The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-23

the day IL was written, Monudyj
March IS, 1889, and | think it was Oh
Wednesday following that Mr. Brown
showed me your reply.
If the above paragraph from your
Bonham speech is a literal or substsn
tial report of what you said concern
ing my testimony, | am force d to say
to you though "strutting in little
brief authority on the stage and not
permitting either sim crow" senators
or lawyers to reply to you in person,
that your assertion was not only
gratuitous, but false and oowsrdly and
you knew it was both, 1t is in keep.
ing with your character for pompous
buster and brow-beating
You have called me "a pro fessonal
prevaricstor" (the reporter says you
used stronger term) behind my back.
have no comments to make on this
dirty lowering of the dignity of the
governors Office to vent YOUR spleen
upon private citizen and falsely
malign and trsduce his character to
promote your o Sn ambitious designs.
The evidence you refer to was given
before a committee appointed by the
legislature and was given under the
soemnity of an oath and you know
that every word of it is true. 1t was
done openly and full reports contained
in the daily papers and were doubt
less read by you Your slanderous
assertions were made without the
sanctity of an oath.
Why is it that you go into fits
when the ghost of the International
appears before your Why is it that
you have never denied the statements
contained in my evidence until now,
when it has become necessary in order
to further your desperate chances for
governor? You had the opportunity
to appear before the investigating
committee at Galvestt and deny my
statements under oath if they were
untrue, and purge your conscience and
relieve yourself OF that burden which
is pursuing you like an angry Me-
mesis: you could have had our fellow.
townsman, Mr.. j. H. Brown,
whom you know we'll as
high toned, honorable man, to
appear before the committee and
deny my statements if they were un.
true, but you clustered before your
friends, made great pretense of
being willing to appear and testify,
and then sank back on your pompos-
ity, resting your character on the
great office of governor. You knew
then and know now that you could
not 60 before that committee and
under your solemn oath withhold from
the people the pant you took in that
wretched International receivership
business. The reason why you did
not have Col. Brown to testify is
doubtless due to the fact that it would
have corroborated my testimony.
attach as Exhibit a" hereto a state
ment from him as to his connection
with this matter.
also notice in the report of your
Bonham speech as contained in the
Houston Pest, since reading the re-
port in The News, that you have
publicly stated that Col 7. R Bonner
had denied my statement to the effe Of
that he had told me that you wanted
to see me at Austin. l was not pres
ent when Col. Bonner testified, snt
have to rely for my information or
this point on the printed record, from
which source presume you also
derive yours, as you were not present
| have not been abe to find any such
denial in his testimony, but on the
contrary, Col. Bonner, both on page.
/ l4O and 1913 says he has NO recollec-
ton on this point, and on page Is;
ne expressly says chat it was not his
intention to contradict my statement
on this point" and on page 1877 t.
the following question. "Have 20,
stated that you remember telling
Charles Bonner that Attorney Gene
raj HOgg wanted to see hlm?' He
(BonEer) answers: II stated
that l did not remem bel
that conversation. | remember ia K
ing with Charles Bonner on that sub
ject. Then meeting him at the in
tersection of the railroads, and o
knowing that Mr.. Brown was going t,
write that letter, and that letter wa
to furnish the basis of the injunction