The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-04

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11:l5 and was met at the depot by
the Cameron Clark club and a recep-
ton committee of citizens.
An address of welcome was de.
livered at the depot by Mr.. E. B
Muse and responded to in few we'll
chosen words by Judge Clark.
The procession was then formed,
with the Guyser City band at its
head, and the line of march to the
Commercial hotel, thence to the
pavilion at the city park taken up.
The procession was formed in the
following order and presented an i'm
posing appearance:
One hundred horsemen, bearing
banners; a wagonette artistically
decorated, bearing the in
scription "Welcome Little Giant"
and laden with twelve beautiful young
ladies; the chariot of state drawn by
four white horses bearing the next
governor of Texas.
The beautiful grove east of town
was letterally alive with human souls
and yet the main streets we're SO
crowded that it was almost impossible
to pass along them,
The five candidates for congress in
this district, Gerald, Anthony, Pendle
ton, Price and Blake, we're on hand
and each industrious circulating
among the immense throng, laying
their claims for the suffrages of the
people before them.
At l:3O Judge Clark and Governor
Hogg mounted the stand and shook
hands amid the shouts and yells
of the excited crowd.
Judge Clark was introduced by Col.
Wash Jones in an enthusiastic speech
of twenty minutes and as soon as
order could be restored "Our Wor-
wick" began the discussion.
By this time the crowd had so in
creased as to cover acres, and is vari-
ously estimated at from 5000 to 10, 900
people.
According to previous arrangement
Judge Clark was to open the discuss.
ion in an hours speech, Governor
Hogg to follow with an hour and a
half and Judge Clark to close in thirty
minutes.
Judge Clark began by saying that
he was proud to say that between Gov
ernor Hogg and himself there existed
no hard feelings and that he did not
intend to indulge il personalities in
this discussion; he proposed to dis.
cuss issues, not persons; measures, not
men.
AS he looked upon Governor Hogg
his mind reverted back to one of the
brsvest soldiers he had ever known,
who fell by his side at one of the bat
ties around Richmond; this was a
brother of Gov. Hogg's mother.
He would pot cast reflections upon
the private character of his opponent,
but intended to criticize his official
career, as he or any other citizen had
right to do.
He perhaps had the advantage of
the governor because his administra-
tion was open to criticism.
In stating that the governor stood
for centralized government at the
capital at Austin be did not think he
would be doing him an injustice. |
believe as much power as possible
should be lodged with and remain in
the hands of the people, Gov
Hogg thinks there should be a CEN
trail power at Austin to direct
and control affairs throughout the
state; while l believe in leaving all
the power in the hands of the men
who pay the taxes
Judge Clark criticised the acts of
Governor Hogg while attorney
general, quite severely, with regard to
the railroad land grant suits, the re-
ceiverships and injunctions and gave
facts and figures to sustain his position
that the action taken was not bene-
fetal to the state.
He spoke at considerable length
about the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas injunction suit, the Fast Line
receivership and the mainline and
sidetrack land grant forfeitures.
He said that a de-
cree had recently been entered
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