Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-02
OPEN LETTER TO HoGG.
COMMERCIAL MEMS ORGANizA-
TlONAFTER THE GOVERNOR.
Ho Is Given a Sound Trounclng For His Attacks
on The Drummers-sirOng Letter From
Chairman Benson.

San Antonio, Tex, Oct. SOTO
James Stephen Hogg, Governor by
mistake: In the News and Post OF re-
cent date we notice report OF your ia-
NAUTICAL vaporings at LAGRANGE, while
posing before the people seeking re-
election to the high Office Of governor,
an act such as none OF your Democratic
predecessors have dono. To further
your designs upon the people OF Texas
you have in a blatant undigniiied man
ner assailed a class of citizens of Texas,
who, unlike yourself, have the instincts
| OF gentlemen and are considered such
by the people. With bombastic utter
ances peculiar to towards and beftting
one born and reared In the vile slums OF
the earth, you have poured the vitupe-
| ration OF the brain (of which 1t chiefly
consistsl on a portion Of Texas cih-
zens, who, at the least, have the ele-
ments OF decency and common sense,
something entirely foreign to yonr
makeup, judging by your utterances
on the hastings, before aud during
this campaign.
Standing in the presence of citizens
OF Texas and as governor you had the
audacity to claim the honor OF being a
member Of "Tho Travellers Protective
| Association That claim we brand as
an absolute falsehood. You have never
been accepted as q member of our state
division, and unless you change your
ways you never can be. Men who use
language publicly such as you used re-
Gently before ladies of Dallas and on
other occasions would not be accepted
| by the board Of directors OF the 4. =.
| a. Being members Of that board OF
directors, we speak knowingly.
Then you followed up that claim of
membership by attempting 10 bellttle
"the commercial mems organization,
and the only truth you stated in CON
nection thereto was that sit was diff
ferent from the 4. p. Az You said
"it was gotten up for political pur-
| poses" Now, James Stephen, it was
gotten up to rid Texas Of the greatest
carbuncle the state ever had on her
back and, sir we will do IL; and fur
thermOre. We will help to cure a few
more ulcers from which she now suf-
ter5. You held aloft in your hand the
address TO citizens Of Texas from the
commercial mems organization, and
you dared not read IL to that intelli-
gent audience. You had several DAYS
prior marked several sentences in the
presence OF the ''yoe-necl5ed" and
stated that you would rip them up the
back y You dared not do it, for even
you, obese James Stephen, knew every
word OF that address was gospel truth.
Trucking, sinister politician you are,
''Jeoms," and, OIL what spectacle.
You kick the Third party in the face
and then cringe like cur before them
for their aid in the primaries.
Having gotten 1t you slapped their
| faces upuin INIT tyhpn Fpoo hoy,,aua -,
arose August II, at Houston, TO smite
| you hip and thigh you again tried to
lawn upon tho Third partyitos. Why?
To catch $4,000 Of their votes for which
| you set bait that rules you out OF the
Democratic party. Then, jones, YOUR
| political grave was dug. Groat C8.lI s
| ghostl Another spectacle t1at unios
| INTO inslgnificance' your former attempt
at political poltroonery was your b1 T.
| ing for two years with 'big re,yAfJ -
for the negro vote and fishins en- Fu. +
Worth TO get an endorsement Of tae
Republican party. You spat Sem Y
and the coons" all over Texu5 ThHn
lol your negro porter and the no no
porters of other state oiiicials endorsed
you at Austin. 1t gave you hofe and
oh, We godsl what a char go. Twas
then the commercial mems or ann,zati va
began TO make you weary and b p. .a
in your boots.
Going down to Bastror he as
= Ta7 continued and speaking ,u Jhs sol
/ cred people Won crin-ol hefora them an
7 slaYes I'D aafg Aeil mauer- INJURIES
ago. Yaa fiu siFse choir aands
! ana wnehed % rs Cool auu AID anoint
/ lheH VIII 'c- holv OIL ot egotism and
Gattery
Shades OF sam Houston, Throckmor-
ton, Ross and othersl A candidate for
governor, whose administration had
been so vile and unpopular that he has
70 lawn upon those he so recently de-
nounced. And now, James Stephen,
you are attempting to caress portion
Of the drummors Of Texns 20 support
you by tlattery and by Wholesale denun-
citation of Others you hope to keep the
lew OF your supporters in line. You did
at Galveston five years ago denounce
the whole craft. You boosted it and
cannot deny It,
James stephen Hogg, the drummers
OF Texas, who are known in tho COM
mercial mems organization, opened this
battle against you for tho interest OF all
| Texas. As business men and not as
6lackguards, thoy placed the issue be-
fore Texas in business address, built
upon business principles and you dared
not attack it in your speech at la
Grange except like yellow cur 70
yelp "iraud.n
We had decided not TO appeal 70 the
Injured feelings OF every drummer who
knew OF the coarse attack YOU made
upon upon them and their mothers,
wives and daughters, but TO make the
issue upon business lines and shall so
continue But since you dug II up at
la Grange we feel no hesilancy In do
handing OF You the language you used
before tho Federal court at Calves
ton In November, 1887, wherein IT has
been, charged you SO bitterly
assailed all drummers and any
women who would associate with them,
which we have ever regaried as vile
attack upon our wives, daughters,
mothers, sisters and sweethearts, and
as chairman and secretary OF the COM
merelal mems organization, We dare,
thrice dare you 10 repeat the lanRuaage
now or suiier the brand OF coward to
rest upon you, or for once b. a man.
| acknowledge that you were in heat