The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-09
TEN REASONS GIVEN
WHY GOVERNOR HoGG SHOULD NOT
BE REELECTED.
A Correspondent Charges He is the Enemy
Of the Commission, and is the Great
est Calamity Howler of
the Age in Texas.

Hogg should not be reelected:
l. Because his administration has
been such that it has driven and kept
capital out of Texas. Whether he is
to blame or not, his reelection can
but confirm the impression abroad
that the people of Texas are inimical
to progress and we owe it to our
state to elect another.
2 From the commiss ion standpoint
Governor Hogg's election means, if
not defeat of the commission, its great
hindrance. BY selecting some of the
bitterest partisans against the roads
as railroad commissioners, and by
cracking his whip over the legislature
and the senate, so as to force them to
made an unjust and unconstitutional
commission law, thus insuring only
unpopularity for the commission,
Governor Hogg's course has the in
evltable tendency to finally arouse the
people to the other extreme of repudi-
ating the whole commission business.
Who is there so blind as to not see
that the strength of the opposition to
Mr.. Hogg is not so much the original
popularity of George Clark as it is the
bitter ana fanatical course of the adj
ministration? Another two years of
Hogg administration will probably
show the commission has ten enemies
IN nra w h Qrp IL nnU hoo nnn
3. Governor Hogg should not
be reelected because his popu.
larity is wholly or mainly
due to his Misrepresentation.
His charges against the rail-
roads, against bonds as increasing
freight rates, his shameful statements
that railroad men are mere serfs, mere
machines, his claim that the reduc-
tioh of taxes is due to his administ ra-
ton, his charges that newspapers and
his opposers generally are bought out,
are slaves to some corporation, his
tricks on the platform-these are but
samples of Mr.. HOgg's resorts in his
efforts to be governor. The truth is.
he has got some people to about where
the politicians once had the negro to
the ''forty acres of land and mule"
point.
4. Mr.. Hogg should not be re-elect
ed because of the animosities he
creates among the people against
each other His arraying the country
and the town people, the rich and the
poor, the people and the corporations
against each other can but curse any
country in which it is done. EN-
boldened by this, since Mr.. Hogg's
election men have in the Legislature,
denounced railroad men for riding in
specials and nothing too bad can be
said against men of money.
The fellow servant law is another
illustration of Hoggism. Had that
law been made applicable to fellow
servants in all lines of employment
there would, at least, have been in 1T
some evidence of desire for the gen.
eral good. But in it's being made for
only railroads it bears on its face evil
dence of mere grabhook by which
to antagonize the roads and catch
votes. While Mr.. Hogg is parading
the "fellow servant law as one of the
good things of his administration,
let it be known that it bears on its
face the nature of a legislative par
tisan trick. The bitterness character
izing this campaign is all of Mr..
Hogg's sowing.
s. Mr.. Hogg last cam paign did
more to build up the so-called "third
party" than all other combined influ-
ences. What was and what is the
in the main with which
Mr.. Hogg fights his battles is but the
with which the third
party voters fight theirs. Either rele-
gate j. S. Hogg forever to oblivion or
I'll go to the "third party" do not
whistle one tune and dance another.
6 Mr.. Hogg should not be elected |
because his election is a deaGh thrust |
1t the school fund Without the COM
mission there may be some chance for
he little roads. But under the COM
mission in Georgia one road has swal-
owed all the little ones. Under the
Texas commission the line beginning
md ending in our state are being
rushed to the wall, and one has al
eady petitioned the court to go out
If business. Met by this the chair
nan of the Texas commission says:
Il am sorry, but that is your misfor-
nne," and the long ones are paying
Is a whole nothing. 1 suppose, as
Governor Hogg says, that there has
,een success in loaning money to the
Dads, think how uncertain is rail-
oading and how often the roads ray
Shall Texas, in the very
ace of SO bitter Hogg partisan as
Hartman Reagan having stated that
he Texas roads have not paid, elect
man her governor who will do all
n his power to throw the school
money into the fortune wheel of rail-
oading instead of loaning it on Unen-
real estate?
Z. The invalidating the peoples
tiles to their homes and farms by re-
laiming the lands sold them by the
is senseless outrage on the
eople who, in good faith, bought the
ands and have improved them and
emained on them until it is now too
ate to get cheap lands conveniently.
While Mr.. HOgg's charge that the
Dads did not own these lands by
ight is baseless and only to arouse
rejudice and catch votes. Admit
he charge true, and then what? Sim
Iy this: Reclaiming the lands, as
lost of them are now in the hands of