Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-09

Inc trouble with tho WOrshipers or Gov
ernor HOgg is that they actually cons dor
Hoggsn and Texas identical. II sou 70.
fuse to worship HJgg they imagine that
you are lighting Texas. Some Of them have
scales upon their eyes like the scales OF u
buRslo fish.
What does Governor Hogg think of news
papars that opposed hin vehemently
month ago before his election and that arc
today licking his fingers aad using his cld-
gel for himi-Dallas News.
The apology Of The News for its
vicious unte-elootion attacks upon the
principles and motives of the controll-
ing element in Texas is lame and i'm
potent. undercstimates the intelli-
gunoe Of It's readers in supposiag that
they do not know that Governor Hogg
ceased to be a campaign Issue when the
polls closed on Nov 8, Still, The
News might have borated the governor
until doom5day for aught the public, or
perhaps the executive, cares, A quar-
rel Tho Nows may have with Governor
Hogg because, porchance, one OF its re-
portcrs thought he was mistreated by
the governor during the late campaign,
or even for weightier reason, is mat.
ter Of no public concern. Another,
and gravely different matter, is
the vindictiyc aud libelous attacks The
News has been printing daily upon the
reputation aggregate Of the people Of
Texas; attacks so wanton and 80 base
that those who read instinctiyely
looked to the line above the hoadrulo
for the name OF some practiced libeler
Of Texas, such as The Intcr.Ocean, or
The Mail and Express, TO their credit
however, no II said that their passion
against Southerucrs has meyer been
permitted to run the length of The
News savage hate for the dominant elo-
mcnt in Texas. They have criticised
individuals, while tho denunciation of
The Nows stopped short of no one who
disagreed with II in matters of state
policy Al! were Communists and
anarohists.n
These llbols, so injurious to tho gem
oral interests OF tho state, cannot be
justified by reference to Governor Hogc
or 10 "Hoggism.n The coined term is IL
self SANDER. There Is no sentiment
inside tho Democratic party OF the
state favorable to tho theories Which
The News insidiously cmbodies in tho
phrase, It is true there is an organiza.
tion in Texas which stands for political
unrest tho Third party. 1t Is true,
also, that one OF It's headquarters in the
late campaign was The News Office, that
Its leaders were check By jowl with
The News; that It's sproclamations first
found publication in The News: that
Tho News was the exclusive medium
for lis formal utteNnces, and that It's
leaders proclaimed tho friendllness OF
The News TO their cause from every
stump they occupied in the state. In
Wow Of these well known facts, the
ante-eleotion policy of The News is, to
tho naked eye, loaded down with hypo.
erisy and blinded age.
10 use the wcll-worn, but expressive
phrase, Governor Hogg is no longer Gin
it, When he was candidate Tor the
Democratic nomiuation for governor tho
editorial management OF The Gazette
opposed him for reasons which It did
not conceal. II he were now candi.
date for the gubernatonal nomination
The Gazette would again oppose him
for the same reasons. The majority in
fact what Tho News would term a
eeastly majority, OF Texas Democrats
did not agree with Tho Gazette about
Governor Hoge, They ronominated
him and, as far as this management Is
concerned, that settled It. AS Judpe
Clark said az Cameron OF himself and
tho governor, 1t knows how to bow
when tho lion roars. II is Demo
cratic journal and acknowledges supr,e.
macy In tho appellate courts OF Domoc.
raey, The News, which PROCESSES no
allegiance either 70 party, to con.