The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-19
IT Will BE cLARK OF KOGG.


please. 1t finds in Governor Hogg
and Judge Clark the representatives
of such extremes that it must DIN
with the Fort Worth Gazette aud the
Houston Post in demanding a dark
horse, or, in other words, another
candidate whose name Is not now on
record as an avowed candidate The
Editor OF this paper evidently has
been reading the organs of the Third
party and, perhaps, listening to the
captious gable of the Third party
leaders, large number of which are
in his county, or it may be that his
cry for dark horse is result Of
reading the plaintive notes from the
Gazette and the Post.
Tnere is nothing radical in what is
demanded for the people of Texas by
Judge Clark. He simply advises the
state to return to the equipoise of the
Ross administration, which was with
out agitation and which was wi.hal
characterized by conteutment, pros
perity and general happiness to the
people. Today Governor Ross is the
most popular ex governor in the state
Of Texas, not so much because of
his even temperament, his courage and
his ability to cope with great que stions,
but it is because the state was more
prosperous under his guidance than at
any other time in its history Judge
Clark, as Governor Ross
will admit,was largely instrume ntal in
giving the state such a governor,
their minds and ideas of Democratic
government are very much alike, and
therefore it is not strange that when
Judge Clark becomes candidate,
Elk. Governor Ross should embrace the
first opportunity to say "having been
on intimate social and friendly terms
with him. Judge Clark "since the
war, can say in all truth myfaith in his
wisdom, patriotism, incorruptible in
tegrity and devotion to the highest
aud best interests of the Texas people
is utter and entire" And for a SINH
lar reason Ex-United States Senator
s. B. Maxey, though not a neighbour Of
Judge Clark and in nowise indebted
to him for the high position that he
held, says, Judge Clark has the wis.
dom to understand all this" (meaning
the needs of the state) land the cour-
age to do all in his power
to bring about these happy
results. l believe that he will so con.
duct the affairs of the executive office
if elected, as to give the assurance Of
equal and exact justice to all and ex.
elusive privileges to none" There is
right and wrong to everything
and the wrong has been pursued by
Governor Hogg, and the Taylor Texan
admits it. Judge Clark has not yet
had the opportunity to experiment as
a governor with the principles of
which he is the exponent, but he has
seen the like tried under the admins.
tration of Elk Governor Ross, and
they were SO happy in their re-
suits that it may be said with safety
that he does not represent an extreme
at all. He only represents the right
as against the wrong, and the Texan
might as we'll become convinced at
once Of the fact and join the balance
of those, who with Governor Ross,
Senator Maxey, Governor Throck-
morton, Seth Shepard, Col. Giddings,
and the disinterested intellect of Texas
in according to him the honor that
is due him, and giving to the state a
nan capable of and brave enough to
do that which wisdom dictates.