The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-02-27

should recommend the investment of
this sacred fund with robbers. No
one act was better calculated to disa
buse the public mind OF the impress
sion made upon it by the canvass than
this single recommendation, because
1t was impossible to make people be-
lieve that the governor, if he was in
earnest in his canvass, could have
promulgated such recommendation.
If the railroads Of Texas had been
robbing the people as was urged by
himself and his partissus, they were
the last people on earth to whom the
school fund should have been loaned.
Upon seeing this recommendation
people began to look at each other,
who before this time had never doubt
ed or wavered IN the suppo of those
ideas which secured the election of
Governor Hogg They began for the
first time to reflect and to wonder
whether il truth and in fact the can
vass was made upon false pretenses,
or whetler, indeed, thu governor was
really in earnest in his recommends
tiOns. 1t was we'll known to the in
teligence of the State that new lines
of railr' ad never pay at first. 1t was
also we'll known that short lines ope.
rated under independent manage
ment are incapable of profit. 1t was
equally well known that there was no
more insecure investment than loan
ing money to the railroads of Texas.
The State had its experience with such
investments many years before, and
the records of the Comptroller
and treasury departments contained
the informs alton that hundreds of
thousands of dollars had been lost by
such perilous investment. And yet
the governor who was waited into
Office solely because of his hostility to
railroads and railroad investments,
did not hesitate as one of his first Off
cial acts, to gravely recommend to the
legi lature that these public robbers
should be the custodian of the public
funds set apart by the fathers of the
republic for the education of their
children. This was proof sufficient
for any intelligent mind that the cam.
paign had been made upon a false
basis; and no wonder that it received
the disapprobation of the people of
Texas. But there has been another
play which is equally insincere and
equally transparent, and that is the
laudatious of the governor by his pecu-
liar partissns because of his execution
of the laws. This cry is well .-calcu
lated to alarm every democratic mind,
because it implies that in order for
our laws to be executed with vigil
ance and dispatch it is req sisite that
there be some central authority sitting
in our capital charged with this high
duty. This was the idea which OBJ
tanned with Edmond ]. Davis, and the
heresy was pardonable in him, be-
cause he never claimed to be Demo.
crat, His mind was thoroughly Re
publican, possessing little or no con-
fdence in the people, and with the
belief grounded in his very nature
that they required some central au-
thority vested with power to execute
their laws. But such an idea is IN
pardonable in Democrat. Accord
ing to Democratic teachings it is a
current belief that the people them
selves are not only capable of execut.
ing their own laws in their respective
localities, but that any other system
Of government is tyrany The idea
prevailing among those of democratic
faith is that when the people them
selves by reason of a want of inteli-
gence or an absence of moral virtue
are unwilling or unable to execute
their own laws in their own domestic
tribunals, the end of republican gov.
eminent Is near. If the
people of Texas must
rely upon governor to execute the
laws Of the state their reliance is upon
broken stick, for the governor has
less power in tn direction than any
constable of any precinct in the State
OF Texas. | am aware that there
is a provision of the constitution
which requires that the governor shall
cause the laws to be faithfully execut-
, ed. The meaning of which provision
to those who view it from Demo
cratic standpoint, is that the governor
shall take care that there shall be nc
, obstrucliOn to the faithful administra