out authority in justice if in law.
(6) The whole gang appear to be
most able bodied swearerS-rememb Der
ing or forgetting according to con-
venience, and Juggling into evidence
the most astonishing statements. For
instance, gentlemen swore their in
comes as practicing lawyers were $lO,-
600 and over per annum; they do not
rank as first class lawyers; yet scarcely
dozen lawyers in Texas have such an
income. If all the lawyers in Tyler
ranking at par with those who thus
swore have incomes of $4,000, how
do the rest of the population of Smith
county exist? Such a drainage would
soon bankrupt the county. Texas
Farmer says candidly it can't believe
any such stuff. This is not INTENDED to
personally reflect upon the gentlemen
so testifying but to demand of them
the proofs, else this I alpable break in
their evidence kills it at every other
point.
(7) In word: With the privilege of
testifying anything they pleased and
of declining to answer when they
pleased, the evidence proves the whole
thing as rotten as carrion-and ought
to earn for every man concerned in it
the unmitigated contempt of the pub
lie
(S) No man connected with this dis
reputable affair should be permitted
to represent Texas in the United States
senate. Governor Hogg owes it to the
people to call an extra session of the
legislature that it may put its brand
of condemnation upon this thing by
refusing to confirm Mr.. Chiffon. If
Governor Hogg refuses tn D.. people a
right to render verdict in the matter
he will earn their condemnation and