The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-05-19
AN INTELLECTUAL GIANT.
GEORGE CLARK CAPTURED THE ALAMO
CITY AND ALL ITS PEOPLE.
His Reception was Grand Ovation, the
Like of Which was Never Seen in Texas
Inspired by the Alamo's Sacred
Walls He Talked Democracy.

Special to The Statesman.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May 17.-When
the International and Great Northern
train rolled in at 10 o'clock this morn
ing a thousand people were at the
depot to greet George Clark. He was
met by Mayor Callahan and other
prominent city officials as we'll as by
leading citizens of the place. The
procession was headed by the Twenty
third Infrntry band, and there were
seventy-five carriages in line, many
of them contained ladies, and every
body, male and female, wore the blue
Clark badge A salute of seventeen
guns were fired from Alamo plaza.
Tonight there was torchlight pro-
cession nearly mile in length. There
were numerous floats and Transparent
cies bearing appropriate legends:
"Turn Texas LooseW
"He is the man for our mOneyW
"Hurrah for the Little Giant"
"Down with the alien land lawW
etc.
The procession moved down Com
merce street and up Houston to Alamo
plaza, where a temporary pavilion
had been erected. Seats to accomm0-
date 1900 people had been built and
twice that number stood up. The
widest enthusiasm prevailed. Ii
there were any Hogg men present
they kept remarkably still. The glare
of the electric lights disclosed not one
red badge.
Ex-Congressman Upson, chairman
of the Clark club, which now COM
prises some 300 of the foremost citi-
zens of Bexar county, introduced the
Warwick in few we'll chosen words.
When the man from Waco rose to
speak he faced q crowd which was
death still and ready to pay strain
ed attention to anything he had to
say. Immediately to his right were
the dim walls of the old Alamo build
ing, which echoed to the deaths Of
the men who helped to set
Texas free. He was evidently inspir-
ed by his surroundings and his speech
is pronounced the most cogent, forci-
BILE and impassioned of the campaign.
His voice seemed to have regained
something of it's old ring and there
was nothing in his manner or appear
ance to show the tremendous strain
to which he has been subjected.
After a compliment to his
auditors and feeling reference
to the history of the city whose guest
he was, he plunged into one of the
most forceful talks it has been the
pleasure of San Antonians to hear in
decade The speech was in the
main repetition of those delivered
elsewhere, but was with true Clark fa-
cility garnished with thousand flow
ers of q rhetoric and smile whether
right or wrong in his attacks upon
the Hogg government. He convinced
his auditors that he was right. The
speech was in the main devoted to the
failure of the appointive commission,
Mr.. Hogg's suits against railways and
the consequent unsettlement Of land
titles. The uncalled for attacks
upon corporations, the unfriend-
Illness to capital, the department
of capital, the consequent high rates
of interest, the sudden stoppage of
Texas in it's march of progress, etc.
At the close he was warmly congratu-
lated. Taken all in all the event was
the biggest political demonstration
that has occurred in San Antonio dur
ing the past ten years.