Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-26


one Of the heaviest guain shippers in
In the state in reputation OF such
charges This is from u gentleman
who lives in Sherman, and is as fol-
lows;
irlm. Commission Present
Sherman 10 Rates. Rates.
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Galveston ....... ,...4s.s n4l0 20
Eight points lower thaa commisslon rstes;
two points thc some sS commission rates
This statement Is signed by c. F.
Gribble, a gentleman well-known In
this community. take IL to be OK
actly true. / Have time nor you tho
patience TO longer dwell upon this
point
will call your attention now to some
Of the promises made by Governor
Hogg;
l. Have any OF you heard OF any OF
the wind and water he has squeezed
out OF the railroads.
.. Have not his land suits proved n
failure? And in this connection may
not remind YOU that he has disturbed
the purchasers OF railroad lands IN re-
spect TO their titles, and who ever
heard that it was his intention 10 re-
spect the titles OF such purchasers to
their homes until George Clark be-
labOred him with his cudgel and called
the attention OF the country TO the fact
that these innocent purchasers In good
faith, under the sacred guarantee OF
the state. under the broad seal Of the
commissioner OF the land office and the
signature OF the governor, were to be
deprived of their homes, their labor,
toll and improvements, because the
attorney general declared their
titles had been procured by some
sort OF irrerularity. Now let me ask
you what that irregularity was and how
IL happened. II wascharged and blazoned
forth from the highest legal function
AIRY in the state that the tlieving cor
moraut railroad companies had
swindled the state out Of these lands.
Now WIS that truey Let me tell you
how 1t happened that these land GER
tihcates were issued and patented aud
how these purchasers came in posses-
sion thereof Under the law granting
sixteen sections Of land to the mile for
the construction OF railroads, when a
railroad had constructed "a certain num-
Der of miles itreported to the governor
of the state the fact. II was then the
duty of the governor to appoint or send
an engineer OF the state to measure and
examine tho number OF miles so con-
structed and 10 report to him whether
the same had been constructed
according 10 the general law
of the state aud In accordance
with the charter of the company. Upon
the report OF such engineer as TO the
number Of miles so constructed, II In
accordance with all the requirements OIL
the law, and this under his sworr
statement rs an officer, the governor
approving the same, would direct the
commissioner Of the general land Office
to issue 10 the company the certificates
for the number Of sections OF land "a
which IL was entitled. Under this uni
form practice, all Of the governors o.
the state and commissioners Of the LAND
office have acted. Nobody doubted the
legality Of their acts and that the lands
patented under these acts secured per
| feet title until James Stephen Hoeg be-
came Encouragement Then it was
that one Brooks, who was nosinl
around to find something whereby he
might earn penny, informed
the attorney general that certificate,
had been Issued upon sidings ant
switches not authorized by the law. Il
II is true that such was the fact, thai
fault was not in the thieving corpora
tions. but in the officers OF the
state, created by the law foi
the protection of the state. These
lands so granted and patented by
the state, passed into the hands Of
innocent purchasers in good faith foI
valuable consideration, who trusted
the great seal OF the state and the Sig
nature Of tho governor and the com
missioner Of the general land Office,
MAY not ask you the question, is there
man in Texas to-day who would
take away from the purchasers OF these
lands their homes, made dear TO them
by toll, danger and priyatiOns on TIT
western border? What more need | say
upon this subject.
will cite you TO the twenty-second
plank OF the Hogg platform, in which
the action Of public officials (which
means Jnmes S. Hoggl seeking 70 re
cover lands unlawfully obtained by the
railroads for siding and switches.
At the same timo we pledge that all
innocent purchasers for value and act
ual settlers who may have purchased
the said lands from the railroad com
pany or their assignees shall have their
titles validated and made good IN 50 far
as the state may have any claims
This reluctant admission In favor Of in
nocent purchasers for value and actual
settlers was wrung from the governor
and his followers by the long and manly
fight made by George Clark In favor o
this class Of our people. The foregoing
citation shows that the governor
boasted land suits are failure.
Another failure will point out 10
WAS his suit the tax imposed upon the
drummals, which the supreme court OF
the United States sat down upon with
such'force as to convince even him thai
he was not the great constitutional
lawyer he claimed 20 be.
His alien land law was failure, but
not until it had driven out OF the state
multiplied millions OF capital that had
been brought here for investment.
The text book law which he approved
without caption was also a failure
He failed 20 report his ad interim ap
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