Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-25

plan, that it was Hamiltonian idea clothed
in Jeffersonian garments. He referred TO
the history of the issuing OF money by the
United States government during the war
with Salmon P Chase as secretary OF the
treasury and the decisions of the supreme
court of the United States on the same
That the first decision of the supreme court
was that it was legally done on the ground
that the same was war measure;
that the next decision of the
supreme court was delivered by
Salmon p. Chase, the same man who
was secretary of the treasury when it was
done, and that he held in that decision that
it was Illegally done. That Immediately
following that decision Salmon 2. Chase
died, and that President Grant reorganized
the court, which up to that time consisted
of five judges, and that afterwards it
was composed OF nine judges, and that
five out of the nine held that it
was legally done on the ground that it was
a war measure and that the other four dis
sented from the opinion. He again asserted
that no Democrat could claim any such
power for congress under the constitution,
and that Harry Tracy and his fellow
teachers knew that, if elected to congress,
they would have to take a solemn oath TO
support the constitution of the United
States, and that if they were Democrats
they could not support the demands made
in the Ocala platform without committing
perjury. Judge Robertson then spoke Of
the commission and the issue two years
ago and Of the candidates on the issues, of
the gallant fight Gustave Cook made against
the commission, of II. d. McDonald's can
didacy, of Throckmorton's attempt 10 rep
resent something he did not represent, of
the nomination and election of James S.
Hogg as governor of Texas. Judge Rob
ertson said that the one idea prominent in
the character of James S. Hogg, and the
one motto that had always been inscribed
upon his banner was, execute the laWn
that it had been his guiding principle in all
his official duties, and that in following this
principle against rich and poor, capital and
labor, railroads and railroad employees, he
had made what few enemies he had in the
state, but that in all his official and
political life, which began when he was a
mere boy as justice of the peace of Wood
county, and had continued up tO,the present
time, serving as county attorney, district
attorney, Encouragement and lastly COVER
nor of the state, which position he mad held
the last two years, that during all this time
no man had ever said that James S. Hogg
was afraid to say what he thought, but as
much could not be said of his gallant oppo-
nent, judge Clark. Judge Robertson said
it would be bad day for Texas, and NOR
tifying day to her people, when man could
be elected governor OF the state, on false,
fraudulent and dishonest platform, and that
Judge Clark's announcement as a candidate
for governor was that kind of a platform.
He referred to Judge Clarks brilliant
achievements in political contests which
had won him the title of WARWICK" and
then to his Deuton speech, in which Judge
Clark avowed his opposition to a railway
commission and then to his announcement
as candidate for governor on a commission
platform, Judge Robertson declared the
same to be fraud and an insult to the peO-
pie of Texas, and as one of her citizens he
resented the insult. But personally he
spoke of Judge Clark in the highest terms.