The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-10
ON HOGG
The Candidates are the Real Issues
He Says,
CLARK AND Ho6G REPRESENT
Different Ideas of Government and
They are the Leaders of the Re.
spectiVe Elements The Clark
Position ImpreguabIe the Hogg
Position UntenabIe
Correspondence San Antonio Express

correspondence san Antonio Express
AUSTIN. Tex, May S.-As Mr..
Browning stated in his address here
to the Clark club Saturday night,
the candidates themselves for govern
or are real issues in the present cam
paign, more so perhaps than in any
gubernatorial canvass since the day
of Republican rule. This is so true
that the governor has no right to
complain OF what he calls the "per-
sonallties of the opposition in dis
cussing his individual acts as an ex-
ecutive officer y The governor and
his adm nistration are the real issues
before the people, and it is idle for
him to prate about the commission as
II is, or the commission as it may be,
since the idea of commission regula-
tion has become the settled policy of
the state beyond any power of an ex-
ecutive to control its operations. The
people onlyS or their representative
agents, the legislature or coustitu-
tional convention, and not the govern
or can change it., even to make the
commission elective instead of APP
pointiVe. What folly then for the
governor and his advocates to at
tempt to hoodwink intelligent voters
with the idea that the commission or
any commission as a state policy is
endangered by the election of Judge
Clark any more than it would be by
the reelection OF the governor to the
executive chair. The people are not
to be fooled by the governors cajol-
cry in such matters, especially since
| they realize, as they must that what
ever the convictions of the two men
on the commission Issue originally
and despite the differences of opinion
between them up to the adoption of
commission law. g lark is now q
more practical commission man than
the governor himself, and not only
urges that the people should elect the
comm ssioners, but that their powers
be extended to make them board of
ar bi traitors to adjust strikes as well
as freights.
AS to any executive eiug en- titled to
second term, which is being urged
in Governor Hogg's behalf that GER
tainly turns upon the question
whether the governor in authority
has been such an executive as the
people can afford under existing
emergencies to retain in office, and
further upon the question as to who
is best fitted to guide the ship of state
through the breakers into which it
has somehow been forced or crimi-
nally allowed to drift. So here
again the personalities" as to the
governors regime and the raison
d'etre of his own acts become as preg
nsnt as any principle, because they
are attached to every principle that
can possibly be presented in the gu
bernatorial contest
A great issue then as Mr.. Brown
ing argues is the fitness of the two
men, or ra her which is best fitted
for the executive char. The peopl e
are under no obligation to keep any
man in Office if they can find a bet
ter one for such high trust as that
of governor, and judging from the
features of the campaign and the ex-
element already engendered the peo-
pie are fully aroused to this fact, and
are perhaps prepared with their
verdict.